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1 An Image of Eternal Charm—An Interpretation of Scarlett’s Character in Gone with the Wind

2 从关联理论的角度看《围城》中言语幽默的翻译

3 刘易斯小说《巴比特》中的都市景观和人物描写分析

4 论接受理论对儿童文学作品的影响——以《快乐王子》中译本为例

5 An Analysis of American Dream－－A Case Study of The Great Gatsby

6 极权主义下人性的扭曲—— 用福柯的空间理论解读乔治·奥威尔的《》

7 从语用学角度看广告英语中的模糊表达

8 科技英语长句的结构分析与翻译

9 《道连·格雷的画像》中意识与潜意识的对抗与结合

10 文化语境下公示语的翻译

11 哈代小说《绿林荫下》的视觉呼唤

12 Cultural Influences on Business Negotiation between China and Japan

13 [税务管理]我国开征遗产税国际借鉴和政策选择研究

14 英汉习语翻译中文化意象的转换

15 情感范畴在转喻中的认知体现

16 修辞在政治演讲中的作用－－以奥巴马获胜演讲为例

17 The Gothic Beauty and Spiritual Essence of Allan Poe’s Short Stories

18 Christ Love in Uncle Tom’s Cabin

19 商务英语信函中名词化结构的翻译

20 谈成长中的大卫?科波菲尔的情感波折

21 从中美非语言差异看国际商务谈判的影响及其对策

22 A Study on Developing Autonomous Learning Ability of Junior High School Students 23 埃德加?爱伦?坡短篇小说的幽默性———以《同木乃伊的对话》为例

24 英语专业学生英语口语学习动机调查研究

25 汉英“龙”文化浅析

26 章回体小说开篇叙事标记语翻译初探——以四大古典名著为例

27 浅析《宠儿》中人物塞丝的畸形母爱产生的根源

28 《名利场》和《嘉莉妹妹》女主角形象对比

29 A Cross-Cultural Study on Linguistic Taboo

30 中英称谓语的文化差异及其翻译

31 The Process of Anna’s Spiritual Integration in Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook 32 Female Characters in The Lord of the Rings

33 解读海明威小说《老人与海》中的生态意识

34 从《祝福》的英译本谈文化空缺词的翻译

35 英语成语跨文化翻译策略

36 广告折射出的中西文化差异及广告翻译策略

37 从女性主义角度解读《灶神之妻》

38 分析《要说出全部真理,但不能直说》中的标记用法

39 论例句在中学英语课堂中的应用

40 觉醒的女性意识：《嘉莉妹妹》中女性主义分析

41 顺应论视角中电影字幕汉英翻译研究——以李安电影作品字幕翻译为例

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42 剖析简?爱性格的弱点

43 中美家庭教育文化对比及其根源分析

44 英语商业广告中幽默的语用分析

45 从生态视角解读《瓦尔登湖》

46 英汉委婉语的对比及翻译

47 从《老人与海》中看海明威的人生哲学

48 关联理论视角下的文化负载词翻译研究——以《丰乳肥臀》英译本个案为例

49 英文姓名的起源和文化内涵

50 汉英道歉语回应之比较

51 从电影《七宗罪》看‘七宗罪’与基督教传统的关系

52 英语体育新闻标题的特点及其翻译

53 功能视角下商务英语合同英译汉的技巧探析

54 从认知语境角度探究社交语用失误的原因

55 从功能对等角度看英语动物习语的翻译

56 管窥世纪年代以前的朴素社会语言学思想

57 《看不见的人》的主人公形象解析

58 On the Sufferings of the Protagonists in Wilde’s Fairy Tales from the Aesthetic Perspective 59 论《看得见风景的房间》中女性自我意识的觉醒

60 高中英语词汇教学中文化意识的培养

61 A Research on Frances Burnett’s ―Fauntleroy‖ Writing Style

62 顺从还是叛逆——解读《汤姆叔叔的小屋》中的基督教义精神

63 A Study on the Factors Motivating Students’ Speaking in English Class of Junior Middle School

64 目的论指导下的旅游资料汉英翻译及翻译策略

65 论英文电影片名翻译方法的应用

66 影视字幕翻译原则——从文化角度进行研究

67 Women in the Roaring Twenties– A Comparative Study of Female Characters in The Great Gatsby and The Sun Also Rises

68 悲剧的幕后黑手——《美国的悲剧》浅析

69 英汉味觉词“酸甜苦辣”的比较分析

70 A Contrastive Study on Language Features of Chinese and English Proverbs

71 原罪与拯救：《小伙子布朗》与《好人难寻》比较

72 走出迷茫，寻回丢失的信念——富兰克林给毕业者的条忠告

73 以《新时代汉英大辞典》为例析中文谚语英译

74 中西文化差异在家庭教育中的体现

75 论《了不起的盖茨比》中爵士乐时代的新潮女郎

76 回归之路－－《所罗门之歌》

77 中美谈判商务礼仪之比较

78 论《格列佛游记》的社会意义

79 《二十二条军规》中关于军规的控制及反控制

80 中西方创世神话文化的比较

81 论《儿子与情人》的现实主义表现手法

82 从麦当劳看美国快餐文化

83 浅析D.H.劳伦斯的作品《儿子与情人》中的俄狄浦斯情结

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84 Advertising and Its Application

85 《推销员之死》中美国梦破灭的主要原因

86 从文化差异角度论商标词的翻译

87 On Symbolism in The Wizard of Oz

88 English-Chinese Advertisement Translation

89 广告翻译

90 英汉颜色词在文化背景下的不对应性

91 从节日习俗分析东西方文化差异——以春节和圣诞节为例

92 A Feminist Reading of Virginia Woolf and A Room of One’s Own

93 爱米莉?狄金森诗歌中的植物隐喻

94 诠释《儿子与情人》中儿子、母亲、情人之间的关系

95 谈英汉文学作品中数字的模糊性及其翻译

96 《善良的乡下人》的喜剧性分析

97 从文化的角度看英语电影片名的翻译

98 论跨文化商务交际中的非语言交际的重要性

99 试析流行文化对美国青少年价值观的影响

100 中西广告语言中的文化差异

101 埃德加?爱伦?坡小说《黑猫》的写作技巧应用分析

102 华兹华斯与阮籍诗作思想对比研究

103 An Analysis of Daphne du Maurier’s Female Identity Anxiety Reflected in Rebecca 104 浅析“翻译文学”的本体认知与功用价值

105 美国电影作品中英雄主义所隐含的美国社会文化

106 On Stylistic Features of Obama’s Victory Speech

107 逆世的美丽——分析《飘》中主要人物表现的自我意识

108 自立和创新——对爱默生超验主义的解读

109 从中英语言中的幽默表达看中西方思维差异

110 《好人难寻》的冷漠主题分析

111 美剧字幕中的译者主体性——以美剧Gossip Girl第一季为例

112 中西建筑文化差异及其形成背景分析

113 论尤金?奥尼尔《毛猿》中的悲剧根源

114 On the Death of Francis Macomber

115 《了不起的盖茨比》的叙事技巧分析

116 英汉文化差异对英语俚语汉译的影响

117 从《暴风雨》看凯特?肖班的自由派女性主义思想

118 中英爱情隐喻的对比研究

119 从生态批评角度看艾米丽狄金森的诗歌

120 英语X-ful词的形态与认知构建

121 广告英语中语言的性别差异

122 A Comparative Study of Politeness Expressions in English and Chinese

123 歧义视角下的英语言语幽默研究

124 从《海狼》看杰克?伦敦的女性观

125 《紫色》女主人公性格分析

126 The Relationship Between Character and Destiny: An Analysis of Sense and Sensibility 127 战争、归乡、爱情—《冷山》的多元主题研究

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128 从态度系统分析小说《简?爱》的女主人公的性格特征

129 《德伯家的苔丝》中亚雷形象分析

130 高低语境交流模式对国际商务谈判模式的影响

131 从《拦截魔人岛》中的邪恶三位一体分析蒙特哥利死亡的必然性

132 An Interpretation of A Tale of Two Cities from the Perspective of Symbolism

133 塞林格《麦田里的守望者》的逃离与守望

134 《人人都爱雷蒙德》中幽默对话所反映的人物性格特征和人物关系的研究

135 从寂寞到超然—索尔?贝娄的《赫索格》中书信体的内心独白

136 从空间语言的角度分析中美隐私观念的差异

137 苔丝的悲剧命运分析

138 论应变能力在同声传译中的应用

139 美国品牌中国本土化进程中的文化冲突与融合

140 大众文化视角下的另类古典小说-斯蒂芬妮?梅尔《暮光之城》之畅销解读

141 中美大学生课堂讨论话语性别差异对比

142 A Journey through Harsh Reality: Reflections on Gulliver’s Travels

143 哈金小说《等待》中的女性悲剧分析

144 英语专业学生议论文写作中连接词使用情况研究

145 从《瓦尔登湖》看梭罗的自然观

146 《丧钟为谁而鸣》的生态女性主义解读

147 情态人际意义的跨文化研究

148 透过《马丁?伊登》看杰克伦敦对超人哲学的矛盾心态

149 《尤利西斯》与《春之声》中意识流手法的不同

150 浅析《等待戈多》“反戏剧”的 艺术特色

151 模糊语言在英语新闻中的语用分析

152 对《儿子与情人》中的自然环境描写的研究

153 Gone with the Wind: From Novel to Film

154 协商课程在高中英语教学中的应用初探

155 An Analysis of Characterization of O-lan in The Good Earth

156 奥巴马演讲词的人际意义研究

157 “上”和“下”的意象图式及概念映射

158 论企业对员工过度压力的管理

159 浅析马克思主义女性主义视角下的凯瑟琳

160 On the Characteristics of Desert Island Literature from Lord of the Flies

161 认知角度下的隐喻翻译

162 “垮掉的一代”形成的背景探析

163 The Comparison of the Two Main Characters in Daniel Defoe’s Roxana and Emily Zola’s Nana

164 谭恩美《喜福会》中母女关系的文化解读

165 对《野性的呼唤》中的狗——巴克的分析研究

166 男女生英语学习差异比较研究

167 情感因素对英语教学的影响

168 从言语行为理论研究广告英语中的隐喻

169 从顺应论的角度谈英文电影片名的汉译

170 布什总统演讲词中幽默话语的语用功能分析

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171 从归化角度分析英文广告的汉译

172 从认知文体学角度分析《一桶白葡萄酒》

173 从服饰的变化看待中美文化的差异

174 浅谈《简?爱》的女性意识

175 功能翻译理论关照下的英汉商标翻译

176 《大衣》中定语从句的翻译策略

177 商务谈判中的中西文化差异及其对策

178 《七宗罪》的人性解剖

179 Contradiction of Hawthorne Reflected in the Symbols and Images in Young Goodman Brown 180 A Comparison between Emily Dickinson’s and Walt Whitman’s Poems on Their Modernity 181 A Study of the Characters and Their Influence on the Hero of The Catcher in the Rye 182 The Dilemma of Career Woman in The Millstone

183 商业英语广告的劝说功能与修辞分析

184 《洛丽塔》的悲剧分析

185 《太阳照常升起》中的“女性化”研究

186 中美大学毕业典礼演讲之叙事结构的比较研究

187 论商标名称的翻译对品牌形象的影响

188 论原声电影对提高大学生英语听说能力的作用

189 浅析简?爱的反抗性格及其形成过程

190 英语专业学生课外网络自主学习问题研究

191 The Relationship between Love and the Development of the Protagonists’ Characters in Great Expectations

192 一个典型的拜伦式英雄——论《呼啸山庄》中的希斯克利夫

193 网络环境下英语专业学生学习策略研究

194 追求“美与真”：莎士比亚十四行诗中的玫瑰意象研究

195 母语在第二语言习得中的迁移

196 中西文化对红颜色的理解及翻译

197 你是爱丽丝吗？从《爱丽丝梦游仙境》中人物看作者刘易斯.卡罗尔的写作意图 198 论《黑夜中的旅人》中主人公的信仰冲突与融合

199 浅谈一些英美文学作品中的猫形象

200 A Contrastive Study on Meanings of Animal Words in English and Chinese

 

第二篇：英美文学作品分析-全

作品分析

English Literature

Chapter One The Renaissance Period

I. Shakespeare’s sonnets

1. With a few exceptions, Shakespeare writes his sonnets in the popular English form of three quatrains and a couplet. The couplet usually ties the sonnet to one of the general themes, leaving the quatrains free to develop the poetic intensity.

2. The sonnet’s most common themes concern the destructive effects of time, the quickness of physical decay, and the loss of beauty, vigor, and love. Although the poems celebrate life, they are always with a keen awareness of death.

3. His sonnet 18 expresses that beautiful things can rely on the force of literature to reach eternity. Literature is created by man, thus it declares man’s eternity. The poem shows the mighty self-confidence of the newly class. The vivid, variable and rich images reflect the lively and adventurous spirits of those who were opening new world.

II. Shakespeare’s A Merchant of Venice

1. Theme

(1) Justice vs. mercy: Shakespeare suggests that all men should be merciful. There is a further aspect of justice—the injustice revealed in the Christians’ treatment of the Jews.

(2) Appearance vs. reality: e.g. superficial or external beauty vs. moral or spiritual beauty or truth (in the case of three caskets); the letters of law vs. the spirit of the law.

(3) Commercial or material values vs. love: True love is much more worthwhile than money and material values. Antonio epitomizes true love in his friendship for Bassanio.

2. The character analysis of Shylock

Shylock is a Jewish usurer, and he is a tragic-comic character.

He is comic because he finally becomes the one punished by his own evil deed. He is avaricious. He accumulates as much wealth as he can and he even equates his lost daughter with his lost money. He is also cruel. In order to revenge, he would rather claim a pound of flesh from his enemy Antonio than get back his loan.

He is tragic, because he is the victim of the society. As a Jew, he is not treated equally by the society. The law is harsh to him. He has to make as much money as he can in order to protect him. He is abused by Antonio, so he wants to get revenge.

III. The character analysis of Hamlet

Hamlet is a scholar and a warrior. His father has been killed by his uncle, Claudius, who then take the throne and marries his mother. Hamlet is informed by the ghost of his father to take revenge, but the weakness of indecisiveness or indetermination in his character always delay his action, and finally leads to his tragic fall of death. Hamlet is not a man of action, but a man of thinking at first. He hesitates at some crucial moments. At last when he is forced to take some actions, he does kill Claudius gloriously, but he also sacrifices his own life.

IV. Donne and his “The Sun Rising”

1. Metaphysical poet: He wrote poems by using unconventional and surprising conceits and full of wit and humor, but sometimes the logic argument and conceits become pervasive. The language is colloquial but powerful, creating unorthodox images on the reader’s mind.

2. His “The Sun Rising”: In this poem, the love’s wedding room has been intruded by sun and the man takes offence at the intrusion. He attack the sun as an unruly servant, and finally he allow the sun to enter their chamber and warm them. The poem’s true subject is the lady—his true emotional love. Every insult to the sun is a compliment to the lady.

V. Milton’s Paradise Lost :

1.Structure: The story is taken from the Old Testament. It extends chronologically from the exaltation of Christ before the creature of universe to the second coming of Christ. Geographically, it ranges over the entire world.

2. The character analysis of Satan:

He has the strength, the courage and the capacity for leadership, but he devoted all those qualities to evil. His defiance of God shows his egoistic pride, his false conception of freedom, and his alienation from all good. His own evil and damnation give him potentially tragic dimensions. Therefore, Satan is enveloped in dramatic irony because he fight in ignorance of the unshakable power of God and goodness.

3.Features: Parallel and contrast

The central conflict and contrast between good and evil are intensified by the contrast between heaven and hell, light and darkness, love and hate, reason and passion, etc.

Chapter Two The Neo-classical Period

I. The allegorical meaning of “The Vanity Fair” in John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress

The Vanity Fair refers to the real world where people have become so degenerated that all they are concerned is to buy and sell everything they can. It allegorically represents vanity both in the society and in people’s heart, so people are spiritually lost. However, the pilgrims refuse to buy any of the things in the Vanity Fair. Its purpose is to urge people to abide by Christian doctrines and seek salvation through constant struggle with their own weakness and social evils. Christians’ refusal shows that they are one step nearer the Celestial City.

II. Pope’s point of view on poetry criticism and the characteristics of his own poetry

1. Pope’s point of view on poetry criticism is best shown in his An Essays on Criticism. He emphasizing that literary works should be judged by classical rules of order, reason, logic, restrained emotion and good taste. He calls on people to turn to the old Greek and Roman writers for guidance. He advises the critics not to stress too much the artificial use of conceit or the external beauty of language, but to pay special attention to true wit which is best set in a plain style.

2. Pope’s poem strictly follows his idea of neoclassicism. He developed a satiric, concise, smooth, graceful and well-balanced style, and finally brought to its last perfection of the heroic couplet.

III. The social satire of Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels

The account of Lilliputian life, especially the games for people at court, alludes to the similar ridiculous practices or tricks in the English government. The description of the competition in the games before the royal members leads to the fact that the success of those government officials such as the Prime Minister lies not in their being any wiser or better but in their being more dexterous in the game. This alludes to the practices in England. And the pompous words singing of the Lilliputian emperor ridicule the aristocratic arrogance and vanity.

IV. Henry Fielding and his Tom Jones

It is a good example of “comic epic in prose”. Fielding describes the fight between Molly and the villagers and her fistfight with Goody Brown in the grand style of the Homeric epic. He first of all calls on the Muses to assist him in recounting the fight as if it were of great historical importance. Like Homer who would list names of gods involved in the battle, he lists the names of the villagers. He treats Molly as a great hero at battle, an “Amazonian heroine”. Besides, he uses a mock-epic tone and seems very solemn about what he is describing. He uses formal words and refined language. Finally, he makes use of different figures of speech, particularly, irony and hyperbole.

V. Thomas Gray and his “Elegy Written in a County Church”

In the poem, Gray presents a picture of the quiet and solitary county at dusk through the sounding of the curfew, the home-coming plowman, the tinkling of bells under the necks of the cattle, the moping owl, the narrow cell (grave), etc.. He bemoans the fate of those common laborers who are now buried in the graves, tries to imagine how they had lived as loving parents and hardworking people, and praise their homely joys. He then express his contempt for those noblemen who once lived a pompous life, and despised the poor, but have ended up in a way no better than the ordinary folk. We can see Gray’s sympathy for the poor and contempt for the rich.

Chapter Three The Romantic Period

I. Wordsworth and his “I wandered lonely as a cloud”

The poem is crystal clear and lucid. Below the immediate surface, we find that all the realistic details of the flowers, the trees, the waves, the wind, and all the realistic details of the active joy, are absorbed into an over-all concrete metaphor, the recurrent image of the dance. The flowers, the stars, the waves are units in this dancing pattern of order in diversity, of linked eternal harmony and vitality. Through the revelation and recognition of his kinship with nature, the poet himself becomes as it were a part of the whole cosmic dance.

II. Shelley and his “Ode to the West Wind”

In the poem, Shelley eulogizes the west wind as a powerful phenomenon of nature that is both destroyer and preserver. The wind enjoys boundless freedom and has the power to spread messages far and wide. The keynote in the poem is Shelley’s ever-present wish for himself and his fellow men to share the freedom of the west wind, remembering meanwhile his own and common human miseries. And the dominant mood is that of hope rather than despair, as the poet is hoping for the realization of the freedom and joy. The optimism expressed in the last two lines show the poet’s critical attitude toward the ugly social reality and his faith in a bright future for humanity.

III. John Keats and his “Ode on a Grecian Urn”

In the poem Keats shows the contrast between the permanence of art and the transience of human passion. The poet has absorbed himself into the timeless beautiful scenery on the Grecian urn: the lovers, musicians and worshippers carved on the urn, and their everlasting joys. They are unaffected by time, stilled in expectation. This is the glory and the limitation of the world conjured up by and object of art. The urn celebrates but simplifies intuitions of joy by defying our pain and suffering. But at last, the urn presents his ambivalence about time and the nature of beauty.

IV. The character analysis of Elizabeth in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice

Elizabeth is a beautiful young lady in the Bennets. She is intelligent, contrasting her empty-minded, snobbish and vulgar mother. She is a women of distinct character. She is not passive, but pursue her true love bravely. She turns down Mr. Collin’s marriage proposal and seeking her happiness with Darcy, the one she possesses true affection for her. She is also courageous. When Darcy’s aunt lady comes to force her into a promise of never consenting to marry Darcy, she boldly challenges her authority, contempt and arrogance. On the whole, Elizabeth is a typical image of the good, attractive lady in the 19th century.

Chapter Four The Victorian Period

I. The features of Charles Dickens

1. His critical realism: While sticking to the principle of faithful representation of the 18th-century realist novel, he carried the duty to the criticism of the society and the defense of the mass.

2. He is a master storyteller. With his first sentence, he engages the reader’s attention and holds it to the end.

3. What he writes is mainly the middle and lower-middle class life in London.

4. He is a master of language with a large vocabulary and an adeptness with the vernacular.

5. He is a great humorist as well as a great painter of pathos. He always mingles the two to make his fictional world realistic.

6. His characters are not only true to life but also large than life. There are both individual characters and type characters.

II. Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre

1. Theme: The novel sharply criticizes the religious hypocrisy of charity institutions like Lowood School, where girls are trained to be humble slaves. It rebukes the social discrimination and false convention about love and marriage. Besides, the novel is a moral fable. It tells us that people have to go through all kinds of physical or moral tests to obtain their final happiness.

2. The character analysis of Jane Eyre: Jane Eyre is an orphan child with a fiery spirit and a longing to love and be loved. She is poor and plain, but she dares to love her master, a man superior to her in many ways, as a little governess. She is brave enough to declare to the man her love for him. She cuts a completely new women image. She represents those middle-class working women who are struggling for recognition of their basic rights and equality as a human being.

III. Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Height

1. The novel is an extraordinary moving love story: the passion between Heathcliff and Catherine is the most intense, beautiful, and the most horrible passions ever found among human beings.

2. It is also a work of critical realism. Heathcliff is abused, rejected and distorted by the society only because he is a poor orphan of obscure parents. He suffers all kinds of inhuman treatment after the death of his benefactor. He loves Catherine dearly but forced to be separated from her. So, Heathcliff’s cruel revenge upon his enemies is justified in a way.

3. The author makes clear that it is wrong to discriminate on the basis of social status, and it is cruel and destructive to break genuine, natural human passions. Although Catherine and Edgar’s marriage is ideal in the eyes of the whole neighborhood, her love for Heathcliff is hard and everlasting. IV. Robert Brouning’s “My Last Duchess”

Dramatic Monologue can best bring out the Duke’s character in a dramatic way. The Duke is extremely cruel to kill his newly-married wife just because his jealousy. He is addressing to a character who exists but remains silent in the poem. He is showing off to this silent character about his wife’s beauty and his own power to destroy it. He justifies his own deed as a trifle matter. However, as audience, we may feel strongly the contrary. His arrogance, cruelty and hypocrisy are fully exposed. What he says and what we feel form a sharp contrast and achieve an dramatic effect.

V. George Eliot’s Middlemarch

Gorge Eliot pays great attention to the mutual effect between the inner world of the character and the outer world of the environment. Dorothea had wanted to escape the common meaningless life of the gentle ladies and enter some noble cause by marrying Casaubon. But her voluntary help, companionship and tenderness are ignored by her husband, she is forced into the idle life.

When Dorothea got up, Mr. Casaubon was in library. Looking through the windows at the white landscape and cloudy sky, she felt a dullness and lifelessness. The furniture, the book, and everything in the house too looked lifeless and shrunk to her. The gloomy environment found ready response from her inner heart. Her great disappointment with her marriage is here joined together with the outer dreary and lifeless environment to make up a pathetic picture.

Chapter Five The Modern Period

I. The features of Shaw’s plays:

1. Problem plays: He took the modern social issues as his subject with the aim of directing social reforms. Most of his plays are concerned with political, economic, or religious problems.

2. In his characterization, he makes the tricks of showing up one character vividly at the expense of another. His characters are the representatives of ideas, which shift and alter during the play.

3. The strong sense of comedy in his play are achieved through his witty dialogues, sharp satires, and vivid portrayal of characters.

II. The theme of Shaw’s Mrs. Warren’s profession

1. The play is not only moral, but also has a strong realistic theme. The guilt for prostitution lies more upon the social system than immoral woman. He shows all human sufferings are consequences of the economic exploitation.

2. The play is a spiritual triumph for Vivie who experiences a journey from illusion to reality. At first, she is ignorant of the evil, and through a series of temptations, she understands the capitalist world better.

III. Yeats’ Poems:

1. “The lake isle of Innisfree”

The poem consists of three quatrains of iambic pentameter, with each stanza rhymed abab. Tired of the life of his day, Yeats sought to escape into an ideal “fairyland” where he could live calmly and enjoy the beauty of nature. The best remedy for the emptiness of his age seemed to lie in a return to simple life in the past.

2. “Down by the Salley Gardens”

The poem is about the fundamental questions on life: how to live and enjoy? The speaker’s lover bids “me” to take love and life easy. Love and life are like leaves and grass which have their own rule of living—nature determine it. Too much human effort will only spoil them. They are best when they are most natural. Yeats thinks there are too much human interference in modern life.

IV. T. S. Eliot’s “The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock”

Written in the form of monologue, the poem is the song of a being divided between passion and timidity. It is about the impotence and futility of a modern everyman and his existence. Prufrock is an interesting tragic figure. He is a man caught in a sense of defeated idealism and tortured by unsatisfied desire. He does not dare to seek love because even if he could find it, it would not satisfy his needs. He compares himself with Hamlet. As a result of his timidity he has become incapable of action of any sort.

V. D.H. Lawrence’s Sons and Lovers

1. Theme: Sociologically, it is a novel about modern civilization, the “sickness of a whole civilization”. Psychologically, it is a case study of the Oedipus complex theory, for it deals with a son who loves the mother too dearly and hates the father too despisingly. The psychic conflict (between dark self and white self) in human relationships is the central theme of the novel.

2. The character analysis of Paul Morel:

He is a light, quick, slender boy. From his childhood, he is especially sensitive, artistic and imaginative, and he becomes extraordinarily dependent on his mother. When he gets older, his distorted relationship with his mother prevents him from loving girls as fully as he feels he should. Besides, Paul is also an artist, and a likeable young man adored by many girls.

VI. The features of stream of consciousness

1. The unspoken thoughts and feelings of their characters are described without resorting to objective description or conventional dialogue.

2. The flux of a character’s thoughts, impressions, emotions are often shown without logical sequence or syntax.

American Literature

Chapter one : The romantic period

I. Emerson’s transcendentalism and his attitude toward nature:

1.Transcendentalism—it is a philosophic and literary movement that flourish in New England, as a reaction against rationalism and Calvinism. It stressed intuitive understanding of god without the help of the church, and advocated independence of the mind.

2. Emerson’s transcendentalism:

The over-soul—it is an all-pervading power goodness, from which all things come and of which all are a part. It is a supreme reality of mind, a spiritual unity of all beings and a religion. It is a communication between an individual soul and the universal over-soul. And he strongly believe in the divinity and infinity of man as an individual, so man can totally rely on himself.

3.His toward nature:

Emerson loves nature. His nature is the garment of the over-soul, symbolic and moral bound. Nature is not something purely of the matter, but alive with God’s presence. It exercise a healthy and restorative influence on human beings. Children can see nature better than adult.

II. Hawthorne’s Puritanism and his black vision of man:

1. Puritanism—it is the religious belief of the Puristans, who had intended to purify and simplify the religious ritual of the church of England.

2. his black vision of man—by the Calvinistic concept of original sin, he believed that human being are evil natured and sinful, and this sin is ever present in human heart and will pass one generation to another.

3. Young Goodman Brown—it shows that everyone has some evil secrets. The innocent and na?ve Brown is confronted with the vision of human evil in one terrible night, and then he becomes distrustful and doubtful. Brown stands for everyone ,who is born pure and has no contact with the real world ,and the prominent people of the village and church. They cover their secrets during daily lives, and under some circumstances such as the witch’s Sabbath, they become what they are. Even his closed wife, Faith, is no exception. So Brown is aged in that night.

III. The symbolism of Melville’s Mobby-Dick

1.The voyage to catch the white whale is the one of the mind in quest of the truth and knowledge of universe.

2. To Ahab, the whale is an evil creature or the agent of an evil force that control the universe. As to readers, the whale is a symbol of physical limits, or a symbol of nature. It also can stand for the ultimate mystery of the universe and the wall behind which unknown malicious things are hiding. IV. Whitman and his Leaves of Grass :

1. Theme: sing of the “en-mass” and the self / pursuit of love, happiness, and sexual love / sometimes about politics (Drum taps)

2. Whitman’s originality first in his use of the poetic form free verse (i.e. poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme),by means of which he becomes conversational and casual.

3.He uses the first person pronoun “I” to stress individualism, and oral language to acquire sympathy from the common reader.

Chapter two : The realistic period

I. The character analysis and social meaning of Huck Finn in Adventure of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Huck is a typical American boy with “a sound heart and a deformed conscience”. He appears to be vulgar in language and in manner, but he is honest and decent in essence. His remarkable raft’s journey down on the Mississippi river can be regarded as his process of education and his way to grow up. At first, he stands by slavery, for he clings to the idea that if he lets go the slave, he will be damned to go to hell. And when the “King” sells Jim for money, Huck decides to inform Jim’s master. After he thinks of the past good time when Jim and he are on the raft where Jim shows great care and deep affection for him, he decide to rescue Jim. And Huck still thinks he is wrong while he is doing the right thing.

Huck is the son of nature and a symbol for freedom and earthly pragmatism. Through the eye of Huck, the innocent and reluctant rebel, we see the pre-Civil War American society fully exposed. Twain contrasts the life on the river and the life on the banks, the innocence and the experience, the nature and the culture, the wilderness and the civilization.

II. Daisy Miller by Henry James

1. Theme: The novel is a story about American innocence defeated by the stiff, traditional values of Europe. James condemns the American failure to adopt expressive manners intelligently and point out the false believing that a good heart is readily visible to all. The death of Daisy results from the misunderstanding between people with different cultural backgrounds.

2. The character analysis of Daisy: She represents typical American girl, who is uninformed and without the mature guidance. Ignorance and parental indulgence combine to foster he assertive self-confidence and fierce willfulness. She behaves in the same daring naive way in Europe as she does at home. When someone is against her, she becomes more contrary. She knows that she means no harm and is amazed that anyone should think she does. She does not compromise to the European manners.

3. The character analysis of Winterbourne: He is a Europeanized American, who has live too long in foreign parts. He is very experience and has a problem understanding Daisy. He endeavors to put her in sort of formula, i.e. to classify her.

III. Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser:

1. Theme: The author invented the success of Carrie and the downfall of Hurstwood out of an inevitable and natural judgment, because the fittest can survive in a competitive, amoral society according to the social Darwinism.

2. The character analysis of Carrie: She follows the right direction to a pursuit of the American dream, and the circumstances and her desire for a better life direct to the successful goal. But she is not contented, because with wealth and fame, she still finds herself lonely. She is a product of the society, a realization of the theory of the survival of the fittest.

3. The character analysis of Hurstwood: He is a negative evidence of the theory of the survival of the fittest. Because he is still conventional and can not throw away the social morals, he is not fitted to live in New York.

Chapter three : The Modern Period

I. Ezra Pound and his theory of Imagism

1. The principles: a. direct treatment of the thing; b. to use absolutely no word that does not contribute to the presentation; c. to compose in the sequence of the musical; d. to use the language of common speech and the exact word; e. to create new rhythms; f. absolutely freedom in the choice of subject.

2. Imagism is to present an intellectual and emotional complex in an instant of time. An imagistic poem must present the object exactly the way the thing is seen. And the reader can form the image of the object through the process of reading the abstract and concrete words.

II. Frost and his poetry on nature:

Frost is deeply interested in nature and in men’s relationship to nature. Nature appears as an explicator and a mediator for man and serve as the center of reference of his behavior. Peace and order can be found in Frost’s poetical natural world. With surface simplicity of his poems, the thematic concerns are always presented in rich symbols. Therefore his work resists easy interpretation.

III. F. Scott Fitzgerald and his The Great Gatsby

1. Theme: Gatsby is American Everyman. His extraordinary energy and wealth make him pursue the dream. His death in the end points at the truth about the withering of the American Dream. The spiritual and moral sterility that has resulted from the withered American Dream is fully revealed in the article. However, although he is defeated, the dream has gave Gatsby a dignity and a set of qualities. His hope and belief in the promise of future makes him the embodiment of the values of the incorruptible American Dream .

2. The character analysis of Gatsby: Gatsby is great, because he is dignified and ennobled by his dream and his mythic vision of life. He has the desire to repeat the past, the desire for money, and the desire for incarnation of unutterable vision on this material earth. For Gatsby, Daisy is the soul of his dreams. He believe he can regain Daisy and romantically rebels of time. Although he has the wealth that can match with the leisured class, he does not have their manners. His tragedy lies in his possession of a naive sense and chivalry.

IV. Ernest Hemingway’s artistic features:

1. The Hemingway code heroes and grace under pressure:

They have seen the cold world ,and for one cause, they boldly and courageously face the reality. They has an indestructible spirit for his optimistic view of life. Whatever is the result is, the are ready to live with grace under pressure. No matter how tragic the ending is, they will never be defeated. Finally, they will be prevail because of their indestructible spirit and courage.

2.The iceberg technique:

Hemingway believe that a good writer does not need to reveal every detail of a character or action. The one-eighth the is presented will suggest all other meaningful dimensions of the story. Thus, Hemingway’s language is symbolic and suggestive.

V. The character analysis of Emily in A Rose for Emily:

Emily is a symbol of old values, standing for tradition, duty and past glory. But she is also a victim to all those she cares and embrace. The source of Emily’s strangeness is from her born pride and self-esteem, the domineering behavior of her father and the betrayal of her lover. Barricaded in her house, she has frozen the past to protect her dreams. Her life is tragic because the defiance of the community, her refusal to accept the change and her extreme pride have pushed her to abnormality and insanity.