A Study on the Conflict Between Aestheticism and Morality in Oscar Wil de’s Salome

As the only tragedy written by Oscar Wilde,Salome enjoys a unique status among all the works of Wilde.It is the representative work of aestheticism and has faced as many controversies as its author since the day it came out.Through the careful analysis of the conflict revealed both inside the play and outside the play,and based on Aristotle’s tragedy theory to interpret the causes of these conflicts,it can be concluded that the design of the conflict in Salome is in accordance with the tragedy theory.Furthermore,interpreting Salome from the perspective of Aristotle’s theory has attached this play with more intricate meaning and different understanding.     

A Comparison Between Coleridge’s Kubla Khan and Li Bai’s Tianmu Mountain Ascended in A Dream

The comparisons between Coleridge and Li Bai represent two kinds of thinking patterns.The former stands for culture of opi um,total romanticism and huge space of imagination.However,Li Bai is a representative of culture of alcohol.To some extent,he is practical.Readers can sense disappointment in his poem.     

The Narrator’s Pangs in Pangs of Love : Uncertainty of Cultural Identity

Pangs of Love tells the experiences of Chinese American immigrants, and especially the pangs the narrator, as a second generation, feels in family, love and social affairs. Based on the analysis of the narrator’s pangs, this paper argues that it is mainly the uncertainty of cultural identity that leads to the pangs of the narrator, and of the second generation Chinese Americans. This paper shows that the second generation can take advantage of their dual but conflicting cultural heritages to develop a renewed and specific cultural identity.     

The Difference in the Main Conflict between Shakespeare ’s Hamlet and Feng Xiaogang’s The Banquet

Famous Chinese director Feng Xiaogang made a film The Banquet in 2006, which is adapted from Shakespeare’s play Hamlet. However, accounting for the background and cultural difference, the main conflict...     

An Analysis of Jane Austen’s Outlook on Marriage in Pride and Prejudice

Jane Austen,one of the most influential female novelists in the history of world literature,is the first female to break up the monopoly of male writing.Her famous work Pride and Prejudice was created in 1813,which gained her lasting fame and popularity.In this novel,the characters of the four ladies are impressive:Jane is mild;Charlotte is mediocre;Lydia is ignorant;Elizabeth is wise.Different characters result in different marriages which are moral marriage,utilitarian marriage,sex-oriented marriage and perfect marriage.Through the analysis of the characters and these four marriages,this thesis aims to conclude Jane Austen’s Perception of Marriage,that is,character determines marriage.     

The Cartographic Eye in Children’s Picturebooks: Between Maps and Narratives

This article examines the place occupied by maps in children’s picturebooks. After a brief overview of the different roles that are assigned to maps in children’s books, the article considers five French picturebooks—Warja Lavater’s Le petit chaperon rouge (1965), Olivier Douzou and Isabelle Simon’s L’autobus numéro 33 (1996), Véronique Vernette’s Cocorico poulet Piga (1999), Rebecca Dautremer and Arthur Leboeuf’s Le loup de la 135 ^ème (2008) and Kochka and Fabienne Cinquin’s Dans ma ville, il y a… (2011)—in order to focus on how the narrative, whether enclosed, superimposed or linked to the text in some other way, is evoked by the geographic shape of the maps. It is argued that the particular use and function of a map depends on its shape or placement in a book, distinguishing between the incorporation of maps only as a significant picture (its use) from the subject within the whole narrative (its function). Thus the article articulates what uses a map can have within a narrative. It also explores the mechanics of the iconotext, showing that a cartographic picture fulfils a precise, rather than a general, function of spatialisation. Hence three main functions of spatialisation in maps and mapping are distinguished, whereby an author could use maps to help a character discover, conquer, or organise a space.     

Gatsby’s Dream: Outdated or Avant-garde——Evaluation towards Gatsby’s Dream

This article examines Gatsby’s dream to point out some positive aspects of Gatsby and the causes leading to his tragedy so as to see whether it is outdated or avant-garde as well as to reflect on the present society.     

Lost Ladies’Vanity in Comparison with Pioneering Ladies’Fulfill ment--Comparison between A Lost Lady and O Pioneers!

By comparison between pioneering ladies in O Pioneers! and My Antonia and lost ladies in A Lost Lady and My Mor tal Enemy,this thesis aims at presenting the independent formers’wholesome loyalty to love and the reliant latters’marital be trayal.Nihilistic,cynic and despaired,the lost ladies had depraved from romantic love to self-destruction based on material hedo nism;diligent,enterprising and persistent,the pioneering ladies,from innocent girlhood to weather-beaten middle age,had real ized self-fulfillment both in spiritualization and prosperous homesteads.     

Further Testing Hope’s Role in Constructive Conflict Communication

Using three waves of data, this study examined the relationship between dispositional hope and constructive conflict communication (i.e., “voice” behaviors) in adult romantic relationships. The primary goal was to test if dispositional hope directly predicted voice or if the hope–voice link is mediated by the more relationally proximal variable of conflict efficacy. Results of cross-lagged panel model analysis showed that hope directly predicted voice, even when controlling for variables, such as optimism, general self-efficacy, commitment, and alternative forms of conflict communication. Implications for hope theory-based relational interventions and future research of hope and conflict communication are discussed.     

A Psychological Analysis of Laura’s Personality in Katherine Mansfield’s The Garden Party

This paper explores Laura’s inner world, applying Freud’s theory of the unconscious and the structure of the mind,Jung’s idea of archetypes, and Lacan’s concepts of the three orders. The story in The Garden Party depicts, in the movement toward adulthood, how Laura feels, thinks and acts under the drive of the id, and the adjustment of the ego and the superego. Laura’s psychological development indicates Laura has a healthy personality. She can confront her imperfection in her growth.     

Disillusionment of American Dream:Willy Loman’s Tragic Dream

Arthur Miller plays an important role in American literature. His works have a great influence on American literature afterWorld War Ⅱ.Willy Loman is the symbol of modern American man. His living state is typical during that time in America. This paperstarts with a survey of Willy’s two dreams-his children can own big future; he can own big business. In the second part, the author contrasts Willy’s unreal dreams with the reality, through this comparison, aims at analyzing the sad elements of Willy’s life, exploring thesource of his sadness. Willy is one convict of American dream. He is influenced greatly by the American cultural mainstream. As an individual drowning in the harsh world, he cannot grasp his own fate by himself.     

The Male World in Women’s Eyes in Lawrence’s Works

In most of Lawrence’s works, men are described to be handsome, healthy and energetic superficially, yet women may probe into their inner world to know them better. But under the disguise of their attractive appearance, women have found that men are evil, selfish, cold-blooded, hypocritical and degraded. They are criminals to the nature ,women , children and even to themselves. This essay will ana lyze women’s views on the male world in details.     

Steps Toward Transformation: One College’s Achieving The Dream Story

Tarrant County College’s Achieving the Dream transformation has not only changed the college but all who engaged in the initiative. In four years, through ATD TCC became a college with one purpose, one goal, and one focus—student success through data informed decision making. From TCC Chancellor Dr. Erma Johnson Hadley to campus administrators, faculty, and staff, the college embraced the call for systemic change and fully engaged in the step by step process. Personnel throughout the college reported widespread satisfaction with senior leadership and viewed collaborations with colleagues across the district as beneficial and personally rewarding. Tireless endeavors to wholly engage stakeholders, build a culture of evidence, and employ effective student success interventions through ATD not only transformed TCC but ushered the college onto the national stage with Leader College recognition. The college’s next steps include keeping that momentum going and building on what it has accomplished.     

A Psychological Analysis of Laura’s Personality in Katherine Mans-field’s The Garden Party

This paper explores Laura’s inner world, applying Freud’s theory of the unconscious and the structure of the mind, Jung’s idea of archetypes, and Lacan’s concepts of the three orders. The story in The ...     

The Sacrifice on the Altar-An Analysis of the Conflict between Montanelli’s Humanity and Divinity in The Gadfly

Montanelli suffered from the fierce conflict between humanity and divinity in his pursuit of religious belief.As a sacrifice on the altar of God,Montanelli’s tragedy reflects the influence of the religion upon his behaviors,his internal spirit and his tragic destiny in the end.Furthermore,it manifests the cruelty and darkness of the religious rule and the distortion of the humankind in his age.     

The Young Man’s Madness in The Raven

The raven is a narrative poem written by American writer Edgar Allan Poe. It tells of a talking raven’s mysterious visit in a midnight to a distraught lover, tracing the lover’s slow fall into madness. The lover is lamenting the loss of his beloved, Lenore. The raven, sitting on a bust of Pallas, seems to further instigate his distress with its constant repetition of the word"Nevermore".     

The Young Man’s Madness in The Raven

The raven is a narrative poem written by American writer Edgar Allan Poe. It tells of a talking raven ’s mysterious visit in a midnight to a distraught lover, tracing the lover’s slow fall into madness...     

Stylistic Analysis of Rossetti’s Song with the Technique of Deviation

Song is one of Christina Georgina Rossetti’s most outstanding death poems,dealing with the main themes that she concerns:death,love and religion.This paper tries to use the technique of deviation that refers to violations to the standard language and readers’expectations to interpret this poem’s stylistic features from the aspects of grammar,phonology,image,theme and narrative point of view.Through the stylistic analysis with the method of deviation,its solemn theme is exposed clearly.     

An Analysis on Heathcliff’s Dual Personality

Wutering Heights is an exceptionally successful novel written by Emily Bronte. The novel is organized by the love between Heathcliff and Catherine. This thesis attempts to analyze the dual personality of Heathcliff. Through the journey of love, revenge, death and restoration of humanity, his character is influenced by both his own characteristics and social environment.