Feminist Motifs in William Faulkner

As we all know, William Faulkner shows really concern for the Southern people, especially the Southern women who suffer the most. In Faulkner’s works women characters play an important role, which is confirmed. After the theories of feminist literary come to understand Faulkner criticism, critics to Faulkner’s novels drafting an encouraging response detect the author himself either as a pro-feminist or a misogynist. On analyzing the woman characters through Addie and Lena Grove—the women images in As I Lay Dying and Light in August, we found out that Faulkner is neither simple a pro-feminist nor a misogynist in the patriarchal society.     

Theme Analysis of Dan Brown’s Angles and Demons

Dan Brown’s Angels and Demons published in 2000 directly centered on the theme of the debate upon religion and science.It is a vivid depiction of the collision of humanity and divinity,which evokes people’s deep probing to the crisis-ridden modern society.This article aims at analyzing the postmodernism writing features adopted in the theme of Angels and Demons.     

A Critical Study of William Faulkner’s A Rose for Emily:Its Narrative Technique and Structure

A Rose for Emily, written by William Faulkner in the twentieth century, is an absorbing mystery story with a surprisingly chilling ending. This paper intends to analyze the symbolic meaning of the rose, and the relationship between the rose and Emily, giving people a thorough understanding of the theme and the heroine’s personality. Although simple, the story shows great narrative techniques and typical and artful structure in Faulkner’s works.     

Application of Symbolism in William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily”

William Faulkner, the Nobel Prize winner for literature in 1950, is one of the most famous American writers. In "A Rose for Emily", he boldly uses the symbolism writing technique. Emily’s tragedy reveals the conflicts and contradictions between the old and new social concepts and values. With the help of symbolism, William Faulkner thoroughly and deeply portrays the southern American’s spiritual crisis during the historic reform in terms of artistic writing style and unique thoughts.     

On the Black Humor of William Faulkner’ s Work——As I Lay Dying

As I Lay Dying is one of Faulkner’ s greatest works and an important novel of the Yoknapatawpha Saga.This thesis deals with the black humor in As I Lay Dying,as the humor contributes to a better understanding of characterization,action,and theme of this fiction and Faulkner’ s others.Eventually,we would realize that this fiction not only touches something in the American south but also the prob lems of all of the human beings.     

Analysis on Kafka’s Story \"The Metamorphosis\"

The fictions of Franz Kafka are full of many ironical allegories.Through the analysis of the great suffering of the family caused by the transformation of the protagonist into a monster in\"the metamorphosis\"by Franz Kafka,especially on the basis of elaborating the internal artistic characteristics in this story,this paper tends to show that the writer penetratingly described the human feelings of extreme loneliness and solitude in the modern society and he also attacked the society at that time through the technique of his absurd and paradoxical expression.     

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.     

Female Silence and Resistance: Feminist Interpretation on Entailment of“Pride and Prejudice”

\"Pride and Prejudice\"is a classic masterpiece written by British female novelist Jane Austen.In this outstanding novel,Austen vividly portrays the romantic love stories among four young couples.They believe that being deprived of basic working right is the root cause of their dependence on their husbands.This paper analyses the complicated relations between Elizabeth Bennett and other main characters in the level of legislation to expose the reality of entailment and female’s discourse power loss and to promote new women images characterized by Elizabeth’s rebellious spirit towards unfair legal system.     

Fay Weldon’s KEHUA!:A GHOST STORY

The\"She-devils\"or\"wicked women\"in Fay Weldon’s fictions are frequently discussed among many readers and critics.Some pluralistic narrative strategies including parody,anti-genre and non-linear and so on are employed to refract her pluralistic feminist ideas.Her new novel Kehua!:A Ghost Story is a metaficiton which indeed breaks the traditional linear structure of a novel.She gives us ample room and encouragement in this novel as we contemplate the future of women,which surely can be of our own making.     

Little Body Confronting Great World:A Study of Portia’s Compromise with Male-Dominated Society in The Merchant of Venice

It is said that there is no hero in The Merchant of Venice, but a heroine, who is Portia, an independent, intelligent and beautiful Renaissance lady, who makes great efforts to grasp and defend her happiness. Her excellent performance in Shylock’s suit also exhibits her extraordinary splendor as the focus of the whole play. However, she has to accept the conventional orientation for a woman’s fate, obedient to her father and her husband, and yet she cannot participate in the social career unless in disguise.     

On The Conceptions of Time and Order in Faulkner’s The Sound and The Fury

The publication of the famous novel The Sound and The Fury projects the long-enduring reputation of William Faulkner as a household American writer in every nook and cranny of the world.Just in this novel,Faulkner employs the literary device of stream of consciousness and makes a good play with time and order to his own joy,which makes it an outstanding literary feature in the novel.In this essay,the unusual conceptions of time and order in the novel are tentatively probed mainly from the following three perspectives:1) the initiative for Faulkner creating the novel as a novel against time and order.2) the disordered arrangement as an artistic device——the optimum key to delivering the story.3) the potential order underlying the seeming disorder in the novel.     

Rewriting Matricide in Phyllis Nagy’s Butterfly Kiss

This essay discusses the matricidal tradition in western culture and how Phyllis Nagy’s Butterfly Kiss(1994)rewrites this tradition and undermines the patriarchy.It suggests Nagy’s play questions the common dishonest plays at that time,which fea?tures mother and daughter friendly with each other,and avoids the prevalent antagonism between mother and daughter in the real society.It considers how the play addresses this issue of maternal hatred and how Lily’s reconstruction reveals her act of matricide is actually a loving act coming from the desire to save her mother.The essay argues that Lily’s matricide rewrites the matricidal tra?dition in western culture and through accounting the oppression they suffer in the patriarchal society,the mothers and daughters in the play hope for a real connection that involves intimacy,love and nurturance.     

Shopping :Men’s and Women’s

“M en say they hate to shop,”says Zhukin,C ity U niversity of N ewY ork Sociology (社会学) professor. “Y et w hen you ask them deeperquestions,it turns out that they like to shop.M en generally like to shopfor books, m usic and hardw are. But ifyou ask them aboutthe shoppingthey do for books or m usic, they ll say, ‘W ell, thats not shopping.Thats research.’”In other words,what m en and w om en call “buying things”and howthey com plete thattask are different.W om en will wander thr…     

Women’s Language or Powerless Language:A Study of Couples’ Talk

The purpose of this essay is to study whether the linguistic behaviour of adult women using hedging and tags as indicative of an intrinsically tentative gender identity or of the effects of male dominant position through analyzing daily conversations of the heterosexual couples.The small scale study employs the methodology,namely,recording spontaneous and natural spoken conversation from authentic interaction with the permission of the ten male-female couples.Digital record pen with an omnidirectional microphone are placed in the central living area of each couple’s home.Then discourse analysis provides data making it possible to support Fishman’s claim that women use tag questions and ’you know’ not because women are not being really sure of themselves,or are looking to the addressee for confirmation,but because men in a dominant position often refuse to take responsibility for the smooth conduct of interpersonal relations,women use tag questions and ’you know’ to elicit and maintain conversations.     

An Analysis on the Cultural Factors that Affect People’s Perceptions:A Case Study

The intention of this present paper is to explore the relationship between culture and perception and the cultural factors that affect people’s perceptions from different cultural backgrounds. This study is based on a case, which is a news report about the cultural conflict between an old Chinese father and her daughter who has been living in Canada for eight years. Detailed information has been acquired by the author using relative books, journals as well as her own understanding and interpretation. It is concluded that to be aware of the cultural factors is of great importance to understand why people from different cultures have quite different perceptions toward the same thing, which can help to reduce the conflicts and misunderstandings in intercultural communication.     

A Comparative Study of Nature’s Subjectivity in Walden and Tang Poems

Thoreau’s Walden and Chinese Tang Poems both attach great importance to nature,devoting large paragraphs to the depiction of it.The significance of this phenomenon is discussed in this paper.Based on the method of close reading and comparative study,it is found that nature,portrayed by Thoreau and Tang poets share one important character,that is,nature assumes subjectivity as an individual being.     

Forecasting the Future of Self-producing Marketing from Prince William’s Marriage

Self-producing marketing is a kind of classical and effective marketing measure;recently it has drawn more and more attention and won wider application.This paper will start from Britain’s prince William’s wedding on April 29th,2011 and analyze the self-producing marketing in marriage.Moreover,adjusted to the current marketing environment,the paper will forecast the development trend of self-producing.     

Connotations and Features of Mao Zedong＇s “Catching up and Surpassing”Thought

毛泽东赶超思想的基本内涵是：赶超对象锁定英美;赶超时间从“五六十年”、“十几年”、“两三年”、再到“一百多年”;赶超步骤从“两步走”到“两个阶段”;赶超指标锁定钢铁产量,赶超手段采用群众运动;赶超要求是“多快好省”;赶超道路是“以苏为鉴”,走自己的路。毛泽东“赶超”思想的特点主要表现为高速性、粗放性、非均衡性、群众性、政治性。毛泽东“赶超”思想反映了中华民族求富求强的百年宏愿,激发了中国人民奋发图强的拼搏精神;符合后发国家现代化建设的努力方向;有效地捍卫了国家的独立和利益。但也毋庸回避毛泽东的＂赶超＂思想脱离了国情,确立了不恰当的指标,采用了不正确的方法,忽视了科学技术。     

The Social Statues of the Women in Austin’s Day

Jane Austin(1775-1817),one of the greatest realistic novelists in English literature,wrote several classical and popular novels,which are the portrayal of the late eighteenth and the early nineteenth centuries,although with a certain limitation.This paper tries to reveal the social history,the economic realities as well as the women’s social statues of Jane Austin’s day through her fictions.