Murdoch on Eros

Love and moral are the main themes of Iris Murdoch’ s literary works.As the combination of the two main themes,her Eros theory plays a significant role in her works.On the basis of her personal perception of Platonic Eros and Freudian Eros,Murdoch establishes her own Eros Theory.To unveil this important theory,this paper tries to trace the sources of Murdoch’ s Eros theory from Platonic Eros and Freudian Eros.     

On the Artistic Expressions of The Color Purple

Black female writer, Alice Walker is always misunderstood as a writer who attaches more attention to the contents and thoughts in her works. But the success of her work The Color Purple fully demonstrates her ability of exquisitely adopting artistic expressions to realize the integration of contents and form. So this paper aims to study three artistic expressions applied in this novel, that is, the epistolary style, symbolism of the real objects and psychological transformation of the characters. Furthermore, it’s illustrational to show in this thesis that Alice Walker is not only a writer with deep thoughts, but also an imaginative and creative master of excelling in her writing techniques.     

The Religious Elements of Emily Dickinson’s Poetry

Emily Dickinson,one of America’s great poets and a precursor of the Imagist movement in American literature,who was born on December 10,1830 and died unmarried in 1886 in Amherst,lived her life in complete shadow,abnormally shy and even not leaved her house.Confining herself exclusively to poetry.In her life, she was nobody (only several poems got published), but after her death she gained the recognition of the world and so became somebody.Emily Dickinson’s poetry had been controversially discussed because of the unique style.As three aspects which are related to religion affected her poetic personality,there are profound characteristics of religious culture in her poem.she finally establishes her own unique religious outlook.     

Postcolonialism in Morrison’ s Works——exemplified with The Bluest Eye

As the first African American woman winner of the Nobel Prize for literature,Toni Morrison is the most outstanding African-American woman author of the 20th century and the brightest star in contemporary African-American literary arena.Toni Morrison is a voluminous writer and she has published nine novels up to the present.Since 1980,her works have been getting more and more widespread attention from literary critics of the world since 1980s.The topic of postcolonialism has been the one of the focuses of Morrison’ s novels.This paper is a literature review of Toni Morrison and postcolonialism in her works including the following points:a brief introduction to Morrison and her works,the research on Morrison,the post colonial theory and postcolonialism in Morrison’ s works.     

Modernistic Themes in Tess of D’Urbervilles

Thomas Hardy’s works are considered to have"contained new wine in an old bottle"by critics and reviewers. The"old bottle"refers to his authorial omniscient narrative and his form inheriting from the tradition, which is often criticized, especially by those modernists, while"new wine"designates his other sides apart from his old-fashioned writing style, the modernistic themes in his writing. Tess, is a novel that records the transition from conventional to modern. By reading the text and analyzing Tess of the D’Urbervilles under the social context three main modernistic themes can be probed out:Firstly, the spiritual isolation and loneliness in the novel are apparent, and the lack in mutual understanding and sympathy between each other is universal. Besides, the title heroine, she was impossible to fulfill her dreams with various hostile powers set against her, coercing into predicaments one after another, tougher and tougher. Furthermore, another theme popular with later modernists, the alienation, is also embodied in the novel.     

Jane Austen’s Feminine Consciousness That Reflected in Pride and Prejudice

Jane Austen is one of the most famous female novelists in the world.Among her works,"Pride and Prejudice" is her most outstanding representative.The story of "Pride and Prejudice" happened in Britain in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century.At that time,Women regarded marriage as goods to climb up the upper class and to obtain the financial support and their attitudes towards marriage was affected by material factors in determine way.The story of this novel and the behavior of the characters develop around marriage.It mainly talks about Elizabeth,Jane,Charlotte and Lydia these four young ladies’ marriages.There are three kinds of motivations of or attitudes towards marriage that are presented for manifestation.First,Charlotte’s marriage to Mr.Collins is just for money and social position.Second,Lydia’s marriage to Wickham is for beauty regardless of personal morality.Third,is the marriage of Elizabeth and Darcy and that of Jane and Mr.Bingley which are for love and personal merits.Their love stories reveal different views to marriage among young women of the middle class and express Jane Austen her own attitude towards marriage.What’s more important,we find that Jane Austen concerns about women’s lives and their unfair conditions by means of her feminine consciousness.By examining Jane Austen’s social conditions that she lived in and her experiences and analyzing these four marriages,this paper attempts to find the Austen’s views of marriage and her feminine consciousness that reflected in this novel.     

Victorian Social Values Reflected in Mrs, Gaskell＇ s Characterization

This paper is intended to explore the social values reflected in Mrs. Gaskell‘ s novels in terms of her way of portraying her characters, and at the same time, to study the reason and mentality behind it so as to have a better understanding of her works and her progressive ideas, and form a fresh judgement about the artistic value of her novels.     

Emily Dickinson:An Interrogator of Death and Immortality

Emily Dickinson is widely regarded as one of American’s premier poets of the nineteenth century.In both style and content,her verse was,"revolutionary" in her day.Owing to the deep exploration of death and immortality,Emily Dickinson has become a puzzle in literary.As show in her poems,Dickinson’s spiritual journey led her from na?ve nature-mysticism through disappointment,to a sacramental approach to immortality afterlife and further discouragement,culminating in a mature attitude of faithful unknowing and even more interrogating the immortality.This paper will base on the theory of the death and immortality through common people’s fear to death,the essence of death,the significance of death to show the poetess’s whole life-childhood,love,life condition,spiritual contradiction,and mainly her skeptical concept of death and immortality.     

The Elements of Sartre’s Existentialism in The Lottery

The elements of Sartre’s existentialism are shown in Shirley Jackson’s The Lottery: The world abounds with absurdities and bitterness; people can be the hell to each other; an individual has a free choice and act, but should be responsible for his or her behavior. Shirley discusses the problem of the existence of an individual in the complex web of society and environment in The Lottery, just as Sartre in his works of existentialism.     

The stylistic analysis of two love letters

Both letters are love letters, the first from the husband tohis beloved wife and the second from a female to her lover.The styles used in these two letters are totally different.The style in the first letter is forceful     

Emily Dickinson and Her Works

Love is one of the themes of Dickinson’s poetry. Love is both sweet and painful, both strong and lingering described in her works. In the poem "Wild Nights: Wild Nights!" the speaker reveals all her innermost feelings to her love. Love is expressed in an unabashed manner. These bitter and sweet interwoven contradictions constitute the tone of her love of poetry.     

The Essence of Language in Toni Morrison’s View through an Analysis of Her Nobel Lecture and Novels

In 1993,the Nobel Prize of Literature was granted to an American black woman writer,Toni Morrison.She disclosed the features of language in her Nobel Lecture with a story of"the bird-in-hand".Language is both a tool of the ruling class to govern people and a tool fort he common people to understand society and express themselves.Morrison has a deep understanding of it and makes good use of the features to express women’s liberation and racial liberation in her works,which make her language peculiar and her ...     

The Pride and Prejudice of Elizabeth:An Analysis of the Heroine in Pride and Prejudice

This paper gives an analysis of characters of the heroine in Pride and Prejudice--Elizabeth.Pride and Prejudice is generally considered one of the Jane Austen’s most popular works.After reading the novel,people will be attracted by Elizabeth’s intelligence,wit and lively character,but she is also proud,and this leads to her prejudice.Her pride and prejudice cause her misunderstanding of Darcy and she nearly misses her love.Fortunately,Elizabeth is aware of her blindness and partiality in time and conquers them,thus gets her happiness finally.This essay gives an analysis of her pride and prejudice in the two chapters,and her conquering them in the third chapter.     

The Voice of Gender in Emily Dickinson’s Poetry

The paper deals with the reading and interpreting of the voice of gender in Emily Dickinson’s poems.The gender,the 1yric poem and the reading constitute the performance.Dickinson succeeded in constructing alternatives to a traditional,fixed binary gender system(woman/man) and opens opportunities for the reader to perform alternative gendering.Analysis of voices of gender in and of Dickinson’s poems shows that her variant performances of gender are crucial to the general construction of her poetry.Through the analysis of the voice of gender in Dickinson’s poetry,the paper discloses the crucial function of poets construct in women’s rebellion and self-salvation and subverting patriarchy,which also demonstrates her uniqueness in her life and literary creativity.     

Jane Austin and Her Heroines

Jane Austin(1775-1817),one of the greatest realistic novelists in English literature,wrote several classical,worldwide popular novels.This essay tries to reveal the heroines’ epitome in her works through analyzing Jane Austin’ s personal experiences and her love life.     

Similarities in Mark Twain and Lu Xun’s Writing Styles——The Employment of Sharp Contrast

Both Mark Twain and Lu Xun were the most well-known writers in the world literature. They were famous for biting style of writing and the way of using humor and irony,which won high praise of public. Although they lived in different countries and even different times,they shared certain similarities. This thesis will compare the likeness in their writing styles,especially their employment of sharp contrast. As for language,they were all the leaders in literature. It seemed that their works were just for fun. Actually there was light of thoughts in them that were used to satirize,to disclose,to laugh and eventually to cure people’s soul. Therefore,after reading their works,people would laugh with tears and come to examine themselves. Naturally the glorification and organization of translating Mark Twain’s works may result in the similarities of writing styles between the two men of letters.     

The World of Suspense ——An Analysis of Agatha Christie＇ s Detective

Crowned as ＂Queen of detective novels＂, British writer Agatha Christie creates, in her lifetime, a large volume of fine works that achieve flowing praises and win her generations of enamored buffs worldwide. The resounding success and great popularity her novels have long enjoyed, if put under close scrutiny, could be attributed to the intricately designed plots, in-dept~ analysis of human characters and psychology as well as humane thoughts upon crime, which make the reading both an intellectual challenge and moral enlightenment. This paper, with its emphasis on the analysis of the writing style that is distinctly Christie, aims to introduce readers to a world of suspense under the pen of the master in detective literature.     

Analysis of Ambuscade of William Faulkner

Being an outstanding writer in the history of American literature,William Faulkner had many works in his life,many of them are known by Chinese readers.But Ambuscade,as one of them,was analyzed fewer.This short story is different from other works of William Faulkner.In this essay,writer analyzes William Faulkner’s Ambuscade from four aspects:characters,di alogue style,writing skills and the theme expression so that readers can have a whole new perspective to enjoy Faulkner’s work.