Celie’s Awakening in The Color Purple

Celie,the female protagonist of The Color Purple,has suffered a lot since her stepfather raped her when she was only fourteen.However,in that patriarchal society,Celie can only write letters to God instead of telling others for help.Fortunately,by the help of her friend and lover,Shug,Celie begins to awake and fight back.At last,she becomes an independent woman.This thesis will focus on the process of Celie’s awakening and how she could do that.     

The Awakening of Female Consciousness:Analysis of Jane Eyre’ s Character

Jane Eyre is the masterpiece of Charlotte Bronte,who was a famous British woman novelist.In Jane Eyre,the author describes a heroine Jane Eyre who shows her rebelliousness to the indifferent and unequal society in her time and revealed the tragic life of common people,especially of women and children,under Capitalism.Meanwhile,this novel also provides such an important theme that women should enjoy an equal position with men both in family and social life.The heroine Jane is neither beautiful,nor rich,but her rebellion,independence and her pursuit of love strike us deeply.Jane Eyre sets a good example for women.Therefore,Jane Eyre becomes the typical figure with female consciousness.This paper is to analyze the typical character in Jane Eyre from the different periods of her life and conclude that Jane comes to self consciousness in this process.From the analysis of Jane’s splendid character,we can see the awakening of female consciousness in that period of time.     

Gone with the Wind and Women’s Awakening

Scarlett who was the heroine in the world famous book Gone with the Wind,is regarded as one of the most impressive images in the world literature.Her charm lies in her perverse personality of independence and her spirit of freedom.This essay analyzes the characters of the heroine through highlighting women’s social status in the South during the age of Scarlett’s time.It could be safely concluded that Scarlett’s characters and her courage to face the difficulties during the war reveal the awakening of women’s self-consciousness and the realization of feminine value.     

Heavy Patriarchal Shackles: Edna’s Awakening and Disillusion

Kate Chopin’s (1899- ) The Awakening gives an account of Edna Pontellie’s awakening in soul and body and sing highly of her courage to pursue freedom and independence. But in a patriarchal society, women can only exist subordinate to men and any woman’s rebellion is to be defeated. Through a detailed analysis of the process of Edna’s awakening, it argues that Edna is not awakened but disillusioned, and she still lives under the heavy patriarchal shackles.     

Florens’ Identity Loss and Reconstruction in Toni Morrison’s A Mercy from Lacanian Concept of Other

Other is an important concept in Lacan’s psychology theory, which plays a critical role in a subject’s identity formation. The formation of a subject’s self-identity is based on other, initially its mother, the absence of the other will cause the subject’s identity loss and the reconstruction on the new other. Therefore, this article analyzes the main subject Florens’ identity loss and her identity reconstruction by applying Lacan’s concept of other.     

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.     

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.     

Identity and Community in Toni Morrison’s Sula

Toni Morrison’s Sula was published in 1973.It portrays a black woman who quests for self under the strick doctrines of black community.The novel puts forward a complexed contradiction of identity and black community in the historical context of black community and protagonist Sula’s change,rejection,awareness of self and death.The overall challenges of Sula pays her life as a price.Morrison,through this piece of work,reveals the conflicts between Sula’s self and black community.Sula’s tragic ending voices an unchanged fact that self must be developed within the black community.     

Storm:a Symbol of Desire—Analysis of The Storm by Kate Chopin

Changes in natural environment are usually the reflection of human inner world.The Storm was a short story written by Kate Chopin,an America female writer.In the story storm not only creates the setting for her immoral behavior,but also symbolizes the female protagonist,Calixta’s desire for love.     

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.     

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.     

An Analysis of Senior High School English Teacher’s Classroom Discourse: from the Perspective of CDA

The study of the English teachers’ language in the L2 classrooms is a very important branch of discourse analysis. However, up till now, much of the research conducted has focused on the linguistic features of teachers’ classroom discourse. In present study, a critical point of view is adopted to analyze the social and cultural aspects of the classroom discourse. With the help of CDA (critical discourse analy sis), the relationship between language, power and ideology is deeply explored.     

Cinderella Archetypal Interpretation of Jane Austen’s Heroines——Case Study of Elizabeth and Catherine

Cinderella is a well-known fairy-tale heroine,whose love and marriage has been considered as a typical pattern.In the article,the two protagonists,Elizabeth and Catherine,will be explored from the perspective of Cinderella archetype,from which the conclusion can be drawn Jane Austen’s viewpoint about marriage based on love and her feminist consciousness.     

Time and Consciousness in T.S Eliot’s The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock

The relationship between time and consciousness is what T.S.Eliot concerns much in his early modernist poem The love song of J.Alfred Prufrock.This paper is an analysis of the way Eliot employs the stream of consciousness technique to create a typical Western modern man who suffers greatly from meaningless life and spiritual crisis.     

Analysis of James Joyce’s Araby

Araby by James Joyce is much more than a story of first love;it is a portrait of a world that defies the ideal and the dream.The writer concentrates on character rather than on plot to reveal the ironies by using the Setting and atmosphere,and furthermore reinforces the theme and characters in Araby.     

The Analysis of Scarlett’s Character

Scarlett,the heroine in Gone with the Wind,is always the disputed figure in the academic world.She gathers kinds of traits in herself,including contradiction intricacy and diversity.Then,Scarlett is a person not only selfish and rebellious,but also in the pursuit of equality and independence.What she eagerly seeks in her life is genuine love.To begin with her unique thought and conception,this thesis analyzes the characteristics of her self-assurance and self-reliance represented behind her selfishness and rebellion.It makes emphasis on the profound changes Scarlett has in terms of belief and self-value when she experiences the baptism of the Civil War.The process that she changes from a spoiled noble belle to an independent and confident businesswoman indicates the self-awareness of women has wakened up.     

The Analysis of Theodore Dreiser’s Style from the Love Affairs in Sister Carrie

Theodore Dreiser was a controversial writer whose novel Sister Carrie was condemned hardly. This paper aims to conduct a detailed analysis of Sister Carrie and expose the evil nature of bourgeoisie society. At the same time, Dreiser’s great insight and perplexitywere clearly reviewed as a realist and naturalist writer.     

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.     

An Analysis of UNESCO’s Role In The Development of HigherEducation Policy Around The Globe

In recent years,Globalization enhances the development of education and corporation between higher education organizations.Being part of international organization involved in education policy-making,UNESCO has play an indispensable role in the enhancement of higher education.Present essay introduces the structures and working patterns of UNESCO and its role in accelerating the formulation of higher education policy.Meanwhile,limitations and challenged UNESCO confronted are also provided to give a detailed analysis of the role UNESCO plays in higher education.     

Naturalistic Analysis on Stephen Crane’s The Red Badge of Courage

The Red Badge of Courage is the masterpiece of Stephen Crane. As a naturalist novel, its success is based on strong visual stimulation and the continuous auditory shock, a three-dimensional war movie which is crackling with sounds and colors was rendered so incisively and vividly. This paper aims to probe the naturalism in The Red Badge of Courage from two angles:visual aspects and auditory aspects.