An Analysis of the Unreliable Narrator in The Tell-Tale Heart

The Tell-Tale Heart is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe. The story is first-person narrative of a narrator who murdered an old man with a clouded eye. This paper aims at identifying the speaker"I"as an unreliable narrator through analyzing the motivation, process and confession of the crime. It is found out that the narrator symbolizes man of evil, while, the old man’s vulture eye symbolizes virtue. It’s a story about the conflict between evil and virtue.     

Symbols In HEMINGWAY''''S “Hills Like White Elephants” Story commentary

HEMINGWAY's story,“Hills Like White Elephants”,is about lovingrelationships between an American man and a girl.As lovers,they are in-timate,with the girl in the state of pregnancy.The story is told from the objective point of view.It takes place duringa 40-minute wait between trains.What lies behind them is indicated by thelabels on their bags.What lies ahead of them implies entire force and dir-ection of the story.It is at the station that a decision will be made that     

The Influence of No Signposts in the Sea

This novel is the story of Edmund Carr,a man who is dying and chooses to spend his final days on an ocean going cruise so he can be close to Laura,the woman he loves from afar.The book is filled with the story of his journey,both physical and metaphysical.This book is filled with warm-hearting and love.It makes us to love yourselves,your family,your friends and the other people.     

Temporality in“A Good Man is Hard to Find”

As a carefully designed work, Flannert O’Connor’s short story“A Good Man is Hard to Find”is a brilliant example for skillfully using narrative techniques to convey her Catholic faith. Mieke Bal’s theories of time in narratology provide a fresh perspective to explores the characterizations in Flannert O’Connor’s“A Good Man is Hard to Find”. Time functions greatly to the characterizations of the characters through the narrative text in terms of the story and the fabula. It helps to present the characters’ personalities by playing with the sequential ordering, rhythm and frequency. By using these narrative techniques, grandmother’s selfishness, her moral inanition and her considerations that she is morally superior to others is fully expressed to the reader as well as Misfit’s struggling and renascence to his disbeliefs of God and so on.     

Miniature of The Bluest Eye—A Stylistic Approach to the First Fragment

Morrison’s The Bluest Eye begins with a fragment—a triply-repeated story.In the second narration,all punctuation disappears,along with the capital letters.In the third telling,the spacing between the sentences fades,which creates a sense of incomprehensible linguistic chaos.A stylistic approach is adopted to interpret underlying meanings:insanity of the protagonist Pecola and dark sides of American society.Methodically,it is the first time that optics is employed to interpret story,and stylistics can nourish itself from natural sciences.     

Decoding the Water Image in Women in Love

In D.H.Lawrence’ s masterpiece Women in Love,Water is one of the most important images,which sets off the characters’ action and emotion and is always associated with the development of the story and fate of the characters.It is a dual force,being not only the source of life but also the destructive fore which could cause tragedy.     

The North Wind and the Sun

A fable is a little story that is not true. It teaches us something. We say that ithas a moral. A man called Aesop wrote many fables. This is one of them. One day, the North Wind met the Sun. They began to quarrel. The North Wind     

The Techniques of Joseph＇s Characterization in ＂The Story of Joseph＂

The Story of Joseph, from his sold to Egypt to his reunion with his family, is one of the longest stories of ~Thc Old Testament＇. It＇s a story of a young man＇s growth which belongs to the fictional tradition of bildungsroman in the West. This paper explores the techniques of Joseph＇s characterization in the process of Joseph＇s reunion with his brothers.     

An analysis of A Rose for Emily from a Feminism Perspective

A Rose for Emily is an excellent short story by American author William Faulkner in the 20th century.It is about the tragic fate of the aristocratic lady Emily.This paper analyses the reasons of Emily’s tragedy,her awakening and the failure of her revolt from a feminism perspective.     

Orientalism and Heart of Darkness

Heart of Darkness was written by Joseph Conrad and published as a whole in 1902.The story begins on a British ship"the Nellie"moored on the coast of the Thames.It mainly talks about what Marlow sees and thinks when he begins his journey up to the Congo Riveres and reveals a turning process of a white colonizer called Kurts who is at the very beginning,an idealistic white colonizer trying to bring"civilization"and"progress"to the Africa but in the end falls into a greedy,cruel person.The novel,on the one hand,describes the terrible life of African peple and reveals the tyranne,greed of western colonism and stong racism;and on the other hand,it also shows readers a strong orientalism towards the Africa.So my purpose of the paper is to analyse how Orientalism is revealed in the Heart of Darkness.     

Dynamic Simulation on Collision Between Ship and Offshore Wind Turbine简

By using ABAQUS/Explicit, the dynamic process of an offshore wind turbine（OWT） stricken by a ship of 5000DWT in the front direction is simulated. The OWT is located on a large-scale prestressing bucket foundation constructed by an integrated installation technique. According to the simulation results, under the ship collision, a cer-tain range of plastic zone appears within a local area of arc transition structure of the bucket foundation, and the con-crete plastic zone is seriously damaged. As the stress level of OWT tower is relatively low, the OWT tower is less af-fected. A great inertial force is generated at the top of the OWT tower as the mass of nacelle and blades is up to 400 t. The displacement of the tower is in the opposite direction of the ship collision at the end of 1 s under the action of iner-tial force. There is only a minor damage in the ship bow. Most of the kinetic energy is transformed into the plastic dissipation and absorbed by the arc transition structure of bucket foundation.     

Reliability-based research for failure risks of ship hull girder

In order to find a simple and programmed method to analyze the reliability of hull beams when fatigue and corrosion act on ships, the stress of ships is to be calculated in compliance with the longitudinal bending and cross-section modulus of ship beams. The calculation value of stress is to be compared with the allowable stress in order to gain the actual ship load and margin of safety, and then assess the reliability and failure probability of ship beams. The longitudinal bending moment is a random variable; the fatigue and cauterization are also random variables; and as the ship is influenced by cumulative damage of fatigue and cauterization, the cross-section modulus is a time-varying random variable. The reliability and failure probabilities can be actually reflected through the reliability analysis method. The analysis results indicate that in the service time of ships, as the age of ship increases and the fatigue and corrosion effects accumulate, the reliability of ship beams decreases and the failure probability increases, especially after 15 to 20 years.     

睡谷的传说

Motto(箴言真谛)“so,on this Halloween,be careful if you go out alone at night……Maybe you should stay athome with a good book.”(所以,万圣节你独自外出时一定要小心……或许你应该呆在家里读本好书。)Questions(边想边读)·When you were a kid,did you hear of any legnds?·Who is the hero of the story and where does he works?·Why do you think he disappears?Reading(阅读欣赏)The Legend1of Sleepy Hollow is an old short story by Washington Irving.It is about aschoolteacher whose name is Ichabod Cran…     

A Plot Story:The Ransom of Red Chief

The Ransom of Red Chief is a short story written by O·Henry. Some critics regard it as a plot story but some do not. A typical plot story should focus on the plot :using techniques such as flashback or foreshadowing to unfold the plot and containing exposition, complication, climax, resolution, conclusion to rich the plot. The main characters are presented with internal and external conflicts as well. In this thesis, a detailed analysis will be presented to prove that this story is really a plot story.     

阅读理解两则(英文)

(A)Indianapolis(印第安纳波利斯) Indianapolis is the capital and largest city of Indiana, U.S.A. with a population of 744,000. It is one of the largest cities in the world that cannot be reached by water. However,Indianapolis is a city through which many railways, roads, buses and planes     

The value of a smile

A smile costs nothing,but gives much. It enriches those who receive, without making poorer those who give. It takes but a moment, but the memory of it sometimes lasts forever. None is so rich or mighty that he can get along without it , and none is so poor but that he can be made rich by it . A smile creates happiness in the home. fosters good will in business, and is the countersign of friend- ship. It brings rest to the weary,cheer to the discouraged, sunshine to the sad, and is nature's be…     

Similarity between Joyce and His Hero Gabriel:Comment on The Dead

James Joyce’s short story "The Dead was one of the most popular short stories in Modern English Literature.To a certain degree,the hero Gabriel is the maturity Joyce.Gabriel’s epiphany to life and death in the Christmas midnight is also the author’s "the adventures of the mind".The paper attempts to explain the similarities between Gabriel and Joyce in terms of their complex national sentiments,political views and thei r relationship with their own wife.It also analysis the device of symbolism used in the short story.     

Environment and Human Behaviors——Taking“The Acorn Gatherer” as a Case Study

Human living environment interacts with human behaviors.Environment to some degree determines human behaviors which in return reshape and sustain the dynamic environment.Taking Richard Jefferies’ The Acorn Gatherer as a case study,this paper makes an argument that the behaviors of the villagers in the story can be more adequately interpreted in view of the backward countryside environment,and the same is true with the author Richard Jefferies’ non-interference in the omniscient third-person point of view in writing the story.It is Richard Jefferies’ family environment that makes up his viewpoint of writing,reflecting his critical loving of the countryside,where lives boom and conventions are extremely followed.     

Birdman: The Devil from the Past

The film Birdman was a great success for its writing, direction, performances and cinematography. It tells the story of a former-famous actor’s struggle to cope with his current life. One continuous take is used to illustrate the actor’s self-search in the setting of a Broadway theater. The experimental style of the film highlights great performances and strengthens emotional tension, which makes it a great production.     

波利尼西亚的海上探秘之旅

The Aranui 3 is not a looker.It is a 1)cargo vessel that,for more than 50 years,transferred goods from Papeete,the capital of Tahiti,to the remote islands of Marquesas,1,500km to the northeast.It was not until the early 1980s that the Aranui 3 transformed into a cruise ship,transporting travelers to South Pacific islands that few outsiders had ever laid eyes on.