An Analysis of Long Day’s Journey into Night from the Perspective of the Cooperative Principle

Eugene O’Neill,one of the essential writers of the 20th century,was hailed as the“American Shakespeare.”He enjoyed a high reputation in America owing to his special writing techniques.Long Day’s Journey into Night was his last play,which was an autobiographical play to some extent,and founded on his own authentic experience.The play told the story of an Irish immigrant family’s daily life from day to night.Among the studies at home and abroad,many discuss this play from a psychological perspective and Feminist perspective.The article,instead,gives an interpretation of this play according to Cooperative Principle.Through the analysis of their conversations,it points out what principles their communications violated so as to understand the implied meaning of their conversations.The thesis tries to study the conversations between Mary and other family members,and then demonstrate that Mary is the most tragic person in the family.     

King Lear's“look with thine ears”and Shakespeare's Grammar School Training

About Shakespeare’s classic learning, Ben Jonson’s“small Latin and less Greek”has long been regarded precise and pertinent. This essay, however, is to explore the other part of the picture. In King Lear, Shakespeare has shown adroit application of Elizabethan rhetoric devices like hypallage, polyptoton and anadiplosis. It denotes his somewhat rigid grammar school training especially in oratory, which partly explains his classism.     

The Translator's Subjectivity Reflected in the English Translation of The Lane

The translator’s subjectivity plays an indispensible role in the translating activity. As a senior translator, Prof. Zhang Peiji brings his subjectivity into full play in his prose translation, and the English version of "The Lane" can be regarded as one of his representatives. An examination of the translator’s subjectivity reflected in this version helps to better understand Prof. Zhang’s art of prose translation.     

Faithlessness in John Donne’s Love Poetry

It was a tradition in Elizabethan time that love poems were written to praise lovers’fidelity,but Donne boldly broke the tradition and chose faithlessness as the theme in some of his poems.The paper analyzes a series of images in Donne’s love po ems to present the theme of faithlessness and then it discusses the reasons why Donne deals with the theme.Faithlessness in Don ne’s love poems can not be interpreted only as Donne’s doubt about love.The discussion of love’s fidelity in his poems also comes from Donne’s sensibility about instability of the world and his perturbation of religious belief.     

Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man and Change of Human Being

Ralph Ellison’s great work Invisible Man explores the theme of man’s search for his identity and place in society,as seen from the perspective of an unnamed black man.The narrator is"invisible"because he finds out that"people refuse to see"him,and thus experiences a kind of dissociation and disconnection with the reality.The narrator finally wakes up from the disillusionment and begins to ask himself questions which reflects his inner force of liberating himself from the outer force and become essentially self-freeing.This paper intends to discover the reason of the narrator’s changes and its meaning to the improvement of the human beings and society as well.     

The Effect of Culture on Translation

Culture,which is one of characteristics of a nation,plays an important role in translation.There is a relationship be tween culture and translation and the ways for cultural transmitting from one language to another language.So,the translator has to capture and project the special cultural quality properly in the target language.Cultural transfer is all about a multi-pronged ap proach,focusing on the author’s relationship with his subject and that with the reader,which should be expressed in a good work.     

A Brief Analysis of Willy Loman’s Tragic Fate in Death of a Salesman

Arthur Miller was considered as the most famous dramatist in America after the World War II, and his representative work Death of a Salesman was recognized as the best play in America during the post-war years. It was also considered to be one of the best three plays in the history of American drama; with A Streetcar Named Desire and Long Day’s Journey into Night.Through the failure of two generations, this play addressed the painful conflicts within one family, and it also tackled greater issues regarding to Americans’ national values.As an average person, Willy Loman had experienced hopes and pains, struggles and frustrations as well as dreams and disillusions, at last he chose to commit suicide. Based on the existent materials, the predecessor’s researches as well as her own thinking, the author of this paper gives a brief analysis of the leading role’s tragic fate, which mainly elaborates three important stages of Willy Loman’s tragic life: disillusion of the American Dream, the abandonment and the betrayal, aiming to decode the root of Loman’s tragedy from the perspectives of society, family and the protagonist’s character. In conclusion, the paper tries to explore Arthur Miller’s inner world and the resources of his creation as far as possible, hoping to give readers of this paper certain inspiration.     

Samuel Johnson's Breakthrough of Shackles of the Traditional“Three Unities”

"Three Unities",derived from Aristotle’s unity of action,were developed to be the golden rule of drama or play creation by the classicism in the seventeenth century."Three Unities",to some extent,provides the dramatic writing with certain law and criterion.However,the absolute standardization fetters the progress of artistic creation.Samuel Johnson,publishes the Preface to Shakespeare to propose the breakthrough of the shackles of"Three Unities"by the study of Shakespeare’s plays.This creative proposal accelerates the progress of the development of dramatic writing,thus,more excellent works writing in a more free way with a large scale appears in succession.     

The Black Cat in the Perspective of Myth-archetype Criticism

Edgar Allan Poe is one of the most unique writers in America.It was until 20th century that the importance of Poe’s literary creations had been recognized extensively by the academic world.Many of his works have been analyzed as the psychological materials.His short stories "The Black Cat" is one of the most classic horror novels which also has been criticized from the dark side of human being in psychology,however,this essay aims to analysis "The Black Cat" in the perspective of myth-archetype criticism which can lift up readers’ mind on a broader perspective.Also,the ancient Greek mythology and Christian thought which will help us to understand his other works easily and make us know more about his particular contribution to the world literary history.     

Social Reality as Reflected In the Poetry of William Blake

As one of the most outstanding representatives of the Pre-Romanticism poet in 18th century English literature,Wil liam Blake lived through and witnessed an era of great political and social upheaval and transitional period:the American War of Independence,the French Revolution,the Napoleonic Wars and the Industrial Revolution which brought about significant and essential impact on social and historical progress in England.Coming from the social injustices and the full of the dark-side of the industrial England,Blake caught the pulse of his times through his sharp and deep insight,and employed his symbolism,satiric and allegorical device to condemn and criticize the oppression and exploitation derived from the class inequality,privilege and tyr anny.Through his painting and poetry,Blake lashed the dark and indifferent church and authority,and exposed the hypocrisy and falsehood of the religion and humanity,and also called on the oppressed to shatter mental and physical restriction "The mind-forged manacles" come from the ruling class.In this paper,I want to introduce and interpret the social reality as reflected in the poetry of William Blake through concrete analyzing some of Blake’s poems in terms of main ideas,historical settings,rhe torical device and language character which underlay and concealed in his poetry deeply.     

“Birds, Beasts and Flowers”——a preliminary study of D.H. Lawrence’s nature view

D.H.Lawrence is one of the most important(as well as controversial)writers in the history of English literature in the 20th century,His works are received with high praise and furious criticism at the same time,and he suffered for it in his lifetime.He wrote poetry throughout most of his life.He was far too prolific and undiscriminating a poet.In this article,through the analysis of the poem collection of D.H.Lawrence’s’ "Birds,Beasts and Flowers",the author try to make a preliminary study of D.H. Lawrence’s nature view.     

On Barack Obama’s Inaugural Address——A Systemic Functional Perspective

Obama’s election draws the world’s attention because of his skin color,so is his inaugural address.The paper analyzes his inaugural address according to the parameter of the three metafunctions from the perspective of systemic functional grammar:ideational,interpersonal and textual.Accordingly,transitivity system,Mood and modality,and thematic progression in the address are respectively examined.     

On the Conflict between Rationality and Emotion in Seize the Day

Saul Bellow’work mainly describes the human who cannot find the standpoint in American society, and they dangled between the ideal and the reality, insisting the belief of love. Seize the Day presents a several-hour experience of a middle-aged man who had lost his job, was estranged from his wife and children, and deserted by his father. With the double writing methods of narrative and recollection, the author reveals thriftily how individual was threatened by social prejudice and the important position of money. He extremely pays attention to the conflict between emotion and rationality to show people’s anxiety and contradiction in today’s America.     

Interpretation of Ecocriticism on The Call of the Wild

Ecocriticism is the combination of contemporary ecological thought and literary study,which has the double features of both literary and cultural criticism.The Call of the Wild is Jack London’ s masterpiece,and also one of his most successful animal novels.This paper attempts to interpret this novel from the perspective of ecologism to analyze the symbolic meaning of Buck’ s desocialization and his returning to nature.Also it emphasizes the theme that human beings should take their obligations seriously and live in harmony with nature.     

My Understanding of Wordsworth’s‘Immortality’in His“Ode:Intimation of Immortality”

William Wordsworth was the representative of the British "Lake poets" In his poems he aimed at simplicity and purity of the language,fighting against the conventional forms of the 18th century poetry.He transformed his observation of the landscape into the revelation of the beauty of nature in poetry,and thus expressed his nature philosophy.In this article the author briefly analyses the organization of his poem: "Ode: Intimation of Immortality" and mainly elaborates her understanding of the poet’s na-ture-philosophy in four points:(a) Man is sensitive to all natural influences in childhood.(b) Nature has a moral and spiritual sig-nificance and helps the poet understand the mystery of human life.(c) Life is but a stage.(d) All good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings;it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.     

A Stylistic Analysis of Washington Irving’s Stratford-on-Avon

Washington Irving’s Stratford-on-Avon is an essay which recounts the author’s special pilgrimage to Shakespeare’s hometown and his reflections.This paper tries to analyze this paper from the stylistic perspective and reveals that mentality of the writer,his attitudes,his presuppositions,or his moral stance through the conveyance of meaning and evaluation of his language.     

The Rise of the Elizabethan Language:Self-consciousness and Language Policy

The notion of"Queen’s English",depending on who is the ruler of the time,could be traced back to the sixteenth century,when the idea that the monarch’s usage of the language should be a model in speech and writing.That is where the"Elizabethan English" originated from.From the linguistic point of view,Elizabethan English is categorized into Early Modern English,which dominantly spanned the Renaissance,Elizabethan era and Shakespeare.On a smaller scale,this paper focused upon language itself,trying to exemplify the rise of Elizabethan Language from the second half of 16th century to the outset of 17th century by presenting two factors of self-consciousness and the relevant policy.     

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 shown in this film is totally different from Hamlet.The paper will compare Hamlet’s reaction to his father’s death with the plot of the film to illustrate the difference of main conflict between Hamlet and The Banquet.     

浅谈苔丝的反抗精神(英文)

Thomas Hardy, the remarkable nineteenth-century novelist, is one of the representatives of English critical realism at the turn of the 19th century. Among his numerous works, Tess of the D’ Urbervilles could be regarded as the summit of his realistic novels. The heroin Tess has strong rebellious spirit and her rebellion is progressive. Although her rebellion is of nature, instinct and blindness at the beginning, develop from passive to active, from unconscious to rational. She challenges conventional moral, religious and social attitudes in her own way and grows into a mature and reasonable woman from an innocent girl of nature at last.