On the Symbols in Kafka’s The Metamorphosis

Kafka indicates the alienation of people in modern society through an absurd story. The protagonist Gregor Samsa becomes a huge beetle and finally is deserted by his family. Kafka has not followed the traditional writing style, but employs many symbols to deepen the theme. In The Metamorphosis, characters, items, scenes and actions all have symbolic meanings. We will analysis the deeper meanings of these symbolic images.     

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.     

Id Versus Superego ---Comments on Kafka＇s short story The Metamorphosis

This paper is a close study of the underlying psychological implications in Kafka's short story The Metamorphosis. Two aspects are studied, one is the Id Vs superego in the family, and the other is the Id Vs superego of the hero himself.     

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.     

Caring About Strangers: A Lingisian reading of Kafka’s Metamorphosis

Abstract

This article explores a significant question, implicit in Kafka’s novel Metamorphosis, explicitly asked by Rorty: ‘Can I care about a stranger?’ Alphonso Lingis’s view is adopted to overcome a mainstream belief that there is a distinction between my community and the stranger’s community, or us community and the community of those who have nothing in common. His view is thus beneficial to reveal the in-depth paradoxical meaning in the relationship between the stranger and me: I am the stranger and the stranger is me. Therefore, to care about the stranger is to care about myself.     

Stylistic Analysis on \"Bill’s Little Girl\":Lexical Features

\"Bill’s Little Girl \" is a prose. This article analysis’s its stylistic features of language in the aspects of lexical. While analysis, we can further appreciate its plain and simple language, its natural and fluent manner of writing and its complete discourse, meanwhile we can deeply understand that love is great, father’s love is great.     

Analysis on Solitary Identity In Kate Chopin’s The Awakening

American Transcendentalism aroused New Englanders to individualism enlightenment. Kate Chopin’ s The Awakening, un doubtedly voices female quest for identity. The novel was banned by the force of social conventions, for the sociological role it played in form of literature, negotiating female professional identity, social role identity and sexual identity. This treatise analyzes the awakening of women conscious regarding identity and contradiction it brings therefore with social conventions, and argues the inevitable fate of the sex to self-isolation and self-destruction is caused by the prudery conventions. It maintains to review the sociological function of the piece and reconstruct interdisciplinary perspective of literature and sociology, appeal harmony between two sexes.     

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.     

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.     

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 vi?sual stimulation and the continuous auditory shock, a three-dimensional war movie ...     

The United Kingdom Children’s Laureate: The Story So Far

Britain’s Children’s Laureate Scheme has now been running for 14 years. This article asks Quentin Blake, Anne Fine, Michael Morpurgo, Jacqueline Wilson, Anthony Browne, Michael Rosen and Julia Donaldson for their views on their own experience of taking up this post. It concludes with a discussion of the recurring issues raised by these Laureates along with a look at possible future developments.     

Robyn’s Birthing Story

This “Celebrate Birth!” column describes the experience of a long-time childbirth educator who attended the birth of her granddaughter Cora, her daughter Robyn’s second hospital birth. She discusses how Robyn’s instincts and confidence helped to overcome institutional issues to provide a good and safe birthing experience.     

An Analysis on Heathcliff’s Dual Personality

Wutering Heights is an exceptionally successful novel written by Emily Bronte. The novel is organized by the love between Heathcliff and Catherine. This thesis attempts to analyze the dual personality of Heathcliff. Through the journey of love, revenge, death and restoration of humanity, his character is influenced by both his own characteristics and social environment.     

The Analysis of Nida’s Functional Equivalence Theory

Eugene A. Nida is an influential translation theoretician with great research achievements. The functional equivalence theory which is the core of his translation theories lays a solid foundation for the modern translation. However, there also exist some limitations in it. It should be dialectically analyzed to find its contributions and limitations.     

The Analysis of Willy’s Death in Existentialism

This thesis analyses Death of a Salesman from the perspective of existentialism.By probing into the story with Sartre’s theory of freedom,this thesis concludes that the protagonist’s living environment and his choice are both responsible for his death.But it also tells us no matter how difficult our situation is,we always have freedom to choose.Everyone can live a mean ingful life through his choice.     

Elizabeth Belle’s Birth Story

In this article, Jessica and Samuel Boro share the story of the birth of their daughter, Elizabeth Belle. With the physical and emotional support of her husband and her doula, this mother was able to cope with a long labor and have the natural birth she wanted. Her husband describes how important the doula was for him.     

Corpus-based Analysis on Anti-Semitism in Shakespeare’s Works

Thousands of years ago,the Jews were forced to leave their homeland and began to live an exiled life and gradually melted into other neighboring peoples.However,they were not welcomed by others.For thousands of years,Jews’ \"Bible\" has become a source of literary and artistic creation,but the image of Jews were excluded from the literary and artistic creation,even if there were some occasions,they were but described as autistic Misers or loan shark.Shakespeare is one of the most outstanding writers;he described many people from all walks of life in his works,the Jews,also included.Based on the corpus of Shakespeare’s works,we can see that most adjectives used by Shakespeare to modify the word \"Jew\"are derogative words.Therefore,we can prove that anti-Semitism does exist in Shakespeare’s works.     

The Analysis of Nida’s Functional Equivalence Theory

Eugene A. Nida is an influential translation theoretician with great research achievements. The functional equivalence theory which is the core of his translation theories lays a solid foundation for t...