An Hour's Freedom—An Analysis of Kate Chopin's"The Story of an Hour"

"The Story of an Hour", Kate Chopin's representative work, is a classic story in American Literature in the 19th century. In this story, Chopin depicts a woman who eventually unshackle herself from mental suppression and realizes her freedom. This arti-cle reaches the conclusion that the protagonist is indeed repressed by the stereotype that imposed by the society.     

A Thematic Analysis of A Farewell to Arms

"A Farewell to Arms" is one of the most famous works written by Ernest Hemingway.It displays two main interwaving themes of war and love by the narration of a young soldier ’ s experience and his love affairs with a beautiful nurse in the first world war.The novel reflects the author ’ s strong hatred of war and exposes that the war is the real root of the couple ’ s tragedy in this novel and the "Lost Generation " in the real society.     

The Pursuit of Identity in Invisible Man

Invisible Man is a representative work of black literature in America.In this novel,the writer Ralph Ellison depicts the hero’s growth experience in the white dominated society with his unique narrative techniques.As an individual in a society,the hero in this novel gradually realizes that he is an invisible man in the white dominated society and he doesn’t have the social sta tus which can be recognized by the white at all.To change this situation,the hero in this novel suffers many difficulties and hard ships with an attempt to prove his existence in front of the white and the numerous black fellows and obtain his own identity as a black man which will be recognized by others.This paper tries to explore African American’s pursuit of identity in Invisible Man by interpreting Ellison’s Invisible Man.     

STRUGGLE FOR A "ZERO ZONE"——Women’s Plight Situation in The Little Foxes

The little foxes, Lillian Hellman’s most popular piece of drama, is a cynical play which concerns with family greed and revenge. Analyzed from various critical perspectives, The Little Foxes is most prominently studied on her political viewpoint. Here this paper is intended to study it from the aspect of women’s position in the drama, or more concretely, in that society by the analyzing of the two main women characters: Birdie and Regina, to reveal that whichever kind of life a woman living in the early twentieth chose to live, she would never be "successful".     

An Eco-feminist Comparison between Sister Carrie and My Antonia

According to human history,there are varieties of ways through which the feminine aspect of nature faced and in many cases,overcame oppression.One of the ways this phenomenon displays itself is in the literary works that we deem as realistic and an expression of the norms and customs of the society in question.Sister Carrie and My Antonia are two such literary pieces that embody the struggles and triumphs of women in the 19th and most of the early 20th century.In creating such monumental and naturalistic adaptations,both authors are able to present the case of two migratory women from different backgrounds but confined by the norms and mannerisms of the society around them.The struggles that each of these characters undergoes is an expression of the underlying constraints that the paternal and chauvinistic society of their time places upon both women and the natural world.The eco-feminist agenda,however,gets a more elaborate representation in My Antonia than in Sister Carrie due to a variety of factors that serve to illuminate the differences between these two iconic stories.This paper makes a thorough comparison between two literary works—Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser and My Antonia by Willa Cather from the perspective of eco-feminism.     

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.     

Analysis of the Symbolism in The loons

Margaret Laurence,the famous Canadian woman writer,is regarded as "a founding mother of Canadian literature".The loons is one of her famous novel.The story is about Piquette Tonnerre,a half-bred girl who grows up under harsh circumstances in a white society that suppresses half-breds.They seek to fit into the main currents of culture but is marginalized by the white dominated society,which has always been highlighted by the author in many of her major works.The most prominent feature of this novel is its symbolism,namely the parallel of the loons and Piquette.The article gives a tentative interpretation of the symbolism between the loons and the heroine piquette from three aspects:the environment,temperament and destiny.     

Implicit Love and Passionate Love-Contrast the Diction in "Song To Celia" by Ben Jonson and that in "The Canonization" by John Donne

Love is a permanent theme in the world’s history of literature.With different dictions(choice of words),poets can portray diverse images of love,thus leaving completely distinct impression on the readers’ minds.By analyzing and contrasting the diction in "Song To Celia" by Ben Jonson and that in "The Canonization" by John Donne,this essay aims to illustrate that different dramatic effects could be achieved with different choices of words in creative writing,and diction could be a representative symbol of a poet’s writing style.     

Technology Usage for Education： Comparative Analysis Between Open and Distance Learning and Regular Students

Education is the backbone for the development of society. With the advent of technology, it is becoming necessary and being used for the advancement of society. Technology is being used for education as being used in other important fields of life. Usage of technology for education can play a big part in bringing improvement in education For this purpose, this research aims to explore the usage and effects of technology for education. While using the survey method, a questionnaire was constructed for data collection. The sample of the study consists of graduate and postgraduate students from both ODL and regular universities and the sample size would be of 300 respondents （150 from each type of university） who were selected by using simple random sampling. The present study concluded that technology is widely used by both regular and ODL students. This study further concluded that ODL students are more dependent on technology as compared to regular students.     

A Brief Analysis of Females' Suffering in Patriarchal Society

Based on a case study,this paper explores the reason of the formation of the gender role and various negative stereotypes imposed on females by the patriarchal society,and attempts to analyze the painful experiences,physically and mentally,that females have to undergo both at home and out at work and to reveal the harmful influences that have been exerted upon the development of society by the prescribed gender role and negative stereotypes which virtually make females suffer throughout history.This paper also reveals a big irony:while various biases imposed by society victimize females,they also victimize society itself.Therefore,the paper argues that the only way out is to establish a new cycle which will undermine the structural basis for traditional views of male and female roles.     

Beck,a Victim in Victorian Age

With the method of comparative study and text analysis,this paper analyses Becky’s misfortune in the aspect of love,family and friendship,and seeks into roots of her loss in that dark and corruptive society.Besides,in the present day society,people are commonly indulged in material enjoyment,easy to intrigue against others and alienate from friends,family members or even the society.Becky’s bitter experience and failure can be of educational meanings to people today.     

从《推销员之死》窥视阿瑟·米勒的象征艺术(英文)

Death of a Salesman by American playwright Arthur Miller portrays a tragic yet realistic view of society in the 1950’s.Symbolism employed in this play is vital in communicating the significance of the central theme of failure within a success-oriented society.Some symbols are listed and analyzed in this paper,hoping to help the readers gain a better insight into the playwright’s literary technique in developing the play.     

A Brief Analysis of the Poem "Spring" by Thomas Nashe

It is well known that English poems are as rich and vivid as Chinese poems. In this short paper, we intend to give a brief analysis on the poem "Spring" by Thomas Nashe, and discuss how the English poet achieves his success in depicting a beautiful picture of spring in this short poem.     

An Analysis of the Dual Sides of Shylock’s Character

The Merchant of Venice is one of the most outstanding comedies of Shakespeare. The story happened in Venice in 16th century. Shylock is a typical character in this play. Shylock was looked down upon and humiliated by Christians as a Jew. Shylock, who found everyone in that society was against him, felt him isolated by Christians in Venice. But it is true that as a usurer, shylock was greedy and miserly, he lost kindness and reason; Shylock was oppressed and humiliated as a Jew. This paper focuses on the dual sides of Shylock’s character. On one hand he is miserly, unfeeling, vicious and sly; on the other hand, he is oppressed and humiliated.     

The Eco-critical Study of Walden——Harmonious Relationship between Man and Nature

In recent years,human beings are facing the more and more deteriorating environmental problems,such as the sand storm,greenhouse effects,which are the nature’s punishment on human society.It’s self-evident that the relationship between human beings and nature is increasingly intense.Therefore,it’s essential for humans to consider how to establish the harmonious relationship between man and nature.Based on this problem,this paper intends to give a brief analysis of the Walden from the perspectives of"simplicity"and"equality"by using ecocriticism.The paper also gives the author’s personal understanding of the ecological thoughts embodied in Walden.     

An Analysis of the Ballad of the Sad Café from the Perspective of Grei mas’Semiotic Square

Greimas’s Semiotic Square is a new approach in analyzing literary works.Based on Sassure and Jacnson’s claim on binary opposition,Gereimas extends it to four actants and adds contradictory relationships.By assign meanings to the four actants,an analysis of the complicated relationship between the roles in a text can be made and a revelation of the theme of the text can be realized.Previous studies of this novel take it as an excellent work revealing loneliness and isolation is thought to be the basic condition of human existence.Other study covers the effects of the unrequited love.Quiet differently,this paper tries to interpret this novel by Greimas’semiotic square and thereby revealing the widely accepted theme of this novel that isolation and loneliness is the final destiny of human being in modern society.     

The Language Styles in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

This article mainly discuss the language styles in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Colloquial and satire are important language styles in this book. Vanity unquestioning acceptance of violence coward and slave all satire the great national problems; Besides, combination of the colloquial language and satire is also very successful in this novel, which vividly reveal the American society at that time .     

Gender Discrimination in English

Lingual Sexism refers to the phenomenon that language favors one sex over another.In this male-centered society,gender discrimination exists in almost all languages,English is no exception.This article approaches the subject through causes and manifestation of this phenomenon,and culminates with the progress in this dimension and solution to this problem.