On Alice’s Death in the House of the Seven Gables

Among the chain of mysterious destructions of Pyncheons,Alice’s death arouses divergent critical views in that the death befalls upon a female member of Pyncheon who is depicted as an innocent seventeen-year-old maiden with great beauty,elegance and tenderness.This paper intends to draw a tentative conclusion that Alice is the blameless victim of class conflict by making a close textual analysis of the novel The House.     

On Swift’s Satiric Vision in Verses on the Death of Dr.Swift

Up till now only a few papers have been found to analyze the poem Verses on the Death of Dr.Swift.It is really rare seen the author himself has the poetic commentary on his own death.Some information about Swift and some brilliant passages and the language specific in the poem Verses on the Death of Dr.Swift are expounded.Some scholarly researches of the poem in the world are also conceded.     

On the Disillusionment of Willy Loman＇s Dream in Death of a Salesman

Arthur Miller＇s masterpiece Death of a Salesman is regarded as American myth and a contemporary tragedy. Its theme is closely related to American dream. The leading character Willy Loman is a traveling salesman, who lives a life chiefly in pursuit of the dream. This paper mainly probes into the disillusionment of Willy Loman＇S dream from different roles he plays in society as a common people, and in the family as a husband and as a father.     

On the House

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Alice Walker’s Womanism in Meridian

Meridian is one of Alice Walker’s early work. It tells a story that happened in the American south during the 1960s and early 70s’. It describes the life of the main character, Meridian Hill, a black w...     

Alice Walker’s Womanism in Meridian

Meridian is one of Alice Walker’s early work. It tells a story that happened in the American south during the 1960 s and early 70s’. It describes the life of the main character, Meridian Hill, a black woman from a southern town, who got out of the oppression of white society, and ends up in participate in Civil Rights Movement. The paper firstly illustrates the soul of womanism—anti-sexism, anti-racism, sisiterhood as well as the maternity love, then analyzes how these theories permeated into the novel—Meridian. The paper paid attention to the function of this novel on the improvement of Alice Walker’s womanism.In proving that womanism not only permeates into Meridian, but also improved womanism from many perspectives, it comes to the conclusion that Meridian is a novel to improve Alice Walker’s womanism, it serves as the good novel to highlight the African Culture, and made a great contribution for the encouragement of black women to seek for freedom in the society.     

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.     

The Embellishment of Death in Poe’s Poetry

As a famous America poet and short story writer, Edgar Allan Poe wrote a lot of poems and short stories during hisshort lifetime. In his short stories, death is usually horrible and mysterious. On the contrary, in many of his poems, death is dealt within forms of beauty. These poems have high delight of the beauty. Obviously, when Poe produced the poems and tales, he adhered todifferent principles and theories. This thesis explains the reasons for the differences between different manifestations of death in Poe’spoetry and tales, in particular, the embellishment of death in Poe’s poetry, such as images, backgrounds, and melody of his poemsassociated with death.     

Study on the Translation of Puns in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland from the Perspective of the Functional Equivalence Theory

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is a world-famous masterpiece in children’s literature.The adventure stories in the novel deeply attract the child readers in different countries in the world.The use of puns in the work adds to its aesthetic value.In China,many scholars have translated it.The research topic is the application of Nida’s theory of functional equivalence in the pun translation in children’s literature work Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and the degree of equivalence in Wu Juntao’s translation.The person who does the research has read the original work and the translator Wu Juntao’s translation of this book,analyzed the translation of puns in the book,read the relevant journal articles on the theory of functional equivalence and thought about the academic views in them.On the basis of text reading,translation analysis and reference analysis,the following conclusion has been made:According to the basic points in the theory,in the work,Wu Juntao’s translation of the puns has basically achieved the equivalence between the original text and the target text in readers’responses,language style and language meaning.     

On the Failure of Jude’s Ambition

In Jude the Obscure, Victorian education and Victorian morality are the main causes of Jude fawley’s tragedy in ambi?tion. This article will discuss Jude’s tragedy from both external and internal aspec...     

A Contrastive Study of the Heroines in A Doll’s House and Macbeth

A Doll’s House and Macbeth obviously belong to different categories in content. However, the two heroines in these two plays, Nora Helmer and Lady Macbeth, demonstrate similar feminist qualities. By staging an overall contrastive analysis on the personality and tragic life of two protagonists from the perspective of feminism, it is founded that both of them are victims oppressed by the patriarchal system and they all have feminine consciousness against this system. Nevertheless, their distinctive complex personalities and different story settings make the reasons for their rebellion differ in many ways and they end up with different endings.     

A Contrastive Study of the Heroines in A Doll’s House and Macbeth

A Doll’s House and Macbeth obviously belong to different categories in content. However, the two heroines in these two plays, Nora Helmer and Lady Macbeth, demonstrate similar feminist qualities. By st...     

On the Gender Difference of Translator’s Subjectivity in Literary Translation

Translation is an activity aimed at transferring the source language to the target language, related to many aspects in?volving culture, society, history and so on. The translator plays a critical role...     

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.     

Narrative Time in Alice Munro’s Short Stories

Alice Munro is a well-known contemporary Canadian writer.She departs from the traditional linear development but employs a seemingly random narrative line as a structural device in her story-telling.In the five short stories,\"Material\",\"Walk er Brothers Cowboy\",\"The Moons of Jupiter\",\"Miles City,Montana\"and\"Something I’ve Been Meaning to Tell you\",Mun ro manipulates the use of disconnected narrative time to deal with rites of passage.Free from the conventional time schemes,she expresses her vision in multiple themes and leaves the story open for readers.     

On the Themes of Emily Dickinson’s Poetry

Emily Dickinson is the most famous legendary lyric poetess of the United States. She perceived death as a gradual pro-cess with different functions. In the theme of love, desirable love, treacly love a...     

On the Formation of Lawrence’s Tragic Thought

Tragic thought has been interwoven throughout D.H.Lawrence’s works,and his tragic sense is the direct result of the social realities,cultural context and his personal experiences.