Uncle Tom’s Cabin and Abolitionist Movement

Uncle Tom’s Cabin, the book has crowned to be the first American novel ever to sell over a million copies. Now its impact is generally thought have been incalculable: its antislavery message. This ar...     

Analysis and Interpretation of the Social Reality Reflected in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin

The basic assumption of Marxist criticism is that those who control a society’s economy also control or largely influence its material, cultural, and intellectual products. The Marxist criticism theory in Uncle Tom’s Cabin is about the reality of liberation theology, and twentieth-century political resistance movement in order to expose the evilness of slavery.     

Maggie’s Challenge to the Conventional Womanhood

Maggie Tulliver is the heroine of The Mill on the Floss. Nearly the girl’s whole course of life was described in this novel― from her sweet and painful childhood to her courageous death in order to save her beloved brother Tom. A passionate, intelligent and sexually attractive girl is completely unacceptable to the society of "angels at home". Her characteristics, undoubtedly, form a big challenge to the society in which she lived. And through the creation of such a special girl with resisting spirit, one is able to understand better George Eliot’s creative motive.     

On the Artistic Expressions of The Color Purple

Black female writer, Alice Walker is always misunderstood as a writer who attaches more attention to the contents and thoughts in her works. But the success of her work The Color Purple fully demonstrates her ability of exquisitely adopting artistic expressions to realize the integration of contents and form. So this paper aims to study three artistic expressions applied in this novel, that is, the epistolary style, symbolism of the real objects and psychological transformation of the characters. Furthermore, it’s illustrational to show in this thesis that Alice Walker is not only a writer with deep thoughts, but also an imaginative and creative master of excelling in her writing techniques.     

Emma’s Growth from Innocence to Maturity

Emma is one of the most successful novels by Jane Austen.This thesis analyzed the background of its heroine Emma’s growth background,her growth from conceit,snobbery,domination to maturity,and the causes of her character transformation.Her psychological growth process from innocence to maturity demonstrates women’s growth and progress in the early 19th cen tury,and inspires modern women to gradually improve in personality and better present their charms of maturity.     

An Analysis of Tess’ s Tragedy in Tess of the d’Urbervilles

Thomas Hardy is an outstanding novelist in the nineteenth century.He has produced numerous works including novels and poetry.His tragic novel Tess of the d’Urbervilles has a great impact on the world literature.The paper is focused on the exploration of Tess’s tragedy through her life experiences.Tess’s tragedy can be illustrated by three factors—her family aspects,love experiences and her social images,which also contribute collectively to poor Tess’s destiny.The social background of the period provides a basis for the novel,and the deformed social values and morality is the root of her tragedy,together with her personal temperament and the Christian religious influences.Christian mores of self-sacrifice,wide love and purity have a great effect on characters in the novel.In the fourth part,there is some enlightenment from Tess’s tragedy.It is believed that women play a crucial role in society.Tess is a woman with good qualities and her experiences give a warning to women today:the proper treatment of one’s behaviors and the social rules is critical.     

An Analysis on the Female Character of Theresa from the Angle of Feminism

The ethnic consciousness of immigrant Americans was greatly awakened by the Civil Rights movement in the 1960s, which consequently had immeasurable impact on Asian-American Literature. Gish Jen, author of Typical American (1991) shortlisted for the National Book Critics’ Circle Award, gives readers a new glimpse of the multicultural American society with her specific writing strategies. In the paper, the author tries to analyze the living dilemma of Theresa from the angle of feminism in three aspects: in the society, in her family and in her internal Chinese feudal male chauvinism. The author also tries to reveal Gish Jen’s ideal of building an equal and harmonious society for male and female, freeing women and developing women’s self-consciousnesses in this novel.     

On the Theme of Coexistence of Opposites in The Left Hand of Darkness

As one of the best-known literary works of the American novelist Ursula K.Le Guin,The Left Hand of Darkness is not only successful in its splendid plots and beautiful language but also in the important function of its readers in reading.In the thesis,one of its themes,coexistence of opposites,is analyzed in the reader response perspective in order to reveal Le Guin’s reader-consciousness.The theme exists on a higher level in the novel and expresses Le Guin’s attitude towards life and universe.Le Guin unified her own philosophy in the novel and tried to call for the reader’s resonance.     

An Analysis of Mystical Experience in Sophy’ s Hysterical Hallucination in Darkness Visible

In William Golding’ s Darkness Visible,Sophy’ s experience of " hysterical hallucination" plays an important role in the the matic expression.They point directly to the evil nature of man.Although the specific content of hallucinations is different,they possess a common characteristic-mystical experience.They worth further research.This paper examines Sophy’ s mystical experience in her hyster ical hallucination,so as to find out the functions of mystical experience and its influences on the novel’ s thematic expression.     

Katherine Mansfield: A Special Feminist-By a Close Reading of A Dill Pickle

Although Katherine Mansfield never claimed that she was a radical feminist, she showed her concerns and pondered on females through her life of pursuing freedom and independence, her creative writing skills and her short stories. She had her own feminism consciousness and viewpoints. She believed that man and woman were different and living in a different world, and it’s very hard to understand and communicate with the other sex. Man dominated the society in the economical and political areas in tradition that they had the speech right and ranked above woman. However, Mansfield saw the hope of the awakening of the feminism awareness.     

Doris Lessing's Frame-Shifting in The Memoirs of a Survivor

Through the study of The Memoirs of a Survivor,This paper attempts to analyze her magnificent frame-shifting narrative technique,unifying the author’s vision and the real world.Chapter one briefly introduces Lessing’s background,including her scholarship,recent studies on her book and the arguments about it.Chapter two explains the narrative theory of frame-shifting and its application in The Memoirs of a Survivor.Chapter three focuses on the magic gate between the two worlds- the "wall" playing a space-time medium.This internationally renowned writer,with her amazing words and dramatic writing skills,brings us into her imaginative world and imbues us with her glamorous thoughts.     

African Root in Microdialogue of Song of Solomon

The thesis will study Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon under the guidance of Bakhtin’s of theory of dialogism. Through a de tailed case study, the thesis comes to a rational conclusion at last: by choosing a complex way to reflect a simple "root-searching" theme, re gardless of the reader’s difficulties in understanding, Toni Morrison actually has something more to tell to her readers, that is, by picturing the course of the protagonist’s searching for "African root", she parallels a way for the African American literature to keep its essence and characteristics.     

The Time Value of Qu Qiubai’s Creative Thinking

Qu Qiubai is a Marxist,proletarian revolutionist,great thinker and theorist who was never afraid of conducting creative thinking.It is creative thinking that have helped Qu Qiubai to accurately feel the pulse of the times,to timely respond to the requirement of the times and to scientifically answer the realist question raised by times in carrying out the China’s revolutionary theory into practice.In a word,creative thinking gave full demonstration to Qu Qiu bai’s time value by following the general trend and requirements of history and keeping up with the times.     

Emily Dickinson:An Interrogator of Death and Immortality

Emily Dickinson is widely regarded as one of American’s premier poets of the nineteenth century.In both style and content,her verse was,"revolutionary" in her day.Owing to the deep exploration of death and immortality,Emily Dickinson has become a puzzle in literary.As show in her poems,Dickinson’s spiritual journey led her from na?ve nature-mysticism through disappointment,to a sacramental approach to immortality afterlife and further discouragement,culminating in a mature attitude of faithful unknowing and even more interrogating the immortality.This paper will base on the theory of the death and immortality through common people’s fear to death,the essence of death,the significance of death to show the poetess’s whole life-childhood,love,life condition,spiritual contradiction,and mainly her skeptical concept of death and immortality.     

The Voice of Gender in Emily Dickinson’s Poetry

The paper deals with the reading and interpreting of the voice of gender in Emily Dickinson’s poems.The gender,the 1yric poem and the reading constitute the performance.Dickinson succeeded in constructing alternatives to a traditional,fixed binary gender system(woman/man) and opens opportunities for the reader to perform alternative gendering.Analysis of voices of gender in and of Dickinson’s poems shows that her variant performances of gender are crucial to the general construction of her poetry.Through the analysis of the voice of gender in Dickinson’s poetry,the paper discloses the crucial function of poets construct in women’s rebellion and self-salvation and subverting patriarchy,which also demonstrates her uniqueness in her life and literary creativity.     

趣味英语

(1)将A栏的世界名著与B栏的作者连结起来:A1. The Declaration of Independence2. Uncle Tom's Cabin3. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer4. The Cop (警察) and The Anthem5. A Farewell, to Arms6. Robinson Crusoe7. The Merchant(商人) of Venice8. Oliver Twist     

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.     

Analysis of the Heroine’s Mental Growth in I’ll Take You There

This thesis makes an analysis of the heroine’s mental growth from the initial phase of the heroine’s mental trauma to the struggling phase and to the mature phase. It analyzes the reasons and manifestations for her mental solitariness,expounds her confusion and struggling during her growth from the perspective of psychoanalysis and reveals her mental maturity in the end after a series of setbacks and conflicts during pursuit of affection,friendship and kinship. In some senses,the heroine’s mental growth displayed in this thesis is the psychological portrayal of some contemporary college students,which has certain educational significance to the student readers especially those who possess the similar life experience and accesses them to have an incisive understanding of real life.     

A Piteous Victim——An Exploration into the Psychological Trace of the Grandmother in The Acorn-gatherer

On the perspective of psychoanalytic criticism,three human psyche models propounded by Freud,Jung and Lancan were employed to reveal the psychological trace of the tragic character,the grandmother in The Acorn-gatherer.Back to the country life in late Victorian England,a lonely elderly widow had to bring up her illegitimate grandson,but her grandson couldn’t bear her mistreatment,left home and died accidentally.The old grandmother bore the hardship strenuously but had to live her old and ailing days lonely which is like a candle guttering in the wind.Deluged with the social discrimination and bias led by the collective unconscious,her help doesn’t come from anyone in the utilitarian oriented grass roots.Nor does it come from the Lord’s real redemption owing to a country woman’s limited knowledge and inwardness.Under the great strain from the grey society,she was gradually distorted mentally.As a result,she was victimized by the grey tide of the society but she herself was a victimizing force to her grandson.The psychological exploration of the piteous victim can thoroughly interpret the author’s implication,i.e.condemning the evils of the society and man’s wicked nature.