Martin Eden Can Avoid Being a Tragic Hero

It examines the character Martin Eden in Jack London’s novel Martin Eden.It is focused on the reasons that lead to the death of Martin Eden:the clashes of his beliefs and his disillusionment with the life he struggles so hard to fight for and with the faiths he so strongly believes in.But the tragic ending is not unavoidable,if Martin Eden modifies his beliefs,holds more faith in others and gives up his original intention of involving into the middle-class society.     

A Critical Study of William Faulkner’s A Rose for Emily:Its Narrative Technique and Structure

A Rose for Emily, written by William Faulkner in the twentieth century, is an absorbing mystery story with a surprisingly chilling ending. This paper intends to analyze the symbolic meaning of the rose, and the relationship between the rose and Emily, giving people a thorough understanding of the theme and the heroine’s personality. Although simple, the story shows great narrative techniques and typical and artful structure in Faulkner’s works.     

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.     

A Psychological Analysis of Laura’s Personality in Katherine Mansfield’s The Garden Party

This paper explores Laura’s inner world, applying Freud’s theory of the unconscious and the structure of the mind,Jung’s idea of archetypes, and Lacan’s concepts of the three orders. The story in The Garden Party depicts, in the movement toward adulthood, how Laura feels, thinks and acts under the drive of the id, and the adjustment of the ego and the superego. Laura’s psychological development indicates Laura has a healthy personality. She can confront her imperfection in her growth.     

A Study of Presupposition in Hotel’s English

As a common phenomenon in language,presupposition plays an important role in linguistic communication.Study of presupposition in hotel’s English reveals that on account of the felicity of information-conveying,presupposition has been em ploying by Hotels’staff intentionally or unintentionally.In hotels’service,proper use of presupposition ensures the normal con duction of hotels’service circuits,contributes to the economy and coherence of communication,facilitates understanding be tween guests and the hotels’staff.In addition,it enhances persuasion and latency of staff’s speech,guarantees satisfactory settle ment of complaints.     

A Psychological Analysis of Laura’s Personality in Katherine Mans-field’s The Garden Party

This paper explores Laura’s inner world, applying Freud’s theory of the unconscious and the structure of the mind, Jung’s idea of archetypes, and Lacan’s concepts of the three orders. The story in The ...     

A Simple Study of the Teacher’s Influence on Students’ Psychology in English Learning

This paper analyzes the teacher’s influence on students’psychologyin English learning from two aspects and emphasizes the importance of English teachers’role in helping students establish healthy psychology in English learning.     

A Study on Venuti’s "Ethics of Difference"

If translation has such far-reaching social effects such as contributing to social reproduction and change in forming cultural identity,it seems significant to adopt a translation ethical principle to evaluate these effects,confirm whether they are good or bad and consider whether the formed cultural identities are ethical.Venuti resorts to minoritizing translation,argues for releasing "language remainder" which develops into translation ethics--"Ethics of Difference".To put to work these strategies could form cultural identities both for source-language culture and target-language culture.     

A Study on the Translator’s Subjectivity of Wolf Totem

The translator, as the main body of a translation, has been in an invisible and ignored state for a long time. The position of the translator has been improved and the role of the translator has begun to be recognized since the field of translation studies multifaceted and deepened. In order to analyze the translator’s subjectivity better, the thesis states comprehensive definitions of the translator’s subjectivity and uses Wolf Totem as a case study, whose author is Jiang Rong and the translator is Howard Goldblatt, to show that how the translator Howard Goldblatt utilizes his subjectivity in the translation process.     

A Study on the Translator’s Subjectivity of Wolf Totem

The translator, as the main body of a translation, has been in an invisible and ignored state for a long time. The position of the translator has been improved and the role of the translator has begun ...     

A Study on the Conflict Between Aestheticism and Morality in Oscar Wil de’s Salome

As the only tragedy written by Oscar Wilde,Salome enjoys a unique status among all the works of Wilde.It is the representative work of aestheticism and has faced as many controversies as its author since the day it came out.Through the careful analysis of the conflict revealed both inside the play and outside the play,and based on Aristotle’s tragedy theory to interpret the causes of these conflicts,it can be concluded that the design of the conflict in Salome is in accordance with the tragedy theory.Furthermore,interpreting Salome from the perspective of Aristotle’s theory has attached this play with more intricate meaning and different understanding.     

A Study on the Coherence of Coleridge’s Frost at Midnight

As one of the greatest Romantic poet, Coleridge had contributed to the realm of poetry many remarkable works, of which conversation poems take a part. The author of this paper chooses one typical piece...     

A Character Analysis on Fleur in Erdrich’s Tracks

This paper analyses the central female character Fleur in Erdrich’s novel Tracks.It discusses her mysterious power and abilities to save her family and land,challenging the White mainstream culture on the reservation.Unlike Pauline goes to extremes and converts herself into a Catholic believer,Fleur holds fast to the old Chippewa way and acts by her own will both as a powerful Chippewa woman,Indian traditionals defender and a great mother.     

A Turkish View on Fathers’ Involvement in Children’s Play

The purpose of this study is to examine fathers’ participation in and views about play. This study was conducted in the southwestern part of Turkey and its sample consisted of 97 fathers who had a child attending randomly chosen public early childhood institutions. The Parents’ Participation and Views on Play instrument was developed and used to collect data. Independent sample t tests and a series of repeated measures analysis of variance procedures were conducted to assess the influence of independent variables on the fathers’ participation in and views on play. The results of the study indicated that fathers frequently participated in their children’s play, and they hold positive views about play. Fathers’ socio-demographic characteristics such as income, working status, family type and children’s gender influenced their participation and views about play. Results are discussed in relation to the literature on parent–child play and suggestions for further research are presented.     

A Study on Krashen＇s Input Hypothesis

This essay elaborates on Krashen＇s input hypothesis and its implications for English language teaching from the aspects of teachers, students, and teaching materials.     

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 Study on the Pragmatic Strategies of Foreign Ministry Spokesperson’s Remarks

As an important diplomacy activity,Foreign Ministry spokesperson’s remarks represent national image and foreign pol icy of a country which is absolutely significant.This article would analyze the pragmatic strategies of Foreign Ministry spokesper son’s remarks from the perspective of journalist’s questioning types and spokesperson’s answering types in order to get a clear idea about how spokesperson tactfully employing pragmatic strategies to handle tough questions and safeguard national interests.     

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...     

A Corpus-based Study on "However" in Chinese Learners’ Writing

The use of "however" by Chinese learners’ writing is studied through a comparison of its use in CLEC and in BROWN and found that "however" is overused in the front of a sentence,underused in the middle of a sentence and misused as a disjunctive conjunction,as is followed by the analysis of three attributable factors,i.e.the writing style,confusion with "but" and negative L1 transfer.