Mabel’s Love Pursuing and Acquiring from the Perspective of Politeness Theory

· The Horse Dealer’s Daughter gradually acquires her love in a tough and unbearable situation after a long dialogue with Doctor Fergusson. By analyzing the linguistic features between Doctor Fergusso...     

Politeness Principle and the Choice of Address Forms in Intercultural Communication

This paper makes a tentative study of the politeness strategies stressed in the choice of address forms in Chinese,American and Japanese culture under the guidance of Politeness Principle by Brown and Levinson.Through a comprehensive analysis,It is concluded that the major function of English address forms is to indicate solidarity and realize positive politeness,In contrast,both Chinese and Japanese address forms emphasize deference and help achieve negative politeness;It is the author’s hope that a better understanding of these addressing rules in different cultures will benefit effective use of these languages and help avoid miscommunication in intercultural communication.     

Jane Eyre’s Character Displayed in Her Experience of Marriage and Love

Charlotte Bronte is a famous English woman novelist in the 19th century.Her masterpiece Jane Eyre creates a bright figure in the world’s literature,attracting readers of generations all through the globe with her character of both unconvention and convention,which is a unity of contradictions.In this paper,the author presents the analysis in two parts:Jane Eyre’s convention presented in her experience of marriage and love,and Jane Eyre’s unconvention presented in her experience of marriage and love,drawing a conclusion finally that the two aspects of Jane Eyre’s nature-unconvention and convention are indispensable for portraying the heroine.     

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.     

A Brief Analysis of the “Love” Theme of Poemsin Different Periods——the Renaissance、the Romanticism、the Modernism

Love exists in everybody’s life and it is also a favorite of poets.No matter how the society is developed,poems won’t bedisappeared in society.Poem is a good way to express the thoughts and ideas of poet.Different periods’ love poems have different meaningand themes.This article intends to analyze the love theme of poems in the Renaissance,Romanticism and Modernism.     

Analysis of the Differences between Women’s Love Attitudes Reflected in Mansfield Park

Jane Austen is a famous 19th century English novelist,Mansfield Park is Jane Austen’s most famous novel.The article analyzes Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park,tries to have a comparative analysis of the three major female characters from the concept of love view in the work,especially analyzes the differences of three main female characters’love view:differences of love motivation and differences of love endings and the cause of such differences..     

On the "Oedipus Complex" in Sons and Lovers—Mother is a lover of her son

Sons and Lovers is one of Lawrence’s most famous novels.It mainly concerns about the love affairs among the main character—Paul,his mother and his two girlfriends.The mother’s strange love has affected the boys for a long time,which even has made him lose the ability to love other girls.As a result,Paul gradually has the"Oedipus Complex"towards his mother,and it has influenced the whole lifetime of himself.During the competition of grasp the heart of Paul,Miriam and Clara are all the losers,while they both can’t drag Paul out of the influence from his mother.It is not until the death of his mother does Paul finally escape from the control of his mother.All the origins can be concluded into one thing—that is the Paul’s"Oedipus Complex"towards his mother.What is the"Oedipus Complex",and how does it reflect in the main content?How does it influence the emotions of Paul step by step?This essay will elaborate it in detail.     

Amory’s Growth——A Case Study of Oedipus Complex

According to Freud,the formation and the dissolution of Oedipus complex are the natural processes of one’s psychosexual development.The growth of Amory Blaine chronicled in Fitzgerald’s This Side of Paradise can be a case in point.His formation of the complex is promoted by his mother’s exclusive love and the indifference of his father in his growth,while his dissolution of it is accompanied by his identification with the father figure Monsignor Darcy and his efforts to search for a suitable object of love with several women.All those are very important experiences for Amory’s psychological maturity.     

Love and Marriage in Pride and Prejudice

In Pride and Prejudice,Jane Austin expresses successfully her viewpoints of marriage and love.This paper tempts to make a deep analysis of these four marriages,and shows how one’s character affects one’s attitudes toward love and marriage.We can see the combination of vulgar Collins and common Charlotte results in a practical marriage,and their marriage has no love;the combination of dissolute Wickhame and flirtatious Lydia results in a sex-oriented marriage,this marriage is without love either,the combination of pleasant Bingley and mild Jane results in a conventional marriage with love,the combination of decent Darcy and sensible Elizabeth results not only in a successful marriage,but also they have got something more than Jane-Bingley marriage.     

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.     

Faithlessness in John Donne’s Love Poetry

It was a tradition in Elizabethan time that love poems were written to praise lovers’fidelity,but Donne boldly broke the tradition and chose faithlessness as the theme in some of his poems.The paper analyzes a series of images in Donne’s love po ems to present the theme of faithlessness and then it discusses the reasons why Donne deals with the theme.Faithlessness in Don ne’s love poems can not be interpreted only as Donne’s doubt about love.The discussion of love’s fidelity in his poems also comes from Donne’s sensibility about instability of the world and his perturbation of religious belief.     

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.     

Politeness Language in English and Chinese

Politeness is a very important topic in modern linguistics. With the development of the study of linguistics, a lot of people lay the emphasis on the study of politeness language. It can be observed in all languages and cultures as a social phenomenon, which plays an important role in individuals’ linguistic behavior. But due to different culture, different politeness principles and other reasons, different peo ple have different understandings about the definition of politeness, and they deal with politeness in different ways. Through different study background, principle and theory, this paper focuses on the politeness language in English and Chinese culture caused the differences. Politeness languages are mainly expressed in the forms of address, greeting, congratulation, appreciation and apology . The biggest difference between English and Chinese is that the Chinese system is profusion and complicated, but the English one is quite simple. Age, income, marriage and religion, etc. are taboos in English and people in western countries like to talk about weather when they meet each other; greeting in Chinese almost includes different things about one’s life. Appreciation in Chinese is not used frequently. Peo ple do not often say "thank you" to their families or friends. Appreciation in English can be used among families, friends, and colleagues and so on. At the end of this thesis, a conclusion is drawn; limitations and some suggestions of the research are stated!     

Love in Death-A Stylistic Analysis of Rossetti’s Song

Rossetti’s Song is a wonderful love poem. Its uniqueness lies in addressing love in the context of death. A stylistic exami?nation is made on the levels of phonology, lexis, and syntax, aiming to inter...     

On the Tragic Love in Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights

Wuthering Heights is a highly imaginative novel of love and revenge and a shining pearl in the treasure of English literature.This thesis aims to make a full exploration of the inner and external reasons resulting in the tragic love between Catherine and Heathcliff in the novel with the application of Freud’s theory of personality structure and from metaphorically geographical,social and economic perspectives as well.Readers are expected to fully realize the destructive force of a desperate soul,better appreciate the tragic beauty of a doomed love and,above all,capture the humane light beneath a tragic drama.     

Different Criterions of Love: Simple Analysis of Anna Karenina

Anna Karenina’s love is stirring and tragic. Levin’s love is seemingly happy but insipid. Love is different when criterions are different. Why Anna’ fate is tragic and how to get true love are also analyzed in this paper. Mutual respect and consideration are the basics of love and never lose ourselves in love.     

A Psychoanalysis of Heathcliff

Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights ranks high on the list of major works of English literature.In the novel,the hero-Heathcliff’s passion to Catherine’s love is very impressive to the readers and the love is discussed in all aspects.The paper wants to analyze Heathcliff’s emotion from the Oedipus complex that exist in Heathcliff;How men choose women that they love;And id,ego and superego exist and are represented by Heathcliff,Catherine and Edgar in Wuthering Heights from Freud’s view on psychology.     

Love and Marriage in Pride and Prejudice

Pride and Prejudice is Jane Austen’s great masterpiece.It discusses love and marriage between middle class and upper class in Britain in 19th century.This thesis aims at analyzing love and marriage in Pride and Prejudice.There are three chapters in this thesis.Chapter one portrays the social background of the author and the social background of Pride and Prejudice.Chapter two describes the concept of love and marriage in Britain in 19th century and four marriages in the novel.Chapter three analyses Jane Austen’s concept of love and marriage:love and marriage are closely connected with property and social status;however,an ideal marriage should be based on true love.Marriages that based on money and social status can not lead to a happy life.     

Wordsworth and Nature

William Wordsworth was England’s Poet Laureate. He is the Romantic poet who is most often described as a"nature"write, and he is always sensitive to every subtle change in the world around him. In my opinion, his love for nature is boundless. To him, nature acts as a substitute for imaginative and intellectual engagement with the development of embodied human beings in their diverse circumstances. It’s nature that gives him knowledge and strength. In this paper, I want to narrow Wordsworth’s conception of nature, and then we can find the harmony in the community of men and nature.     

The Function of Death in Jane Eyre

The essay is on the novel of Jane Eyre written by Charlotte Bronte.Jane was an orphan,finally she developed into an intellectual,confident and independent woman.She married her true love and realized her dream at last.During the period of her growth,many deaths appeared in Jane’s life.These deaths play an important part in the novel.This essay will discuss the function of death in the novel.The author’s view of death was expressed through Jane’s life,love and her character.Through the arguments in the novel,we can draw a conclusion:death is not fearful.Love is eternal.We should learn how to love-love everything around us and cherish everything that you own.