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 Farther Image of the Hotel Keeper in Cat in the Rain—Analyze with Speech Act Theory

It analyzes the father image of the hotel keeper in Hemingway’s short story Cat in the Rain from the perspective of Speech Act Theoy.Firstly,it presents the frame work of Speech Act Theory.According to Austin,there are two types of sentences: performatives and constatives.Yule further presents the action performed by producing an utterance will consist of three related acts: locutionary act,illocutionary act,and perlocutionary act.Then it analyzes respectively the speech act of the husband,the hotel keeper,and the wife.Through the analysis,the daughter image of the wife and the coldness of the husband the reveal and accentuate the father image of the hotel keeper who is considerate to his daughter and gives his daughter selfless love.Furthermore,it unfolds a broader horizon for readers to understand and appreciate the story.     

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.     

Destiny Makes Macbeth or Mars Him

Macbeth is the darkest of Shakespeare’s great tragedies.The personification of "Valour" fortifies Macbeth’s strength.This quality makes Macbeth,and mars him.The combination of meanings of the witches’ interpretations hints at Macbeth’s final downfall.Both Macbeth and his wife are victimized by the witches.Macbeth pretends to be friendly with Banquo.But underneath his beautiful skin there is a relentless heart.Lady Macbeth’s desires for political powers are stronger than Macbeth.What Duncan and Banquo think and say forms a sharp contrast to Macbeth’s thoughts and actions.Macbeth is marred by his destiny and by the false creation from his fevered brain.     

On the Conflict between Rationality and Emotion in Seize the Day

Saul Bellow’work mainly describes the human who cannot find the standpoint in American society, and they dangled between the ideal and the reality, insisting the belief of love. Seize the Day presents a several-hour experience of a middle-aged man who had lost his job, was estranged from his wife and children, and deserted by his father. With the double writing methods of narrative and recollection, the author reveals thriftily how individual was threatened by social prejudice and the important position of money. He extremely pays attention to the conflict between emotion and rationality to show people’s anxiety and contradiction in today’s America.     

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.     

The Difference in the Main Conflict between Shakespeare's Hamlet and Feng Xiaogang's The Banquet

Famous Chinese director Feng Xiaogang made a film The Banquet in 2006,which is adapted from Shakespeare’s play Hamlet.However,accounting for the background and cultural difference,the main conflict shown in this film is totally different from Hamlet.The paper will compare Hamlet’s reaction to his father’s death with the plot of the film to illustrate the difference of main conflict between Hamlet and The Banquet.     

Hawthorne's Short Stories:a Journey to Explore Evil

Hawthorne was a great writer who reminds us of human limitations.He called his tales "allegories of the heart." Hawthorne’s allegories are stories of how pride and isolation frustrate our capacity for love and sympathy.Isolation or "alienation" is Hawthorne’s principal theme and problem,and loss of contact with reality is the ultimate penalty he envisions.Therefore,reading Hawthorne’s stories is a journey to explore human being’s evil.     

A Romanticist Torn between Past and Present—— “Portrait of a Lady” by T.S.Eliot

This thesis proposes a Romanticist approach to one of Eliot’s early poems.By putting the poetic subject between the classical and the modern settings,it ventures an attempt to discuss the poetic subject as a Romanticist seeker for love and mean ing.On the one hand,the subject craves for love and understanding from the feminine counterpart,who seems to represent the classical deal of love and meaning.On the other hand,he is stuck in his modern reality where love and meaning are rendered im possible.Thus,Eliot gives a remarkable depiction of the modern dilemma.     

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.     

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.     

父亲的地位下降了

With both the mum and dad working in a family,has a child’s view of his father changed?Have fathers lost the position of being No.1?Unlike earlier days in most of the families,both husband and wife are working.So the fathers are forced to do some of the job only mothers did in the past,which has caused a series of changes.It is really helping to improve the interaction between fathers and their children.It has paved way for direct interaction between fathers and children;the children also feel free to discuss with their fathers.     

The Conflict Between Humanism&Feudalism in A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a play of love that reflects the sharp conflict between humanism and feudalism in the sixteenth century English society, which finds expression in the dispute between Hermia and her father Egeus on her marriage and Hermia’s bold rebellion against the feudalistic parental tyranny. The final success of the lovers in their struggle for the freedom to decide their marriage not only embodies Shakespeare’s humanist ideal but also reflects his firm belief that humanism would inevitably triumph over feudalism.     

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.     

On the Relationship between the Original and the Translated Version——The Interpretation of Benjamin's Three Metaphors

This paper explores the relationship between the original and its translation by interpreting Benjamin’s three metaphors from his The Translator’s Task. The exploration starts with the metaphor of“the tangent of a circle”,where it is interpreted that although the translated version should be faithful to its original in terms of meaning,yet it is a deviation due to different internal and external factors. Then,in the metaphor of“afterlife”,the discussion demonstrates that the translated version proceeds from the original,but the original depends on it for its survival and afterlife in different eras. Later,based on the metaphor of“fragments of a vessel”,the author states that the original and its translation are equal and complementary,just like the fragments of a vessel,responsible for the development and renewal of each other through translation. Finally,it is concluded that a better understanding of their relationship can offer us a new perspective in translation studies and practice.     

Eucharist and Human Body in George Herbert’s Poetry

George Herbert is one of the great metaphysical and religious poets in the seventeenth-century history of British literature.Herbert becomes well-known for his devotional religious poems,his famous collection of devotional lyrics,The Temple in which Herbert expresses his piety towards God and manifests that the love of God is an everlasting subject for verse,has won enduring popularity among readers since its publication in 1633.The present paper will focus on Eucharist and human body showing in Herbert’s poetry,and attempts to explore the deeper implications existing behind Eucharist and human body with reference to some specific poems which are chosen from The Temple in detail.     

Devil or Victim—An Analysis of the Characterization of Heathcliff in Wuthering Height

The character Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights is a controversial character that has aroused severe debate among critics and readers long since it was published in 1847.He is considered is a cruel devil and his acts in this novel are too far beyond a normal human’s moral acceptance.However,in spit of physical strength and his power of revenge,he is in a way also a victim of love and society.His destiny is doomed since he came into this world as the one who is"The Other"to take the revenge.     

The Elements of Sartre’s Existentialism in The Lottery

The elements of Sartre’s existentialism are shown in Shirley Jackson’s The Lottery: The world abounds with absurdities and bitterness; people can be the hell to each other; an individual has a free choice and act, but should be responsible for his or her behavior. Shirley discusses the problem of the existence of an individual in the complex web of society and environment in The Lottery, just as Sartre in his works of existentialism.     

爱只是一根线

Sometimes I really doubt whether there is love between my parents.Every day they are very busy trying to earn money in order to pay the high tuition for my brother and me.They don’t act in the romantic ways that I read in books or I see on TV.In their opinion,“I love you”is too luxurious for them to say.Sending?owers to each other on Valentine’s Day is even more out of the question.Finally my father has a bad temper.When he is very tired from the hard work,it is easy for him to lose hi…