Aristotle is the greatest scholar of ancient Greece, his Poetics is considered as a classic theoretical work in the history of westernliterature, which mainly refers to the theory of tragedy. The paper aims at analyzi...Aristotle is the greatest scholar of ancient Greece, his Poetics is considered as a classic theoretical work in the history of westernliterature, which mainly refers to the theory of tragedy. The paper aims at analyzing Eugene O’Neill’s Desire Under the Elms by applyingAristotle’s Tragedy Theory in order to acquire a sharp and deep understanding of literature and art.展开更多
This thesis carefully appreciated situational irony in some of Shakespeare's tragedies successively,and classified situational irony into four kinds:discrepancy between appearance and reality,expectation and fulfi...This thesis carefully appreciated situational irony in some of Shakespeare's tragedies successively,and classified situational irony into four kinds:discrepancy between appearance and reality,expectation and fulfilment,intention and outcome,the actual circumstances and appropriateness.In the analysis of the first kind of situational irony,especially,the thesis focused on Antony and Cleopatra,together with Julius Caesar,questioned the common idea,and stated that Antony's failure was not because of his passion towards Cleopatra.Cleopatra was only his screen to cheat the world,an excuse of his " face-saving failure".展开更多
The Bluest Eye,written by the Toni Morrison,revolves around a black girl called Pecola Breedlove who is driven insaneby her strong desire to have blue eyes as the whites do.Aimingto analyze the Pecola’s tragedy by ex...The Bluest Eye,written by the Toni Morrison,revolves around a black girl called Pecola Breedlove who is driven insaneby her strong desire to have blue eyes as the whites do.Aimingto analyze the Pecola’s tragedy by examining the influence of whitedominated culture on Pecola,her family and community,the fact that African Americans should maintain their ethnic culture for abetter survival will be revealed.展开更多
As one of the most significant critical essays of T.S.Eliot,Tradition and Individual Talent has defined writing as a process during which the primitive oneness has seized the individual writer of figurative descriptio...As one of the most significant critical essays of T.S.Eliot,Tradition and Individual Talent has defined writing as a process during which the primitive oneness has seized the individual writer of figurative descriptions to help represent itself.This theory has latter been practiced in Eliot’s Wasteland,and shows its similarity with The Birth of Tragedy,written by Friedrick Nietzsche,the German philosopher.Eliot’s‘tradition’has been concluded by Nietzsche as‘Dionysian Spirit’,which represents oneness transcending good and evil,past and present,while‘individual talent’has resembled‘Apollonian Spirit’in the urge for original figuration as an apparatus.The paper aims to explain and compare the definitions of‘tradition’and‘individual talent’of Eliot’s work with that of‘Dionysian spirit’and‘Apollonian Spirit’in Nietzsche’s illustrations,so as to provide a deeper understanding of these two works by unveiling the individual and social sameness and difference of Eliot and Nietzsche.展开更多
This article mainly deals with the comparison between the main character Xiang Lin’s wife in Lu Xun’s short narrative story Blessing and the main character Tess in the novel Tess of the D'Urbervilles written by ...This article mainly deals with the comparison between the main character Xiang Lin’s wife in Lu Xun’s short narrative story Blessing and the main character Tess in the novel Tess of the D'Urbervilles written by the famous critic realistic British writer Hardy in 19th century.This article discusses about the similarities and differences between the two tragic figures from three aspects,namely the background of their times;the origins of their tragedies and the personalities of the two women,so that the readers may have a better understanding of the themes of the two novels.展开更多
Tess of the D'Urbervilles was written by Thomas Hardy who was a famous critical realistic writer at the turn of the 19 thcentury in England.Tess of the D'Urbervilles is the most influential one of all his work...Tess of the D'Urbervilles was written by Thomas Hardy who was a famous critical realistic writer at the turn of the 19 thcentury in England.Tess of the D'Urbervilles is the most influential one of all his works.The novel describes a tragic life about abeautiful girl after disgrace.This paper analyses what cause Tess' s tragic life.The first part is an introduction of Tess of the D'Urb-ervilles and its writer Thomas Hardy.And then is the analysis on the causes of her tragic life —characters of Tess,Society Influ-ence and influence of Pessimism & Fatalism of Hardy.Though Tess fought with the society,as a common person she is helpless atthat time.In the end,she turned out to be the sacrificial victim of society like all other things which disobey the morality and ethic.展开更多
Long Day' s Journey into Night is one of Eugene O' Neill' s (1888-1953) masterpieces, who is a great American playwright and called the father of modern American drama. This thesis aims at the analysis of ...Long Day' s Journey into Night is one of Eugene O' Neill' s (1888-1953) masterpieces, who is a great American playwright and called the father of modern American drama. This thesis aims at the analysis of the contradictions in family members in the play. The first part analyzes the contradictions between wife and husband. The second part focuses on the contradictory relationship in parents and sons. The contradictions between brothers are discussed in the third part. Through the study of the causes of the contradictory relationship among family members, the tragedy of the characters in the play will be explored to the readers, which is also the tragedy of modern Ameri can people.展开更多
Death of a Salesman is a classic tragic work in contemporary America.It discusses some social factors in Willy Loman’s death,such as the influence of the American Dream and the Great Depression.It also makes a detail...Death of a Salesman is a classic tragic work in contemporary America.It discusses some social factors in Willy Loman’s death,such as the influence of the American Dream and the Great Depression.It also makes a detailed study on the flaws in the character of Willy Loman,some of which contribute to his own death,such as his misguided social values and his twisted relationship with his family.The paper aims at a further study on Willy Loman’s death and to put forward the author’s view on various causes of his death.Then it concludes that Willy’s death is the result of American society and his own character defect.展开更多
Eugene O’Neill,one of the essential writers of the 20th century,was hailed as the“American Shakespeare.”He enjoyed a high reputation in America owing to his special writing techniques.Long Day’s Journey into Night...Eugene O’Neill,one of the essential writers of the 20th century,was hailed as the“American Shakespeare.”He enjoyed a high reputation in America owing to his special writing techniques.Long Day’s Journey into Night was his last play,which was an autobiographical play to some extent,and founded on his own authentic experience.The play told the story of an Irish immigrant family’s daily life from day to night.Among the studies at home and abroad,many discuss this play from a psychological perspective and Feminist perspective.The article,instead,gives an interpretation of this play according to Cooperative Principle.Through the analysis of their conversations,it points out what principles their communications violated so as to understand the implied meaning of their conversations.The thesis tries to study the conversations between Mary and other family members,and then demonstrate that Mary is the most tragic person in the family.展开更多
文摘Aristotle is the greatest scholar of ancient Greece, his Poetics is considered as a classic theoretical work in the history of westernliterature, which mainly refers to the theory of tragedy. The paper aims at analyzing Eugene O’Neill’s Desire Under the Elms by applyingAristotle’s Tragedy Theory in order to acquire a sharp and deep understanding of literature and art.
文摘This thesis carefully appreciated situational irony in some of Shakespeare's tragedies successively,and classified situational irony into four kinds:discrepancy between appearance and reality,expectation and fulfilment,intention and outcome,the actual circumstances and appropriateness.In the analysis of the first kind of situational irony,especially,the thesis focused on Antony and Cleopatra,together with Julius Caesar,questioned the common idea,and stated that Antony's failure was not because of his passion towards Cleopatra.Cleopatra was only his screen to cheat the world,an excuse of his " face-saving failure".
文摘The Bluest Eye,written by the Toni Morrison,revolves around a black girl called Pecola Breedlove who is driven insaneby her strong desire to have blue eyes as the whites do.Aimingto analyze the Pecola’s tragedy by examining the influence of whitedominated culture on Pecola,her family and community,the fact that African Americans should maintain their ethnic culture for abetter survival will be revealed.
文摘As one of the most significant critical essays of T.S.Eliot,Tradition and Individual Talent has defined writing as a process during which the primitive oneness has seized the individual writer of figurative descriptions to help represent itself.This theory has latter been practiced in Eliot’s Wasteland,and shows its similarity with The Birth of Tragedy,written by Friedrick Nietzsche,the German philosopher.Eliot’s‘tradition’has been concluded by Nietzsche as‘Dionysian Spirit’,which represents oneness transcending good and evil,past and present,while‘individual talent’has resembled‘Apollonian Spirit’in the urge for original figuration as an apparatus.The paper aims to explain and compare the definitions of‘tradition’and‘individual talent’of Eliot’s work with that of‘Dionysian spirit’and‘Apollonian Spirit’in Nietzsche’s illustrations,so as to provide a deeper understanding of these two works by unveiling the individual and social sameness and difference of Eliot and Nietzsche.
文摘This article mainly deals with the comparison between the main character Xiang Lin’s wife in Lu Xun’s short narrative story Blessing and the main character Tess in the novel Tess of the D'Urbervilles written by the famous critic realistic British writer Hardy in 19th century.This article discusses about the similarities and differences between the two tragic figures from three aspects,namely the background of their times;the origins of their tragedies and the personalities of the two women,so that the readers may have a better understanding of the themes of the two novels.
文摘Tess of the D'Urbervilles was written by Thomas Hardy who was a famous critical realistic writer at the turn of the 19 thcentury in England.Tess of the D'Urbervilles is the most influential one of all his works.The novel describes a tragic life about abeautiful girl after disgrace.This paper analyses what cause Tess' s tragic life.The first part is an introduction of Tess of the D'Urb-ervilles and its writer Thomas Hardy.And then is the analysis on the causes of her tragic life —characters of Tess,Society Influ-ence and influence of Pessimism & Fatalism of Hardy.Though Tess fought with the society,as a common person she is helpless atthat time.In the end,she turned out to be the sacrificial victim of society like all other things which disobey the morality and ethic.
文摘Long Day' s Journey into Night is one of Eugene O' Neill' s (1888-1953) masterpieces, who is a great American playwright and called the father of modern American drama. This thesis aims at the analysis of the contradictions in family members in the play. The first part analyzes the contradictions between wife and husband. The second part focuses on the contradictory relationship in parents and sons. The contradictions between brothers are discussed in the third part. Through the study of the causes of the contradictory relationship among family members, the tragedy of the characters in the play will be explored to the readers, which is also the tragedy of modern Ameri can people.
文摘Death of a Salesman is a classic tragic work in contemporary America.It discusses some social factors in Willy Loman’s death,such as the influence of the American Dream and the Great Depression.It also makes a detailed study on the flaws in the character of Willy Loman,some of which contribute to his own death,such as his misguided social values and his twisted relationship with his family.The paper aims at a further study on Willy Loman’s death and to put forward the author’s view on various causes of his death.Then it concludes that Willy’s death is the result of American society and his own character defect.
文摘Eugene O’Neill,one of the essential writers of the 20th century,was hailed as the“American Shakespeare.”He enjoyed a high reputation in America owing to his special writing techniques.Long Day’s Journey into Night was his last play,which was an autobiographical play to some extent,and founded on his own authentic experience.The play told the story of an Irish immigrant family’s daily life from day to night.Among the studies at home and abroad,many discuss this play from a psychological perspective and Feminist perspective.The article,instead,gives an interpretation of this play according to Cooperative Principle.Through the analysis of their conversations,it points out what principles their communications violated so as to understand the implied meaning of their conversations.The thesis tries to study the conversations between Mary and other family members,and then demonstrate that Mary is the most tragic person in the family.
