Eliza' s Journey of Disillusionment——An Interpretation of Pygmalion in the Perspective of Myth Archetype

G. B. Shaw names his play Pygmalion by a protagonist in Metamorphoses Book Ten, so that he connects the enlivened ivory statue with the dramatically changed flower girl. Great culture significance was attached to this play. At the same time, the originality which is different from the original myth displays the author's effort to explore female self- creation.

War,Disillusionment and Courage——A Brief Analysis of In Another Country

This short essay gives a general introduction and analysis of one of Hemingway's short stories-In Another Country.By depicting the physically injured soldiers in a hospital in Milan because of the war,the story shows the damaging psychological and physical effects of World War I,which will never been recovered.It also examines people's disillusionment of old faiths and views of the world,and their courage to face the tragedy and reality.

Causes of the Disillusionment of Sister Carrie's American Dream

Theodore Dreiser’s novel Sister Carrie is the representative of studying the disillusionment of the American Dream.Since the publication of Sister Carrie,there have been many critics who commented on this work,and its main character Sister Carrie is a controversial person.Dreiser was criticized by critics and readers because he didn’t give any comment on her degener ation.This thesis tries to analyze the causes of this tragedy.In the end,the paper draws the conclusion:the American Dream looks beautiful,but to some extent it is not reliable,just like the foam of soap.It only gives people an illusion.So Carrie’s tragedy is in evitable.

The Disillusionment of American Dream in The Great Gatsby

Focusing on Gatsby's dream in The Great Gatsby, I attempt to analyze the reason for the disillusionment of American Dream at the historical time of the 1920 s. From the micro perspective, Gatsby has four times of disillusionment altogether. The first one was from his birth to his leaving home, the second disillusionment came after his under Dan Cody's patron for several years, ended by Cody's sudden death leaving Gatsby no money actually inherited. His third disillusionment was the frustration of his love for Daisy as Daisy married to Tom Buchanan. Finally, his fourth disillusion brought him away altogether with his death, after the car accident committed by Daisy and Gatsby was mistakenly regarded as the murderer. In a macro perspective,Gatsby's death in the novel symbolizes the disillusionment of American Dream in the Jazz Age.

The Disillusionment of American Dream in The Great Gatsby

Among the modern novelists of America, F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940), owing to his masterpiece The Great Gatsby, once won a high admiration and reputation in the world literature. He was regarded as one of the most influential American novelists of the 1920s.This paper focuses on the analysis of the author and the figures in the novel. It aims to reveal the formation, development and disillusionment of American Dream through the analysis of the novel's writing background and plot, the author's experience, the connotation of American Dream in different historic backgrounds and the disillusionment of Gatsby's American Dream.

An Analysis of the Disillusionment of the American Dream in The Great Gatsby Based on the Perspective of Consumerism

Consumption has been paid much more attention in China in recent years and it is more popular in literature as well. This paper is trying to analyze the disillusionment of the American Dream in The Great Gatsby from the perspective of consumerism. Readers can better learn about Gatsby＇s wasteful, luxurious and lavish consumption through the analysis of his great ambitions so that his twisted consumption impacts his wrong words and deeds and conduces his disillusionment of his American Dream.

An Analysis of the Disillusionment of the American Dream Pursued by Carrie in Sister Carrie

Theodore Dreiser （1871--1945） is considered as an outstanding representative of American realism and the pioneer of American naturalistic Hterature in the 20th century. His first novel Sister Carrie（1900）is a great work ofnaturalist style and the publication of the novel secures his status in the history of American literature. This novel tells a story about Carrie who tries to make the American dream come true. Carrie was born in the countryside. She is poor but vainglorions. With a strong desire for an affluent life in the city, she comes to Chicago, but the harsh reality of unemployment, sickness and indifference of the family make her abandon the original moral value, and she becomes the lover of Drouet, and Hurstwood. Later, she becomes an actress through her own effort in New York, squeezing into the bourgeois ＂higher＂ society. However, her success doesn＇t bring her inner joy and satisfaction, but a huge emptiness and boredom. This paper attempts to analyze the disillusionment of the America Dream pursued by Carrie and draws the conclusion that it is clearly reflected that it＇s fine for people to pursue their dreams, but in a materialistic society without a good set of core values, if they are controlled and trapped by strong desire for material comforts, they will get lost and what they lose will be far more than what they gain.

Disillusionment of “The Three Worlds”——An Analysis on the theme of The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock is T.S. Eliot's masterpiece of his early period and was written in a form of dramatic monologue. The large use of artistic features, such as symbolism, allusion and repetition, makes the poem vivid, but sophisticated and hard to understand at the same time. However, the theme of the poem can be explored by the analysis of Prufrock's complicated psychological activities, which display three different worlds to the readers: the real world that is vulgar and meaningless; the inner world that is lonely and doubtful; and the visionary world that is mysterious and transient. This paper aims at presenting a detailed analysis on the disillusionment of the three worlds, as well as revealing the spiritual paralysis of modern people. It is not an individual tragedy; it is the tragedy of a generation, the tragedy of human civilization.

From Illusion to Disillusionment——An Analysis of the Character Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman

This is an analysis of the character Willy Loman in Arthur Miller’play Death of a Salesman,who is a salesman living in his own"American Dream".His dream is shattered and finally destroyed by reality,so he chooses to die in the hope that he may retain his dignity and practically render some help to his family with the assurance.

Laura's Disillusionment in Katherine Mansfield's The Garden Party

Disillusionment seems Mansfields favourite subject;she devotes her short life to the art of the short story;she develops the writing style of short story and influences the following short story writers a great deal.

Modernistic Themes in Tess of D'Urbervilles

Thomas Hardy's works are considered to have"contained new wine in an old bottle"by critics and reviewers. The"old bottle"refers to his authorial omniscient narrative and his form inheriting from the tradition, which is often criticized, especially by those modernists, while"new wine"designates his other sides apart from his old-fashioned writing style, the modernistic themes in his writing. Tess, is a novel that records the transition from conventional to modern. By reading the text and analyzing Tess of the D'Urbervilles under the social context three main modernistic themes can be probed out:Firstly, the spiritual isolation and loneliness in the novel are apparent, and the lack in mutual understanding and sympathy between each other is universal. Besides, the title heroine, she was impossible to fulfill her dreams with various hostile powers set against her, coercing into predicaments one after another, tougher and tougher. Furthermore, another theme popular with later modernists, the alienation, is also embodied in the novel.

On the Modernistic Themes in Katherine Mansfield’s At the Bay

Katherine Mansfield is regarded as a prominent modernist writer of short stories in New Zealand and English literature.Her works manifest the perfect union of modernistic techniques and modernistic themes in reflecting the spiritual life of modern people.The modernistic themes,including the theme of alienation,the theme of loneliness and disillusionment,and the theme of the paradox of life and death in her representative short storyAt the Bay,demonstrate her great concern about the spiritual world of modern people and her reflection on the modern society.

The Corruption of the American Dream in The Great Gatsby

From the view of historical background and morality, this thesis mainly describes the development of American Dream, and then reveals its disillusionment, which is reflected in the Francis Scott Fitzgerald＇s The Great （iatsby. By analyzing specifically that Gatsby＇s dream of love and status is shattered by the cruel reality, that Nick＇s dream of success by his own efforts is smashed easily by the crazy society, that Myrtle Wilson＇s dream of rich life is destroyed by the wasteland of morality in 1920s, this thesis reveals that the active American Dream has become an excuse of greed, and reflects people＇s disillusionment and void in that times.

Death of a Salesman and American Dream

American Dream refers to the belief of the majority of Americans.Through hard work,thrift,and determination,they can surely achieve a better life and live a comfortable life.Such an American Dream has a profound influence on several generations of Americans.American Dream has a close relationship with people' s working life and cultural activities.Death of a Salesman is a typical play about the pursuit and the illusionary of the Dream follower.In Death of a Salesman,the American Dream is the main hero as well as Willy Loman' s spiritual pillar.The pursuit,the realization,and the disillusionment of the American Dream develop with Willy and his family.

The Fall of the Monument——William Faulkner and His A Rose for Emily

This article first introduces Faunlkners Yaknapatawpha serial, a myt hical kingdom created by Faulkner in most of his major works, and Faulkners ma in concerns in his writing. Then, A Rose for Emily,one of the serial, is apprec iated to show some of Faulkners artistic preoccupations. The article presents that Faulkner exposes, in this short novel, the conflicts between the old tradit ion and the new order in the South and the disillusionment of the southern desce ndants in the conflicts.

The Death of the American Dream

Most of us know The Great Gatsby written by F.Scott Fitzgerald.Through the novel,the writer shows us how Gatsby pursues his dream and his dream finally is shattered by his death.Gatsby's tragedy comes from the society of that time.The writer wants to disillusion people.Don't be Gatsby.Face the real life and try to find the courage and hope for life.

Doom of American Dream——The Social Meaning of The Great Gatsby

The paper holds that the presentation of Gatsby as unique to America signifies that Gatsby's personal dilemma and failure are the dilemma and failure of American nation, thus satirizing the illusory nature of the American Dream and the impossibility to attain it.

The Different Meanings of Death of Dimmesdale,Hurstwood and Martin Eden

The deaths of Dimmesdale.Hurstwood and Martin Eden presents different meanings.Dimmesdale's death indicates that a man should be responsible for the mistakes he has made;Hurstwood's miserable ending proves he fails to cope with his desires and the changing circumstances; Martin Eden's self-destruction shows the failure of individualism.

Empty Soul Syndrome

It is a syndrome with a set of signs and symptoms distinct from depression or panic syndrome, which is not characterized by the fear of dying, but by the desire to die in the form of suicide or in another quick way. Unlike depression or panic, it occurs more frequently between 60 and 80 years of age, according to the World Health Organization (WHO) report, which puts Brazil in eighth place among the countries with the highest incidence of suicides in the age range of 70 years. The report estimates a death every 40 seconds in the world, with India ranking first among the countries surveyed, according to the United Nations agency, in the WHO 2012 registries. It can occur in any person, regardless of color, religion, social class or schooling, being more common, however, among men, in the ratio of nine men to two women. It is very common among health practitioners or the self-employed. Causes are related to the general delusion involving body and mind, focusing on the lack of care. By the description of the dictionary, soul is the union of body and spirit, which some prefer to call mind. “Empty Soul” represents the lack of the very essence of life, a total void of wills, a finding of abandonment. For these symptoms or illness, the treatment has followed the line of “antidepressants” aimed at the reuptake of serotonin, such as SSRIs, MAOIs, anxiolytics (benzodiazepines) and painless techniques that reach the brain, used in neurology and psychiatry. We suggest, as a therapeutic idea, the realization of “Healing Workshops”, with the support being given in the form of meetings with motivational orientations, through positive stimuli, daily and constant psychotherapies, which the client will attend until cure is verified. This degree of disorder has presented in alarming proportions, especially after 2015. This work is justified by to the dramaticity of the deaths, such as: knife, shot, fall of great height, hunger strikes and forced isolation in prisons or kidnappings. In addition, the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) has estimated, for the year 2025, in Brazil, a population of 32 million elderly people. This manuscript reports signs and symptoms presented by patients who thought it was not worthwhile to continue living.

On the Three Themes of Heart of Darkness

Heart of Darkness is one of the masterpieces of Joseph Conrad （1857-1924）, which shows the author＇s great humanity and his unreserved horror at the crimes committed by the colonists and imperialists all over the world. This thesis tries to analyze its three themes： the Colonists＇ material essence, the dark side of human nature, and the disillusionment of civilization. Kurtz, the main character in the novel, is characterized by his greed for material gain and power. The dark side of human nature is reflected in Kurtz＇s cruel behavior towards the natives, his sense of superiority to the marginalized, and his dominance in discourse over the colonial people. Along with the colonists＇ crazy behaviors, there is disillusion with the modem civilization.