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...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.展开更多
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 sh...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.展开更多
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 it...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.展开更多
Kate Chopin's (1899- ) The Awakening gives an account of Edna Pontellie's awakening in soul and body and sing highly of her courage to pursue freedom and independence. But in a patriarchal society, women can o...Kate Chopin's (1899- ) The Awakening gives an account of Edna Pontellie's awakening in soul and body and sing highly of her courage to pursue freedom and independence. But in a patriarchal society, women can only exist subordinate to men and any woman's rebellion is to be defeated. Through a detailed analysis of the process of Edna's awakening, it argues that Edna is not awakened but disillusioned, and she still lives under the heavy patriarchal shackles.展开更多
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 ...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.展开更多
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 ...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.展开更多
"The Great Gatsby",a fiction by Fitzgerald,is about the failure of the American dream.For the protagonist Gatsby,He is the true heir to American dream.He devotes his whole life to pursues his dream of romant..."The Great Gatsby",a fiction by Fitzgerald,is about the failure of the American dream.For the protagonist Gatsby,He is the true heir to American dream.He devotes his whole life to pursues his dream of romantic success without ever understand ing that it has escaped him.Finally,he dies in his pursuit.His failure symbolizes the disillusion of American dream.展开更多
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 t...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.展开更多
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 grea...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.展开更多
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, ...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.展开更多
The Glass Menagerie depicts the disillusion of Laura's illusory world with the technique of symbolism. With the analy sis of the symbolic meanings of"the glass animals", this thesis attempts to analyze t...The Glass Menagerie depicts the disillusion of Laura's illusory world with the technique of symbolism. With the analy sis of the symbolic meanings of"the glass animals", this thesis attempts to analyze the destructive process of Laura's illusion and the dream of American middle-class people in the 1930s.展开更多
John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath presents the evolution and disillusionment of the American dream through the experience of the Joads.However,the dream was bound to be an American nightmare.
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 c...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.展开更多
Disillusionment seems Mansfields 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.
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 fro...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.展开更多
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 reflectin...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.展开更多
文摘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.
文摘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.
文摘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.
文摘Kate Chopin's (1899- ) The Awakening gives an account of Edna Pontellie's awakening in soul and body and sing highly of her courage to pursue freedom and independence. But in a patriarchal society, women can only exist subordinate to men and any woman's rebellion is to be defeated. Through a detailed analysis of the process of Edna's awakening, it argues that Edna is not awakened but disillusioned, and she still lives under the heavy patriarchal shackles.
文摘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.
文摘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.
文摘"The Great Gatsby",a fiction by Fitzgerald,is about the failure of the American dream.For the protagonist Gatsby,He is the true heir to American dream.He devotes his whole life to pursues his dream of romantic success without ever understand ing that it has escaped him.Finally,he dies in his pursuit.His failure symbolizes the disillusion of American dream.
文摘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.
文摘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.
文摘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.
文摘The Glass Menagerie depicts the disillusion of Laura's illusory world with the technique of symbolism. With the analy sis of the symbolic meanings of"the glass animals", this thesis attempts to analyze the destructive process of Laura's illusion and the dream of American middle-class people in the 1930s.
文摘John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath presents the evolution and disillusionment of the American dream through the experience of the Joads.However,the dream was bound to be an American nightmare.
文摘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.
文摘Disillusionment seems Mansfields 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.
文摘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.
文摘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.
