A Warm Death Trip——An Interpretation of The Great Blue Yonder from the Dead Children Narrative Perspective

When it comes to the death,it can be gruesome or be dolente.However,the death also can be warm and be a new start of life.It is because we regard the death from different perspective that we show different attitude to the death.The novel The Great Blue Yonder which described the experience of the little protagonist died as a ghost wandering in the mortal world interpreted the death by fairy tale.In his wandering trip,he experience not only tears but also laughter.The more important experience he realized was that he took a new look at love and comprehended the significance of life.Because of the dislocation between narrative perspective and narrative contents,the abnormal narrative perspective owns the unique artistic charm.This thesis aims to interpret the Great Blue Yonder by taking the abnormal narrative perspective as the point of view from the dual narrative perspective of the ghosts and the children.The abnormal narrative perspective is endowed with the unique aesthetic effect because of its own aesthetic properties.It will make a great fresh aesthetic feast to readers.

An Analysis of the Colonialism in The Old Chief Mshlanga from the Perspective of Narratology

Doris Lessing is one of the most influential writers in English. The colonialism, one of her most concerned topics, is often revealed in many of her early works and so is in The Old Chief Mshlanga. In this story, Lessing first employs a third-person narrator and then a first-person narrator, both of whom adopt the narrative perspective from the protagonist within the story.What the two different person-narrators really differ is in the narrative voice. The narrative voice of the third-person narrator comes from the narrator outside the story, while the other one comes from the protagonist within the story. It is by means of the same perspective and the different narrative voice that Lessing vividly reveals the colonialism in The Old Chief Mshlanga.

The Writing Techniques of The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby is a wonderful masterpiece by Fitzgerald whether when it refers to the content or refers to the artistic creation, and it is acknowledged as one of the greatest works of American literature in 20 century. The novel was strictly and prudently organized by Fitzgerald, which used lots of writing techniques and skills, such as symbolism, analogy and so on. These techniques contributed to deepen theme and increase artistic appeal. In this novel, Fitzgerald portrays the real state of American society vividly in 1920s with cold attitude and subtle analysis. This is the most typical tragicomedy about the realization and vanishment of ＂American dream＂ that describes the love tragedy between Gatsby and Daisy.

The Application of Double Vision in The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald is called ＂the angel of the Jazz Age＂. His masterpiece The Great Gatsby is regarded as a classic in American literature. The success of this novel is largely due to the effective application of double vision perspective. Through analyzing the application of double vision in The Great Gatsby, the thesis tries to claim that although Fitzgerald holds double attitudes towards things in the novel, double vision perspective hasn＇t blurred the themes but helped to clarify the themes. Because between each pair of polar opposites, one side of the opposites always triumphs over the other, which let the readers eventually see clearly the author＇s artistic intension. It is the application of double vision that enriches, clarifies the themes of the novel, which makes the romantic love story, delivers deeper meanings.