Arthur Dimmesdale in The Scarlet Letter and Henry Hurstwood in Sister Carrie have little in common in passion,guilt and death though they follow almost the same pathroad of life.From the comparison between them——the...Arthur Dimmesdale in The Scarlet Letter and Henry Hurstwood in Sister Carrie have little in common in passion,guilt and death though they follow almost the same pathroad of life.From the comparison between them——their different beliefs,social environments and author's different ideas,we know that the differences under the almost same surface makes literature more colorful which enriches our life.展开更多
Babylon Revisited is F.Scott Fitzgerald's most renowned and most considered work of short fiction.In the short story "Babylon Revisited,"F.Scott Fitzgerald generally centers on a theme of defining Americ...Babylon Revisited is F.Scott Fitzgerald's most renowned and most considered work of short fiction.In the short story "Babylon Revisited,"F.Scott Fitzgerald generally centers on a theme of defining American character.The central figure in Babylon Revisited,Charlie Wales,serves as the lens through which readers observe the events of the story and the life that once thrived in Paris.The controversial questions are also explained in this paper.展开更多
In a materialistic social context,resorting to corruption to achieve one’s self is a behavioral scheme by members of organizations.The strong positive valence accorded to this phenomenon makes it necessary to wonder ...In a materialistic social context,resorting to corruption to achieve one’s self is a behavioral scheme by members of organizations.The strong positive valence accorded to this phenomenon makes it necessary to wonder about how to bring the corrupters to become aware of the criminal character of corruption?Based on a study carried out with 500 Cameroonian civil servants,it is a matter,after having detected the level of awareness of the criminal nature of corruption,of detecting the factors behind this state of affairs and developing a strategy aimed at triggering the guilt of staff in the face of acts of corruption.展开更多
This short paper aims to discuss the unbearably-heavy weight of childhood memory and the survivor’s guilt as the symptoms in the novel,The Kite Runner,published in 2003,by an Afghan-American writer,Khaled Hosseini.It...This short paper aims to discuss the unbearably-heavy weight of childhood memory and the survivor’s guilt as the symptoms in the novel,The Kite Runner,published in 2003,by an Afghan-American writer,Khaled Hosseini.It describes the ambivalent relationship between the father and the son against the background of political turmoil in Afghanistan—how they have a good life together in Afghanistan and afterwards how they are forced to leave their homeland like refugees to Pakistan and then to The United States for a new life with the survivor’s guilt after the tumultuous period of the Soviet military invasion.The narrator,Amir,treasures the memories of his old homeland,Afghanistan,the innermost remnants of his being,which has become as the specter haunting his present life in the United States.Amir has to return to his old homeland to meet his father’s closest friend,Rahim Khan,and to rescue Sohrad,the son of his half-brother,Hassan,from the Taliban regime.This ethical return to the past not only has unfolded certain secrecy of his father’s dishonor but also has healed his sense of survivor’s guilt because of his evil rivalry of jealousy against Hassan to fully possess his father’s love in his childhood.In my discussion of ethnic hierarchy and conflicts in Afghanistan described in the novel,Jacques Derrida’s and Giorgio Agamben’s theoretical concepts,such as the problematic of sovereignty,sovereign animality and bare life in The Beast&the Soveriegn and Homo Sacer,will be used to penetrate the deeper understanding of their traumatic past as haunting specters.展开更多
文摘Arthur Dimmesdale in The Scarlet Letter and Henry Hurstwood in Sister Carrie have little in common in passion,guilt and death though they follow almost the same pathroad of life.From the comparison between them——their different beliefs,social environments and author's different ideas,we know that the differences under the almost same surface makes literature more colorful which enriches our life.
文摘Babylon Revisited is F.Scott Fitzgerald's most renowned and most considered work of short fiction.In the short story "Babylon Revisited,"F.Scott Fitzgerald generally centers on a theme of defining American character.The central figure in Babylon Revisited,Charlie Wales,serves as the lens through which readers observe the events of the story and the life that once thrived in Paris.The controversial questions are also explained in this paper.
文摘In a materialistic social context,resorting to corruption to achieve one’s self is a behavioral scheme by members of organizations.The strong positive valence accorded to this phenomenon makes it necessary to wonder about how to bring the corrupters to become aware of the criminal character of corruption?Based on a study carried out with 500 Cameroonian civil servants,it is a matter,after having detected the level of awareness of the criminal nature of corruption,of detecting the factors behind this state of affairs and developing a strategy aimed at triggering the guilt of staff in the face of acts of corruption.
文摘This short paper aims to discuss the unbearably-heavy weight of childhood memory and the survivor’s guilt as the symptoms in the novel,The Kite Runner,published in 2003,by an Afghan-American writer,Khaled Hosseini.It describes the ambivalent relationship between the father and the son against the background of political turmoil in Afghanistan—how they have a good life together in Afghanistan and afterwards how they are forced to leave their homeland like refugees to Pakistan and then to The United States for a new life with the survivor’s guilt after the tumultuous period of the Soviet military invasion.The narrator,Amir,treasures the memories of his old homeland,Afghanistan,the innermost remnants of his being,which has become as the specter haunting his present life in the United States.Amir has to return to his old homeland to meet his father’s closest friend,Rahim Khan,and to rescue Sohrad,the son of his half-brother,Hassan,from the Taliban regime.This ethical return to the past not only has unfolded certain secrecy of his father’s dishonor but also has healed his sense of survivor’s guilt because of his evil rivalry of jealousy against Hassan to fully possess his father’s love in his childhood.In my discussion of ethnic hierarchy and conflicts in Afghanistan described in the novel,Jacques Derrida’s and Giorgio Agamben’s theoretical concepts,such as the problematic of sovereignty,sovereign animality and bare life in The Beast&the Soveriegn and Homo Sacer,will be used to penetrate the deeper understanding of their traumatic past as haunting specters.
