Kate Chopin’s famous short story Desiree’s Baby attracts a large number of readers with its dramatic ending and thematic implication.The love and hate of Armand,the sharp contrast between L’Abri manor and Valmonde ...Kate Chopin’s famous short story Desiree’s Baby attracts a large number of readers with its dramatic ending and thematic implication.The love and hate of Armand,the sharp contrast between L’Abri manor and Valmonde plantation and the twists and turns of the plot form the tension beauty of this story.In order to further explore Desiree’s Baby,this paper interprets the emotional tension,image tension and plot tension in the short story.It further explores the thematic implication and artistic beauty of the novel,and reveals Chopin’s criticism of racism.展开更多
Since the publication of Sister Carrie,there has been a tense discussion on the desire of the Carrie.Many critics focus on the conspicuous desire that drives Carrie to be a social climber.Indeed,desire is the driving ...Since the publication of Sister Carrie,there has been a tense discussion on the desire of the Carrie.Many critics focus on the conspicuous desire that drives Carrie to be a social climber.Indeed,desire is the driving force for Carrie.But we can’t generalize all her longings as desire or use"desire"to describe Carrie’s different needs at different life stage.Here,the author attempts to analyze Carrie’s desire in detail and form a better understanding of her desire by using Maslow’s Needs-Hierarchy Theory.展开更多
文摘Kate Chopin’s famous short story Desiree’s Baby attracts a large number of readers with its dramatic ending and thematic implication.The love and hate of Armand,the sharp contrast between L’Abri manor and Valmonde plantation and the twists and turns of the plot form the tension beauty of this story.In order to further explore Desiree’s Baby,this paper interprets the emotional tension,image tension and plot tension in the short story.It further explores the thematic implication and artistic beauty of the novel,and reveals Chopin’s criticism of racism.
文摘Since the publication of Sister Carrie,there has been a tense discussion on the desire of the Carrie.Many critics focus on the conspicuous desire that drives Carrie to be a social climber.Indeed,desire is the driving force for Carrie.But we can’t generalize all her longings as desire or use"desire"to describe Carrie’s different needs at different life stage.Here,the author attempts to analyze Carrie’s desire in detail and form a better understanding of her desire by using Maslow’s Needs-Hierarchy Theory.
