This paper applies the theory of“Sphinx Factor”to examine the characters such as Sutpen,Emily and Jason in Faulkner’s fiction who are filled with brutal elements.It is found that although these characters are gener...This paper applies the theory of“Sphinx Factor”to examine the characters such as Sutpen,Emily and Jason in Faulkner’s fiction who are filled with brutal elements.It is found that although these characters are generally considered evil,cruel and violent,they also possess tragic beauty.展开更多
Fitzgerald was one of the great stylists in American literature. This essay discussed how he formed a trope Philosophy of life born his life experience and how can he reflect this kind of philosophy of life in his mas...Fitzgerald was one of the great stylists in American literature. This essay discussed how he formed a trope Philosophy of life born his life experience and how can he reflect this kind of philosophy of life in his masterpiece,《The Great Gatsby》.展开更多
Short story is an an exquisite works of art in American traditional literature and Langston Hughes was one of the brightest stars in the night sky.Early autumn is the showcase of masterpiece of Langston Hughes.The wor...Short story is an an exquisite works of art in American traditional literature and Langston Hughes was one of the brightest stars in the night sky.Early autumn is the showcase of masterpiece of Langston Hughes.The work is the representative of real distill.It is a sad short story.After first contacted with it,the reflection of tragic elements on it made the author think deeply.Life is full of ups and downs.The lost love can not come back..A strong sense of frustration sometimes forms a kind of beauty and it is one part of our real life.The reason of frustration sometimes comes from unimportant reasons and things which hinder a happy ending,so the interpersonal communication can give the power and overcome it.展开更多
Doris Lessing is a famous British female writer.Her short fiction to room 19 depicts the heroine Susan Rawing's tragic fate.The article makes an analysis on the feminine psychological need in the marriage from fou...Doris Lessing is a famous British female writer.Her short fiction to room 19 depicts the heroine Susan Rawing's tragic fate.The article makes an analysis on the feminine psychological need in the marriage from four aspects:Spiritual Freedom,Financially independent,interpersonal communication,mutual faith.展开更多
Tragic thought has been interwoven throughout D.H.Lawrence's works,and his tragic sense is the direct result of the social realities,cultural context and his personal experiences.
Ophelia was a lovely girl in Hamlet,but she had the most tragic destiny among all heroines of Shakespeare’s plays.Thearticle analyses the reasons of her tragic destiny from four aspects—that time,her family,her love...Ophelia was a lovely girl in Hamlet,but she had the most tragic destiny among all heroines of Shakespeare’s plays.Thearticle analyses the reasons of her tragic destiny from four aspects—that time,her family,her lover and herself.After analyzing,itfinds out that Ophelia was the victim of palace struggle.The readers are heartily sympathetic with this innocent and beautiful girl.展开更多
A Rose for Emily is one of the masterpieces of William Falkner.This paper intends to analyze the symbolic meaning of the rose,and the relationship between the rose and Emily, trying to provide people a thorough unders...A Rose for Emily is one of the masterpieces of William Falkner.This paper intends to analyze the symbolic meaning of the rose,and the relationship between the rose and Emily, trying to provide people a thorough understanding of the theme and the heroine's personality.展开更多
The Great Gatsby,the masterpiece of the American author Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald,is published in 1925,just after the World WarⅠ.It mainly narrates the tragic love story between Daisy and Gatsby,reflecting many so...The Great Gatsby,the masterpiece of the American author Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald,is published in 1925,just after the World WarⅠ.It mainly narrates the tragic love story between Daisy and Gatsby,reflecting many social problems.This essay emphasizes on the tragic love,and introduces their tragedies respectively,especially the tragedy of Daisy,reconstructing the image of the leading lady as a victim too.Furthermore,we turn to analyze the causes of the tragic love according to the author's own experience and the background of that era.展开更多
The story of Samson is one of the most tragic in all the Bible.Born gifted and nurtured to be God’s man,just like Samuel,he was meant to deliver the people of Israel out of the oppression from the Philistines.However...The story of Samson is one of the most tragic in all the Bible.Born gifted and nurtured to be God’s man,just like Samuel,he was meant to deliver the people of Israel out of the oppression from the Philistines.However,by misusing his privilege and yielding himself to unbridled self-will and indulgence of women,this muscularly strong yet morally weak man fails his mission times and again and falls as a miserable slave and prisoner of his enemy.Through his prayer to God,he finally finds redemption and rises up in his death as a hero again,and his death ends up being his greatest victory against his foes.展开更多
The colonist culture of the imperialism nourished Jim＇s heroic dreams in which the protagonist sees himself as an apotheosis of morality and heroic deeds, but it also isolated him from the reality of the world. As a ...The colonist culture of the imperialism nourished Jim＇s heroic dreams in which the protagonist sees himself as an apotheosis of morality and heroic deeds, but it also isolated him from the reality of the world. As a result, he often finds himself caught in moral dilemmas and ends up making tragic choices. His tragedy indicated that the alluring and illusive myth of the imperialism was bound to fall apart.展开更多
Without any question,Anna Karenina is a huge classic tragedy which is created by Tolstoy.This paper talls about the reasons which lead to the inevitability of Anna's death,including Anna's personal characters,...Without any question,Anna Karenina is a huge classic tragedy which is created by Tolstoy.This paper talls about the reasons which lead to the inevitability of Anna's death,including Anna's personal characters,the tragic marriage she has,a disobliging lover she meets and the social exclusion.展开更多
Thomas Hardy,one of the representatives of English critical realism in the 19th century,describes a tragic story about Tess,a beautiful and kind girl.Tess' s tragic life is caused by Alec,Angel and even herself.Bu...Thomas Hardy,one of the representatives of English critical realism in the 19th century,describes a tragic story about Tess,a beautiful and kind girl.Tess' s tragic life is caused by Alec,Angel and even herself.But all these are connected with the social environment of that day.Tess' s tragedy is a tragedy of the whole society in fact.An analysis of the causes of Tess' s tragic life will provide some enlightenment in accurately understanding the socialist society.展开更多
Daisy Miller is an 1878 novella about an American girl by Henry James; This paper, based on the textual analysis of the novel is an effort to study the tragic fate of heroine and its reason through a comparative study...Daisy Miller is an 1878 novella about an American girl by Henry James; This paper, based on the textual analysis of the novel is an effort to study the tragic fate of heroine and its reason through a comparative study of it. Two common reasons of the tragic destiny will be discussed in the paper: one, the oppressive environment; the other, the hero's inaction.展开更多
Doctor Faustus is one of the most famous tragedies written by Christopher Marlowe in the 16th century.This paper aims at finding out the true factors which lead to Faustus's final damnation with the help of binary...Doctor Faustus is one of the most famous tragedies written by Christopher Marlowe in the 16th century.This paper aims at finding out the true factors which lead to Faustus's final damnation with the help of binary opposition-an important theory in structuralism.展开更多
Macbeth is,both by expectation and by means of the exposition,set up as a classical tragedy.The very title of the play,The Trag edy of Macbeth,encourages the assumption on the part of the audience that Macbeth is inde...Macbeth is,both by expectation and by means of the exposition,set up as a classical tragedy.The very title of the play,The Trag edy of Macbeth,encourages the assumption on the part of the audience that Macbeth is indeed a tragedy.This article mainly from the cross-cultural angle to the plot of the tragedy of tragedy Macbeth analysis for further analysis and appreciate Shakespeare' s drama open up alternative thinking mode.展开更多
Thomas Hardy(1840-1928)is a famous British Novelists.His excellent works have a far-reaching significance to the later gen erations.Treating his The Mayor of Casterbridge as a text,this paper is aimed to detect Hardy&...Thomas Hardy(1840-1928)is a famous British Novelists.His excellent works have a far-reaching significance to the later gen erations.Treating his The Mayor of Casterbridge as a text,this paper is aimed to detect Hardy's implied meanings of the symbols in a through textual analysis.This thesis is divided into three parts.The first part is the the symbol of the bridges.The second part deals with the symbol of the mel ody.Part three explores other symbols in The Mayor of Casterbridge.The symbols are all deliberately chosen in this book by the author to transmit his tragic view.Through the symbols of the bridges,the melody,the church,the tractor,the railway…,the author's tragic view is well presented.By the research of each of those three parts,the conclusion of Hardy's functions of the symbols can be drawn.展开更多
Arthur Miller was considered as the most famous dramatist in America after the World War II, and his representative work Death of a Salesman was recognized as the best play in America during the post-war years. It was...Arthur Miller was considered as the most famous dramatist in America after the World War II, and his representative work Death of a Salesman was recognized as the best play in America during the post-war years. It was also considered to be one of the best three plays in the history of American drama; with A Streetcar Named Desire and Long Day's Journey into Night.Through the failure of two generations, this play addressed the painful conflicts within one family, and it also tackled greater issues regarding to Americans' national values.As an average person, Willy Loman had experienced hopes and pains, struggles and frustrations as well as dreams and disillusions, at last he chose to commit suicide. Based on the existent materials, the predecessor's researches as well as her own thinking, the author of this paper gives a brief analysis of the leading role's tragic fate, which mainly elaborates three important stages of Willy Loman's tragic life: disillusion of the American Dream, the abandonment and the betrayal, aiming to decode the root of Loman's tragedy from the perspectives of society, family and the protagonist's character. In conclusion, the paper tries to explore Arthur Miller's inner world and the resources of his creation as far as possible, hoping to give readers of this paper certain inspiration.展开更多
Hamlet is the most discussed of Shakespeare's tragedies, while The Great Gatsby is the masterpiece of Fitzgerald. It is true that the tragic flaws of the protagonists would be a key factor driving the development ...Hamlet is the most discussed of Shakespeare's tragedies, while The Great Gatsby is the masterpiece of Fitzgerald. It is true that the tragic flaws of the protagonists would be a key factor driving the development of the plots. In these two dramas, the flaws of the protagonists leaded to their tragic endings which are related to their own characteristics of the protagonists. And the ends of the stories are with the tragedies.展开更多
文摘This paper applies the theory of“Sphinx Factor”to examine the characters such as Sutpen,Emily and Jason in Faulkner’s fiction who are filled with brutal elements.It is found that although these characters are generally considered evil,cruel and violent,they also possess tragic beauty.
文摘Fitzgerald was one of the great stylists in American literature. This essay discussed how he formed a trope Philosophy of life born his life experience and how can he reflect this kind of philosophy of life in his masterpiece,《The Great Gatsby》.
文摘Short story is an an exquisite works of art in American traditional literature and Langston Hughes was one of the brightest stars in the night sky.Early autumn is the showcase of masterpiece of Langston Hughes.The work is the representative of real distill.It is a sad short story.After first contacted with it,the reflection of tragic elements on it made the author think deeply.Life is full of ups and downs.The lost love can not come back..A strong sense of frustration sometimes forms a kind of beauty and it is one part of our real life.The reason of frustration sometimes comes from unimportant reasons and things which hinder a happy ending,so the interpersonal communication can give the power and overcome it.
文摘Doris Lessing is a famous British female writer.Her short fiction to room 19 depicts the heroine Susan Rawing's tragic fate.The article makes an analysis on the feminine psychological need in the marriage from four aspects:Spiritual Freedom,Financially independent,interpersonal communication,mutual faith.
文摘Tragic thought has been interwoven throughout D.H.Lawrence's works,and his tragic sense is the direct result of the social realities,cultural context and his personal experiences.
文摘Ophelia was a lovely girl in Hamlet,but she had the most tragic destiny among all heroines of Shakespeare’s plays.Thearticle analyses the reasons of her tragic destiny from four aspects—that time,her family,her lover and herself.After analyzing,itfinds out that Ophelia was the victim of palace struggle.The readers are heartily sympathetic with this innocent and beautiful girl.
文摘A Rose for Emily is one of the masterpieces of William Falkner.This paper intends to analyze the symbolic meaning of the rose,and the relationship between the rose and Emily, trying to provide people a thorough understanding of the theme and the heroine's personality.
文摘The Great Gatsby,the masterpiece of the American author Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald,is published in 1925,just after the World WarⅠ.It mainly narrates the tragic love story between Daisy and Gatsby,reflecting many social problems.This essay emphasizes on the tragic love,and introduces their tragedies respectively,especially the tragedy of Daisy,reconstructing the image of the leading lady as a victim too.Furthermore,we turn to analyze the causes of the tragic love according to the author's own experience and the background of that era.
文摘The story of Samson is one of the most tragic in all the Bible.Born gifted and nurtured to be God’s man,just like Samuel,he was meant to deliver the people of Israel out of the oppression from the Philistines.However,by misusing his privilege and yielding himself to unbridled self-will and indulgence of women,this muscularly strong yet morally weak man fails his mission times and again and falls as a miserable slave and prisoner of his enemy.Through his prayer to God,he finally finds redemption and rises up in his death as a hero again,and his death ends up being his greatest victory against his foes.
文摘The colonist culture of the imperialism nourished Jim＇s heroic dreams in which the protagonist sees himself as an apotheosis of morality and heroic deeds, but it also isolated him from the reality of the world. As a result, he often finds himself caught in moral dilemmas and ends up making tragic choices. His tragedy indicated that the alluring and illusive myth of the imperialism was bound to fall apart.
文摘Without any question,Anna Karenina is a huge classic tragedy which is created by Tolstoy.This paper talls about the reasons which lead to the inevitability of Anna's death,including Anna's personal characters,the tragic marriage she has,a disobliging lover she meets and the social exclusion.
文摘Thomas Hardy,one of the representatives of English critical realism in the 19th century,describes a tragic story about Tess,a beautiful and kind girl.Tess' s tragic life is caused by Alec,Angel and even herself.But all these are connected with the social environment of that day.Tess' s tragedy is a tragedy of the whole society in fact.An analysis of the causes of Tess' s tragic life will provide some enlightenment in accurately understanding the socialist society.
文摘Daisy Miller is an 1878 novella about an American girl by Henry James; This paper, based on the textual analysis of the novel is an effort to study the tragic fate of heroine and its reason through a comparative study of it. Two common reasons of the tragic destiny will be discussed in the paper: one, the oppressive environment; the other, the hero's inaction.
文摘Doctor Faustus is one of the most famous tragedies written by Christopher Marlowe in the 16th century.This paper aims at finding out the true factors which lead to Faustus's final damnation with the help of binary opposition-an important theory in structuralism.
文摘Macbeth is,both by expectation and by means of the exposition,set up as a classical tragedy.The very title of the play,The Trag edy of Macbeth,encourages the assumption on the part of the audience that Macbeth is indeed a tragedy.This article mainly from the cross-cultural angle to the plot of the tragedy of tragedy Macbeth analysis for further analysis and appreciate Shakespeare' s drama open up alternative thinking mode.
文摘Thomas Hardy(1840-1928)is a famous British Novelists.His excellent works have a far-reaching significance to the later gen erations.Treating his The Mayor of Casterbridge as a text,this paper is aimed to detect Hardy's implied meanings of the symbols in a through textual analysis.This thesis is divided into three parts.The first part is the the symbol of the bridges.The second part deals with the symbol of the mel ody.Part three explores other symbols in The Mayor of Casterbridge.The symbols are all deliberately chosen in this book by the author to transmit his tragic view.Through the symbols of the bridges,the melody,the church,the tractor,the railway…,the author's tragic view is well presented.By the research of each of those three parts,the conclusion of Hardy's functions of the symbols can be drawn.
文摘Arthur Miller was considered as the most famous dramatist in America after the World War II, and his representative work Death of a Salesman was recognized as the best play in America during the post-war years. It was also considered to be one of the best three plays in the history of American drama; with A Streetcar Named Desire and Long Day's Journey into Night.Through the failure of two generations, this play addressed the painful conflicts within one family, and it also tackled greater issues regarding to Americans' national values.As an average person, Willy Loman had experienced hopes and pains, struggles and frustrations as well as dreams and disillusions, at last he chose to commit suicide. Based on the existent materials, the predecessor's researches as well as her own thinking, the author of this paper gives a brief analysis of the leading role's tragic fate, which mainly elaborates three important stages of Willy Loman's tragic life: disillusion of the American Dream, the abandonment and the betrayal, aiming to decode the root of Loman's tragedy from the perspectives of society, family and the protagonist's character. In conclusion, the paper tries to explore Arthur Miller's inner world and the resources of his creation as far as possible, hoping to give readers of this paper certain inspiration.
文摘Hamlet is the most discussed of Shakespeare's tragedies, while The Great Gatsby is the masterpiece of Fitzgerald. It is true that the tragic flaws of the protagonists would be a key factor driving the development of the plots. In these two dramas, the flaws of the protagonists leaded to their tragic endings which are related to their own characteristics of the protagonists. And the ends of the stories are with the tragedies.
