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
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
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
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
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
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
A Streetcar Named Desire, which has been widely accepted as the world-renowned work of Tennessee Williams, is a play with both of complexity and charm. After its publication, this play has attracted a lot of scholars ...A Streetcar Named Desire, which has been widely accepted as the world-renowned work of Tennessee Williams, is a play with both of complexity and charm. After its publication, this play has attracted a lot of scholars and critics to interpret and study on it from the different aspects of views. The present paper attempts to certificate that the main character Blanche, in this play, who is live in a social background with the highlights of the conflict between the American southern plantation culture and the northern industrial civilization, suffers from the consistent change of her living space, her original world continually encounters destruction and invasion. Therefore, she has to step into another world; and she has to survive among different world. In addition, through digging into and interpreting the character Blanche, it investigates that people are of suffering and pain when they were in the process of adjusting and adapting themselves from their original world to their present- living world, and all Blanche's roads lead to a tragic.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
Wuthering Heights is a highly imaginative novel of love and revenge and a shining pearl in the treasure of English literature.This thesis aims to make a full exploration of the inner and external reasons resulting in ...Wuthering Heights is a highly imaginative novel of love and revenge and a shining pearl in the treasure of English literature.This thesis aims to make a full exploration of the inner and external reasons resulting in the tragic love between Catherine and Heathcliff in the novel with the application of Freud’s theory of personality structure and from metaphorically geographical,social and economic perspectives as well.Readers are expected to fully realize the destructive force of a desperate soul,better appreciate the tragic beauty of a doomed love and,above all,capture the humane light beneath a tragic drama.展开更多
Charles Dickens,as one of the greatest critical realistic writers in the 19th century,is renowned all around the world.Miss Havisham in Great Expectations is certainly one of the most strange and memorable characters....Charles Dickens,as one of the greatest critical realistic writers in the 19th century,is renowned all around the world.Miss Havisham in Great Expectations is certainly one of the most strange and memorable characters.This paper tries to analyze different aspects of Miss Havisham’s character to explore her tragic life.展开更多
The Glass Menagerie is Tennessee Williams's first successful play. He uses several symbols in this play and enforces the tragic effect of the characters. Most people think that the unicorn represents Laura herself...The Glass Menagerie is Tennessee Williams's first successful play. He uses several symbols in this play and enforces the tragic effect of the characters. Most people think that the unicorn represents Laura herself, especially her peculiarity, but to my understanding, it's more like Jim O'Connor, rare and special yet tragic. My essay provides a new interpretation to the symbolic meaning of the unicorn, highlighting the tragic and fragile feature of it.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A Streetcar Named Desire, which has been widely accepted as the world-renowned work of Tennessee Williams, is a play with both of complexity and charm. After its publication, this play has attracted a lot of scholars and critics to interpret and study on it from the different aspects of views. The present paper attempts to certificate that the main character Blanche, in this play, who is live in a social background with the highlights of the conflict between the American southern plantation culture and the northern industrial civilization, suffers from the consistent change of her living space, her original world continually encounters destruction and invasion. Therefore, she has to step into another world; and she has to survive among different world. In addition, through digging into and interpreting the character Blanche, it investigates that people are of suffering and pain when they were in the process of adjusting and adapting themselves from their original world to their present- living world, and all Blanche's roads lead to a tragic.
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Wuthering Heights is a highly imaginative novel of love and revenge and a shining pearl in the treasure of English literature.This thesis aims to make a full exploration of the inner and external reasons resulting in the tragic love between Catherine and Heathcliff in the novel with the application of Freud’s theory of personality structure and from metaphorically geographical,social and economic perspectives as well.Readers are expected to fully realize the destructive force of a desperate soul,better appreciate the tragic beauty of a doomed love and,above all,capture the humane light beneath a tragic drama.
文摘Charles Dickens,as one of the greatest critical realistic writers in the 19th century,is renowned all around the world.Miss Havisham in Great Expectations is certainly one of the most strange and memorable characters.This paper tries to analyze different aspects of Miss Havisham’s character to explore her tragic life.
文摘The Glass Menagerie is Tennessee Williams's first successful play. He uses several symbols in this play and enforces the tragic effect of the characters. Most people think that the unicorn represents Laura herself, especially her peculiarity, but to my understanding, it's more like Jim O'Connor, rare and special yet tragic. My essay provides a new interpretation to the symbolic meaning of the unicorn, highlighting the tragic and fragile feature of it.
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.
