F.Scott.Fitzgerald was a well known American writer in the 1920s.He worte some works which represented the characteristics of the 1920s America and he was considered as the spokesman for that time period,the Jazz Age....F.Scott.Fitzgerald was a well known American writer in the 1920s.He worte some works which represented the characteristics of the 1920s America and he was considered as the spokesman for that time period,the Jazz Age..His masterpiece was The Great Gatsby.The novel fully reveals the life and people of the Jazz age,showing the epicurean,indulging,and immoral ethos of the whole American society and people's fasicination about wealth and enjoyment,looking down upon and deserting the traditional faiths and values.This article discusses F.Scott.Fitzgerald and his protagists' fascination about rich girls in his two novels The Great Gatsby and "Winter Dreams" from the life and love stories of the author and his protagonists,men's love ideal under the influence of American dream and the Jzaa Age,several characteristivs of love itself.Through this article,we may see the influence of the social faith and social ethos on individual's love ideal,and the beautiful and wordly aspects about love.展开更多
The protagonist, Scarlett, in the book Gone with the Wind, impresses people throughout the world, not only because of her beautiful appearance, but also her brave and strong spirit. However, everyone has his weak poin...The protagonist, Scarlett, in the book Gone with the Wind, impresses people throughout the world, not only because of her beautiful appearance, but also her brave and strong spirit. However, everyone has his weak points, and she is not an exception. So it's sure that she needs some backup forces to support her to get through the tough days. This thesis tries to put forward Scarlett's strong backup forces, which help her pull through the tough life and finally become a real brave person who could face the rest life strongly and fearlessly all by herself.展开更多
This paper focuses on pioneer women＇s struggle through social restriction in O Pioneers？ （1989） and My Antonia （1994） authored by Willa Cather, a famous American local color female writer. The purpose of the pap...This paper focuses on pioneer women＇s struggle through social restriction in O Pioneers？ （1989） and My Antonia （1994） authored by Willa Cather, a famous American local color female writer. The purpose of the paper is to analyze the protagonists＇ struggle through social restrictions in 0 pioneers？ and My Antonia, so as to analyze the situation pioneer women faced in American mid-west at that age. Women as cultural conservators and transmitters of civilization play integral parts in this respect. It is true that the morality system is set by the patriarchal society and restricts women＇s behavior. However, we must admit that when women stop functioning as civilization transmitters and cultural conservators, the world will go wrong seriously. In the two novels, hearty, generous women always create a nurturing and gracious atmosphere in their household. Practically, these women transmit the old civilization to the newly established homestead successfully展开更多
This paper is trying to analyze the protagonist named Harry Potter in Harry Potter series, interpreting the influence to the Harry Potter's growth. Through the analysis of his family, his own family and relatives,...This paper is trying to analyze the protagonist named Harry Potter in Harry Potter series, interpreting the influence to the Harry Potter's growth. Through the analysis of his family, his own family and relatives, his school and teachers who are very caring for him, as well as his best friends who grow up with him together, readers can know each person showed up in Harry Potter's life had contributed to his growth. At the same time, this paper emphatically elaborates factors of Harry Potter's growth. It explains why Harry Potter can grow from a ordinary person to a hero who saved the world.展开更多
The significance of the trinity archetype and the number three is recurrent in religions and myths around the world Within the trinity archetype, each element is both distinct from and symbiotic with the other element...The significance of the trinity archetype and the number three is recurrent in religions and myths around the world Within the trinity archetype, each element is both distinct from and symbiotic with the other elements--that is to say, each stands apart from the others, but none can truly function alone. This can be seen throughout Greek mythology, for example, The Moirae and The Musai, and of eourse, through the Christian Trinity of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. While the archetype of the trinity appears numerous times throughout the Potter series, at its very heart, the series is centrally focused on a triad of trinities： the Trio （Harry, Ron, and Hermione）, the three Unforgivable Curses, and the three Deathly Hallows. It is the intersection of this triad of trinities--this ＂supertrinity＂--that not only drive the Potter narrative, but connect the work so readily to the psyche of readers and fans; it is how we are harmonically programmed, in terms of understanding stories.展开更多
This article compared two novels:La Dame aux Camille and Du Shiniang Sink the Box with Treasure Angryly.The writing art style,the character image of the two novels,the male protagonist and the social background are di...This article compared two novels:La Dame aux Camille and Du Shiniang Sink the Box with Treasure Angryly.The writing art style,the character image of the two novels,the male protagonist and the social background are different.We can learn more about western culture and Chinese culture by comparing the two novels.展开更多
In Home by Marilynne Robinson, the protagonist Jack is a very complicated figure and a round person. This paper mainly focuses on studying one of Jack's intrinsic growth motivations, claiming that Jack's intri...In Home by Marilynne Robinson, the protagonist Jack is a very complicated figure and a round person. This paper mainly focuses on studying one of Jack's intrinsic growth motivations, claiming that Jack's intrinsic growth motivation is the most important reason of his self-actualization. From the perspective of humanism, though the protagonist Jack suffers crowds of difficulties from harsh surroundings, eventually he realizes that his self-realization, his inner peace depends not on extrinsic powers, but more importantly on himself. To a certain extent, Jack reaches his self-actualization, and finally finds himself.展开更多
Richard Wright was one of America’s greatest black writers andone of the first African American writers to achieve liter⁃ary fame and fortune.Black Boy(1945)ishis autobiographical novel,consisting of Southern Nightan...Richard Wright was one of America’s greatest black writers andone of the first African American writers to achieve liter⁃ary fame and fortune.Black Boy(1945)ishis autobiographical novel,consisting of Southern Nightand Fear and Honor,which tells the story of the protagonist's experiences in five different environments and his great changes.This thesis explores the interaction between space and characters.It finds that,on the one hand,space provides a place for the characters to move around,which af⁃fects them physically and psychologically and shapes their personality.On the other hand,characters make resistances against space,and their behavior and living conditions further reflect the characteristics of each space.Through research,the protagonist grows under the change of spaces,and such growth also highlights the characteristics of different spaces.The interaction between the two carries all the transitions between the stories.展开更多
Chen Yan's new novel The Comedy is a continuation of his writing of the life and destiny of the artists in The Protagonist.Through shaping characters of the Chou(role of the clown)and describing the joy and sadnes...Chen Yan's new novel The Comedy is a continuation of his writing of the life and destiny of the artists in The Protagonist.Through shaping characters of the Chou(role of the clown)and describing the joy and sadness experienced by them,his new novel presents the artists’mixed feelings of sorrow and joy and reveals the crises and dilemmas encountered by traditional art against the background of modernity along with the possibility of transformation and conversion.Like The Protagonist,The Comedy follows Chen Yan's consistent realistic narrative techniques;unlike the solemn and grand aesthetic style of The Protagonist,however,the new novel develops its narrative with a comic approach more in tune with the characters'identity and inner spirit and shapes the characters and the story based on the dialectics of comedy and tragedy,thus enriching Chen Yan's original narrative style and contributing a new a aesthetic experience.展开更多
Chen Yan's novels are steeped in traditional Chinese culture.The Comedy and The Protagonist draw on and use traditional national art resources such as Chinese opera and drama to discover anew and create"tradi...Chen Yan's novels are steeped in traditional Chinese culture.The Comedy and The Protagonist draw on and use traditional national art resources such as Chinese opera and drama to discover anew and create"tradition"from a modern perspective.Traditional Chinese opera and drama shape the narrative aesthetic nature of Chen Yan's novels both explicitly and implicitly.The difference between opera and drama,lyrical and impressionistic style,and narrative and action also forms its diverse narrative aesthetic style.The origin and distinction of style and form between Chen Yan's novels and traditional Chinese comedies and modern Chinese novels are profoundly influenced by time and history,which essentially determines the spiritual structure and narrative aesthetic of Chen Yan's novels.展开更多
The Protagonist is another full-length masterpiece of realism by Chen Yan following his previous novel The Backstage Clan.His rich experience in drama creation enables Chen Yan to skillfullyemployclassical literature ...The Protagonist is another full-length masterpiece of realism by Chen Yan following his previous novel The Backstage Clan.His rich experience in drama creation enables Chen Yan to skillfullyemployclassical literature and traditional opera librettos,and be keener on entering a narrative where novel and opera communicate without any barriers,thereby forming his distinctive narrative aesthetic.In addition,Chen Yan has proficiently created in the abovementioned books typical characters such as Diao Shunzi and Yi Qin'e,creating a blueprint for how these two novels will be passed down to later generations.Unlike The Backstage Clan,which focuses on the extraordinary nature of ordinary people,The Protagonist presents the potential of the rise of ordinary people and a panorama of man and culture by portraying the legendary lives of the protagonist and the secondary protagonist.展开更多
Chen Yan has emerged as an outstanding novelist thanks to his rich experience in theatrical literature.His latest novel,The Protagonist,focuses on the heroine Yi Qin'e's forty-year on the stage,and creates a g...Chen Yan has emerged as an outstanding novelist thanks to his rich experience in theatrical literature.His latest novel,The Protagonist,focuses on the heroine Yi Qin'e's forty-year on the stage,and creates a group of characters living in obscurity under the social changes of the times,portraying a broader spectrum of life and society beyond the domain of drama and conveying his profound observations on life,the times,society,and the world.The epic artistic nature of the novel and the interplay between the fate of the characters and the social changes taking place at the time in the novel,along with Chen Yan's deep insight into the complexity of humanity are the keys to the successful presentation of the art and ideology of The Protagonist.展开更多
Though China is home to 459 million gamers and Tencent, the world's biggest game company, censorship and profitchasing shut out high-quality imports and strangle creativity in domestic games. What will it take for...Though China is home to 459 million gamers and Tencent, the world's biggest game company, censorship and profitchasing shut out high-quality imports and strangle creativity in domestic games. What will it take for China to come out and play?展开更多
文摘F.Scott.Fitzgerald was a well known American writer in the 1920s.He worte some works which represented the characteristics of the 1920s America and he was considered as the spokesman for that time period,the Jazz Age..His masterpiece was The Great Gatsby.The novel fully reveals the life and people of the Jazz age,showing the epicurean,indulging,and immoral ethos of the whole American society and people's fasicination about wealth and enjoyment,looking down upon and deserting the traditional faiths and values.This article discusses F.Scott.Fitzgerald and his protagists' fascination about rich girls in his two novels The Great Gatsby and "Winter Dreams" from the life and love stories of the author and his protagonists,men's love ideal under the influence of American dream and the Jzaa Age,several characteristivs of love itself.Through this article,we may see the influence of the social faith and social ethos on individual's love ideal,and the beautiful and wordly aspects about love.
文摘The protagonist, Scarlett, in the book Gone with the Wind, impresses people throughout the world, not only because of her beautiful appearance, but also her brave and strong spirit. However, everyone has his weak points, and she is not an exception. So it's sure that she needs some backup forces to support her to get through the tough days. This thesis tries to put forward Scarlett's strong backup forces, which help her pull through the tough life and finally become a real brave person who could face the rest life strongly and fearlessly all by herself.
文摘This paper focuses on pioneer women＇s struggle through social restriction in O Pioneers？ （1989） and My Antonia （1994） authored by Willa Cather, a famous American local color female writer. The purpose of the paper is to analyze the protagonists＇ struggle through social restrictions in 0 pioneers？ and My Antonia, so as to analyze the situation pioneer women faced in American mid-west at that age. Women as cultural conservators and transmitters of civilization play integral parts in this respect. It is true that the morality system is set by the patriarchal society and restricts women＇s behavior. However, we must admit that when women stop functioning as civilization transmitters and cultural conservators, the world will go wrong seriously. In the two novels, hearty, generous women always create a nurturing and gracious atmosphere in their household. Practically, these women transmit the old civilization to the newly established homestead successfully
文摘This paper is trying to analyze the protagonist named Harry Potter in Harry Potter series, interpreting the influence to the Harry Potter's growth. Through the analysis of his family, his own family and relatives, his school and teachers who are very caring for him, as well as his best friends who grow up with him together, readers can know each person showed up in Harry Potter's life had contributed to his growth. At the same time, this paper emphatically elaborates factors of Harry Potter's growth. It explains why Harry Potter can grow from a ordinary person to a hero who saved the world.
文摘The significance of the trinity archetype and the number three is recurrent in religions and myths around the world Within the trinity archetype, each element is both distinct from and symbiotic with the other elements--that is to say, each stands apart from the others, but none can truly function alone. This can be seen throughout Greek mythology, for example, The Moirae and The Musai, and of eourse, through the Christian Trinity of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. While the archetype of the trinity appears numerous times throughout the Potter series, at its very heart, the series is centrally focused on a triad of trinities： the Trio （Harry, Ron, and Hermione）, the three Unforgivable Curses, and the three Deathly Hallows. It is the intersection of this triad of trinities--this ＂supertrinity＂--that not only drive the Potter narrative, but connect the work so readily to the psyche of readers and fans; it is how we are harmonically programmed, in terms of understanding stories.
文摘This article compared two novels:La Dame aux Camille and Du Shiniang Sink the Box with Treasure Angryly.The writing art style,the character image of the two novels,the male protagonist and the social background are different.We can learn more about western culture and Chinese culture by comparing the two novels.
文摘In Home by Marilynne Robinson, the protagonist Jack is a very complicated figure and a round person. This paper mainly focuses on studying one of Jack's intrinsic growth motivations, claiming that Jack's intrinsic growth motivation is the most important reason of his self-actualization. From the perspective of humanism, though the protagonist Jack suffers crowds of difficulties from harsh surroundings, eventually he realizes that his self-realization, his inner peace depends not on extrinsic powers, but more importantly on himself. To a certain extent, Jack reaches his self-actualization, and finally finds himself.
文摘Richard Wright was one of America’s greatest black writers andone of the first African American writers to achieve liter⁃ary fame and fortune.Black Boy(1945)ishis autobiographical novel,consisting of Southern Nightand Fear and Honor,which tells the story of the protagonist's experiences in five different environments and his great changes.This thesis explores the interaction between space and characters.It finds that,on the one hand,space provides a place for the characters to move around,which af⁃fects them physically and psychologically and shapes their personality.On the other hand,characters make resistances against space,and their behavior and living conditions further reflect the characteristics of each space.Through research,the protagonist grows under the change of spaces,and such growth also highlights the characteristics of different spaces.The interaction between the two carries all the transitions between the stories.
文摘Chen Yan's new novel The Comedy is a continuation of his writing of the life and destiny of the artists in The Protagonist.Through shaping characters of the Chou(role of the clown)and describing the joy and sadness experienced by them,his new novel presents the artists’mixed feelings of sorrow and joy and reveals the crises and dilemmas encountered by traditional art against the background of modernity along with the possibility of transformation and conversion.Like The Protagonist,The Comedy follows Chen Yan's consistent realistic narrative techniques;unlike the solemn and grand aesthetic style of The Protagonist,however,the new novel develops its narrative with a comic approach more in tune with the characters'identity and inner spirit and shapes the characters and the story based on the dialectics of comedy and tragedy,thus enriching Chen Yan's original narrative style and contributing a new a aesthetic experience.
文摘Chen Yan's novels are steeped in traditional Chinese culture.The Comedy and The Protagonist draw on and use traditional national art resources such as Chinese opera and drama to discover anew and create"tradition"from a modern perspective.Traditional Chinese opera and drama shape the narrative aesthetic nature of Chen Yan's novels both explicitly and implicitly.The difference between opera and drama,lyrical and impressionistic style,and narrative and action also forms its diverse narrative aesthetic style.The origin and distinction of style and form between Chen Yan's novels and traditional Chinese comedies and modern Chinese novels are profoundly influenced by time and history,which essentially determines the spiritual structure and narrative aesthetic of Chen Yan's novels.
文摘The Protagonist is another full-length masterpiece of realism by Chen Yan following his previous novel The Backstage Clan.His rich experience in drama creation enables Chen Yan to skillfullyemployclassical literature and traditional opera librettos,and be keener on entering a narrative where novel and opera communicate without any barriers,thereby forming his distinctive narrative aesthetic.In addition,Chen Yan has proficiently created in the abovementioned books typical characters such as Diao Shunzi and Yi Qin'e,creating a blueprint for how these two novels will be passed down to later generations.Unlike The Backstage Clan,which focuses on the extraordinary nature of ordinary people,The Protagonist presents the potential of the rise of ordinary people and a panorama of man and culture by portraying the legendary lives of the protagonist and the secondary protagonist.
文摘Chen Yan has emerged as an outstanding novelist thanks to his rich experience in theatrical literature.His latest novel,The Protagonist,focuses on the heroine Yi Qin'e's forty-year on the stage,and creates a group of characters living in obscurity under the social changes of the times,portraying a broader spectrum of life and society beyond the domain of drama and conveying his profound observations on life,the times,society,and the world.The epic artistic nature of the novel and the interplay between the fate of the characters and the social changes taking place at the time in the novel,along with Chen Yan's deep insight into the complexity of humanity are the keys to the successful presentation of the art and ideology of The Protagonist.
文摘Though China is home to 459 million gamers and Tencent, the world's biggest game company, censorship and profitchasing shut out high-quality imports and strangle creativity in domestic games. What will it take for China to come out and play?
