A Feminist Reading of Sister Carrie：Carrie——the Aspiring Cinderella

Like Cinderella in the fairy tale Cinderella, Carrie is beautiful, innocent and poor. But unlike the traditional Cinderella who mindlessly waits around for a handsome prince to come to her rescue, Carrie, the aspiring Cinderella, resolvedly leaves the men she ever depended on and eventually becomes a successful actress. Sister Carrie, the most impressive heroine of Theodore Dreiser, is a contradictory character. Some accuse her of realizing her ambition with immoral means. However, some others take sympathy with her courage, determination, and aspiration.
By analyzing the most distinguished quality of Sister Carrie -her aspiration, this essay is to illustrate from the perspective of feminism that women are not limited by their sex. Ignoring her own sex as well as the conventional attitude toward women in a maledominated society, sister Carrie, full of aspiration, takes an active part in creating and determining her own lives and her own futures.     

Helen Huntingdon——A Good Model for Women of All Times

Anne Bront? was the youngest of the Bront? sisters.Together the three sisters left a brilliant page in the history of English literature.Her work The Tenant of Wildfell Hall was a great success the moment it was published and was highly praised by many outstanding British critics.He heroine in the book，Helen Huntingdon,was a young lady with noble-minded and gentle nature.With her spirit of self-esteem and self-reliance as well as her wonderful deed of slamming her bedroom door against her husband，Helen fought bravely with the inequality between men and women in the old British society in the mid 19th century.The purpose of this article is to pay good tribute to Helen's great personality，and moreover，to acknowledge and reorganize the almost forgotten literary genius Anne Bront?.     

Eustacia——Victim of Fate——On Thomas Hardy''''s The Return of the Native

Owing to the influences of Greek's view of fate, Dorset peasant's fatalism and Schopenhauer' s pessimistic philosophy, Hardy showed more or less a pessimistic tendency in his early writings and this tendency illustrated itself in his writing of Eustacia, heroine of The Return of the Native. He believed that Eustacia' s tragedy resulted from the disagreement between her aspiration for a brilliant life outside Egdon Heath and the fate imposed on her by some mysterious force working at odds with her. This is what the paper attempts to prove.     

A Streetcar Named Desire——A Tragedy of Women

A Streetcar Named Desire is a tragedy.Blanche,a beautiful woman,finally goes insane.She has an indecent past.She tells lies and is indulgent in her behavior toward men.All these seem to suggest that she deserves such a consequence.However,the fact is that Blanche once was a pure girl who dreamed of true love and happy family.It is the cruel reality that results in her tragedy.Compared with her,Stella's tragedy is a tragedy of toleration.Unlike Blanche,Stella prefers to tolerate when confronting with the reality.The tragedy of Blanche and Stella is typical of the time in which women cannot enjoy the same rights as men.     

An Analysis of Dee’s Dilemma of Self Identity

By introducing the complexity of the multi-culture context,this paper analyzes the development of the character Dee in Everyday Use for Your Grandmamma and views her as an image who confronts the dilemma of self identity in such a context.It also includes the analysis of her endeavor to reconfigure her identity and re-evaluation of herself and the limits of her change as well.     

Clues to "the Monstrous Joy" of Mrs.MallardIn " The Story of an Hour "

The author of the present article aims to seek plausible explanations as to Mrs. Mallard＇s controversial response to her husband＇s assumed death by sorting out a couple of clues like address forms the heart trouble of Mrs. Mallard, and her repression as well as her strength. The following textual analysis leads to the conclusion that Mrs. Mallard felt the joy of freedom from her husband＇s manipulation and dominance over herself as well as the domestic affairs, over her body as well as her soul at the assumed death of her husband.     

试析中国书法艺术元素在设计中的应用及其走向

Jane Eyre is a distinctive figure in literature history. Her appearance changes the stale impression of woman in literature in people＇s mind,also her self-esteem and her independence arose praise,discussion,love and thinking in readers. No doubt,Jane Eyre is a bright star shining on the way of women＇s liberation and growth.Jane Eyre is a vivid and well-developed figure. She has substantial internal world. There is not only self-esteem and independence but also sense of inferiority as well as longing for beauty and classy life in her. She develops her character in series of conflicts between her internal world and the reality. Jane Eyre steps through these conflicts to find the balanced state in her life bravely. The equality is always what she longs for whenever she is an orphan or the governess. She regards this as the essence of life. In her emaciated body there is a sensible and stanch heart full of fierce emotion. Jane Eyre is a self-governed woman who is very faithful to her own sense and feeling. Every change in her life; every decision she makes at the pivotal moment show her strong will. She leads her own fate and achieves the dreamed life and love finally. Jane Eyre is plain looking while her self-respect,her independence,her pursuing for love and equality and her wisdom make her unforgettable.     

A Feminist Reading of Margaret Atwood's Surfacing

Margaret Atwood (1939- ) is one of the most distinguished female writers in contemporary Canada. Surfacing is her second novel, published in 1972. Through the novel, Atwood expresses her deep concern about the women. Literally, it is about a journey back to hometown and nature; but at the same time it also symbolizes a psychological journey for the heroine to find her true self. By analyzing the protagonist's personal experience with camera, language and abortion which serve as symbols of masculine power, this paper reveals women's dominated and victimized position in a male-oriented society, the gradual formation of the protagonist's feminist awareness and the process of her self-rediscovery.     

Language Is Character;Character,Language——Comments on the connections between Elizabeth's language and character in Pride and Prejudice

Jane Austen( 1775-1817), who was the daughter of a country clergyman and never married, lived most of her life in a community much like the one we find in Pride and Prejudice. All of her six novels deal with "the business of getting married"are comedies involving either solitary heroines or young women educated by events to east aside their illusions. Pride and Prejudice was first written in 1796 as First Impressions. It was rewritten(and retitled in     

Jane Eyre,a Plain but Spectacular semi-autobiographic Portrait of Charlotte Bronte

Maybe life itself is a endured suffering. This is a story about a special and unreserved woman who has been exposed to a hostile environment but continuously and fearlessly struggling for her ideal life. It is interpreted as a symbol of the independent spirit.Through Jane Eyre,Charlotte Bronte realized her own dream and life pursuit.There she was the master of her own fate.     

Rationality and Emotionality——On the plot of Pride and Prejudice

Jane Austen was a writer in the age of rationality, which surely leaves its imprint upon her works Pride and Prejudice. The ＂pride＂ and ＂prejudice＂ of the heroes and heroines in the novel manifest the fact that they are rationaUy-controUed. Such rationality, however, high- lights the unusual power of emotionality when the characters finally get married after experiencing complicated love This kind of first-back- grounding-emotionality-and-then-foregrounding it plot development in the works displays Austen＇s profound knowledge of life and her progressive thought surpassing her times. It also represents the characteristics of ＂the exterior rationalism and the interior romanticism＂ in her works.     

On Tess of D'urbervilles——The Analysis of The Tragedy of Tess

Hardy's masterpiece Tess of The D'urbevilles depicts the heroine's miserable life,revealing out the objective cause of society reality and subjective cause of heroine's own character.Society objective reality cause is a hypocritical capitalism morality standard,heroine's own weck character is but:Dare to resist tradition morality being not able to shake off that,and whose double character were yoke her completely.     

Introduction about Eileen Chang’s translation of the Old Men and the Sea

People in our country know Eileen Chang mainly as an outstanding writer and literator.In fact she is appreciated more than being a writer internationally.Yet Chang’s outstanding talent as a trans1ator is known very 1ittle in mainland China.This thesis selects Eileen Chang’s translation phenomenon as the object of study. Mainly because at first, the translator is of course the decisive factor that makes the target text equivalent to the source text,and case study of outstanding translators obviously is a very important part of both translation theories and practice. Among the factors influencing translation, the subjectivity of the translator is the key one. For a translator who is also a writer,his/ her writing view influences his/ her translating ractice. Eileen Chang’s writing view is inflected in her translation of The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway. In my thesis, I would analysis her skill when translating the Old Man and the Sea. I found that she reflected her own attitude to the life when translating the novel.     

The Oedipus Complex in D.H Lawrence''''s Sons and Lovers

Sons and Lovers,written by one of the most uncompromising and volcanic authors of the 20th century,was the first modern portrayal of a phenomenon that later,thanks to Freud,became easily recognizable as the Oedipus complex.The cycles of Paul's relationship with these three women are terrifying at times.In an Oedipus like relationship Paul is unable to discover a love that equals his mother and even after her death "his soul could not leave her…he was with her still" this relationship is the main them present throughout the book and it produces a highly emotional and powerful conflict.Here,frank sexuality became a creative symbol for the life force and was frequently pitted against industrialism,which Lawrence considered dehumanizing.     

A Review of Toni Morrison’s Nobel Prize Speech

Beginning with an old story, Toni Morrison uses her unique method to tell us the functions of language and her perspectives of language and literature. From this story, we can understand her writing standpoint and her determination of making contributions to her nation and people. This paper tries to review her speech given in the Nobel Prize in Literature from four aspects. They are the introduction and comprehension of the story, narrative point of view, discourse and power and feminist criticism.     

The Female Bonding in The Color Purple

This paper aims at a survey of the female bonding in The Color Purple,which plays an important role in the heroine's finding her voice and sense of self.By examining the black women's struggle to explore their identity and claim their selves under sexual and racial oppressions,Alice Walker,the author,shows her understanding of the process that black women must undergo to achieve their vision.     

Functions of the Nurse in Romeo and Juliet

In this play, the author focuses on the significant functions of the nurse in William Shakespeare’s"Romeo and Juliet". By making careful analysis of the characteristics of role, exploring deeply into the relationships between the Nurse and Juliet,the author has summarized the important functions of the Nurse as the following:the Nurse is essential to the development of the plot;she tells us the hint of the events either belongs to the past or will happen in the future;she also serves as a foil to Juliet and her determination to her lover;she is a comic character thus has played the function of enlivening the atmosphere.     

From Loss to Awakening

Katherine Mansfield's short story A Dill Pickle(1917)shows a full picture of the female image to the readers:Vera's loss in love and her awakening from the sorrow and despair.Vera changes during the talk with her former boyfriend and achieves in awakening as a female at last.     

An arthropod sphinx

The Sphinx is an enigmatic monster in Greek my-thology that had the body of a lion, wings of a bird, and head and bust of a woman. As the myth goes, the Sphinx guarded the gate to Thebes and would kill anyone unableto answer her riddle. The Sphinx riddle was eventuallycorrectly solved by Oedipus who later became the king of Thebes.     

A DEEP ANALYSIS OF THE CHARACTER IN TESS OF D＇URBERVILLES BY HARDY

A good novel depends on the success in portraying the characters in it. In Tess of the D＇Urbervilles, Tess is a beautiful country glrl. In this novel, she is a new woman. She is not submissive to man and full of rebel spirit. Because she is educated, she has a strong self-respect. The more important is that after being seduced, she not only maintains her virtue but also becomes stronger. Her true and pure love for Clare drives her to break the convention and tolerate others＇ satire.