The Great Gatsby and the Collapse of American Dream

Gatsby’s dream is a typical American Dream.His failure signified the decay of the American post-war spirit.His death belled the alarm for the other disillusioned people from fantasy dreams and set them to reconsider the social reality.This thesis would discuss the collapse of the Gatsby’s dream and that of American dream based on the book plot and the background of 1920s.     

Symbolism in "The Egg"

Sherwood Anderson is one of the most prominent writers in American literary history.This paper deals with the abundant symbolic meanings in his famous short story "The Egg".Symbolism makes a literary work profound.The various depressing fates awaiting the eggs simultaneously come true on the father and the son,exposing the unreality of the American dream for the poor to be rich.     

Doom of American Dream——The Social Meaning of The Great Gatsby

The paper holds that the presentation of Gatsby as unique to America signifies that Gatsby's personal dilemma and failure are the dilemma and failure of American nation, thus satirizing the illusory nature of the American Dream and the impossibility to attain it.     

The Symbolic Meaning of Characters in the Great Gatsby

As the spokesman of the Jazz Age,F.Scott Fitzgerald ,based on his own experience,writes his masterpiece-The Great Gatsby.Through abundant symbols,Fitzgerald profoundly depicts the social prospect of Jazz Age and successfully displays the process of the disillusionment of American Dream which exists in majority people in 1920s.This paper,based on some basic symbolic theories,discusses how the author brings the deep philosophy to the surface to show his attitude,to reveal the theme by these symbols.And by analyzing the symbolic meanings of some characters,it further probes some causes for the failure of American Dream and how the author pays attention to common human nature.     

Distortion of Personality --On Willy Loman＇s Death

Death of a Salesman, American playwright Arthur Miller＇s masterpiece, describes the tragic fate of Willy Loman, a middle-class salesman. Some critics claim that the play is an attack upon the ＂American dream＂ and that willy is the victim of brutal economic system. However, on further studying the play, the writer draws the conclusion that Willy is not so much a victim of ＂American dream＂ as he is the victim of his own weakness in personality.     

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.     

On Anti-interpretation in Endgame——Man Is Unable to Change the Miserable Life ——Analysis of the Arrangement of Four Characters in The Glass Menagerie

Tennessee Williams is considered as one of the most important American playwrights since World War II. The Glass Menagerie is his first successful drama, which describes a tragic situation of family and means to say that Man is unable to change the miserable life, no matter whatever means he try. This essay focuses on the analysis of the arrangement of the four main characters： Laura, Amanda, Jim and Tom to reveal the theme. Laura is fragile. Amanda is brave. Jim is vital. Tom is sensible. And all of them develop and try the different means to struggle against life, but fail tragically. With the evidence, the paper comes to conclusion naturally that Man is unable to change the miserable life, and he dooms to fail.     

Ahab——The main Character in Moby-dick

Herman Melville is not only a great Romanticist in the American literary history but also an influential figure in the world.Moby——dick,which was published in 1851,is his representative work..This thesis focus on the analysis of the character of the hero——the captain Ahab from three aspects:his pride,his madness,his humanity.     

An Analysis to Linda——A Woman Struggling in Life

Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman gives prominent presentation to the male characters but keeps the female characters almost unnoticed.This paper will focus on Linda Lowman,the only woman on stage much of the time,analyze Linda as a woman struggling in life,so as to disclose the injustice of the society and the emptiness of the American Dream in the post-war American society.     

Differentiation- Nationalism Interaction Engining the Development of American English

This paper tries to analyze the fundamental causes of the development of American English in the respective of socio-psychology. And the conclusion has been drawn that the differentiation of the language itself and the nationalism interacted to engine the development of American English.     

Externalization of characters' Psyche in The Glass Menagerie

Tennessee Williams is one of the greatest American playwrights. He is known for his powerfully written psychological dramas. This paper aims to conduct a study of the techniques Williams uses to externalize the characters' psyche in The Glass Menagerie; thus to obtain a better understanding of his play. To achieve this goal, the characters' language, the characters' actions, and some subsidiary theatrical devices have been studied.     

The Symbolic Meaning in Cat in the Rain

This article concentrates on the symbolic meaning of Ernest Hemingway＇s short story Cat in the Rain .Meanwhile, the paper focuses on his way of writing. Actually, the readers may find more information after observing the symbolization in his short stories.     

论爱默生其人其诗

Ralph Waldo Emerson, born in 19th century's America, is most famous for his transcendental ideas and writings. He was deeply influenced by European Romanticism in his thirties and formed an informal Transcendental Club with people of like minds. His thought is often considered the core of Transcendentalism. "Nature" is the fundamental document of his philosophy and an embodiment of his transcendental attitude towards the phenomenal world. He also wrote some other brilliant essays such as "The American Scholar", "Self-Reliance", "The Over-Soul" and "The Poet", etc, all of which established his indisputable position in the history of culture, especially in the American Culture where he is regarded as the one who, in literally terms at least, really put America on map. But considering Emerson's writings without significant emphasis on his verse would be a great loss. Emerson wrote poetry from the time he was a boy to nearly the end of his life. These poems are essential for understanding him and his transcendental theories and are receiving more extensive representation in anthologies while significant critical analyses are emerging though some modern readers and scholars tend to view his poetry as secondary to the "essential" Emerson. In view of the above, this paper supposes to introduce Emerson's views on poets and poems and then analyze some of his famous poems in the order of 'Emerson as a Poet', 'Emerson's Views on Poets and Poems' and 'Emerson's Poems' with the third one as the focus of this paper. The purpose of this paper is to try to make the comprehension on Emerson and his abstract transcendental theories more complete and thorough by emphasizing his contribution in the poetic field.     

On the Iceberg Style of Ernest Hemingway

Comments on Hemingway’s style have seemed to agree on the simplicity and apparent naturalness of his prose, and its effect of profoundity.The principle of iceberg, which Hemingway adopts in his literary creation, was the main reason attracting readers and critics.The whole art of the principle is concision and profoundity, or saying what you mean in the fewest and clearest words.This essay mainly clarifies the connotation of the two parts of "iceberg"—the one eighth and the seven eighths; and the relations between them.It emphatically expounds how the writer uses the symbolism technique and how his language reaches a unique impact.In the last part of it, the author of the essay traces back to the key elements forming the principle and gives a pertinent conclusion on the style.     

Modern Families in America and China:in a cultural perspective

Families are of great importance in people's life.They are the first place where we start and receive our life-long education.To certain degree,individual growth and development is determined by his/her family education.Meanwhile,families are the most basic social institutions which embrace many cultural factors.This paper displays some differences and similarities between American families and Chinese families in order to arouse people's awareness of the importance of families and emphasize their influence on inter-culture communication.     

Enlightenment of New Economy on the Development of Chinese Economy

This paper summarizes the features of the new economy in America, and then analyses the differences between the new economy and Chinese economy with trade theories. At the last, this paper concentrates on study of strategies for China to develop economic internationalization.     

The Women Characters in the Novel The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby is a significant classic in American literature and Fitzgerald is also considered as a chronicler of the＂Jazz Age＂.The women characters play an important role in revealing the theme of the novel.The paper analyzes these women characters and points out their function juxtaposed against Gatsby.These women are all the victims of a society of wealth in American twenties.Compared to Fitzgerald＇s life,his attitude toward women and love is ambivalent.What happens to Gatsby is a warning to the rest of mankind.In the progress of realizing our own dream,we should be and can be soberer than those protagonists in the novel.     

Analysis of PROFIBUS-DP Network Delay and Its Influence on the Performance of Control Systems

This paper analyzes PROFIBUS-DP network delay in detail and presents the calculational formula of its maximum time-delay, which is significant to the research of PROFIBUS-DP. At the same time, the paper puts forward a method of simplifying the network induced time-varying indeterminate system according to the features of the network. Through the analysis of a pump-control-motor system which is composed of PROFIBUS-DP network, it illustrates the network＇s influence on the performance of control systems. This method helps to design and analyze the network＇s influence on the performance of control systems, which is of considerable practical value in a time when network control systern is widely used.     

Mark Twain's Inner Collision between Science and Religion——A reading of Twain's “The Diary of Adam and Eve”

In"The Diary of Adam and Eve",Mark Twain shows the life of the first human couple partly according to the Biblical story.But his writing is not exactly the same with the original record of the Bible.This paper attempts to analyze the reasons that account for Twain’s treatment of the Bible story from the aspects of science and religion.     

A Study on the Characterization of Jude the Obscure

This paper is a brief study on the characterization of Jude the Obscure, and will be focus on the chief character Jude Fawley. This novel, first published in 1895, wasThomas Hardy's last and best literary success. There are six main characters in this novel: Jude Fawley, Susanna Bridehead, Arabella Donn, Richard Phillotson, Aunt Drusilla, Little Father Time (Little Jude). This analysis of the distinct depictions of the typical characters will be helpful to the understanding of the gap between the ideal life a man wishes to lead and the squalid existence he is fated to live in such social environment as Jude is confronted with.