Analysis of Voltaire＇s Candide—— from the Perspective of Gender Roles

This essay analyzes the famous French writer＇s novel Candide from the perspective of gender roles. It introduces some literary terms related to gender, and explains my understanding of the gender roles some characters have played from the aspects of wars and masculinity, Candide and masculinity, female characters and femininity, and Candide related to feminism.     

ane Eyre——The mirror of Charlotte Bronte＇ s own experiences

Jane Eyre is set during the Victorian period, at a time where a women＇ s role in society was restrictive and repressive and class differences distinct. A Charlotte Bronte as a governess was one of the only few respectable positions available to the educated but impoverished single women. Not only is Jane Eyre a novel about one woman＇s through lie, but also Bronte conveys to the reader the social injustices of the period, such as poverty, lack of universal education and sexual inequality. Jane＇s plight and her ＂dependant＂ status is particularly emphasized at the beginning of the novel.     

An Analysis of Catherine＇s Character——Wuthering Heights

Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte＇s only novel, was published in December of 1847 under the pseudonym Ellis Bell. The book did not gain immediate success, but it is now thought one of the finest novels in the English language. Catherine is the key character of this masterpiece, because everybody and everything center on her though she had a short life. We can understand this masterpiece better if we know Catherine well.     

The Pragmatic Application of English Euphemism on English Teacher＇s Language

Euphemism,as a linguistic form generated to seek ideal and effective communication, is widely and vividly used in people＇s daily life, and has become an indispensable part in English language. So it has intrigued linguists and scholars for long time. The researches about this subject cover many different fields, including linguistics, pragmatics, and psychology and so on. However, the researches on its pragmatic application in teachers＇ language are few. Based on the previous scholars＇ achievements, its application on teacher＇s language from the perspective of pragmatic function would be explored in this paper. Nowadays, student-centered teaching is advocated to improve teaching. Applying euphemisms on teaching is a typical embodiment. Teacher＇s applying euphemisms can shake offthe fright of students in pubhc, protect their self-esteem and stimulate their interest in study. When it is applied to teaching languages appropriately, relaxing and lively atmosphere built in class, students＇ confidence elevated, their initiative enhanced, good teaching results can be attained.     

Hemingway＇ s Political Views in His Second Period of Creation

Based on the influence of different relationship between general ideology and authorial ideology on Hemingway＇s works in the second period of his creation, the thesis aims to study the different reflection of his political interest from the perspective of ideology.     

Poetic Features of William Golding＇s Novels

Though he is unmistakably a serious writer dealing with the most serious moral issues, William Golding has no dread of rhetoric. He is drown to rather than deterred by poetry and his fiction always has a dense and often poetic verbal texture, in which metaphor and image work as they do in poetry, and enrich and modify the bare significance of the moral form. As a poetic novelist, in addition to,reviving a moribund novel with a new and exciting subject, he has also reinvigorated the language with a new and more eloquent mode of discourse.     

Insensibility of Humanity is the Root of Emily＇s Tragedy--A Brief Analysis on a Rose for Emily

In William Faulkner＇s A Rose for Emily,we can read his attitude to Southern traditional civilization and patriarchal social system.William Faulkner revealed that the root of women＇s tragic fate was the brutality and cruelty of Southern tradition,and opened out corrupting and perverting of Southern aristocrat according drawing many vivid characters.This thesis analyzes these insensible figures to fulminate against the inhuman society tradition in South America at that time.