摘要
英国女作家简•奥斯丁是英国十八世纪杰出的女性作家，她的著作主要关注乡绅家庭女性的婚姻和生活，以女性特有的细致入微的观察力和活泼风趣的文字真实地描绘了她周围世界的小天地。
《诺桑觉寺》作为简•奥斯丁唯一一部带有哥特色彩的小说，讲述了单纯并富有幻想的女主角凯瑟琳•莫兰是如何从哥特小说深深的作用中觉醒，并寻得了好的归宿这样一个故事。
在凯瑟琳十七年的成长岁月中，哥特小说扮演了重要角色。本文认为，英语毕业论文，哥特小说在给凯瑟琳提供消遣的同时，还不幸地给她树立了错误的价值观，让她误以为哥特小说中的元素会在真实生活中出现。因此，凯瑟琳在选择朋友时会基于对哥特小说的共同爱好；哥特式的幻想也使得她分不清现实与小说情节，尤其表现在她到访诺桑觉寺时。凯瑟琳的经历说明，过度沉溺于哥特小说会给人带来消极作用，让人生活在哥特式的神秘恐怖氛围之中，使之不能理智清醒地认识世界。因此，在某种程度上，《诺桑觉寺》体现了对哥特小说的批判，因为这类文学易使读者沉溺于哥特幻想之中；同时，它也强调了对生活应持有的理智态度，这与奥斯丁一贯的现实主义写作风格一致。
关键词：《诺桑觉寺》 ，哥特小说，英语论文，价值观
Abstract
Jane Austen was a brilliant British female writer during the eighteenth century, whose works always focused on the course of courtship and marriage of the females in the gentry’s families, with women’s gifted sense of meticulous observation and humorous writing style.
Northanger Abbey was the only one of Austen’s works that contained Gothic element, and it told a story how the heroine, Catherine, awakened from the deep influence of the Gothic novel she read and saw the real world around her as it was, and finally won a wonderful husband.
During the seventeen years of Catherine’s life, the Gothic novel played a very important role in her growth. The thesis holds the opinion that besides serving as entertainment of Catherine’s daily life, the Gothic novel shaped her values in a wrong way, which misled her to believe that the scary, passionate, or romantic redemption would happen in real life. Thus, she chose her friends based on the love for the Gothic novel, and the Gothic fantasies offered her Gothic illusions against the reality, especially when she visited Northanger Abbey, leading to the betrayal by her unrealiable friend and her own misconduct during her visit. Catherine’s experiences demonstrate that addiction to the Gothic novel will give one bad influence, make one live in the Gothic fantasies with mystery and horror, and prevent one from recognizing the real world rationally. Thus in a way, Northanger Abbey is a criticism of the Gothic novel, of people’s unquestioning acceptance of fantasy, as well as a support of the rational attitude towards life and reality, a theme frequently elaborated in Austen’s writings.
Key words: Northanger Abbey, the Gothic Novel, Values |
