摘要
作为美国女性小说家哈伯•李一生中唯一的长篇小说，《杀死一只知更鸟》于1961年获得美国文学奖最高级别——普利策奖。小说以线条分明的结构和情节，从“儿童”视角目睹了当时美国的社会问题和种族问题，同时也使人们关注到了孩子们的成长教育问题。小说曾被人从多个视角进行探讨，比如哥特视角，儿童教育视角等等。然而，很少有人从二元对立视角进行探讨。因此，本论文着手于对这篇小说进行一个全面系统的文体略论，以探索作者是怎样通过应用二元对立的表现手法，英语毕业论文，将其主题和人物刻画体现得淋漓尽致。
二元对立是指通过对任何系统里的一项异同项，进行其价值略论。这一对立的异同并非绝对的相互排斥，它们之间往往存在相互关系。本论文拟具体略论和探索小说如何运用二元对立角度体现小说的主题和人物刻画，以及所涉及到的相关因素，以此表达对作者创作观点更深层次的理解。
本文首先阐释二元对立这个核心术语，然后简要地梳理国内外对《杀死一只知更鸟》这部文学著作的评论略论，英语论文题目，尤其着于对立这个角度出发的观点，接着论文的主体部分会从主体和人物刻画全方位略论二元对立在本著作中的应用。
二元对立对《杀死一只知更鸟》主题的塑造表现在：善与恶，平等与偏见，追寻和失败。在人物的刻画上，也相应呼应以上三个主题存在着三组对立：汤姆•鲁滨逊与尤厄尔父女，•珍•路易斯•“斯各特”•芬奇与亚历山大姑姑，阿蒂克斯•芬奇与汤姆•鲁滨逊。通过一系列的对立冲突，充分地体现了主题，也是人物刻画变得更加立体饱满。
关键词： 《杀死一只知更鸟》，二元对立，主题，人物刻画
Abstract
As the only full-length novel written by Haber Lee in her life, To kill a mockingbird won the Pulitzer prizes--the highest literature prize in the United State. The novel has a clear structure and plot, witnesses the America’s social and racial problems in the eye of “ children”, which has also make people’ concern their focus on the education of children. The novel has been studies by different perspectives, such as in Gothic perspective, in children eduction perspective and so on. However, few people has studied it from a binary opposition perspective. So, this thesis aims to to give an integrative and systematic stylistic analysis of this novel, exploring how the binary opposition is applied all through the novel, including its themes, characterization, thus vividly showing the opposition between the blacks and whites which confines the oppressed.
The term “binary opposition” refers to a pair of terms differentiated by their opposition to on another which is often used as a technique in evaluating literary works. Instead of being mutually exclusive, the oppositions are often complementary to each other, This thesis is to give a detailed analysis of the binary oppositions in the text from different perspectives.
The thesis consists of three parts. Part one is the introduction, briefly introducing the writer, the critical responses to the novel and the concept of binary opposition. Part two is the main body of the thesis which is composed of two chapters. Chapter one focuses on binary oppositions in the them. In this chapter, the oppositions hidden in the whole text will be abstracted into three binary oppositions: good and evil, equality and prejudice, against the authority and maintain the authority. Chapter two mainly deals with the binary oppositions in characterization. In this chapter, the oppositions between the protagonist---Tom Robinson and father and daughter of The Ewells, Jean Louise “Scout” Finch and Aunt Alexandra, Atticus Finch and Tom Robinson . Through analyzing the binary oppositions in the novel, we can have a better and thorough understanding of its themes and characters.
Key words: To kill a mockingbird, Binary opposition, Themes, Characterization |
