Abstract Based on her own life experience, creationary practice and litteratrices brisk gender consciousness, Virginia Woolf made great efforts to detect the relation between females and literary creation, conjecturing dilemmas of traditi...

Abstract Tess of the DUrbervilles, is a novel written by Thomas Hardy, first published in 1891. This essay tries to analyze the archetypal images existing in this work. Once the archetypal is recognized, the readers tend to resonate with...

Abstract The publication of The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne makes him become famous overnight. This novel illustrates the problems in American society in the 19th century, especially the relationship between male and female as w...

Abstract Charlotte Perkins Gilman is one of the most distinguished feminists in the nineteenth century. She has published a great number of excellent works throughout her career. Being one of her masterpieces, The Yellow Wallpaper tells a...

Abstract Uncle Toms Cabin written by Mrs. Stowe is known as a representative anti-slavery novel that reveals the great evil of slavery and stimulates people to overthrow such a merciless system. This paper will mainly analyze Mrs. Stowes...

Abstract Beloved is the fifth and also the most successful novel of Toni Morrison who is a well-known American contemporary novelist. She won the 1993 Nobel Prize for literature, which makes her the first black writer and the second Ameri...

Abstract Willa Cather is an American author who has achieved recognition for her novels of frontier life on the Great Plains. My Antonia is one of her representative works. In this novel, Cather portrays several female characters that are...

Abstract Wuthering Heights is the only novel written by Emily Bronte and is regarded as the most peculiar novel as it depicts characters with strong emotions and impressive personality. Of the characters, Heathcliff is a classic one with...

Abstract Charles Dickens is a British critical realistic novelist in the 19th century. He paid particular attention to the life experience of the little that lived at the bottom of the society, and profoundly reflected of the complex soci...

Abstract O. Henry is a master of short stories in the world. Vivid characters, humorous language and surprise endings all these features that make up what is called O. Henrys technique. He always creates his works which reflects the criti...

Abstract Tess of the DUrbervilles and The Scarlet Letter, though being completed more than one hundred years ago, are still popular nowadays. Countless literary scholars have studied these two works from various perspectives. As the two l...

Abstract Oscar Wilde is one of the most popular playwrights in the history of English literature and he is also one of the representatives of Aesthetic movement. People read his works in order to get some knowledge of that period of time,...

Abstract The Merchant of Venice is a play written by the famous playwright William Shakespeare. It is a play that reveals history, culture and religion and deserves reading. In this play, the Jewish people have been oppressed by Christian...

Abstract Edith Wharton plays an important role in American literary world in the beginning of 20th century. She is the first female writer in America to win the Pulitzer Prize and award the honorary doctorate degree from Yale University....

Abstract Oliver Twist is a novel written by Charles Dickens in 1938 and it is an important social novel and described an orphans life. Author established the tendency of critical realism through this novel. Humanistic Psychology arose in...

Abstract Catch-22 is one of Joseph Hellers most famous novels. Catch-22 is under the background of the Second World War, but it is not a war novel in the real meaning. In fact, Catch-22 is an epitome of American society in the 1950s and 1...

Abstract The theory of conversational implicature was first proposed by Herbert Paul Grice in 1967. Grice holds the view that in order to ensure the rational communication, the participants usually follow the basic principle which he call...

Abstract Sense and Sensibility was a British film shot in 1995, which was adapted from Jane Austens novel with the same title. It won the Best Adapted Screenplay of the Oscar Academy Awards in 1996, the Best Motion Picture and the Best Sc...

Abstract The paper aims to study the puritanism reflected in The Scarlet Letter, the classic work of Nathaniel Hawthorne, also Nathaniel Hawthornes masterpiece in his career. In this novel, puritanism is mainly reflected in its setting an...

Abstract Treasure Island is written by Stevenson which is a masterpiece of nineteenth-century new-romanticism. Because of its wonderful storyline and details, it is warmly welcomed by readers worldwide especially teenagers. The adventure...

Abstract The Catcher in the Rye is one of the most famous works of J.D Salinger who is good at creating precocious young people. This book is famous for its fine and smooth description of psychological activities of the hero. It increases...

Abstract Ecocriticism is nearly the latest critical tendency in literature. It appeared in Britain and America in 1970s and had a rapid development in 1990s. Arousing human beings ecological consciousness is the most practical meaning of...

Abstract Theodore Dreiser is considered as one of the most outstanding American novelists in the early 20th century. What he created were somehow beyond the moral tradition at his time and he made great contribution to introducing new rea...

Abstract Shylock is one of the greatest classic tragic characters created by William Shakespeare. What Shylock has demonstrated mostly was originated from the Greek myth archetypes. This thesis intends to analyze Shylock in The Merchant o...

Abstract The famous American writer, Edith Wharton is committed to using literature to reveal the traditional morality, customs in the late 19th early 20th century in the United States. Wharton also has a very deep thinking about the expe...

Abstract William Faulkner is one of the most influential writers in America in the 20th century. A Rose for Emily is one of his most remarkable short stories. The origin of feminism can be traced back to the end of the 19th century. Femin...

Abstract The Garden Party and A Cup of Tea published in 1920s by Katherine Mansfield are acclaimed as her representative works. Some of her early works suffered fierce attack by its contemporary critics. However, as time goes by, the orig...

Abstract and Key Words Abstract: Oscar Wildes novel The picture of Dorian Gray reveals the multilevel nature of a novel. This paper analyzes the Mythological Prototype in order to make readers get a more correct and comprehensive understa...

Abstract and Key Words Abstract: Elizabeth and Jane Eyre are respectively the heroines in Pride and Prejudice and Jane Eyre. This paper analyzes the similarities and differences of the two heroines from the aspects of life experience, fam...

Abstract As one of the most influential writers of British literature, Jonathan Swift made valuable contributions to the satirical literature with his unique writing style. A Modest Proposal was just an evidence of his mastery of his sati...