Famous for giving voice to Bertha, the marginalized mad woman in the attic in Jane Eyre, Wide Sargasso Sea is filled with vivid description of nature, which contributes to the successful characterization of main chara...Famous for giving voice to Bertha, the marginalized mad woman in the attic in Jane Eyre, Wide Sargasso Sea is filled with vivid description of nature, which contributes to the successful characterization of main characters and shows the theme of the relationship between nature and human beings. However few attention is paid to that theme. The mythological and archetypal approach is thus adopted to analyze three major characters and fill the gap. Antoinette is viewed as the daughter of nature. Christophine functions as the incarnation of nature. Rochester plays the role of the intruder who does harm to nature. To conclude, Wide Sargasso Sea is not only a criticism of anthropocentrism but also a warning bell to the stereotyped opposition in the western culture. After the successful shaking of the fixed order, Wide Sargasso Sea also drops a hint that there exists the hope to build a new world where human beings and nature, men and women keep a harmonious and balanced relationship.展开更多
Wolf Totem is a famous novel describing wolves as a main part. The article goes deeper into the novel, analyzing the relationship between human beings and nature and the relationship between Mongols and wolves.
As a masterpiece of Hawthorne's works, The Scarlet Letter sets up on New England in the seventieth century and successfully depicts the cruelty of Puritan society and the kill to human nature. However, it seems th...As a masterpiece of Hawthorne's works, The Scarlet Letter sets up on New England in the seventieth century and successfully depicts the cruelty of Puritan society and the kill to human nature. However, it seems that this is not the only purpose for the author to criticize the Puritanism. Hawthorne also endeavors to pursuit an ideal harmony through the image of the forest,which is omitted by most of the scholars who research Hawthorne's works, especially for The Scarlet Letter. In this thesis, it aims to illustrate the ideal harmony from two perspectives: first, the image of the forest stands for the harmony of the primitive life; second, the image of the forest represents the harmony of the development both in body and mind.展开更多
As a very significant part of Thoreau's Walden, nature can never escape the discussion or any other critical analysiswhenever and wherever this book is concerned. Nature for modern people is usually in opposition ...As a very significant part of Thoreau's Walden, nature can never escape the discussion or any other critical analysiswhenever and wherever this book is concerned. Nature for modern people is usually in opposition to human civilization, while Tho-reau regards it as a whole that integrates wilderness and the world erected by human kind. By probing into the relationship betweenwild nature and human world as is discussed in Walden, this paper discovers that Thoreau intends human beings to enter nature notonly to learn from it, but also to return to themselves with the knowledge given by nature, and then finally to go inward.展开更多
This paper aims to study The Return of the Native from the perspective of ecocriticism.Hardy indicates nature pos sesses its intrinsic value and nature and humans are equal in the ecological system.Man's alienatio...This paper aims to study The Return of the Native from the perspective of ecocriticism.Hardy indicates nature pos sesses its intrinsic value and nature and humans are equal in the ecological system.Man's alienation from nature leads to the dis harmonious man-nature relationship.Hardy argues that man should see nature's intrinsic value and build harmonious man-na ture relationship.展开更多
文摘Famous for giving voice to Bertha, the marginalized mad woman in the attic in Jane Eyre, Wide Sargasso Sea is filled with vivid description of nature, which contributes to the successful characterization of main characters and shows the theme of the relationship between nature and human beings. However few attention is paid to that theme. The mythological and archetypal approach is thus adopted to analyze three major characters and fill the gap. Antoinette is viewed as the daughter of nature. Christophine functions as the incarnation of nature. Rochester plays the role of the intruder who does harm to nature. To conclude, Wide Sargasso Sea is not only a criticism of anthropocentrism but also a warning bell to the stereotyped opposition in the western culture. After the successful shaking of the fixed order, Wide Sargasso Sea also drops a hint that there exists the hope to build a new world where human beings and nature, men and women keep a harmonious and balanced relationship.
文摘Wolf Totem is a famous novel describing wolves as a main part. The article goes deeper into the novel, analyzing the relationship between human beings and nature and the relationship between Mongols and wolves.
文摘As a masterpiece of Hawthorne's works, The Scarlet Letter sets up on New England in the seventieth century and successfully depicts the cruelty of Puritan society and the kill to human nature. However, it seems that this is not the only purpose for the author to criticize the Puritanism. Hawthorne also endeavors to pursuit an ideal harmony through the image of the forest,which is omitted by most of the scholars who research Hawthorne's works, especially for The Scarlet Letter. In this thesis, it aims to illustrate the ideal harmony from two perspectives: first, the image of the forest stands for the harmony of the primitive life; second, the image of the forest represents the harmony of the development both in body and mind.
文摘As a very significant part of Thoreau's Walden, nature can never escape the discussion or any other critical analysiswhenever and wherever this book is concerned. Nature for modern people is usually in opposition to human civilization, while Tho-reau regards it as a whole that integrates wilderness and the world erected by human kind. By probing into the relationship betweenwild nature and human world as is discussed in Walden, this paper discovers that Thoreau intends human beings to enter nature notonly to learn from it, but also to return to themselves with the knowledge given by nature, and then finally to go inward.
文摘This paper aims to study The Return of the Native from the perspective of ecocriticism.Hardy indicates nature pos sesses its intrinsic value and nature and humans are equal in the ecological system.Man's alienation from nature leads to the dis harmonious man-nature relationship.Hardy argues that man should see nature's intrinsic value and build harmonious man-na ture relationship.
