Tender Is the Night is Fitzgerald’s last long novel which tells a tragic story of a promising psychiatrist’s decadence and failure.In accordance with Northrop Frye’s Myth and Archetypal criticism,several archetypes...Tender Is the Night is Fitzgerald’s last long novel which tells a tragic story of a promising psychiatrist’s decadence and failure.In accordance with Northrop Frye’s Myth and Archetypal criticism,several archetypes are applied,mainly concentrated on image,characters and plot.In image,Apollo’s sky is archetypal image of Dick’s Gausses Beach,where Dick could present his self.On contrary,Villa Diana which belonged to Nicole reflected Moon-Goddess Artemis’s forest in Greek myth.In character,Dick’s redemption and self-exile are archetypal dealing with Jesus Christ’s redemption in Bible and Oedipus’exile in Greek myth respectively.In plot,Bible’s serpent’s seduction to tempt Eva to eat forbidden fruits is the myth and archetype of Dick’s marriage and extramarital love and Nicole’s extramarital affair.Through archetypal analyses,the tragic destiny of Americans in their pursuit of dreams can be seen.展开更多
William Golding's masterpiece,Lord of the Flies,enabled him to win the Nobel Prize in 1983.Golding considered this novel as a myth,since he applied plenty of archetypes from Greek mythology and the Bible to this n...William Golding's masterpiece,Lord of the Flies,enabled him to win the Nobel Prize in 1983.Golding considered this novel as a myth,since he applied plenty of archetypes from Greek mythology and the Bible to this novel.This thesis is to ana lyze the main characters and images in it from a myth-archetypal perspective to reveal the author's writing purpose.展开更多
The Open Boat is written by Stephen Crane according to his own experience of encountering a shipwreck. This short novel is not only a legend, but also a complex of the author's thinking of life and human and a fab...The Open Boat is written by Stephen Crane according to his own experience of encountering a shipwreck. This short novel is not only a legend, but also a complex of the author's thinking of life and human and a fable of men's lives. It is full of symbols and metaphors. To interpret the meaning of this novel, this paper is engaged to have an archetypal analysis of this short story.展开更多
As one of the most popular American poets in the twentieth century, Robert Frost demonstrated myriads of universally acknowledged works to the world. This paper aims to analyze the plant imagery appearing in his poems...As one of the most popular American poets in the twentieth century, Robert Frost demonstrated myriads of universally acknowledged works to the world. This paper aims to analyze the plant imagery appearing in his poems from the perspective of archetypal theory. This study, on the basis of analyzing poetic texts, utilizes content analysis to classify plant images into four types and work out relevant statistics. After data analysis based on thematology and archetypal theory, the study finds that plant images in his poems demonstrate the relationship between human beings and nature, psychological conflicts of the poet, death and dismay, expectation for life and rebirth.展开更多
The Tempest,most likely the last play written entirely by Shakespeare,parallels The Genesis of the Bible in its plot and structure.It seems that the Moses in The Genesis goes out of the bible and becomes Prospero to s...The Tempest,most likely the last play written entirely by Shakespeare,parallels The Genesis of the Bible in its plot and structure.It seems that the Moses in The Genesis goes out of the bible and becomes Prospero to save people’s soul and help them out of the trouble.This article endeavors to analyze the archetypes of the drama in terms of its individual stories and overall pattern.展开更多
Willa Cather is one of the most famous female writers in American literary history.The Song of the Lark is the early work of Willa Cather.The thesis intends to offer a thorough study on the heroine's image of The ...Willa Cather is one of the most famous female writers in American literary history.The Song of the Lark is the early work of Willa Cather.The thesis intends to offer a thorough study on the heroine's image of The Song of the Lark with the myth and archetypal criticism to have an elaborate discussion on how the heroine of this work is embodied by the archetypal goddess of Muse so as to explore how Cather suggests her deep themes and expresses her permanent pursuit of art.展开更多
The Yellow Wallpaper is an important early work of American feminist literature written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman.It exemplifies people’s attitudes towards women's physical and mental health in the 19th century...The Yellow Wallpaper is an important early work of American feminist literature written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman.It exemplifies people’s attitudes towards women's physical and mental health in the 19th century.The story attacks the evils of the rest cure and critiques the position of women within the jailed system of marital prison.Feminism is one of the themes of the story.From the perspective of archetypal criticism,this paper will analyze the recurring image in the story and interprets its relations with the awakening of female consciousness.展开更多
Great Expectations is Charles Dickens’work,which is a novel about education and growth and personal development.This thesis carefully analyzes the male character Joe Gargery,one of the most impressive creations of Ch...Great Expectations is Charles Dickens’work,which is a novel about education and growth and personal development.This thesis carefully analyzes the male character Joe Gargery,one of the most impressive creations of Charles Dickens,trying to help Pip live a decent human life.His moral integrity,his generous and magnanimous heart,and his devotion and innocence are all the best qualities that make humans human and render life worth living.He is the archetypal natural man.Through a general analysis,I will reach a conclusion that Joe Gargery as an archetypal natural man in Great Expectations is Dickens’own wish and the enlightenment for us that without too many ambitions people can lead a happy life.展开更多
The Great Gatsby written by F.Scott Fitzgerald is widely recognized as the cultural document of the Jazz Age.The novel seems to be a love story,but in fact it is about the disillusionment of American Dream-Gatsby'...The Great Gatsby written by F.Scott Fitzgerald is widely recognized as the cultural document of the Jazz Age.The novel seems to be a love story,but in fact it is about the disillusionment of American Dream-Gatsby's failure in pursuing his long-cherished dream.Since its publication,the novel has been very popular among ordinary readers and literary critics as well.By applying archetypal criticism developed by Northrop Frye,this paper aims to give a detailed and comprehensive interpretation of the protagonist,Gatsby,and reveal the significance of his tragedy.To some extent,it is the archetypal character that enhances the profundity of the novel and arouses the readers' response.展开更多
In the light of the knowledge that literature is the direct mimesis of other literary works and indirect mimesis of mythswhile film is the direct mimesis of other forms of arts and indirect mimesis of literary works,t...In the light of the knowledge that literature is the direct mimesis of other literary works and indirect mimesis of mythswhile film is the direct mimesis of other forms of arts and indirect mimesis of literary works,the present paper extends the feasibili-ty of Northrop Frye's archetypal theories into the interpretation of films.The film Triangle(2007) is a fascinating and successfulthriller characterized by its legion psychological puzzles and enigmatic plots.Through probing into this cliff-hanging film from theperspective of archetypal criticism,focusing on its displaced archetypal structure,motif and image,the paper exposes the"myth"of this film – a metaphorical and symbolical revelation of"sin""samsara"and"self-salvation",which in turn,proves that the fun-damental sameness of literature and filmable arts is the literariness derived from archetypal myths.展开更多
Cinderella is a well-known fairy-tale heroine,whose love and marriage has been considered as a typical pattern.In the article,the two protagonists,Elizabeth and Catherine,will be explored from the perspective of Cinde...Cinderella is a well-known fairy-tale heroine,whose love and marriage has been considered as a typical pattern.In the article,the two protagonists,Elizabeth and Catherine,will be explored from the perspective of Cinderella archetype,from which the conclusion can be drawn Jane Austen's viewpoint about marriage based on love and her feminist consciousness.展开更多
The Bridges of Madison County has been always read as a popular love story, or has been associated with the middleaged people's inner worlds. The present paper interprets the novel through archetypal theory. Based...The Bridges of Madison County has been always read as a popular love story, or has been associated with the middleaged people's inner worlds. The present paper interprets the novel through archetypal theory. Based on the analysis of archetypal characters and archetypal structures, the paper draws the conclusion that the employment of Biblical archetypes strengthens the tragedy of the novel and provides a new angle in understanding this late 20th novel.展开更多
This essay directs at the water imagery of two poems Happy Rain on a Spring Night and A Drop Fell on the Apple Tree.Although living in different time and place, Chinese poet Du Fu and American poetess Emily Dickinson ...This essay directs at the water imagery of two poems Happy Rain on a Spring Night and A Drop Fell on the Apple Tree.Although living in different time and place, Chinese poet Du Fu and American poetess Emily Dickinson share some deep understanding of the water. This secret of water imagery is unveiled in this essay with the help of Archetypal Criticism, revealing its significance to the human beings as a race.展开更多
The exploration of human beings' mental world remains a common theme of twentieth century western novels. In his story"Araby", James Joyce describes a boy's painful mental process of how he quests fo...The exploration of human beings' mental world remains a common theme of twentieth century western novels. In his story"Araby", James Joyce describes a boy's painful mental process of how he quests for nebulous and romantic love and how he becomes disillusioned in the end based on the archetype of a knight's quest for the holy grail by using the technique of contrast of bright and dark.展开更多
Mother in Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg,Ohio is a typical story reveals Anderson’s dissatisfaction with the change of life style in his time.In this story he has created a father who dares not to face reality direct...Mother in Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg,Ohio is a typical story reveals Anderson’s dissatisfaction with the change of life style in his time.In this story he has created a father who dares not to face reality directly but only cherishes some illusion of wealth and political power.The mother is totally against the life style in vogue,but her resistance meets constant failure be cause of the great power of it.In the following,the psychological state of the couple will be studied with an eye on there relation and their respective relation with the son,hoping this will give more insight to the understanding of Anderson’s artistic product.展开更多
The Great Gatsby has been one of the most discussed topics,researchers has explored it from various aspects.In the researches,Nick Carraway was mainly seen as a narrator,and the research are mostly focus on the shift ...The Great Gatsby has been one of the most discussed topics,researchers has explored it from various aspects.In the researches,Nick Carraway was mainly seen as a narrator,and the research are mostly focus on the shift of his narrative prospective.Few people noticed that he was totally fit into the definition of the " wise old man".This paper tries to put an eye on the archetype of the hero Nick Carraway,whose figure is thought as in the archetype of the " wise old man".展开更多
Desire under the Elms reveals a tragedy of spiritual and survival desire of human being. O'Neill creates many Bible archetypes in Desire under the Elms. The thesis analyzes and appreciates Desire under the Elms fr...Desire under the Elms reveals a tragedy of spiritual and survival desire of human being. O'Neill creates many Bible archetypes in Desire under the Elms. The thesis analyzes and appreciates Desire under the Elms from aspect of Bible archetype to highlight the destructive power of improper desires in Desire under the Elms.展开更多
Based on Indian Camp, the thesis probes into the death complex of Ernest Hemingway from the visual angle of Nick,the protagonist of the novel, death complex shown in Hemingway's works and Nick, the archetype of He...Based on Indian Camp, the thesis probes into the death complex of Ernest Hemingway from the visual angle of Nick,the protagonist of the novel, death complex shown in Hemingway's works and Nick, the archetype of Hemingway respectively.展开更多
G. B. Shaw names his play Pygmalion by a protagonist in Metamorphoses Book Ten, so that he connects the enlivened ivory statue with the dramatically changed flower girl. Great culture significance was attached to this...G. B. Shaw names his play Pygmalion by a protagonist in Metamorphoses Book Ten, so that he connects the enlivened ivory statue with the dramatically changed flower girl. Great culture significance was attached to this play. At the same time, the originality which is different from the original myth displays the author's effort to explore female self- creation.展开更多
The Bible has a profound impact on Western culture,especially on Western literature.The Bible is the source of Western literature,and Writers often incite characters,legends,etc.from The Bible in their works to descri...The Bible has a profound impact on Western culture,especially on Western literature.The Bible is the source of Western literature,and Writers often incite characters,legends,etc.from The Bible in their works to describe or clarify the theme.By analyzing the 19th century American novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter,this article deeply analyzes the influence of The Bible from the aspects of character archetype,symbolic intention,and redemption theme.展开更多
文摘Tender Is the Night is Fitzgerald’s last long novel which tells a tragic story of a promising psychiatrist’s decadence and failure.In accordance with Northrop Frye’s Myth and Archetypal criticism,several archetypes are applied,mainly concentrated on image,characters and plot.In image,Apollo’s sky is archetypal image of Dick’s Gausses Beach,where Dick could present his self.On contrary,Villa Diana which belonged to Nicole reflected Moon-Goddess Artemis’s forest in Greek myth.In character,Dick’s redemption and self-exile are archetypal dealing with Jesus Christ’s redemption in Bible and Oedipus’exile in Greek myth respectively.In plot,Bible’s serpent’s seduction to tempt Eva to eat forbidden fruits is the myth and archetype of Dick’s marriage and extramarital love and Nicole’s extramarital affair.Through archetypal analyses,the tragic destiny of Americans in their pursuit of dreams can be seen.
文摘William Golding's masterpiece,Lord of the Flies,enabled him to win the Nobel Prize in 1983.Golding considered this novel as a myth,since he applied plenty of archetypes from Greek mythology and the Bible to this novel.This thesis is to ana lyze the main characters and images in it from a myth-archetypal perspective to reveal the author's writing purpose.
文摘The Open Boat is written by Stephen Crane according to his own experience of encountering a shipwreck. This short novel is not only a legend, but also a complex of the author's thinking of life and human and a fable of men's lives. It is full of symbols and metaphors. To interpret the meaning of this novel, this paper is engaged to have an archetypal analysis of this short story.
文摘As one of the most popular American poets in the twentieth century, Robert Frost demonstrated myriads of universally acknowledged works to the world. This paper aims to analyze the plant imagery appearing in his poems from the perspective of archetypal theory. This study, on the basis of analyzing poetic texts, utilizes content analysis to classify plant images into four types and work out relevant statistics. After data analysis based on thematology and archetypal theory, the study finds that plant images in his poems demonstrate the relationship between human beings and nature, psychological conflicts of the poet, death and dismay, expectation for life and rebirth.
文摘The Tempest,most likely the last play written entirely by Shakespeare,parallels The Genesis of the Bible in its plot and structure.It seems that the Moses in The Genesis goes out of the bible and becomes Prospero to save people’s soul and help them out of the trouble.This article endeavors to analyze the archetypes of the drama in terms of its individual stories and overall pattern.
文摘Willa Cather is one of the most famous female writers in American literary history.The Song of the Lark is the early work of Willa Cather.The thesis intends to offer a thorough study on the heroine's image of The Song of the Lark with the myth and archetypal criticism to have an elaborate discussion on how the heroine of this work is embodied by the archetypal goddess of Muse so as to explore how Cather suggests her deep themes and expresses her permanent pursuit of art.
文摘The Yellow Wallpaper is an important early work of American feminist literature written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman.It exemplifies people’s attitudes towards women's physical and mental health in the 19th century.The story attacks the evils of the rest cure and critiques the position of women within the jailed system of marital prison.Feminism is one of the themes of the story.From the perspective of archetypal criticism,this paper will analyze the recurring image in the story and interprets its relations with the awakening of female consciousness.
文摘Great Expectations is Charles Dickens’work,which is a novel about education and growth and personal development.This thesis carefully analyzes the male character Joe Gargery,one of the most impressive creations of Charles Dickens,trying to help Pip live a decent human life.His moral integrity,his generous and magnanimous heart,and his devotion and innocence are all the best qualities that make humans human and render life worth living.He is the archetypal natural man.Through a general analysis,I will reach a conclusion that Joe Gargery as an archetypal natural man in Great Expectations is Dickens’own wish and the enlightenment for us that without too many ambitions people can lead a happy life.
文摘The Great Gatsby written by F.Scott Fitzgerald is widely recognized as the cultural document of the Jazz Age.The novel seems to be a love story,but in fact it is about the disillusionment of American Dream-Gatsby's failure in pursuing his long-cherished dream.Since its publication,the novel has been very popular among ordinary readers and literary critics as well.By applying archetypal criticism developed by Northrop Frye,this paper aims to give a detailed and comprehensive interpretation of the protagonist,Gatsby,and reveal the significance of his tragedy.To some extent,it is the archetypal character that enhances the profundity of the novel and arouses the readers' response.
文摘In the light of the knowledge that literature is the direct mimesis of other literary works and indirect mimesis of mythswhile film is the direct mimesis of other forms of arts and indirect mimesis of literary works,the present paper extends the feasibili-ty of Northrop Frye's archetypal theories into the interpretation of films.The film Triangle(2007) is a fascinating and successfulthriller characterized by its legion psychological puzzles and enigmatic plots.Through probing into this cliff-hanging film from theperspective of archetypal criticism,focusing on its displaced archetypal structure,motif and image,the paper exposes the"myth"of this film – a metaphorical and symbolical revelation of"sin""samsara"and"self-salvation",which in turn,proves that the fun-damental sameness of literature and filmable arts is the literariness derived from archetypal myths.
文摘Cinderella is a well-known fairy-tale heroine,whose love and marriage has been considered as a typical pattern.In the article,the two protagonists,Elizabeth and Catherine,will be explored from the perspective of Cinderella archetype,from which the conclusion can be drawn Jane Austen's viewpoint about marriage based on love and her feminist consciousness.
文摘The Bridges of Madison County has been always read as a popular love story, or has been associated with the middleaged people's inner worlds. The present paper interprets the novel through archetypal theory. Based on the analysis of archetypal characters and archetypal structures, the paper draws the conclusion that the employment of Biblical archetypes strengthens the tragedy of the novel and provides a new angle in understanding this late 20th novel.
文摘This essay directs at the water imagery of two poems Happy Rain on a Spring Night and A Drop Fell on the Apple Tree.Although living in different time and place, Chinese poet Du Fu and American poetess Emily Dickinson share some deep understanding of the water. This secret of water imagery is unveiled in this essay with the help of Archetypal Criticism, revealing its significance to the human beings as a race.
文摘The exploration of human beings' mental world remains a common theme of twentieth century western novels. In his story"Araby", James Joyce describes a boy's painful mental process of how he quests for nebulous and romantic love and how he becomes disillusioned in the end based on the archetype of a knight's quest for the holy grail by using the technique of contrast of bright and dark.
文摘Mother in Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg,Ohio is a typical story reveals Anderson’s dissatisfaction with the change of life style in his time.In this story he has created a father who dares not to face reality directly but only cherishes some illusion of wealth and political power.The mother is totally against the life style in vogue,but her resistance meets constant failure be cause of the great power of it.In the following,the psychological state of the couple will be studied with an eye on there relation and their respective relation with the son,hoping this will give more insight to the understanding of Anderson’s artistic product.
文摘The Great Gatsby has been one of the most discussed topics,researchers has explored it from various aspects.In the researches,Nick Carraway was mainly seen as a narrator,and the research are mostly focus on the shift of his narrative prospective.Few people noticed that he was totally fit into the definition of the " wise old man".This paper tries to put an eye on the archetype of the hero Nick Carraway,whose figure is thought as in the archetype of the " wise old man".
文摘Desire under the Elms reveals a tragedy of spiritual and survival desire of human being. O'Neill creates many Bible archetypes in Desire under the Elms. The thesis analyzes and appreciates Desire under the Elms from aspect of Bible archetype to highlight the destructive power of improper desires in Desire under the Elms.
文摘Based on Indian Camp, the thesis probes into the death complex of Ernest Hemingway from the visual angle of Nick,the protagonist of the novel, death complex shown in Hemingway's works and Nick, the archetype of Hemingway respectively.
文摘G. B. Shaw names his play Pygmalion by a protagonist in Metamorphoses Book Ten, so that he connects the enlivened ivory statue with the dramatically changed flower girl. Great culture significance was attached to this play. At the same time, the originality which is different from the original myth displays the author's effort to explore female self- creation.
文摘The Bible has a profound impact on Western culture,especially on Western literature.The Bible is the source of Western literature,and Writers often incite characters,legends,etc.from The Bible in their works to describe or clarify the theme.By analyzing the 19th century American novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter,this article deeply analyzes the influence of The Bible from the aspects of character archetype,symbolic intention,and redemption theme.
