基于二元對立原則淺析《卡斯特橋市長》的悲劇思想.pdf

1、An Analysis on the Tragic Thought in TheMayor of Casterbridge from the Perspective ofBinary OppositionA DissertationSubmitted for the Degree of MasterOn English Language and Literatureby Yi QiUnder the Supervision ofAsso

2、ciated Prof. Li HuiSchool of Foreign LanguagesNanchang Hangkong University, Nanchang, China4th , June, 2018AbstractThomas Hardy is one of the most prominent novelists and poets in the Victorianage. Among his famous serie

3、s of novel “character and environment”, the background ofwhich is set in Wessex, The Mayor of Casterbridge has drawn wide concern anddiscussion upon its publication. And considerable research achievements have beenmade b

4、y the scholars abroad and at home from the perspective of formalism, feminismand psychoanalytic criticism to make analysis on its theme, main characters and writingtechniques.As an important principle of structuralism ev

5、olved from linguistics, binaryopposition is applied to literary criticism to find out different pairs which are oppositebut dependent in a text, and probe into the opposite pairs to decode the meaning of themin order to

6、interpret the profound implication underlying in the text. By applying thistheory of literary criticism, a more thorough and deeper insight into the literary workscan be achieved. And it is of great significance to make

7、a study on The Mayor ofCasterbridge from the perspective of binary opposition for the fact that it is abundant inpairs of binary oppositions. Based on the previous researches made on this novel andthe core principle of s

8、tructuralism-binary opposition, this thesis makes a relativein-depth and systematic analysis on three main pairs of binary oppositions in The Mayorof Casterbridge with an attempt to figure out how the author ingeniously

9、applies thisprinciple to strengthen his tragic thought so as to enhance the tragic atmosphere.Three pairs of binary oppositions are to be analyzed to create a new understandingof The Mayor of Casterbridge in this thesis.

10、 At first, there is an analysis of the binaryopposition between man’s pursuit and fate. With the probation into Henchard andLucceta’s tragedy in their pursuit for happiness against the cruel fate, the thesis tries toreve

11、al Thomas’ pessimistic thought on fatalism that man’s pursuit is doomed in the faceof the wicked fate. Then there comes the binary opposition between man and woman.Based on the analysis on their opposite situation in fam

12、ily status and the right andfreedom for love and marriage, the tragic fate of woman under man’s authority and thepersecution of social opinion in a male-dominated society is disclosed. At last, a studyon the binary oppos

13、ition of both material and spiritual culture between the agriculturaland industrial civilization is made to indicate the historical tragedy of the traditionalcivilization under the strong impact of the modern one.Through