简析《看不见的人》中的象征手法-英文.doc

A Brief Analysis of Symbolism in Invisible Man Abstract: Ralph Ellison’s representative work Invisible man tells a story about a black youngster’s mentally maturity course for seeking for the sense of self-belongings in a society congested with racial segregation and discrimination. Ralph Ellison has made the novel the volume of realism, naturalism, expressionism and surrealism, especially symbolism, telling a straightforward story but expressing quite profound and sophisticated theme, so that the novel could be considered from different levels and angles. The present paper attempts to analyze one of the most obvious rhetoric devices in the novel 棗 symbolism, to see how the author reveals the theme and expresses the thoughts of the novel by using this rhetoric device. tKey words: Invisible man; Ralph Ellison; symbolism; self-belonging 简析《看不见的人》中的象征手法 摘要：拉尔夫·埃里森的代表作《看不见的人》描写了一个黑人青年在充斥种族隔离和种族歧视的社会里寻找自我归属感的心理成熟历程。小说集现实主义、自然主义、表现主义和超现实主义于一身，通过看似简单的故事情节表达了复杂深奥的主题，尤其是大量象征的运用，使小说可从不同层次和角度进行理解。本文具体分析小说中大量运用的象征手法以更进一步了解作者是如何通过象征手法来揭示小说主题并表达其思想。 关键词：《看不见的人》；拉尔夫埃里森；象征主义；自我归属感 Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison is one of the classical creations in contemporary Black American Literature and possesses many features of contemporary western novels. It talks about the sense of self-belongings and the situation for oneself in an absurd society in contents and combines realism and surrealism together in the arts. Symbolism is one of the typical rhetoric devices in the novel. Through the frequent use of symbolism, the author depicts a society flooded with racial segregation and discrimination, and shows the abnormal and irrational relationship between the blacks and the whites in modern society. The author considers that Afro-Americans most properly illustrate their ridiculous situation where they are in a tight corner of self-dissimilation and hostile forces, so he implies the fate of the entire humankind by exemplifying the blacks’ life with symbolism and the evolution of ideas of th