沉湎过去就是死亡论爱米丽的悲剧成因及献给爱米丽的一朵玫瑰的主题意义.docVIP

本科毕业论文 Submission to the Past Means Death --------On the Causes of Emily’s Tragedy and the Thematic Implication of A rose for Emily 沉湎过去就是死亡--论爱米丽的悲剧成因及《献给爱米丽的一朵玫瑰花》的主题意义 系 别 外国语学院 专业班级 09级英语（1）班 学生姓名 指导教师 提交日期 2013年 4月 22日  摘要 威廉·福克纳是20世纪美国最著名的南方作家，也是一位出色的推理小说作家一生共写了1部长篇小说与近百篇短篇小说1949年诺贝尔文学奖威廉·福克纳ABSTRACT William Faulkner is the most famous southern writer of 20th century in America, and he is also an excellent writer of mysteries. With seventeen long novels and nearly one hundred short stories in total, he won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1949. A rose for Emily is well-known as one of William Faulkner’s short stories. As a representative work of southern literature, A rose for Emily and its heroine Emily never fails to fascinate readers. The book tells us that Emily killed her lover and slept with his corpse for many years after the struggle among personality，traditional society and the real world. With the unconventional narrative point, the essay’s sequence in time is upside-down. The whole story keeps the readers in suspense. This thesis mainly discusses the causes for the heroine’s tragedy. In the first chapter, the thesis expounds that women are persecuted by Southern traditional customs, mainly patriarchy culture and lady-making system. In the second chapter, the thesis points out that with the downfall of the old times and coming of a new era, the new values and new codes of conduct and those of old times were in constant conflicts, which exerted unprecedented impact on people’s soul. Also, in the third chapter, the thesis points out that as a veritable monument of old tradition, Emily tried to make every effort to fight with southern old tradition, but she failed and the story ended with a tragedy. The three chapter helps us know better about the causes for the tragedy and the theme , pointing out that Puritanism exerted a terrible shackle and deep oppression