《黑暗之心》原型的研究.doc

A Study of Heart of Darkness from the Perspective of Archetypal Criticism A Thesis Submitted to the School of Foreign Languages Shenyang Normal University In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts By Wang Nan Under the Supervision of Professor Zhang Ruoxin March 2012 ii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Firstly, I‘m quite grateful for my supervisor—Prof. Zhang Ruoxin, who has provided me with her invaluable modification. Besides, her patience and understanding continuously impel me to make progress. Then I owe my gratitude to Prof. Fan Gexin, who has taught me the knowledge of Archetypal Criticism, inspiring me to write this thesis and giving me a lot of instructions and advice last year. And I also express my genuine thanks to Prof. Wang Jianhui, who gave me access to his private ―bookstore‖, lending me his precious books for my references. In addition, Prof. Guo Zhongzhuang and Zhang Chengyu also gave me a lot of instructions and helped in my preparation for this thesis. In addition, my intimate friends have given me continuous encouragement and supports. iii ABSTRACT Joseph Conrad is a Polish-born English writer who has written numerous influential literary works during his years. Due to his special experiences of growing up, Conrad has formed his own distinctive writing style. Conrad has been good at creating a kind of frame narrating style, during which a story was depicted within another story, and there was also a narrator—most of the time was a man called Marlow, in charge of telling the whole story to the audience. In this way, Conrad‘s story was often quite incomprehensible to most of the readers. However, just because of this style, Conrad has won most literary critics‘ appreciation. And that is also Conrad‘s special point. Besides, due to Conrad‘s exceptional growing background—his motherland, Poland, has been intruded several times by Russia and other countries, and his patriotism, his works was undoubtedly covered by a kind of colonia