论文 英语论了不起的盖茨比中美国梦的破灭.docVIP

. .. 摘 要 美国是一个以梦想而自豪的国家，美国梦算得上美国文明的一大特产。所谓美国梦，广义上是指美国的平等、自由和民主，狭义上是指一种相信只要在美国经过不懈的奋斗便能获得更好生活的理想，也就是人们必须通过自己的勤奋、勇气、创意和决心迈向繁荣。长期以来，美国梦激励着一代又一代的美国人。菲茨杰拉德的《了不起的盖茨比》，一部仅五万余言，却能列入二十世纪美国最佳的十二部小说之一，以一个青年人对财富地位与爱情追求的失败来解构美国梦的由来、演变及破灭的原因，同时生动地再现了美国二十世纪“爵士乐时代”的社会风貌和时代精神。 关键词: 美国梦, 破灭 ,爵士乐时代 Abstract American dream is a cultural essence of the United States and it stimulates Americans one generation after another. It refers to the equality, freedom and democracy of America in a broad sense. It is the ideal that as long as someone work hard and pay more efforts in America, he will succeed and have a better life. Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, as the most important work of him, is the mirror of the Jazz Age. On the surface, it is the corruption of a young man’s dream of chasing wealth and love. Beyond the surface concerns, the novel deals symbolically with the failure of American dream at that time. The novel reflects the social reality and reveals the disillusion of American dream. In Jazz Age, people regard the pursuit of dream equaling to the pursuit of materialism, which is bound to fail. The corruption of Gatsby’s American dream indicating the disillusion of the whole American dream. KEY WORDS: American Dream, Jazz Age, disillusion Contents TOC \o 1-3 \h \u HYPERLINK \l _Toc5934 Introduction PAGEREF _Toc5934 4 HYPERLINK \l _Toc8602 Chapter One The Meaning of American Dream PAGEREF _Toc8602 6 HYPERLINK \l _Toc4585 1.1 The different embodiment of American dream in different times PAGEREF _Toc4585 6 HYPERLINK \l _Toc18423 1.1.1 American dream in the 18th and 19th century PAGEREF _Toc18423 6 HYPERLINK \l _Toc12237 1.1.2 American dream after industrialization PAGEREF _Toc12237 6 HYPERLINK \l _Toc15740 1.1.3 American dream in the 21st century PAGEREF _Toc15740 7 HYPERLINK \l _Toc23366 1.2 Jazz Age and American Dream PAGEREF _Toc23366 8 HYPERLINK \l _Toc10770 Chapter Two The Disillusion of Jay Gatsby’s American Dream PAGEREF _Toc10770 9 HYPERLINK \l