《绯闻女孩》中主角人物性格分析

Analysis of Protagonist in Gossip Girl SONG Hui-xin Abstract: This paper introduces the hit American TV series --- Gossip Girl. Cecily von Ziegesar is the author of Gossip Girl, Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage are the writers. Gossip Girl shows the life of some rich kids in a private school. It is mainly talking about the protagonist in Gossip Girl: Blair Waldorf is arrogance, sharp and idealistic girl. Serena van der Woodsen is independent, sincerely, changeable girl. Chuck Bass is a gentleman with generous and promiscuity. Dan Humphrey is a sensitive and romantic boy. Gossip girl is not only a visual impact and enjoyment, but also taught me a lot of philosophy of life. As a result, I learned to face love with tolerance and brave. Key words: American TV series; Gossip Girl; protagonist. There is a TV that life is not formulaic Cinderella story as those Korean TV dramas present to us and no perfect man or perfect life as those Taiwan TV dramas always show to us. That is American TV series. 1. The Introduction of Gossip Girl 1.1. American TV Series The reason why American TV series popular on campus is we can learn something from the American TV series, we can realize the hardship of the real American life. American TV series rightly exemplify what the American society is like. A successful manager sometimes has a miserable marriage; a happy-living housewife sometimes has a horrible past. Life sometimes runs peacefully like a stream, but before it meets the ocean, there must be some falls waiting for it. In a real life, people in and people out; people get and people lose; people die and people come. We can see how American did in their dramas. Imagination is one of the essential characteristics for Americans. In Hero, there are a number of people who have various supernatural powers in the world. In Lost, a band of lost people must face countless difficulties in their seeming-endless journey. In Prison Break, only a small prison can lead you into attractive story. The American TV drama can be a lead voice in the world. Our society is pushed forward some kind of by the imagination and dreams of the future. Today??s illusion may be tomorrow??s reality. Today we dream of it, tomorrow we realize it. The American TV dramas lead us to unfold our wings of imagination to challenge the limitation of human beings. 1.2. The Source of Gossip girl Gossip Girl is an American teen drama series based on the book series of the same name written by Cecily von Ziegesar. The series was created by Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage, and premiered on The CW on September 19, 2007. Narratedby the omniscient yet unseen blogger "Gossip Girl", voiced by Kristen Bell, the series revolves around the lives of privileged young adults on Manhattan's Upper East Side in New York City. Each episode begins and ends with the blog page of the Gossip Girl blog with Serena's picture from the pilot episode. Afterward, a recap of events relevant to the upcoming narrative is shown, which ends again with the blog page, only this time with a picture from other character(s) with a text about a recent event connected with the picture. The narrator is the Gossip Girl, voiced by Kristen Bell. She begins the recap with the sentence??Gossip Girl here, your one and only source into the scandalous lives of Manhattan??s elite,?? and ends the recap with whispered voices saying ??Where has she been??? ??Serena?? then the voice of Gossip Girl says: ??And who am I? That's one secret I'll never tell, you know you love me x.o.x.o. Gossip Girl?? Each episode usually ends with Gossip Girl saying "You know you love me. xoxo, Gossip Girl.?? 1.3. The Plot of Gossip girl In New York City Manhattan Upper East Side (Upper East Side), a private men and women in schools, most of the students are rich. The story is of their love, hatred and all the gossip in life. The Gossip Girl series revolves around a group of teenagers, three of whom live on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City. They gossip, but they also deal with sex and relationship problems. They attend elite private single-sex schools, where their lives are watched by the unseen title character who writes a blog about them. Despite attending school, they never seem to have homework or academic difficulties. The series begins with the return of Serena van der Woodsen (Blake Lively) from a mysterious stay at a boarding school in Cornwall, Connecticut. Blair Waldorf (Leighton Meester), whom creators describe as the queen at the center of their chess game, is a longtime friend and occasional rival of Serena's, and the Queen Bee of Constance Billard School's social scene. The story also follows Chuck Bass (Ed Westwick), the bad boy of the Upper East Side, Nate Archibald (Chace Crawford), Chuck's best friend, and other characters of the turbulent Manhattan scene: Dan Humphrey (Penn Badgley), Nate's friend and Serena's on-again, off-again ex; Vanessa Abrams (Jessica Szohr), Dan's best friend; and Dan's sister, Jenny Humphrey (Taylor Momsen). 2. Analysis of the Protagonist??s Character in Gossip Girl 2.1. Blair Waldorf She was described as a 5 foot 4 inches high, slender, and a pair of blue eyes girl. She is very smart and determined, often in extra-curricular activities. To her attendant: capricious, had ??Missy?? temper To other classes: arrogance, (to Dan who lives in Brooklyn). To threatening: sharp, hatred must offer, played the people, and sometimes even do anything (how to deal with little J).To family: childish, idealistic. Eager to family warmth and recognition of the mother (she is very loving parents, from childhood dreams of Yale and has been to work hard); To friend: She is sincerely, smart, always figured out a way to help her friends, when a friend in trouble she will go through anything (several times to help Serena); To love: She is strong and brave to face the problem, never retreat. is closely related to one??s Environment Introduction: Blair born in a wealthy, she is not very happy at home, his father was gay, the mother is a famous fashion designer, mother too busy, her father ran with a man Ramon, the absence of her family and produced a sense of being predatory and ruthless Of revenge, out of which such a family environment with a girl who must be feeling vulnerable and revenge in this life. Blair is on the elite schools, as the drama of female II, B has been in the school's role as second girl, until Serena fled their school, B school was upgraded to become the number one person, that is, the so-called queen B, but the drama of the story is from Serena once again it started back to school, schools simultaneously forming a leading figure in the old and new situation is more complex, B and S are two long-time friend. B, and Serena is a friend since childhood, along with elite school, everyone??s backing is not small, from the principal to teachers, from students to parents, upper class circles of intrigue, corruption. B and Serena are friends but also the competitors, two of the Queen's both good and bad, shifting alliances. Overall, Blair great personality, loving and hating is clear, definite goals in life, very positive attitude to life, striving for what you want. However, in fact, injuries to her heart that she has been the lack of a sense of security, and even some selfish, afraid of being hurt, so she often uses the first way to avoid harm to others. Leighton Meester who plays Blair has said that "Blair is always the biggest drawback is her lack of sense of security, so she always wanted to be the most beautiful, the best known and most-loved people". 2.2. Serena van der Woodsen She was described as a pale blond hair and a long, 5 feet 7 inches tall, with a pair of blue-eyed girl. She was often described as ??perfect??, with an elegant beauty. To other classes: she is kind and tolerant, friendly. To family: she is rebel and responsible, sacrifice. To friend: she is sincerely, loyal, generous. Introduction: In novel series, many of the girls at Constance Billard accuse her of using her good looks as a means to secure that everything goes her way. She is not particularly academically skilled, but she is often told that she is not meeting her full potential. Her father runs the same Dutch shipping firm his great-great-grandfather founded in the 18th century, and her mother, Lillian van der Woodsen, is a socialite. Her parents are on the boards of all major charities and art organizations in the city. The van der Woodsens reside at 994 Fifth Avenue, a ritzy, white-gloved doorman building directly across the street from The Met and Central Park. Serena and herfamily own half the top floor in a 14 room penthouse. Serena is often seen as a threat to the other girls as she is mysterious and beautiful. Serena has a nail-biting habit and also cuts her split ends off herself, mainly during her classes at Constance Billard. Though exposed and aware of the on-goings in the fashion world, Serena, unlike Blair, is not as meticulous about her fashion choices and wardrobe. She is described to have an effortless way about her. Serena is charismatic, charming, talented, funny, kind, care free and laid back. These attributes help Serena to thrive and often attract men. In TV series, people compares her character with Josh Schwartz's original it-girl creation, Marissa Cooper, stating that Serena ??seems to have it all, but in addition to a party girl reputation, dark family secrets and a disregard for high society, Serena one-ups the sulky Coop with a history of BFF betrayal.?? Jason Gay of Rolling Stone describes Serena as ??the bad girl gone good who serves as Gossip Girl's wobbly moral compass.?? further emphasizing her early strained relationship with Blair as ??Lively's Serena is a former queen bee who mysteriously disappeared from campus, only to return and find her spiteful ex-best friend, Blair (Meester), in charge.?? with noteworthy praise. 2.3. Chuck Bass His father is a New York real estate tycoon, but also a romantic old man, and this character has inherited his son. Chuck is stirring up trouble all day. He is decadent, panic. He bathed in alcohol and marijuana, and he is also a rogue prince, and he often embarrassed the gentleman in the street. To other classes: look down them. To family: cherished his family. To friend: Feelings real, generous. To love: promiscuity but concentrated to his true love Blair Introduction: In the novels, Chuck is a relatively minor character, and has a series of flings with male and female characters across the course of the series. He got his name, Chuck Bass, from his signature chuckle in a bass tone. Chuck's role is initially that of an antagonist to the main characters. Chuck resides with his family at the Plaza Hotel on the Upper East Side and attends school at the Riverside Preparatory School for Boys on the Upper West Side, along with scholarship student Dan Humphrey. Chuck is largely friendless, but is tolerated by the others because of his family's enormous wealth. He is described as having flamboyant fashion sense, with a penchant for scarves, and has a pet monkey named Sweetie whom he carries around with him everywhere. Lazy and vain, Chuck's only interests are sex and money, and he is frequently chided by his father for lacking ambition and performing poorly in school. Following flings with numerous females and males, his only serious relationship comes near the end of the series, when he begins dating Blair Waldorf, a self-obsessed luxury loving teenager. In TV, it is well known that Constance Billard is an exaggerated version of the author's alma mater, Nightingale. It was revealed in preparation for the 2007 TV series debut, Josh Schwartz hired recent graduates of Ziegesar's alma mater to retool severalcharacters. Chuck Bass was then reconfigured as a more central character, an antiheroic heterosexual playboy whose on-off relationship with Blair Waldorf serves as one of the show's major ongoing storylines. Chuck is the resident "bad boy" of the Upper East Side, and like Blair is both vengeful and manipulative; the two often scheme elaborate plans together. As the show progresses, Chuck develops a softer side, specifically towards Lily, Eric and Serena, his adoptive mother, brother and sister, Nate, his lifelong best friend, and Blair. 2.4. Dan Humphrey He is a thin, sensitive to coffee, lovers and poets, he often saw the dark side of things. He is a very imaginative people, and easy to frustration, sensitive, indecision, no assertive. To family: love, selfless, responsible. To friend: friendly, helpful, Justice, shrink away from trouble. To love: romantic, Single-minded, gentle. Introduction: In the novel, Dan Humphrey lives with his father Rufus, and sister Jenny in Brooklyn. He is pale and thin, and is quite neurotic. He enjoys drinking coffee. He is considered to be an intellectual when it comes to writing and literature, and was in fact an intern for The Strand one summer. His favorite past time is writing on his black journals. He goes to Riverside Preparatory with Chuck Bass. In the first part of the books, he is in love with Serena Van Der Woodsen because of a party he threw at their apartment before he went to boarding school. When Serena returned to the Upper East Side, she was ostracized by her peers, so she made friends with Dan and Jenny. Dan later realizes that he has feelings for Vanessa, so he begins a relationship with her. They have a fight when a video of Jenny without her pants is leaked onto the internet, and she apologizes by sending his poem to the New Yorker. Dan gets published, and they make up. He gets an agent called Rusty Klien who claims he is "the next Keats." Rusty introduces Dan to Mystery Craze, a novelist. They hook up on stage at a poetry reading which Vanessa sees, effectively ending their relationship. Dan explores his sexuality later in the books by starting a relationship with his co-worker in the Strand by making literary salons with him, in actuality, giant orgies. He breaks up with his co-worker because of Chuck Bass, and he realizes that he truly loved Vanessa. He went to The Evergreen State College for bachelor studies. In TV, Dan "Lonely Boy" Humphrey is the son of rocker Rufus Humphrey, and is the older sibling of Jenny Humphrey. His best friend is Vanessa Abrams, whom he had feelings for a year prior to the pilot episode of Gossip Girl. Dan is a poet and attends the St. Jude's School for boys. He has longed for Serena van der Woodsen since a party when they were fifteen, and she was the only person who was nice to him. He has somewhat of a disgusting for Serena??s best friend, Blair Waldorf; however by the end of the third season Dan and Blair have warmed up to each other, to the point that Dan comforts Blair after her breakup with Chuck. Dan and his family reside in Dumbo, Brooklyn, and he wishes to attend Dartmouth University.