《献给艾米丽的玫瑰》开题报告

鞍山师范学院外国语学院The Analysis of Symbolic Used in a Rose for Emily 象征手法在《献给艾米丽的玫瑰》中的运用 摘要 威廉?福纳克于1949年获得诺贝尔文学奖。他的绝大多数作品都以美国南方为背景,小说讲述了南方300年来的历史。而《献给艾米丽的一朵玫瑰花》正是他的短篇中最有名、最受欢迎和最多次收入短篇小说集的作品,因而这篇文章在美国小说中具有典型代。 在就要灭亡的南部种植园奴隶制与蓬勃发展的北方工业文明发生激烈碰撞的年代里,没落的南方贵族小姐艾米丽垂死挣,为挽住大势已去的难不文明与锐不可当的北方工业文明做殊死抗争,并由此上演了一幕文明已逝的悲剧。虽然这篇小说题名为“献给艾米丽的一朵玫瑰花”,但在小说中,只在结尾提到玫瑰花,也没有人献花给艾米丽。这谜一样的篇名似乎暗藏着福克纳的深意。这是种自我颠覆的方式,或者说也是一种自我首肯的方式,福克纳故意留此悬念引发人们去深思其背后的真正动机。 本文将通过分析小说中文化、情景级人物关系来分析玫瑰及艾米丽的隐含意义。身为贵族的艾米丽作为南方文明的化身和代表北方工业的荷默在杰弗森小镇里擦出爱的火花,但这看似美好的融合却最后带来了悲剧的结局,小说通过大量象征手法的运用,生动描绘了艾米丽小姐的形象,揭示了南方腐朽社会与日新月异的社会变革之间的冲突,因此解读“玫瑰”“艾米丽”的寓意是理解全文的关键。 关键词:悲剧;玫瑰;象征手法;爱情 I THE ANALYSIS OF SYMBOLIC USED IN A ROSE FOR EMILY ABSTRACT William Faulkner was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in1949. Most of his works are in the background of the Southern United States .His novels tell the history of the South for nearly 300 years. "A Rose for Emily" is the most famous novel of Faulkner. And it is also the most popular and the most times which has been quoted in his collections of stories. For all these reasons,this article is the most typical American novel. During the years which the southern plantation slavery will perish and the northern industrial civilization is booming,the fierce collision occurs. The declining Southern aristocracy,miss Emily,puts up her deathbed struggle. She fights with the northern industrial civilization in order to keep the southern tradition which is deteriorating. This staged a tragedy about dead civilization. This novel entitled “A Rose for Emily",however,the author only mentioned roses at the end of the story and nobody gave roses to Emily. Why Faulkner chose this title seemed to be enigmatic. This is a way of self-subversion or a mode of self-sanction which Faulkner intentionally left this suspense to let people to have a deep ponder of the real motives. Because the rose has designative and symbolic meanings, it deserves a special analysis. My paper will analyze the culture,scenarios and characters in the novel and then analyze the relationship between the characters and the implications of the rose. The aristocracy, Emily,who is the representative of southern culture, falls in love with Homer who is the embodiment of North civilizations in the Jefferson. However,the seeming good beginning is finally a tragedy. Symbolism is consistently used to work out titles of his essays,William Faulkner give a vivid and detailed description of the heroine Emily to reveal the clashes between the new values and the old ones in the South . Therefore interpretation the implication of the “Rose” and “Emily” are the key to understanding the whole novel. Key Words: tragedy; rose; symbolism;love CONTENTS Introduction 1. About A Rose for Emily and Its Author 1.1 A Rose for Emily 1.2 William Faulkner 2. Symbolic Meaning of Emily in the Story 2.1 Emily as the Representative the Southern Tradition 2.2 Emily as the Representative of a Rose with Thorn 3. Symbolic Meaning of the Rose in the Story 3.1 Rose as the Representative of Love and Belief 3.2 Rose as the Representative of Tragedy 3.3 Rose as the Representative of the Pursuit of Sex Conclusion Bibliography Acknowledgement