英語本科畢業(yè)論文基于作品人物淺析菲茨杰拉德

1、本科畢業(yè)論文 基于作品人物淺析菲茨杰拉德學生姓名： 學生學號： 200320207184 院（系）： 外國語學院 年級專業(yè)： 2003級英語本科5班 指導(dǎo)教師： 二七年五月elementary analysis on fitzgeraldbased on the characters of the great gatsbywang aiminunder the supervision ofma dongschool of foreign languages and culturespanzhihua universitymay 2007contentsabstract.ikey words.

2、i摘要.關(guān)鍵詞. introduction.1.the social and family background of fitzgerald.3a. the family background of fitzgerald .3b. the social background of fitzgerald .5.the early days of fitzgerald and the appearance of gatsby.7a. the early days of fitzgerald.7b. the appearance of gatsby.8.the golden age of fitzg

3、erald and the prime time of gatsby .9.the death of gatsby and the down of fitzgerald.12a. the death of gatsby.12b. the down of fitzgerald.13.the final end of the legend.14conclusion.15notes.16bibliography.17acknowledgements.18abstractat the time of his death, fitzgerald was considered as a failed li

4、terary hope, a writer victimized by his own indulgences. but since 1940s his literary reputation has steadily risen. today he is judged to be one of the major american prose writers of this century. in a number of his short stories, and in his finest novel, the great gatsby, fitzgerald had revealed

5、the stridency of an age of glittering innocence. in vivid and graceful prose he had, at the same time, described the emptiness and nothingness of american worship of wealth and the unending american dream of love, splendor, and fulfilled desires.this paper focuses on the study of the similarities be

6、tween fitzgerald and gatsby on the basis of the novel, the great gatsby, which consists of several parts as follows:the first part gives the brief introduction, in which the early days of fitzgerald and the appearance of gatsby are introduced. from the ways fitzgerald used to get the success and the

7、 classic posture gatsby owned in the darkness, we get to know that they are waiting for something which is the symbol of the wealth and the social position.the second part focuses on the detailed analysis of the similarities between fitzgerald and gatsby, which includes their occupation, the way the

8、y pursue their top girl, the ways they love and cherish their top girl, and the way to face the cruel and false society, from the analysis we learn that both of them possess an enthusiastic illusion for romantic love with innocence and naiveness.the last parts makes a conclusion of the paper based o

9、n the elementary analysis of the novel, and, in that way, we get to know the idea of the paper that the character of the novel-gatsby is the embodiment of the author-fitzgerald.key wordsfitzgerald；gatsby；similarities；摘要文學界認為他的去世是因為對文學失去了希望。認為菲茨杰拉德是一個因自我放縱而遭受傷害的作家，40 年代以后他的文學地位日益上升?，F(xiàn)在，菲茨杰拉德被認為是二十世紀美國

10、主要的散文作家之一。在菲茨杰拉德的大量短篇故事中，還有他最好的小說了不起的蓋茨比中，菲茨杰拉德揭示了美國20年代外表閃耀著天真的時代，而其中又有著刺耳的喧囂。菲茨杰拉德用生動優(yōu)雅的散文揭露了美國拜金主義的空虛，表現(xiàn)了美國人對愛情，豪華生活和無休止的欲望的無止境的追求。在論文的第一部分的敘述中，我們從菲茨杰拉德的早期的經(jīng)歷可以知道：金錢，成功和社會地位對他早年生活，求學和參軍起著不可磨滅的作用。并且與蓋茨比的職業(yè)，走私客，相比也說明了在當時社會中流行的“無須流汗便可成功”已成為當時社會的一個主題，也說明了金錢，成功和社會地位的重要性。在第二部分中，菲茨杰拉德的追求珊爾達的過程中和蓋茨比追求黛西的

11、過程，還有他們對待他們所愛的女孩的方式和兩個女人的寄生方式更充分的說明了金錢，成功和社會地位的重要性，也說明了在菲茨杰拉德的思想里也有對“無須流汗便可成功“的渴求。最后一部分，以菲茨杰拉德的落魄和蓋茨比的死的悲劇來做結(jié)，也說明了當時的美國夢的枯萎。關(guān)鍵詞菲茨杰拉德；蓋茨比；相似性introductionsince 1940s , the novel the great gatsby and the author fitzgerald have become the focus of the writers and critics, and they paid much attention to

12、 them separately, and however, few of them researched the novel and the author together. whats more, few of people studied the author from the perspective of the main characters of the novel, especially from the perspective of the character of gatsby, for this, the aim of this paper is to prove: the

13、 main character of the novel, gatsby, is the copy of the author, by comparing the similarities and the differences between gatsby and fitzgerald.some authors said that one classic masterpiece could display the social background of the author lived in. the novel the great gatsby is a miniature of 192

14、0s america, and it redisplayed the process of a group of people trying their best to get the success what they wanted to, with the abnormal mind given by the failed society. so, from the research of the author we could get to know the particular times in which the author lived and get the evidence t

15、o prove the notion that gatsby is the real copy of fitzgerald. this novel is a summary of the roaring twenties, and a devastating exposition of the jazz age. through the narration of nick caraway, it explores the superficially glittering world of mansions on the long island shore, and his encounter

16、with jay gatsby and the mystery that surrounds him. the poet e.a robinson (alan shucard, 1968: 146) once defined life in america as a kind of spiritual kindergarten where millions of bewildered infants are trying to spell god with the wrong blocks. while the author just use this bewildered situation

17、as his novels background todisplay the real history of the 20s america. and he also used the special situation to create the basic theme: the combination of absurdity with tragedy, and of potential power with perversion of potential and waste power. like the other writers of the1920s, fitzgerald was

18、 fascinated by the great of what had so-called the american dream. for a long time,thegreat gatsby was classified as a book about the roaring twenties. it is one of those novels that so richly evoke the texture of their time that they become, in the fullness of time, more than literary classics, the

19、y become a supplementary or even substitute form of history. in some way, the great gatsby has a good source for historians because of fitzgeralds sense of time, of the emotions evoked by the special time he has lived in the 1920s of america. at the same time, the novel was the real copy of the auth

20、ors life.that is tosay,the novel was the autobiography of the author-fitzgerald. unlike the other writers of his contemporaries, hesaw in himself exactly those aspects of “the american dream”which had caused its degradation, otherwise therest of writersformed two main streams: retreated from america

21、, or attempted to objectify it through a broad-scope sociological analysis, or ridiculed it through parody. the novels main themes are: the problem of wealth and the problem of love, say ,the way of dealing with the true love and the love in the allusion which has always confused the youth. in the n

22、ovel, these problems arealong with the process of the development of the plot the author designed. in the novel, fitzgeralds preoccupation with the money, and the dreams, the magical expectations, the carelessness, the ideals, andthe illusions which create and created bywealth were certainly a very

23、personal matter for him as an individual. while what he got: the delicate, lovely, and essentially parasitic woman whose love, loyalty had to be acquired by the success and protected by the continued achievement, in some way, love itself really like one kind of stock investment which depends upon th

24、e permanent investment of emotional funds. furthermore, the eternal theme of the novel even all the novels-love. this also was not a exception, the real lifes copy, nay, the love-affair between the author and the so-called golden girl zelda completely occurred in the novel with another name: the so-

25、called great gatsby and the vast, vulgar, meretricious beauty-daisy whose voices are always full of money, and this theme occurred in every corner of the novel. and we learn from the novel that the whole idea is the unfairness of a poor man cannot able to marry the woman he loved without money.in a

26、word, the novel the great gatsby was a historical document of 1920s america. and in the novel, each character has been rendered perfectly in that particular historical background.the family and social background of fitzgeraldfrom the novel weve learnt that the family and the social background have p

27、layed important parts in the character development of fitzgerald since his school times which determine his later development. it can also be learnt that the family background, especially his father affects his development; in the meantime the social background have constituted the exterior factors

28、in stimulating his pursuit of american dream. a. the family background of fitzgerald the dominant influences on f. scott fitzgerald were aspiration, literature, princeton, zelda sayre fitzgerald, and alcohol. born in saint paul, minnesota, fitzgerald is regarded as one of the greatest american write

29、rs of the 20th century. the self-styled spokesman of the lost generation - the americans born in the 1890s who came of age during world war i - crafted five novels and dozens of short stories that treat themes of youth, despair, and age with remarkable emotional honesty. his heroes - handsome, confi

30、dent, and doomed - blaze brilliantly before exploding (show me a hero, he once said, and i will write you a tragedy), (john w. bicknell, 1969: 36 )and his heroines are beautiful and intricate.francis scott key fitzgerald was born in st. paul, minnesota, on september 24, 1896, the namesake and second

31、 cousin three times removed of the author of the national anthem. fitzgeralds given names indicate his parents pride in his fathers ancestry. his father, edward, was from maryland, with an allegiance to the old south and its values. fitzgeralds mother, mary (mollie) mcquillan, was the daughter of an

32、 irish immigrant who became wealthy as a wholesale grocer in st. paul. both were catholics.comparing with fitzgeralds career as a writer, gatsby as a bootlegger, but they have many things in common; from the character of gatsby we can learn it. gatsby, whose main features include naive, pure and amb

33、itious. in fact, he is the son of idealism or in some way he is the disciple of the style of thought of idealism, in his blood even in his cell are full of that style, which results in the way of choosing his life company. gatsby, from a poor man to a rich man, whose experiences are so rich, while w

34、hose felling or the way of thought with ration are so tender and blindly, for going in for a woman who even has nothing in common with him. when we think it with mind, we really wonder that whether gatsby is clever or not, or whether his life is successful or sorrowful, and we also want to know that

35、 if this story is suitable for that special historical background, because of his fantastic way to go on his stage or the wealth he got in that times. a man can get so much wealth in that special times is a powerful prove to show that he is not a man with nuts in his head. and he should know that th

36、e wealth he got is not achieved by the luck, however, by the hard effort and his wisdom. if that story really happened in that times, the only reason to explain that is the courage the youth in 1920s american youth has. and fitzgerald also has that features: whose main features include naive, pure a

37、nd ambitious. in fact, he is the son of idealism or in some way he is the disciple of the style of thought of idealism, in his blood even in his cell are full of that style, which results in the way of choosing his life company.at the same time, fitzgerald, to be a nobleman as a writer at that time,

38、 he didnt show any discrimination to gatsby, as a bootlegger, it showed that he had received the idea: you could get the success with the way you think it suitable for you. that way of thought showed that the traditional american morality also is his feature as nick held. the narrator of the novel,

39、nick, represents the traditional moral standard of america. nick, who was attracted by the beauty, the wealth, and the earthy life style of “the waste land”, however, he gradually comes to understand the true aspect of the waste land: essential emptiness, the gaudy display of nothingness “during 191

40、1-1913 he attended the newman school, a catholic prep school in new jersey, where he met father sigourney fay, who encouraged his ambitions for personal distinction and achievement. as a member of the princeton class of 1917, fitzgerald neglected his studies for his literary apprenticeship. he wrote

41、 the scripts and lyrics for the princeton triangle club musicals and was a contributor to the princeton tiger humor magazine and the nassau literary magazine. his college friends included edmund wilson and john peale bishop. on academic probation and unlikely to graduate, fitzgerald joined the army

42、in 1917 and was commissioned a second lieutenant in the infantry. convinced that he would die in the war, he rapidly wrote a novel, the romantic egotist; the letter of rejection from charles scribners sons praised the novels originality and asked that it be resubmitted when revised. “(john w. bickne

43、ll, 1969:10)b. the social background of fitzgeraldin june 1918 fitzgerald was assigned to camp sheridan, near montgomery, alabama. there he fell in love with a celebrated belle, eighteen-year-old zelda sayre, the youngest daughter of an alabama supreme court judge. the romance intensified fitzgerald

44、s hopes for the success of his novel, but after revision it was rejected by scribners for a second time. the war ended just before he was to be sent overseas; after his discharge in 1919 he went to new york city to seek his fortune in order to marry. unwilling to wait while fitzgerald succeeded in t

45、he advertisement business and unwilling to live on his small salary, zelda broke their engagement. that situation also occurred in the novel, only the female protagonist changed, daisy, the delicate, lovely, and essentially parasitic woman whose love, loyalty had to be acquired by the success and pr

46、otected by the continued achievement. without her presence, without her special love for money, without her false feeling to gatsby, without her selfishness, the novel cannot show its charm and magic power to catch the critics and the contemporary writers. whats more, the novel cannot get the promot

47、ion of the readers of today. in short, daisy is in love less with gatsby the man, than with the gatsbys successful image, in some way, she falls in love with the money of gatsby, just like gatsby makes his famous remark to nick before they moved to the new york:”her voice is full of money”(f.scott f

48、itzgerald, 1925 :144). at the same time, her first marriage with tom also aimed at: money and social position.and in the mind of fitzgerald, he also appreciates the cool girl like jordan, just nick falls in love with jordan at first sight. jordan, a lovely girl, like daisy, who dresses in white and

49、always seems to be cool. and at the same time, she has her own way to catch the opportunities. unlike daisy, a delicate, lovely, and essentially parasitic woman, jordan always looks cool. for that special features the other girls lacked, nick was absolutely attracted by jordan at the first sight, ho

50、wever, he broke with her finally because he gets the same ability for irresponsibility and the quite oblivious false that he gets in daisy and tom.fitzgerald was born in a big city, so he got a name” city boy” of all his life. his family, moreover, was a part of the st. paul society, and this condit

51、ion, in some way, largely influenced the direction of his art and the acute sensibility along his growth. and we can say that, in some way, fitzgeralds attitudes were formed by the upper-classs way of dealing the financial and the social status, nay, it was his heritage. whats more, the theme just l

52、ike gatsby makes his famous remark to nick before they moving to the new york: “her voice is full of money” in the novel the great gatsby could easily get the original source, so his own financial attitude decided the basic gist of the novel. we learned that fitzgerald was a so-called “city boy”, so

53、 he favors the way the “city boy” did, like tom, is not difficult to understand. tom, the love rival of gatsby. comparing with gatsby, tom has his particular or unique notion for love, his love, mostly, depend on the reality. for tom, love itself is a matter of ego and appetite, its not to say that

54、he does not care for daisy, it is, rather, that his love is on a different level, and he will not pay most of his attention to the idealistic love, however, his love was based on a basic and pragmatic sense. while gatsby, who was absolutely ruled by his emotion, and pay much attention to the useless

55、 things to the real life, however, tom, who was simple-minded, he only pays his attention to the ideals which are useful to his own position in life, and ruthlessly eliminates any emotion which becomes a threat rather than pleasure. that is the reason why gatsby will be ultimately destroyed, while l

56、ike the tom, who can accommodate and survive. in the novel we learned that fitzgerald chosen the way of living like tom, surviving is the core of life, the main theme of those times of 1920s america. according to the way he used to pursue the girl he loved may concluded that: he has the doubleness i

57、n his character. fitzgerald was the inheritor of tradition which was the financial success was the basic the element in the success of the whole life, and the way to get the success not related to a good citizenship, this, in some way, was the shadow of his upper-class familys shadow.on the other hand, he also held that the good business was directly related to the good citizenship and soci