篇一：英语论文-欧亨利短篇小说中的人物形象分析
英语论文-欧亨利短篇小说中的人物形象分析
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本科毕业设计(论文)开题报告
课题名称：
欧亨利短篇小说中的人物形象分析
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一、综述本课题国内外研究动态，说明选题的依据和意义
欧·亨利（o·hey,1862-1910）.美国著名短篇小说家。欧亨利善于观察生活各个方面，其故事人物一般都是他寄予同情的小市民，情节颇多偶然巧合，结局往往出人意料。国内外对欧·亨利的短篇小说的研究已经深入到了他的作品的各个方面，如欧·亨利小说的结构艺术。象他的独特的小说结尾；他的小说的写作技巧与风格，象充斥于作品的字里行间的幽默与讽刺。以及作品的主题社会意义等各个方面。评论家弗门（h·j·forman）认为亨利“具备漠泊桑的技巧，而幽默上则远超过他。”
描写社会底层的小人物是十九世纪末和二十世纪初现实主义文学的一大特色，但从世界范围来进行衡量，象欧亨利在《四百万》中那样以明快，抒情的描写手法写出这些小人物的命运，写出他们的内心痛苦和快乐的小说实不多见。更主要的是通过一些小人物命运的描写，在戏而不谑的讽刺和怒而不哀的揭露中，显示出作者对社会的抨击。
本选题将在国内外学者研究的基础上，着重探讨作者在短篇小说中所创造的人物形象。在作者数量众多的短篇小说中，我们可以见到当时美国社会形形色色的人物：小人物、骗子、富翁等。这些形象已有不少成为世界公认的艺术典型。欧·亨利短篇小说中塑造的人物形象为人们认识十九世纪末至二十世纪初期的美国社会提供了生动而准确的形象材料。
二、研究的基本内容，拟解决的主要问题：
欧·亨利是美国文学史上优秀的短篇小说家。本课题研究的是欧·亨利短篇小说中塑造的人物形象。作者写了许多故事，围绕虚假的掩饰，无情的欺骗，伪装的高贵等主题，塑造了众多栩栩如生的人物—贫穷但快乐的小人物，善良的骗子，阴险狡诈的富翁等等。他运用写实手法，具体刻画情节，同时穿插幽默与讽刺于情节中，成功的塑造了许多典型的人物形象。作者独特的小说结构艺术，写作技巧与风格是小说人物形象塑造成功的重要因素，是值得我们模仿和借鉴的。很有研究价值。
三、研究步骤、方法及措施：
本研究涉及到四大步骤：选题、查找资料、定题和写提纲，以及最后完成论文的主体部分。选题是基于阅读多篇资料后所得到的感想，收集的资料来源于学校图书馆，系资料室，电子阅览室以及互联网。定题和写提纲是在详细阅读查找的资料后，对自己所获得信息的选择和综合。
本课题将从作品对人物形象的分类以及其写作手法，如写实手法，情节刻画和幽默与讽刺手法及作品体现的主题思想三个方面来研究怎样成功的塑造人物形象，以及形形色色的人物形象对深化作品主题和体现作品中蕴含的社会意义等方面所起的作用。
四、研究工作进度：
五、主要参考文献：
篇二：欧亨利的个人及作品英语介绍
O.Hey’s writing styles
O.Hey is one of the American famous short-story writers. His novels expose the darkness of capitalism from different angles, describe the difficult life of lower class, praise their sincere friendship, love and desire to blessed life. He always write a comedy ending to express deep social meaning, serious social reality and higher level. Furthermore, it points out the inevitability.
As we all know O.Hey’s ending is always unexpected. He will suddenly change the inner world of the figures in an unbelievable way, or reverse the fate of the hero. In most time, it will make people feel in track, but the majority will think it reasonable after a while, such as “The Cop and the Anthem”. In the passage, Souby wanted to be in a prison so he made troubles outside. However, his hopes always were defeated. When Souby was reclaimed by the Anthem and decided to live a new life. Unfortunately, policemen put him into prison on some trumped-up charge. When all people assume he will be safe through life, policemen took him to a court. This is a typical O.Hey’s ending, which puts people into a dark hole with thinking deeply. And yet O.Hey just use this way to reflect the reality of being unable to distinguish the good from the bad.
The artistic effects of O.Hey’s ending does not always appear in the end. For example, there are two plots in the “The Cop and the Anthem”. One is that Soupy molested a woman, but in an opposite manner, the woman molested him. The other is that Soupy took away a customer’s illegal umbrella. Both a simple and attractive woman and a (本文来自：WwW.xiaOCaofAnweN.Com 小草范文 网:欧亨利英语论文)well-dressed customer give readers a decent feeling, but in fact, they are not the people what we are thinking. I believer everyone will think it is incredible like me. Only if we think carefully is it normal. After all, those people really exist in our society. Is everyone in upper-class noble, kind and well-behaved? Of course not, someone just put their dirty behaviors under their beautiful mask. In order to express the inner dirtiness, O.Hey had to decorate a lot in the passage. Although what it is isn’t as how it is, in short, it is reasonable. O.Hey’s ending exposed the public morals going from bad to worse of capitalism in the humors.
篇三：欧亨利最后一片叶子Behrman英文评论论文 the last leaf
Behrman in The Last Leaf
-----from O.Hey 洪剑 201001401103 旅游管理 040
When a dying lady was looking out the ivy vine1 through the window, whose leaves were falling , she desperately thought “if the last falls, I must go”2. The old painter sacrificed his life to paint a green ivy leaf onto the brick wall ,when the real last fell .One died and one lived. No one could deny that piece of ivy leaf saved everything about love，nobility and greatness. The old man was just Behrman in O.Hey’s novel The Last Leaf.
In O.Hey’s eyes, Behrman was a failure in art3but we might say he was a success in humanity. Actually he ever set his mind to accomplish a surprising masterpiece and even prepared to be proud of it; Well , his masterpiece did not appear until the death approached .Otherwise, he lived by being a model for some poor painters like him and drunk all day along. That’s the first impression which Behrman gave us at the middle part of the novel.
As a matter of fact, Behrman represented a small shadow of American West people that seek fortune in 19th century .O.Hey was also born in a doctor family, which made him informed of the difficulties the poor had met. And we could discover many familiar roles in his novels, like Soapy in The
cop and the Anthem , John Adair in A Municipal Report Jim and Della in The Gift of the Magi. As a loyal reader to O.Hey ,I guess these characters appearing in his novels might be someone he knew or heard, might be his friends or himself. At least these roles reflected O.Hey’s real voice into his mind. For some reasons, O.Hey had been in prison for 3 years during which he made his famous novel The cop and the Anthem. To some extent , Soapy’s painfulness was O.Hey’s .When he offered to get in the jail, it was refused; When he washed his brain and decide to live a common life he wanted, he was caught with no reason. This ridiculous result conveyed a great joke of American society.
Now back to the old painter Behrman, O.Hey did not tell how he helped Johnsy, how he painted his masterpiece and why he chose to do it and readers knew it from the conversation between Sue and Johnsy as follows:
"I have something to tell you, white mouse," Sue said. "Mr. Behrman died of pneumonia to-day in the hospital. He was ill only two days. The janitor found him the morning of the first day in his room downstairs helpless with pain. His shoes and clothing were wet through and icy cold. They couldn't imagine where he had been on such a dreadful night. look out the
window, dear, at the last ivy leaf on the wall. Didn't you wonder why it never fluttered or moved when the wind blew? Ah, darling, it's Behrman's masterpiece - he painted it there the night 4
Behrman died at the end of the novel. Such a kind of way declaring Behrman’s death may mot surprise us, because we all know, his pneumonia was much worse than Johnsy and death will come sooner or later. Anyways, Behrman saved Johnsy in a silent and artistic way, which truly shocked me .That’s also why I like this character Behrman and this novel, even though O.Hey did not give him too many words.Perhaps, this writing style might make this character greater and stand out in the other side, I think.
That last leaf never means the last life. Behrman was like a doctor more than a painter. It cured Johnsy’s pneumonia and gave her a strong courage and great hope to hold on. What a great value his masterpiece had made! Meanwhile, Behrman seemed more alive than dead. We could say, Behrman did not only save a person’s life, but successfully saved an American dream for all the people who seek freedom and peace. Behrman died in the right way; He also taught us a lesson named “what’s humanity and where it lies”. That’s what his masterpiece
brought us here and now.
As is mentioned, Johnsy’s dream was to paint the Bay of Naples before she passed away. I could not imagine whether it had been realized or not. However,I was sure of Behrman’s--------the last leaf and the lasting life.
Reference:
1.vine n.藤；葡萄树；藤类植物
2 2012/5/19 3 2012/5/19
4王旭红编译 2005 大连理工大学出版社 《美国短篇小说精选》 127
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