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1、TheInheritors:ProgressorRegression?---WilliamGolding’sCritiqueofSocialDarwinismAGraduationThesisSubmittedtotheGraduateSchoolofShantouUniversityInPartialFulfillmentoftheRequirementsFortheDegreeofMASTEROFARTSInEnglishLanguageandLiteratureByFengYanUndertheSupervisionofProfes
2、sorZhuWangJune,2013AcknowledgementsMydeepestgratitudegoesfirstandforemosttoProfessorZhuWang,mysupervisor,whohasinitiatedmeintotherealmofliterarycriticismandhasexertedgreatinfluenceonbothmyresearchandmyoutlookoflifewithherenlighteninglectures,rigorousscholarship,andinvalua
3、bleguidance.ProfessorZhuhasgivenmeconsistentandilluminatinginstructionduringthewholeprocessofthewritingofthepaper.Hertimelyencouragementhashelpedsomuchformetogetoverdifficultiesofallkinds.IamgreatlyindebtedtoherineverytentativestepthatIhavemadeinthepresentstudy.Iwouldlike
4、toexpressmyheartfeltgratitudetothefacultiesoftheEnglishDepartmentofShantouUniversitybecausetheyhavetaughtmebroadknowledgefromdifferentperspectives.Specialthanksshouldbegiventomyteachers,LiJie,ChenHuayu,YuanGuangtao,PengJian’eandWenBing.MygratitudealsogoestotheSTUlibrarian
5、XuYong,whohasofferedmealotofhelpinfindingacademicbooksfromtheNationalLibraryinBeijing.IhavealsoreceivedcontinualhelpofvariouskindsfrommyclassmatesYanJinling,GuoChunjuanandHuangJing.Wehaveproofreadeachother’swritingsandpointedouttheweakpointsforimprovement.Thelast,butnotth
6、eleast,ismypeculiaraffectiontomyparents,myrelatives,andmyfriends,withoutwhosesupportandencouragementitisdifficultformetofinishwritingthisthesis.iAbstractWilliamGoldingisoneofthemostprominentBritishwritersinthetwentiethcentury.HewontheNobelPrizeinLiteraturein1983.Hismaster
7、pieceTheInheritorsisabouttheconfrontationandconflictbetweentheprimitivePeople(theNeanderthals)andtheNewPeople(Homosapiens).Thenovelisconcernedwithhumanevolutionandprogress,revealingthatthetechnologicalandculturaladvancesareachievedatthecostofbloodshedandhumanity.Thethesis
8、makesanin-depthanalysisofTheInheritorsintheoppositepositionofsocialDarwinism,aimingatcriticizing
