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1、英语文体学课程论文题目:StylisticAnalysisoftheSymbolisminTheGreatGatsby姓名：学号：班级：StylisticAnalysisofSymbolisminTheGreatGatsbyAbstract：TheGreatGatsbyisthemasterpieceoffamousAmericanwriterF.ScottFitzgerald・Symbolismiswidelyusedinthisnovel:thegreenlightlocatedattheendoftheBuchanans1doc
2、k,thevalleyofashes,theeyesofDoctorT.J.Eckleburg,Gatsby^houseandtheWestEggsandEastEggs.AlloftheseimagesarcusedtointerpretthedisillusionofGatsby'sAmericandreamsaswellasthesocialmoraldecay.Keywords：symbolism;Gatsby;image;Americandream;moraldecayF.ScottFitzgerald,asoneofthe
3、greatstylistsinAmericanliteratureandisthespokesmanofacrucialandrevealingperiodintheculturalhistoryofhiscountry.HismasterpieceTheGreatGatsby,Writtenin1925,isoftenreferredtoas"TheGreatAmericanNovel”，andasthequintessentialworkwhichcapturesthemoodofthe"JazzAge1'.T.S・Eliotre
4、adthisbookseveraltimesandcommentedthatitwas"thefirststepthatAmericanfictionhastakensinceHenryJamesH(Eliot310).Inthisnovel,FitzgeraldexpressedthattheAmericandreamhasbeendestroyedbythedesireformaterialism.Atthebeginning,Gatsbyhasapuredream,buthebecomescorruptedinhisquestt
5、owardsthatdream.InordertofullyexpresshisideasFitzgeraldwiselyappliesmanymeaningfulsymbolstoaccentuatethestory.1DefinitionofSymbolismAccordingtotheOxforddictionarysymbolismmeansthepracticeofrepresentingthingsbymeansofsymbolsorofattributingsymbolicmeaningsorsignificanceto
6、objects,events,orrelationships.MSymbolisawayofusingsomethingintegraltotheworktoreachbeyondtheworkandengagetheworldofvalueoutsidethework•”(WilfredL.Guerin,Etal.86)Itmightbeanincidentthattakesonmeaningoritmightbecolors,characters,objects,orfigures,usedtorepresentabstracti
7、deasorconcepts.Asymbolisoftenreferredtorepeatedlyandcarriesmeaningsessentialtothestory.Somesymbolsareuniversal,likewaterforcleansing,butothersaremoreculturallybased.2SymbolisminTheGreatGatsbyTheGreatGatsbyisrichinsymbolism.Thegreenlight,thevalleysofashes,theeyesofDoctor
8、T.J.Ecklcburgandsoonallhavetheirsymbolicmeanings-2.1GreenlightThegreenlightlocatedattheendoftheBuchanans1docka
