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【正文】 not be the same life as it really is. James shifted the ground of realistic art from the outer to the inner world. Mark Twain preferred to represent social life through portraits of local places which he knew best. He drew heavily from his own rich fund of knowledge of people and places. He confined himself to the life with which he was familiar. By quoting from his own experience, Mark Twain managed to transform into art the freedom and humor, in short, the finest elements of western culture.8/in connection with American Romanticism, how do you understand the “newness” of the American as a nation?There is an amount of truth in describing the Americans as somewhat different from Europeans. Their ideals of individualism and political equality, and their dream that America was to be a new Garden of Eden for man were distinctly American plan. The ideals may have been mere talk, and the dream may have been in the process of evaporation or even may have been just the figment of imagination, but their very existence in any form in the minds of the people did probably produce a feeling of newness, a feeling strong enough to inspire the romantic imagination and channel it into a different vein of writing. Hence the sense of mission with which some American romanticists undertook to represent their people in the New World. Anyone who tries to appreciate American literature in general and American romantic writing in particular in English and European terms will have to be content if they fail to find any thing great there.9/is there symbolism in the book Moby Dick?A) It is a mixture of fantasy and realism based on the South Pacific whaling industry. It might be read as initiation story about Ishmael, the outcast, finding himeslf in a real world of hard work and danger and an unreal world of speculation and mystery.
B) It is a fabulos dramatization of Ahab’s obsessed dermination to revenge himself in the pursuit of one particular whale who previously destoryed his boat and humiliated him by ripping off one of his legs. The book has so often been interpreted in so many ways, allegorically and symolically.C) Melville is a master of allegory and symbolism. Instead of putting the battle between Ahab and the big whale into simple statesment, he used symbols, that is , obejects or persons who represent something else. Differnet people on board the ship are representations of different ideas and different social and ethnic groups, facts bee symbols and incidents acquire universal meanings。 the Pequod is the microcosm of human society and the voyage becoems a search for truth. The while whale, Moby Dick, symbolizes nature for Melville, for it is plex, unfathomable, malignant, and beautiful as well.D) For the character Ahab,however, the whale only represents evil. Moby Dick is like a wall, hiding some unknown, mysterious things behind. Moby Dick is a mystery, an ultimate mystery of the universe, and the voyage of the mind will forever remain a search, not a discovery, of the truth. The whole story turns out to be a symbolic voyage of the mind quest of the truth and knowledge of the universe, a spiritual exploration into man’s deep realityy and Universally caused by generational conflicts, is here intensified by cultural difference. In Tan’s novels, the mothers have immigrated from China to the United States for the express purpose of providing their daughters with greater opportunities. To their surprise and dismay, the daughters have grown up American and thus foreign and inprehensible. Through storytelling, each of the four mothers and daughters and daughters attempts to make herself prehensible to her other half.
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