哈利波特英文版论文TheAnalysisoftheLiteraryandCulturalValueofHarryPotterSeries

Abstract
English novelist J.K.Rowling’s series of books Harry P otter is no doubt a great wonder in the literary world of time. From the publishment of the first book Harry Potter and The Sorcerer’s Stone to the seventh book Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows, only ten years, it created a wonder that never happened: the novel has translated into more than 70 languages and published in more than 100 countries. It was sold about 325 million in the world. It became a favorite book beyond the country, nationality, sex, belief and culture. It is welcomed by different classes and all ages from different cultural back. It is stirring up a prolonged “Harry Potter fad”and a “Harry Potter phenomenon”that arrests people’s attention. This paper will analysis Harry Potter from the aspects of the value of aesthetic expectation, culture and literature.
Keyword：Harry Potter; literature value; aesthetic expectation; hero; fantastic; culture
Contents
Abstract …………………………………………………………………………………Introduction……………………………………………………………………………………
1 Aesthetic Value of Harry Potter…………………………………………………………
1.1 The Bizarre Twists and Turns of The Story………………………………………
1.2 A Hero of Civilians ………………………………………………………………
1.3 Implied Aesthetic Tragic Emotion…………………………………………………
2 Cultural Value of Harry Potter……………………………………………………………
2.1 The Anti-modern Cultural Tendency ……………………………………………
2.2 View of the Heroism of Ordinary People ………………………………………
2.3 The Attack of Racism, Class Differences in the Argot …………………………
3 Literary Value of Harry Potter…………………………………………………………
3.1 The Poetic Philosophy ……………………………………………………………
3.2 A Model of Successful Children's Literature ……………………………………
3.2.1 Set A Chain of Suspense …………………………………………………
3.2.2 Attractive Narrative of Story……………………………………………
3.2.3 The Integration of Magical World and Campus Life………………………Conclusion……………………………………………………………………………………Acknowledgement…………………………………………………………………………Bibliography…………………………………………………………………………………
Introduction
Today is the Internet era and an era of pictures. Network refused to print reading, the traditional flat print books have been out of fashion; reading pictures refused to read the text. Who will take their time to read books patiently. However, it is difficult to understand, there is a thick book about millions of words which is so popular in the whole world in the lament sound "books will disappear". But actually, millions of children became the fans of this book and made them back to the library from the console and the network. This wonderful book is the British writer J • K Rowling’s Harry Potter series. Harry Potter, a handsome boy who rides a broomstick and wears a pair of round glasses, has what charm that conquered the global audience? J • K Rowling, once a poor single mother but now the richest woman in Britain today, what magic she used produce a reading storm in the Internet Age? 1997, J·K Rowling published the first fantasy novel Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.In just ten years, she finished seven novels of Harry Potter series and set off a Harry Potter reading hot in the world. This series of novels translated into more than 60 languages and were sold more than 200 million. It is no longer simply a favorite literature by its readers, but evolved into a cultural phenomenon. Fantasy novels represented by Harry Potter have become a cultural trend in the western. Why Harry Potter series became a cultural trend and accepted by different cultural value system? A major reason is: the magic world Harry Potter created is not the shadow of the real world, but pure human spirit picture which once was a patent of children. However, in such a rich material society, but lost in the spirit of post-modern society, human picture of pure soul do not showed in the traditional literature and modern literary works. The general spirit of the crisis has not the appropriate comfort. Rowling created the Harry Potter largely to meet the people's pursuit of such a pure heart picture.
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1 Aesthetic Value of Harry Potter
1.1The Bizarre Twists and Turns of the Story
Literature is the study of human being. Joys and sorrows of the story is a portrayal of the ups and downs of life. It is a legacy from the ancient human entertains self-satisfaction of a pastime. Literature depicts a kind of life experience from the inside or outside which is both strong entertainment factor and quite a game component. There is profound philosophical nature and ideals of the enlightenment color. Strange twists and turns of the story are the inherent elements of literature, but also the good media to attract the readers. The reason why Harry Potter is so popular is that firstly related with its ups and downs. There is only one plot clue in seven volumes that Harry gradually grows in the contest with V oldemort. Stories started from 11-year-old Harry when he went to the magical school. There are many magical properties in Hogwarts School: owler, spiral staircase, Howler, flying cars; Harry’s broomstick, wand, invisibility cloak and the Marauder’s map. There are a lot of magical creatures around campus: horse people, giant spiders, whomping willow, beasts with eagle head and wings, giant ... ... In Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, from Harry found that sorcerer’s stone is elements allow the rebirth of V oldemort, he has conflict and hatred with V oldemort and his servant . Harry intentionally or unintentionally undermined their actions and won the sorcerer’s stone to stop V oldemort’s rebirth. Face the strong opponents, Harry can survive and keep safety every time. It is because his comprehension of magic continuously improves and have such outstanding principal Dumbledore wizard help and a little luck so that he always lucky enough to be a winner. This is so-called "coincidence." This is a surreal fantasy world full of magic, magic spell, magic creatures, but, in the eyes of a child, you can touch it, feel it as if they are real. Children are the acceptance of groups who has least obstacles and highly affected by word of mouth than adults. There is more time to gather and exchange greater interest in play and games, of course, also have higher 佳木斯大学教务处第
enjoyment and gain.
Harry • Potter depicts life from children's concerns and perspective. In the eyes full of childlike, the world is so colorful and changeable. Their innocence make complex social instantly simple, routine life interesting ,and everything can be so magical, mysterious: reinforced concrete house can divided into a magical world after the wizard’s magic; buses fly over the city like a plane; public telephone like a lift, cast a magic coin will reach the underground world of the magic court.Ordinary people, events, scene thing in the wonderful imagination becomes extraordinary sacred, not only satisfy the curiosity of children, but also attracted the attention of many adults --- awaken distant memories, activated the sleeping dream, lighting "game" of passion. Adults as a main social group, has to bear too much responsibility, obligation, pressure and burden. So they need to vent and release their anxious, never, empty and emotion. They get back the fun and magic of childhood ability to meet basic needs of game entertainment psychology, and also access to the highest level of life enjoyment that is aesthetic delight with the spirit of joy.
H arry • Potter is not only rich in interesting and storytelling, but also with the "magic" way turn the dull taste of modern life to overflowing, exuberant. Such as a detail in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, the national president is waiting a call in the Prime Minister's Office and a man self-proclaimed "Ministry of Magic," Minister comes from roof to report on the recent actions and tasks, and then go disappear into the stove in the green flame. Half-truths, falsehoods, both whimsical and unexpected, but also practical, makes sense: the main public sector actually has a Ministry of Magic --- specifically to deal with the real magic of a wizard to facilitate the exchange of links with the real world. Peculiar imagination and vivid description make the real "magic" not only easy to understand and share their feelings, but also broke the realist and make things "strange" and "fun". So different style and exciting alternative of magic achieve the position among the classics of literature through establishing the theme of good over evil and sublimate the work values and aesthetic 佳木斯大学教务处第
meaning.
Harry • Potter full of fun and entertainment bring people back to fantasy times from the real world. The exciting story which is full of whimsy, beyond time and space fictional world, provides a maximum security mental recreation park for today’s people.
1.2 A Hero of Civilians
Harry Potter builds a large colorful alien world, both love and hate, have complicated the past lives. Harry, a handsome boy who rides a broomstick and wears a pair of round glasses, flying around the world, make an unstoppable whirlwind of magic and let everyone crazy for him. While all sorts of weird characters contributed to f iction’s incredible success. But the idolatry of human is the psychological basis of its high-profile phenomenon. Rowling shapes the story of Harry’s growth with a series of book. In his world, miracles, myths, magic, anything is possible. So Harry become an Idol and marked as a modern young hero. This marks the return of the hero worship of the civilian population.
As a civilian hero, Harry is just an ordinary little boy with a normal appearance, wearing a pair of small round glasses. He was intelligent, naughty, and loves the limelight, like to point out mischief; learning is not particularly serious, although posses the talent of magic, but the written examination have to depend on a friend’s counseling to make it through. He ignored the school rules, repeatedly broken taboo, stole into the Forbidden Forest, worn invisibility cloak, read banned books and unauthorized absence from school to the Magic Village. He wants to show that his prowess and proud of being a maverick. This knowingly individual heroism, get to the bottom, is only a juvenile self-proclaimed rebel spirit, intentionally or unintentionally, to attract the attention of others. In real life, these young boys are everywhere. They are upright, kind and intelligent. There are various harmless shortcomings and defects and eager to free, unfettered, arbitrary, and unconventional. Having these character
traits, Harry is a true portrayal of millions of children and typical representative of his 佳木斯大学教务处第
"civilian hero" image orientation.
Idolatry is a hero dream in human childhood, but the "supperhero" that Rowling creates is not tall, or even to common to be a hero---sometimes he fears or even wants to escape when he faced V oldemort. Harry knew that he must have more powerful magic to defeat V oldemort and it is the best choice to keep safe before the last fight. There is no born hero. The sense of failure and frustration make Harry strong and perseverance. A naughty child's great potential be excited out of and an eternal truth was revealed: just prevails over evil and creats miracle.
Rowling shapes Harry as a young hero, a subversion of the traditional civilian heroes: delicate, playful, curious treason and failure that belong s ordinary people’s qualities. Heroic aura fades, his usual ordinary even mediocre image is more approachable, more realistic real, and also more in line with modern standards of aesthetic Today, more and more rational readers don’t pursuit "Superman" and they no longer need a super hero with moral perfection, noble character. The heroes are on earth, among our life and everyone is a potential hero, everyone can become a hero. The civilian hero meets the spiritual needs of modern personality equality. The role of hero and civilian status is redefined, so equal dialogue between the two parallel pairs becomes possible.
1.3Implied Aesthetic Tragic Emotion
As a fairy tale work, "Harry • Potter" never refuse to talk about death, but let the threat of death filled the book and result in strong tragic effects. The most precious is life and life's greatest feature is uncopiable. So the demise of life is the greatest tragedy. The enormous shadow of death always shrouded in the human heart and became an unspeakable pain and nightmare. In Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, the magic school headmaster Dumbledore who has amazing magic strength is Harry's spiritual support. He always appeared timely and helps Harry to solve all difficulties. He is kindness, generosity, integrity but unexpectedly killed.
Impermanence of life and unpredictable death, anyone is difficult to block. People can 佳木斯大学教务处第
not control himself and can not predict the death. People fear deeply. This increased the tragedy. Death is not the absolute elements of tragedy, but tragedy is most likely derived from the death. Harry can not do anything when he faced powerful alien forces and helpless in the face of the tragic death of peers and teachers. This absurdity, loneliness, hopelessness may also force the reader to think about life's fragility and impermanence of fate. Here, death became the cornerstone of the tragedy.
Works from the beginning of the tragedy buried hint: Harry’s parents fed little Harry the V oldemort‘s a “spirit”. V oldemort curse Harry to be ashes but the result is equal to curse its own. So he lost his body, leaving only the soul. As the owner of V oldemort’s one soul, Harry’s life and death is combined with V oldemort’s. Harry had to bear the spirit of the disturbance; step by step toward a pre-established trap. Harry can not get rid of “spirit” of V oldemort. He afraid that he could not resist the temptation of becoming another V oldemort.He was under immense pressure but finally defeated V oldemor and determined self-sacrifice in order to prevent the possible rebirth of V oldemort. Harry is a tragedy of existence. It is also an absurd since life has been linked with V oldemort. He had the tragic fate of the doomed and only the end of life is tragic end. This is the fate that Harry can not refuse and escape. "V oldemort" is his sworn enemy, but actually his own. Harry must overcome himself which requires more effort and greater courage. Of course, this made heroes and heroic qualities of character more prominent. From knowing their fate closely related, Harry’s choice whether co-exist or crash and burn with V oldemor is crucial. Face beautiful, precious life, no one is willing to give up, but the hero’s choice is justice in righteousness and sacrifice himself. Rowling dealt with the ultimate fate of Harry with tragic element, although happy endings hinder the further rendering tragic, but tragic sense of fairy tales as a fundamental change in the narrative style and deepened the meaning of literary works to enhance the work of the aesthetic implications. While it highlights the tragic circumstances behind the sense of the tragedy and further strengthen the work force.
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2 Cultural Value of Harry Potter
2.1 The Anti-modern Cultural Tendency
A British critic defined the central feature of Harry Potter as "escapist world." "Real world" in the eyes of Rowling is material and political progress. "Escapism" means rejection and denial to the real world. So, in essence, Rowling has the anti-modern cultural tendencies. Rowling has a special love to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft where Harry and his friends learn witchcraft. This is a school built in the castle. F or today’s teenagers who dominated by rational science and technology and suppressed by learning tasks, the Hogwarts magic school is full of wonder and mystery place. There are a lot of magical creatures around campus: horse people, giant spiders, whomping willow, beasts with eagle head and wings, giant and even appeared unimaginable Norway dragon and unicorn. There are thrilling Quidditch match, broomstick, witchcraft, wand...... Harry was a gifted wizard boy who buried in Muggle world, but he is a genius in the magic world with high capability. And he unconsciously felt: "Castle is more like a home every day." Rowling described Harry’s witchcraft school, his life and his learning mentality, some extent due to her youth and experience. Rowling's parents lived in the town of West Village Yetkin for some reasons. The West Village for those who escape city life in London has an irresistible lure of romance. It is open, wide, scenic, historic and mysterious, simple and relaxed life; people have more time to visit with others. In her hometown, she likes walking in the garden, woods and fields. She felt happy, enthusiastic and generous. She believed that home, family and labor is the center of life, but do not want to change the world and just want to enjoy life. However, industrialization has destroyed the "beautiful countryside," Rowling saw the golden fields gradually disappeared; gradually clouds the sky made her dislike it any more. Rowling’s another painful memory is poverty. As a single mother, in the beginning of novels, she even had no fixed abode, had to push baby carriages to the coffee shop for writing. Because 佳木斯大学教务处第
there is no computer, paper, she had to write the story of the novel in the broken
pieces of paper; she drank a cup of coffee every a few hours to save money. In novel, Harry’s tragic childhood, dark cupboard and the cousin’s bullying, are all reproduction of poverty of Rowling.
Because industrial technology damage environment and poverty harm the lives, so that Rowling had “escapism” impulse. In Harry Potter, the little magician were riding on a flying broom, using the owl messengers and they do not have complex mechanical toys and exciting game. Such creative thinking, to a certain extent, reflected that Rowling respect nature and escapes the world. Rowling has full of warm memories on the "pre-industrial era". In her view, the 20th century is a recession and people should return to the traditional life to look for the loss of moral and living environment. This concept is not alone. Rowling's “escapism " is a shock and reflection to the real world. But she also understands the power of modern is hard to resist, eventually the memory of the traditional will generally grow dim, fade.
There is a light blue and sadness in Harry Potter: little wizards had grown up, married, and have their own children; they hide their own magic wand, and lived with Muggles together. Magical world and its amazing things gradually leave and everything in the passage.
2.2 View of the Heroism of Ordinary People
The hero legends follow a similar narrative pattern: "A hero from the ordinary everyday world into a supernatural miracle field where he encountered some incredible power and at last won a decisive victory." This is the so-called hero adventure narrative mode. When almost modern literature described "the hero is dead" by this narrative mode, Rowling found a new approach of the performance of heroes and heroism: She returned magical medieval world and express the modern ideal of the hero which was thought to be lost with passion. As a result, Harry Potter giant a great success with a huge number of readers, whether adults or children,
because they are all love integrity, indomitable hero and the story happened to them. 佳木斯大学教务处第
Harry Potter,the hero changed the traditional Western view of the tragic spirit. Harry, an orphaned childhood, little boy was fostered in uncle's home, suffering inconstancy of human relationships, joys and sorrows. The fate of his quiet life is shattered and when he was 11years old. He began a period of life journey different from "Muggle" and he had to face the black wizard V oldemort. He had to take revenge for their parents and take the mission of saving the wizard world. Harry as a hero embodies the value and dignity against the tragic fate. In the traditional view about the hero, Rowling started the modern temperament of thoughts: a little ordinary man nowadays should shoulder what responsibility? Harry and his Hogwarts classmates - Ron and Hermione, are inconspicuous boy wizard who has been living a quiet life. Suddenly, V oldemort appears, they must be the same as the soldiers and rushed to the battlefield in a dangerous fight which they can not escape responsibility. They persevered at last and successfully proved themselves simple but valuable virtues: courage, courageous, fearless, making their friendship and love between even stronger. Finally, the little children become heroes who create history. Here, Rowling's view is: weak and strong people can have the same goal of self-expectations, the weak hand can still accomplish great things, not because of its ability and virtue, but because they must do it. Harry and his friends in Harry Potter stand for millions of ordinary people in the real world. The prototype of Hogwarts students from J.K. Rowling’s young partners, they have ordinary life experience, love family and hometown deeply, never thought to change. However, life distress, they feel their responsibility, suddenly brave and determined. Harry and his friends are just ordinary boy wizard, but without them, success can never be achieved. It can be said is that these ordinary people are not afraid of hard to complete their responsibilities and they are real impetus to the advance of history. The heroism in Harry Potter touched the hearts of millions of readers. It is not how heroes defeat the enemy, but rather why they are fighting, why they can loss lives for their friends. In the very end of the novel, the hero’s ring cleared, leaving only light, fire, dinner, wife and children. Some people 佳木斯大学教务处第
think that the outcome of this magnificent saga is so anticlimactic. In fact, this is the
highlight of the story. The hero, fighting and fearless action are not more worthy than calm life every day. Rowling believe, read fantasy novels in the world of suffering, people will know better how to value the happy life.
2.3 The Attack of Racism, Class Differences in the Argot
Works also attacked insinuations of racism. V oldemort and his followers fanatically pursuit pure- blood Hogwarts students. They think "pure" students are superior and only completely "pure" wizard have right to Slytherin Academy but "non-pure" wizard will only be assigned to Gryffindor for learning witchcraft. They therefore despise, ridicule, hatred, "mud" humble birth, and low students, such as Hermione, Ron and so on. In Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, the Malfoy called Hermione "mud" ,Hermione’s pride was greatly hurt and run away and cried sadly. Hermione’s reflects tells us that “mud" is the same as the call "nigger"for black, which is insulting and harmful. Therefore, Slytherin and Gryffindor gap is in fact a stark symbol of social reality of apartheid and racial discrimination. Not only Malfoy and other negative character have this discrimination, the positive character Connelly • Fuji secretly think that "pure" wizards are more noble, although he against V oldemort and his followers Death Eaters. Rowling This kind of "good man" is not perfect. She dealt discrimination and hostility by such way reveals the psychological is not only bad guys’ privilege. Such as racial distinction, black and white split, big difference between men and women and other paranoid phenomena in human culture and values is deep-rooted, but now become unconscious or even insensitive.
Ron’s family is not rich, but Malfoy is privileged class. This just reflect on the social class differences. Rowling expressed strong likes and dislikes. Rowling, in the novel experience of distress and suffering all the hardships, this is even more critical thought-provoking. This apartheid, racial discrimination, class differences and other phenomena exists in the magical world, in fact, have a strong feature in social realism.
The cultural background of different phenomena delivered a message: the magical 佳木斯大学教务处第
world filled with the atmosphere of racism and cultural discrimination. Rowling is using magic realism to promote different color and different ethnic groups live in harmony. Just as Dumbledore’s speech, " Taking into account V oldemort comes again and we can do anything together, fall apart is nothing, "" if we open our hearts and unity purpose, habits and language differences are fearless”
3 Literary Value of Harry Potter
3.1 The Poetic Philosophy
Harry Potter use metaphor and artistic technique reveals the relativity and characteristics of things in property, adding to the works of the depth of philosophy. As a treasure of Eris Mirror, it can change the image what is your heart most desire, so Harry will have seen his parents who have passed away, but Ron saw he became as student president as his brother. "Bogut" is also an amorphous thing, because it is the embodiment of fear inside of each person. Desire and fear are the most normal human beings’ emotions. Writer made these two abstract emotions become two subjects to obtain a meaningful content and give unlimited imagination and beauty. Such things as the expression of uncertainty provide readers with a limited and unlimited, like magic of dim and clear poetic imagination.
Britain is a country with a very strong tradition of children's literature. From Gulliver's Travels and Alice in Wonderland, you can see, Harry Potter has some literary sources.Fantastic literature's feature includes finding possibility in life and extending the reality. Fantastic describe the existentialist with poetry and full of imagination beyond reason. For example, the whole Hogwarts feel anxious for V oldemort who lived in his own memory (the specific form is a diary of his). He relies on a naive little girl's love, tears and pure soul. Even the use of the time converter can exist without time and space constraints. Time unites finite and infinite life up. Time is one important way of the performance of fantasy literature. In fantasy literature, human existence may be tangible, intangible and deformation. Can be horse 佳木斯大学教务处第
people, double-sided people, wolves, lizards, wizard, a bird and even you can always
8 years old ... ... They reflect the various think of life itself. Self-understanding is always an important theme in fantasy literature. J.K. Rowling has depicted people outside the universe or within the universe and the infinite diversity of images, which contain female writers’passion and exquisite. So she can be called a "poetic philosopher."
3.2 A Model of Successful Children's Literature
Although the literature encourage the exploration, but compared with the adult literature, the children's need attention in the creation the "right time" issues, because of readers reading experience and life experience, such as some of the negative things is totally inappropriate to show for children. Children's literature authors believe that children's literary works should seize the young reader in the "first time", that is, open the books on the first page, read the first minute, the first paragraph of the story, if can not arrests little readers in first time will be ignored. The reason is simple: children is lack of patience and can not sit still. It is based on the psychology of children. Harry Potter can be said a creative arts, racking the brain, riveting, full of effort to this point to write according to the tastes of children. Specific analysis, I think at least the following points are worth learning.
3.2.1 Set a Chain of Suspense
Whole work is full of tense, exciting and thrilling reading atmosphere, encourage young readers have to read on step by step. Harry played a thrilling role at the beginning: when he was one year old, parents were killed by black wizard V oldemort, leaving a lightning-shaped scar on forehead. When he is 7 years old, owler gave him a mysterious letter which is an admission notice from Hogwarts. He brought a pet owl, holding a magic wand, carrying all kinds of magic, to magic school by train in King's Cross station’s "platform nine and three quarters " which we ordinary people can not see. While living in the magic school, Harry was very happy, but continues happen the
incredible things in his school life. Reading is a spiritual adventure. Harry Potter 佳木斯大学教务处第。