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a rose for Emily 分析

a rose for Emily 分析

A Rose for Emily 的评析(2010-06-21 23:49:34)转载▼标签:文化威廉.福克纳和他的《献给爱米丽的玫瑰》摘要:福克纳把南方的历史和现实社会作为自己创作源泉而成为美国南方文学的代表。

《献给爱米丽的玫瑰》通过爱米丽的爱情悲剧揭示了新旧秩序的斗争及没落贵族阶级的守旧心态,福克纳运用神秘、暗语、象征、时序颠倒等写作手法来揭示这一主题。

关键词:威廉·福克纳;献给爱米丽的玫瑰;南方小说一、威廉·福克纳的南方情结威廉·福克纳(William Faulkner,1897-1962)是美国文学史上久负盛名的作家之一,生于密西西比州一个在内战中失去财富和地位的没落的南方种植园家庭。

福克纳的大多数作品都以美国南方为背景,强调南方主题和南方意识。

在他19部长篇小说和75篇短篇小说中,绝大多数小说的故事都发生在他虚构的美国的约克纳帕塔法县(Yoknapatawpha county)和杰弗生镇。

这些作品所展示的生活画卷和人物形象构成了福克纳笔下的“约克纳帕塔法世系”。

“约克纳帕塔法世系”是以该县家族的兴衰、变迁为主题,故事所跨越的时间上起自印地安人与早期殖民者交往的岁月,止于第二次世界大战后,长约二百年。

他的世系小说依南方家系人物的生活而展开,以南方浓郁的泥土气息伴随着因工业文明而带来的焦虑、惶惑、无奈,把一百多年来即从1800年到第二次世界大战之后社会发展过程中,南方人所独有的情感和心态通过独特的艺术方式展示出来,可谓一部“南方生活的史诗”。

在这部史诗的字里行间,留下了作家的血与泪之痕:割不断爱恋南方古老精神的一片深情,可又抵御不了现代文明进程的必然性。

正如福克纳所说:“我爱南方,也憎恨它。

这里有些东西我本不喜欢。

但是我生在这里,这是我的家。

因此,我愿意继续维护它,即便是怀着憎恨。

”这种矛盾恰好构成了福克纳情感意识及其小说世界的无穷魅力。

结果,约克纳帕塔法县成了旧南方的象征,而福克纳也借此成功地表现了整个南方社会的历史和意识。

ARoseforEmily纪念艾米丽的一朵玫瑰花人物分析

ARoseforEmily纪念艾米丽的一朵玫瑰花人物分析

Book ReportOnA Rose for EmilyThe Distorted Character of EmilyEmily Grierson of the fiction’s heroine lived in Jefferson after the Civil War. She was born, but due to the war her family status decline. And she became the devil noble lady from the south, killing his beloved people, and sharing a bed with the dead for decades.Formation of abnormal psychology heroine is not accidental, which she grew up, living environment closely and more experienced with the times she can not do without.Heroine twisted psychology was gradually formed under the old southern tradition of conservative thinking that the woman must comply matched Marriage specifications and must obey the wishes of his father's "lady concept.”(Zhong zhenping. 2013) In this traditional context, Emily did not pursue the right to freedom of spirit, some just powers from the father oppression. Emily leaving his father's death, she did not fit the shelf to mingle with the around people, the former glory of the moment would increasingly contrasting distress, and made her more serious psychological twist.Emily with her father while twisting form of patriarchal oppression and psychological abandon people were inseparable from the beloved. (Chen Rong. 2013) Strict father forbade her local youth exchanges, creating a deformity of her girlhood, her father died before coming to be free, but Love has been mistaken, she lost the most beautiful that period of youth, so she went to the thirties also unable to get married. In her father's death shortly after, she met Homer Barron, a big, dark, ready man, with a big voice and eyes lighter than his face. She began his love affair, regardless of secular views, courageous pursuit of their own happiness, but happiness did not last long, the project ended, Homer Barron refused to marry her and to leave in Jefferson so much afterwards, Emily finally endured pressure and heart medicines to kill. The thought had left the town of Homer Barron, Emily's house and finally found his body, knew that he had died.Emily twisted psychological reflecting the fact that under: Emily is a poor woman, and she needs love, roses are a symbol of love, but Emily's life, but not roses. She dared to despise tradition, most seeking the courage to love, admirable, she should have her own rose. It’s a pity era led to this tragedy.It is a sad love tragedy, too. Although we human beings bear so much hardship, I still believe there is love, there is hope.。

a rose for emily解读与译赏

a rose for emily解读与译赏

a rose for emily解读与译赏《A Rose for Emily》是美国作家威廉·福克纳的短篇小说,被认为是福克纳最杰出的作品之一。

这个故事揭示了一位孤独的南方女性艾米丽·格里森的生活,以及她与社会的冲突和疏离感。

故事以艾米丽的葬礼开始,随后回溯到她生前的往事。

艾米丽是一个古怪而孤立的人物,她居住在一个受到时间遗忘的南方小镇,被当地人视为传奇。

她的父亲在她年轻的时候过世,使得她变得孤独和隐居。

她与一个北方建筑师霍默·巴伦的关系引起了镇上人的不满和猜疑,但他们之间的真实情况始终是个谜。

艾米丽的生活充满了秘密和谜团,她甚至杀害了她的恋人霍默并将他的尸体保存在一个密封的房间中。

这种行为揭示了她的精神崩溃和对时间的无法接受。

她试图保存过去的美好时光,但却无法逃脱时间的流逝。

作者通过描写艾米丽的故事,深入探讨了社会和传统观念对个体的压迫和破坏。

这个故事中的玫瑰象征着美好的过去和爱情。

艾米丽失去了父亲和她的恋人,她试图保留他们的存在并抵抗时间的消逝。

她在封闭的世界里过着与现实隔绝的生活,就像一个被遗忘的花朵。

然而,随着时间的推移,玫瑰凋谢了,就像艾米丽最终被时间所击败。

《A Rose for Emily》是福克纳对南方社会的批判,揭示了社会对个人的限制和破坏力量。

艾米丽代表着被压迫和被孤立的个体,她的悲剧反映了整个社会体系的腐败和堕落。

通过描写艾米丽的故事,福克纳呈现了一个关于时间、孤独和爱的复杂而深刻的图景。

总之,《A Rose for Emily》是一部充满象征主义和深度的文学作品,通过描述一个女性的孤独和精神崩溃,揭示了社会对个体的压迫和摧毁。

福克纳通过这个故事,向读者展示了一个关于时间、爱和社会的不公的悲剧。

AroseforEmily分析(人物,象征,背景)

AroseforEmily分析(人物,象征,背景)

AroseforEmily分析(人物,象征,背景)A rose for EmilyThis story happens after the American Civil War, in Jefferson Town. It’s a story about an eccentric spinster named Emily Grierson whose marriage is totally manipulated by her father. Two years after her father’s death, poor Emily is acquainted with a northerner called Homer Barron, a day laborer and she falls in love with him. However, their relation is short-lived as Homer becomes tired of her and intends to get rid of her. In order to keep Homer at hand, Emily kills him with arsenic and “obtain”him, thus, she sleeps with his corpse for decades. This is the truth that villagers find after her death. From my own perspective, this masterpiece reflects the decline of the southern society and reveals the conflicts between the two different value systems and two societies after the American Civil War. Then, I will explain my opinions from the following three aspects: character, symbol and setting.Emily is an embodiment of the south, the old and tradition. At the very beginning of this story, the writer recounts the decoration of her house which is still 1870s style, isn’t change any more. Besides, she is also obstinate. When the new government compel the taxes on her,she refuses to pay the tax and even ridiculously mentions a colonel who has been dead almost ten years. Another example is that she prevents people from installing mail-box on the wall. She keeps the traditional views all the long,but resists to change anything. However, poor Emily is a determined woman. Regardless of people’s criticism, she insists on marrying a northerner whose social position is apparently lower than her. It is known that in that period of time,hierarchy is prevailing and deep-rooted through out the society. It particularly has a profound influence on marriage. When someone chooses a partner, he or she must consider the social position of the other party to the marriage. However, Emily chooses to disobey the convention and challenges tradition. Given this situation, her failure is quite expectable. However, she cannot get rid of the shackles of the Southern conventions. After all, she captures her lover in her own way and the love is treated with honor.Her father, the old Grierson, is also an incarnation of the South, patriarchy and tradition. He was very fastidious about her daughter’s marriage and drove away every manwho caught the fancy of her. “When she got to thirty and was still single”. Obviously, both her b ody and mind are enslaved by her father’s traditional concept. Therefore, she feels released when her father is dead, and there is no “trace of grief on her face”.In this novel, Emily symbolizes the South, old and tradition, the Y ankee represents the North, new and modern. Both young guys might be interested in each other when they first meet. But they possess altogether different values or concept of lives. So they inevitably separated before long. The conflict between the two partners symbolizes the conflict between the South and the North. And the absurd murder aggravates the contradictions.The “Rose”, that is never mentioned in this novel, is always interpreted conventionally as a symbol of love. It might be used as the love Emily gets from her lover. But in my opinion the rose mainly represents decay and death. At the time the villagers went to her room and found the valance curtains of faded rose color and the rose-shaded lights in the room. Actually, the author playsa trick on Miss Emily. In fact, she doesn’t really get any love from any man whether it is from her lover or her father. Emily could have a favorable marriage but for her father’s interference. She could have got her deserved love from Homer. But on account of her obstinacy and pride, she receives tiredness and indifference, instead of affection---rose, from him. Thus, as an outsider, the author or the villagers, they give a rose as a tribute to Emily. Besides, the rose also stands for the author’s and villager s’pity, sympathy and lament for Emily, whose mind is imprisoned in the past and fails to adapt to the change. What’s more, the author, “William Faulkner objectifies his complicated and emotional involvement in the South and in the people who grow up and live there ever since”. (英美文学选读应试指南,P237)The story teller begins his story when it is post-civil war. In Jefferson T own, in the South, which is defeated by the North, everything including concept and some sense of value is gradually replaced by the new concepts from the North. In this background, due to the restriction of the traditional ideas, some people are imprisoned in the past and ignore the passage of time. And Miss Emily is one of them. The whole story is set in Emily’s house. But the story has a time span of over two scores. Her house is depicted asold but grand. Seen from the outside, the house is really outdated and is not in accord with other residential buildings—it’s really an eyesore. The house perfectly mirrors Emily’s isolation from the outside world. From the inner decoration of her house, everything is covered with dust and the air is humid. Besides,there is a crayon portrait of Miss Emily’s father. The description of the house paves a way for the development of scenario. As a reader, I might feel ghastly. Therefore, it’sconceivable that the spine-chilling story happens there. At the end of the story, out of curiosity, people go into her chamber,seeing faded rose color curtains, the rose-shaded lights and delicate array of crystal and the man's toilet things backed with tarnished silver. The whole room speaks the life Emily goes through and indicates the decay of the Southern aristocrat.When I finished reading the story, a sincere sympathy emerges in my mind. Emily is totally a tragedy of the old traditions. She is a prisoner of the past, of the social and moral taboos of the South. Not only because she is purely a woman, but also the stubborn conventions manacle her that result in her frustrated life. Even so,she could have a better life after her father’s death. However, she doesn’t get out of the tower her father built for her. On the contrary, she builds another one, and locks her soul. In our daily life, everything is changing everyday. As an individual, we can only adapt ourselves to the protean environment and should learn to accept new things. Only when we keep learning everyday can we survive in this world which is full of competition.Reference戴桂玉Examinee’s Guide to Selected Readings in English and American Literatures (2005)P237。

A_rose_for_Emily赏析.doc

A_rose_for_Emily赏析.doc

A_rose_for_Emily赏析.doc《献给艾米丽的玫瑰》是美国著名作家威廉·福克纳的代表性短篇小说之一,讲述了一个有关孤独和死亡的故事。

小说叙事手法巧妙,通过回溯式叙事、时间叙事和意识流等手法,将人物的内心感受和思想渐次展现,在淡雅的笔触下,揭示出人性的各种暗面,让人深思和共鸣。

小说主要讲述了南方小镇杰斐逊市的一位老处女艾米丽·格里森的一生。

在小说的开头,艾米丽被描述为一个古怪的老太太,她家里充满了过时的东西,而她自己也常常被乡亲们阻挠。

接着,小说通过回溯式叙事,讲述了艾米丽的一生,其中最重要的部分是她与一个年轻的北方建筑师荷马的关系。

荷马是一位充满生机和活力的年轻人,他的到来为杰斐逊市带来了新的生命和希望。

然而,荷马的出现并没有给艾米丽带来幸福,反而让她更加孤独和悲伤。

艾米丽沉迷于对荷马的爱情中,不断地对他进行控制和束缚,最终导致了荷马的死亡。

为了保持她的爱情不死,艾米丽甚至在荷马死后将他的尸体保存了下来,直到她自己去世。

小说最后一段描述了艾米丽死亡之后,人们在她家里发现了荷马的尸体,这是一个极其恐怖和荒谬的场景。

艾米丽为了守护自己的爱情,不惜走向疯狂和破坏。

整个小说通过叙事技巧和情节安排,将艾米丽的生活和性格深入地展现出来,既描述了她生活的历程和经历的痛苦,也揭示了她内心的苦闷和恐惧。

《献给艾米丽的玫瑰》在结构上非常紧凑,通过叙事的逐层深入,将人物的形象和内心深处逐渐丰富起来。

福克纳的笔法又非常细腻,运用隐喻、象征、反讽等众多手法来刻画人物和表达主题。

这些手法让读者在阅读过程中不仅能够深刻理解人物的内心,还能够共鸣和思考他们所代表的意义。

总之,《献给艾米丽的玫瑰》是一篇富有深度和思想性的小说,它通过对艾米丽一生的描写,呈现了生命和死亡、孤独和爱情等多重主题,令人深感震撼和感悟。

它不仅是福克纳作品中的经典之作,也是世界文学史上不可忽略的一篇文学佳作。

A Rose for Emily主题分析

A Rose for Emily主题分析

After the independence of United States, North and south developed along different paths. Since the 1820s, the industrial revolution developed in north and Central states, While in the south, was the black slavery. Since the 19th century, the contradictions between North and south had became increasingly fierce. Then, The American civil war broke out. As is known to all, victory belongs to the north,After the Civil war, slavery was eliminated, but the black still under various exploitation and discrimination. So that‟s the background of this story.
Novel titles:A Rose for Emily Chinese name:《献给艾米丽的一朵玫瑰花》
也译作《纪念艾米丽的一朵玫瑰花》
Published time:In April 1930 Author:William Faulkner
威廉· 福克纳 福克纳出生在美国南方一个没落贵 族家庭,这样的身世对福克纳的文学 创作影响深远。 威廉·福克纳的15部长篇与绝大多 数短篇的故事都发生在约克纳帕塔法 县,称为“约克纳帕塔法世系”。其 主要脉络是这个县杰弗生镇及其郊区 的属于不同社会阶层的若干个家族的 几代人的故事。

福克纳小说献给艾米丽的玫瑰a rose for emily赏析

福克纳小说献给艾米丽的玫瑰a rose for emily赏析

福克纳小说献给艾米丽的玫瑰a rose for emily赏析《献给艾米丽的玫瑰》是菲利普·威廉斯·福克纳写于1930年作品中的一篇短篇小说,融合了悲剧、哀思、爱情和时代话题,深受读者喜爱。

小说说述了南方小镇斯威普霍尔特一位名叫艾米丽的老小姐的故事:艾米丽的青春期起先幸福美满,但她的母亲和父亲过早逝世,之后社会环境也更加糟糕,使她的全部世界被封锁,甚至连其朝思暮想都无法触及。

更糟糕的是,艾米丽还不得不忍受一个深恶痛绝的绝密,但最终,在小镇居民们的渗透下,关于艾米丽的秘密也慢慢浮出了水面,小说结束的时候,艾米丽究竟是用了无法用言语表达的情感支付了代价,还是以某种求死的友情洒脱的到底成未可知。

《献给艾米丽的玫瑰》用一个苦难的少女艾米丽的故事,对英雄主义和爱情的一次再次探讨,让我们进入艾米丽无法跨越的牢笼,更是让我们理解她不能承受的“献给艾米丽的玫瑰”,也看到了艾米丽赴死坚持到最后,赢得自由的英勇牺牲,而在最后,艾米丽的秘密,却成为了艾米丽永远的伙伴,也深深融入了每个人的心里。

小说中艾米丽的这一段经历,展现了作家给与人生深思的状态,他试图突出艾米丽曾一度坚强与孤独的宏大仪式,还有她曾以愤怒与悲伤来抗争有偏见的社会外在文化。

他进一步指出,尽管人们费尽心机介入艾米丽的世界,但最后,艾米丽仍然站立在某个难以表达的世界中,就像一朵玫瑰一样,在经历风雨的洗礼后,艾米丽的骄傲与挚爱依然一直伴随着她的一生,永不凋零。

艾米丽的人物形象,启发读者直至今天仍在反思,却仍旧无法确定小说里实际上发生了什么,比如,艾米丽是怎样承受了这一切的折磨?最后,她到底做出了什么选择?艾米丽强颜欢笑以维持下去,也让我们意识到了活着的每一刻的珍贵,也让人明白到,在一个被遗忘的世界里,人总是不得不自强,继续活下去,最终,她站在乐观与悲哀的路口,把守着一份绝密的爱情,这份爱情,给了她勇气,让她走到终点。

A rose for Emily 分析(人物,象征,背景)

A rose for Emily 分析(人物,象征,背景)

A rose for EmilyThis story happens after the American Civil War,in Jefferson Town。

It's a story about an eccentric spinster named Emily Grierson whose marriage is totally manipulated by her father. Two years after her father’s death, poor Emily is acquainted with a northerner called Homer Barron,a day laborer and she falls in love with him. However,their relation is short-lived as Homer becomes tired of her and intends to get rid of her. In order to keep Homer at hand, Emily kills him with arsenic and “obtain” him,thus, she sleeps with his corpse for decades。

This is the truth that villagers find after her death。

From my own perspective,this masterpiece reflects the decline of the southern society and reveals the conflicts between the two different value systems and two societies after the American Civil War. Then,I will explain my opinions from the following three aspects:character, symbol and setting。

A Rose for Emily 英文分析及简评

A Rose for Emily 英文分析及简评

“A Rose for Emily” is divided into five sections.The first section opens with a description of the Grierson house in Jefferson. The narrator mentions that over the past 100 years, Miss Emily Grierson’s home has fall into disrepair and become “an eyesore among eyesores.” The first sentence of the story sets the tone of how the citizens of Jefferson felt about Emily: “When Miss Emily Grierson died, our whole town went to the funeral: the men through a sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument, the women mostly out of curiosity to see the inside of her house, which no one save an old manservant – a combined gardener and cook – had seen in at least ten years.”It is known around town that Emily Grierson has not had guests in her home for the past decade, except her black servant who runs errands for her to and from the market. When a new city council takes over, however, they begin to tax her once again. She refuses to pay the taxes and appear before the sheriff, so the city authorities invite themselves into her house. When confronted on her tax evasion, Emily reminds them that she doesn't have to pay taxes in Jefferson and to speak to Colonel Sartoris, although he had died 10 years before.In section two, the narrator explains that the Griersons had always been a very proud Southern family. Mr. Grierson, Emily’s father, believes no man is suitable for his daughter and doesn't allow her to date. Emily is largely dependent upon her father, and is left foundering when he dies. After Mr. Grierson's death, Emily does not allow the authorities to remove his body for three days, claiming he is still alive. She breaks down and allows authorities to take the body away for a quick burial.Section three introduces Emily’s beau, Homer Barron, a foreman from the north. Homer comes to Jefferson with a crew of men to build sidewalks outside the Grierson home. After Emily and Homer are seen driving through town several times, Emily visits a druggist. There, she asks to purchase arsenic. The druggist asks what the arsenic is for since it was required of him to ask by law. Emily does not respond and coldly stares him down until he looks away and gives her the arsenic. When Emily opens the package, underneath the skull and bones sign is written, "For Rats."Citizens of Jefferson believe that Miss Emily is going to commit suicide since Homer has not yet proposed in the beginning of section four. The townspeople contact and invite Emily's two cousins to comfort her. Shortly after their arrival, Homer leaves and then returns after the cousins leave Jefferson. After staying in Jefferson for one night, Homer is never seen again. After Homer’s disappearance, Emily begins to age, gain weight, and is rarely seen outside of her home. Soon, Miss Emily passes away.The fifth and final section begins with Jefferson women entering the Grierson home. After they arrive, Emily's black servant leaves through the back door without saying a word. After Emily's funeral, the townspeople immediately go through her house. They come across a room on the second floor which no one had seen in 40 years, and break the door down. They discover a dusty room strangely decorated as a bridal room. The room contains a man's tie, suit and shoes, and a silver toilet set which Miss Emily had purchased for Homer years before his disappearance. Homer's remains lay on the bed, dressed in a nightshirt. Next to him is an impression of a head on a pillow where the townspeople find a single “long strand of iron-gray hair.” It is thus implied that not only had Emily killed Homer with the arsenic, but also has had an intimate relationship with his corpse up to her own death.简评:Miss Emily met Homer Baron, a foreman with a construction company, when her hometown was first getting paved streets. Her father had already died but, not before driving away her eligible suitors. As rumors circulate about her possible marriage to a Yankee, Homer leaves town abruptly. During his absence, Miss Emily buys rat poison.When Homer returns, the townspeople see him enter Miss Em ily’s house but not leave. Only when she dies do the townspeople discover his corpse on a bed in her house and, next to it, a strand of Miss Emily’s hair.This Gothic plot makes serious points about woman’s place in society. Throughout the story, the reader is aware that these events are taking place during a time of transition: The town is finally getting sidewalks and mailboxes. More important, values are changing. The older magistrates, for example, looked on Miss Emily paternally and refused to collect taxes from her; the newer ones try, unsuccessfully, to do so.Caught in these changing times, Miss Emily is trapped in her role as genteel spinster. Without a husband, her life will have no meaning. She tries to give lessons in painting china but cannot find pupils for this out-of-date hobby and finally discontinues them. If Homer is thinking of abandoning her, as his departure implies, one can understand her desire to clutch at any sort of union, even a marriage in death.The theme is developed through an exceptionally well-crafted story. Told from a third-person plural point of view, it reveals the reactions of the town to Miss Emily. As this “we” narrator shifts allegiance--now criticizing Miss Emily, now sympathizing with her--the reader sees the trap in which she is caught, and the extensive but unobtrusive fores hadowing prepares the reader for the story’s final revelation without detracting from its force.。

aroseforemily故事主要内容

aroseforemily故事主要内容

Arose for Emily是美国著名作家威廉·福克纳的代表作之一,小说通过对主人公艾米莉·格里森一生的描述,展现了南方庄园时代的变迁,以及一个传统家族的命运沉浮。

以下将会从以下几个方面对《Arose for Emily》进行分析。

一、故事背景《Arose for Emily》发生在一个小镇上,主要讲述了主人公艾米莉·格里森的一生。

在故事开始时,艾米莉的父亲去世,她是一个被保护得很好的富有女子,父亲过世后,艾米莉开始了孤独的一生。

二、人物塑造1. 艾米莉·格里森艾米莉是这个故事中最重要的人物,她是故事的主角,也是传统家族的继承人。

从小受到父亲的过分保护,她在父亲去世后陷入孤独和痛苦之中。

她的一生过得非常孤独,为了守护自己的秘密,最终导致了悲剧的结局。

2. 艾米莉的父亲艾米莉的父亲是一个非常严厉的人,对艾米莉进行了过分的保护,导致了她一生的孤独。

3. 镇上的人镇上的人也是故事中非常重要的角色,他们对艾米莉的生活和家庭状况非常好奇,也对她充满了好奇和怀疑。

三、主题1. 传统与现代故事中对传统与现代的冲突是一个非常重要的主题。

艾米莉所处的年代正是南方庄园时代向现代过渡的时期,她在这个转变的时代里,陷入了传统与现代的矛盾之中。

2. 父女关系故事中父女关系也是一个重要的主题。

艾米莉在父亲去世后,陷入了孤独和痛苦之中,她在父亲去世后的一生也受到了父亲影响。

四、故事结局故事的结局是悲剧性的,艾米莉在孤独和痛苦中渐渐走向了精神崩溃,最终导致了一场悲剧。

这个结局也体现了《Arose for Emily》中对人性的沉思和对传统的思考。

通过以上分析,可以看出《Arose for Emily》是一部非常重要的文学作品,它展现了作者威廉·福克纳对美国南方庄园时代的深刻思考,也对传统与现代、父女关系等主题进行了深入的探讨。

这部小说不仅在文学价值上有着极高的地位,也在思想性和艺术性上都是非常出色的。

AroseforEmily读书报告

AroseforEmily读书报告

AroseforEmily读书报告Book Name:A rose for EmilyAuthor:William Faulkner America 1897.9.25Main character:EmilySummary:This article describes a woman who was over-protected by her father in her childhood, which made gradually lost her passion and hope to her life. However, after her father died, when everyone thought she would resist and change herself, and get out of the cruel control of her father, she didn’t. Down to the innermost part of Emily, we can still find the funk of breaking free, the tradition and the Isolation. Due to all of these, she lost herself and got out of the way farther and farther and finally, she killed her only love and slept with his body many years.Theme:1. Resistance to change: This is perhaps the most recurrent theme in the book. Despite the family's fallen fortunes, Emily's father resists allowing any suitors to propose to Emily. This gradually erodes her chances of ever being married. She eventually settles for Homer, but the townspeople see this as an affront to her noble heritage, and she eventually murders Homer and dies a recluse. Emily's inability to realize her father's death and refusal to adapt to a changing world intensify her seclusion.2. Isolation: There’s no getting around the fact that "A Rose forEmily" is a story about the extremes of isolation –by physical and emotional. This Faulkner classic shows us the process by which human beings become isolated by their families, by their community, by tradition, by law, by the past, and by their ownactions and choices. In effect, this story takes a stand against such isolation, and against all those who isolate others. When you get through with this story, you might feel the urge to take a nice stroll in the county, or at least take a spin around the park. Go! Breathe the air; feel the sunshine; visit a friend.。

A Rose for Emily 章节分析

A Rose for Emily 章节分析

Section IV
Emily’s cousins arrive to prepare her for marriage
Emily buys men’s clothing and toiletries This is the last time anyone sees Homer
Another judgment is forced upon the reader
and disgust The final judgment/response from the reader
is laid out
“A Rose for Emily”
The jumbled chronology is structured like a ‘gossip story.’ Each section is designed for the reader to make a
judgment of Emily
Section I
Emily dies
Section V
Back to present time Emily is dead The townspeople open her bedroom door that
has been shut for over 30 years Their discovery creates shudders of horror
He creates a story why she doesn’t pay She believes the story and buys into it
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A strange smell emits from Emily’s house Men have to sneak around her house to

a-rose-for-Emily-分析

a-rose-for-Emily-分析

A Rose for Emily 的评析(2010-06-21 23:49:34)转载▼标签:文化威廉.福克纳和他的《献给爱米丽的玫瑰》摘要:福克纳把南方的历史和现实社会作为自己创作源泉而成为美国南方文学的代表。

《献给爱米丽的玫瑰》通过爱米丽的爱情悲剧揭示了新旧秩序的斗争及没落贵族阶级的守旧心态,福克纳运用神秘、暗语、象征、时序颠倒等写作手法来揭示这一主题。

关键词:威廉·福克纳;献给爱米丽的玫瑰;南方小说一、威廉·福克纳的南方情结威廉·福克纳(William Faulkner,1897-1962)是美国文学史上久负盛名的作家之一,生于密西西比州一个在内战中失去财富和地位的没落的南方种植园家庭。

福克纳的大多数作品都以美国南方为背景,强调南方主题和南方意识。

在他19部长篇小说和75篇短篇小说中,绝大多数小说的故事都发生在他虚构的美国的约克纳帕塔法县(Yoknapatawpha county)和杰弗生镇。

这些作品所展示的生活画卷和人物形象构成了福克纳笔下的“约克纳帕塔法世系”。

“约克纳帕塔法世系”是以该县家族的兴衰、变迁为主题,故事所跨越的时间上起自印地安人与早期殖民者交往的岁月,止于第二次世界大战后,长约二百年。

他的世系小说依南方家系人物的生活而展开,以南方浓郁的泥土气息伴随着因工业文明而带来的焦虑、惶惑、无奈,把一百多年来即从1800年到第二次世界大战之后社会发展过程中,南方人所独有的情感和心态通过独特的艺术方式展示出来,可谓一部“南方生活的史诗”。

在这部史诗的字里行间,留下了作家的血与泪之痕:割不断爱恋南方古老精神的一片深情,可又抵御不了现代文明进程的必然性。

正如福克纳所说:“我爱南方,也憎恨它。

这里有些东西我本不喜欢。

但是我生在这里,这是我的家。

因此,我愿意继续维护它,即便是怀着憎恨。

”这种矛盾恰好构成了福克纳情感意识及其小说世界的无穷魅力。

结果,约克纳帕塔法县成了旧南方的象征,而福克纳也借此成功地表现了整个南方社会的历史和意识。

aroseforemily英文分析及简评

aroseforemily英文分析及简评

A R o s e f o r E m i l y英文分析及简评(总2页)--本页仅作为文档封面,使用时请直接删除即可----内页可以根据需求调整合适字体及大小--“A Rose for Emily” is divided into five sections.The first section opens with a description of the Grierson house in Jefferson. The narrator mentions that over the past 100 years, Miss Emily Grierson’s home has fall into disrepair and become “an eyesore among eyesores.” The first sentence of the story sets the tone of how the citizens of Jefferson felt about Emily: “When Miss Emily Grierson died, our whole town went to the funeral: the men through a sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument, the women mostly out of curiosity to see the inside of her house, which no one save an old manservant – a combined gardener and cook – had seen in at least ten years.”It is known around town that Emily Grierson has not had guests in her home for the past decade, except her black servant who runs errands for her to and from the market. When a new city council takes over, however, they begin to tax her once again. She refuses to pay the taxes and appear before the sheriff, so the city authorities invite themselves into her house. When confronted on her tax evasion, Emily reminds them that she doesn't have to pay taxes in Jefferson and to speak to Colonel Sartoris, although he had died 10 years before.In section two, the narrator explains that the Griersons had always been a very proud Southern family. Mr. Grierson, Emily’s father, believes no man is suitable for his daughter and doesn't allow her to date. Emily is largely dependent upon her father, and is left foundering when he dies. After Mr. Grierson's death, Emily does not allow the authorities to remove his body for three days, claiming he is still alive. She breaks down and allows authorities to take the body away for a quick burial.Section three introduces Emily’s beau, Homer Barron, a foreman from the north. Homer comes to Jefferson with a crew of men to build sidewalks outside the Grierson home. After Emily and Homer are seen driving through town several times, Emily visits a druggist. There, she asks to purchase arsenic. The druggist asks what the arsenic is for since it was required of him to ask by law. Emily does not respond and coldly stares him down until he looks away and gives her the arsenic. When Emily opens the package, underneath the skull and bones sign is written, "For Rats."Citizens of Jefferson believe that Miss Emily is going to commit suicide since Homer has not yet proposed in the beginning of section four. The townspeople contact and invite Emily's two cousins to comfort her. Shortly after their arrival, Homer leaves and thenreturns after the cousins leave Jefferson. After staying in Jefferson for one night, Homer is never seen again. After Homer’s disappearance, Emily begins to age, gain weight, and is rarely seen outside of her home. Soon, Miss Emily passes away.The fifth and final section begins with Jefferson women entering the Grierson home. After they arrive, Emily's black servant leavesthrough the back door without saying a word. After Emily's funeral, the townspeople immediately go through her house. They come across a room on the second floor which no one had seen in 40 years, and break the door down. They discover a dusty room strangely decorated as a bridal room. The room contains a man's tie, suit and shoes, and a silver toilet set which Miss Emily had purchased for Homer years before his disappearance. Homer's remains lay on the bed, dressed ina nightshirt. Next to him is an impression of a head on a pillow where the townspeople find a single “long strand of iron-grayhair.” I t is thus implied that not only had Emily killed Homer with the arsenic, but also has had an intimate relationship with hiscorpse up to her own death.简评:Miss Emily met Homer Baron, a foreman with a construction company, when her hometown was first getting paved streets. Her father had already died but, not before driving away her eligible suitors. As rumors circulate about her possible marriage to a Yankee, Homerleaves town abruptly. During his absence, Miss Emily buys rat poison.When Homer returns, the townspeople see him enter Miss Emily’s house but not leave. Only when she dies do the townspeople discover his corpse on a bed in her house and, next to it, a strand of MissEmily’s hair.This Gothic plot makes serious points about woman’s place in so ciety. Throughout the story, the reader is aware that these events aretaking place during a time of transition: The town is finally getting sidewalks and mailboxes. More important, values are changing. Theolder magistrates, for example, looked on Miss Emily paternally andrefused to collect taxes from her; the newer ones try, unsuccessfully, to do so.Caught in these changing times, Miss Emily is trapped in her role as genteel spinster. Without a husband, her life will have no meaning. She tries to give lessons in painting china but cannot find pupilsfor this out-of-date hobby and finally discontinues them. If Homer is thinking of abandoning her, as his departure implies, one can understand her desire to clutch at any sort of union, even a marriage in death.The theme is developed through an exceptionally well-crafted story. Told from a third-person plural point of view, it reveals thereactions of the town to Miss Emily. As this “we” narrator shifts allegiance--now criticizing Miss Emily, now sympathizing with her--the reader sees the trap in which she is caught, and the extensivebut unobtrusive foreshadowing prepares the reader for the story’s final revelation without detracting from its force.。

A rose for Emily 分析(人物,象征,背景)【范本模板】

A rose for Emily 分析(人物,象征,背景)【范本模板】

A rose for EmilyThis story happens after the American Civil War, in Jefferson Town. It’s a story about an eccentric spinster named Emily Grierson whose marriage is totally manipulated by her father. Two years after her father's death, poor Emily is acquainted with a northerner called Homer Barron,a day laborer and she falls in love with him. However,their relation is short—lived as Homer becomes tired of her and intends to get rid of her。

In order to keep Homer at hand, Emily kills him with arsenic and “obtain” him,thus,she sleeps with his corpse for decades. This is the truth that villagers find after her death。

From my own perspective, this masterpiece reflects the decline of the southern society and reveals the conflicts between the two different value systems and two societies after the American Civil War. Then, I will explain my opinions from the following three aspects:character,symbol and setting.Emily is an embodiment of the south, the old and tradition。

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A Rose for Emily 的评析 (2010-06-21 23:49:34)转载▼标签:文化威廉.福克纳和他的《献给爱米丽的玫瑰》摘要:福克纳把南方的历史和现实社会作为自己创作源泉而成为美国南方文学的代表。

《献给爱米丽的玫瑰》通过爱米丽的爱情悲剧揭示了新旧秩序的斗争及没落贵族阶级的守旧心态,福克纳运用神秘、暗语、象征、时序颠倒等写作手法来揭示这一主题。

关键词:威廉·福克纳;献给爱米丽的玫瑰;南方小说一、威廉·福克纳的南方情结威廉·福克纳(William Faulkner,1897-1962)是美国文学史上久负盛名的作家之一,生于密西西比州一个在内战中失去财富和地位的没落的南方种植园家庭。

福克纳的大多数作品都以美国南方为背景,强调南方主题和南方意识。

在他19部长篇小说和75篇短篇小说中,绝大多数小说的故事都发生在他虚构的美国的约克纳帕塔法县(Yoknapatawpha county)和杰弗生镇。

这些作品所展示的生活画卷和人物形象构成了福克纳笔下的“约克纳帕塔法世系”。

“约克纳帕塔法世系”是以该县家族的兴衰、变迁为主题,故事所跨越的时间上起自印地安人与早期殖民者交往的岁月,止于第二次世界大战后,长约二百年。

他的世系小说依南方家系人物的生活而展开,以南方浓郁的泥土气息伴随着因工业文明而带来的焦虑、惶惑、无奈,把一百多年来即从1800年到第二次世界大战之后社会发展过程中,南方人所独有的情感和心态通过独特的艺术方式展示出来,可谓一部“南方生活的史诗”。

在这部史诗的字里行间,留下了作家的血与泪之痕:割不断爱恋南方古老精神的一片深情,可又抵御不了现代文明进程的必然性。

正如福克纳所说:“我爱南方,也憎恨它。

这里有些东西我本不喜欢。

但是我生在这里,这是我的家。

因此,我愿意继续维护它,即便是怀着憎恨。

”这种矛盾恰好构成了福克纳情感意识及其小说世界的无穷魅力。

结果,约克纳帕塔法县成了旧南方的象征,而福克纳也借此成功地表现了整个南方社会的历史和意识。

二、《献给爱米丽的玫瑰》暗示南方的腐朽没落福克纳素以长篇小说著称于世,但其短篇小说,无论艺术构思、意境创造、人物塑造抑或语言风格、结构艺术等,均可与其长篇小说互论短长,而其最著名的短篇之一《献给爱米丽的玫瑰》 A rose for Emily则对理解、研究福克纳的主要作品,即“约克纳帕塔法世系”具有十分重要的意义。

在这篇小说中,作者以凝练的笔触、独特的结构成功地塑造了爱米丽·格里尔森Emily Grieson这个艺术典型。

《献给爱米丽的玫瑰》是福克纳1930年4月发表的被誉为最负盛名的短篇小说。

故事发生在约克纳帕塔法县的杰弗生镇,小说分为五小部分,在这五个写作空间里,运用回忆来描写爱米丽·格里尔森(Emily Grieson)神秘的一生,讲述了一位被剥夺了与他人建立正常人际关系的妇女如何逃避现实以至于精神失常的故事,表现了新旧南方价值观念之间的冲突。

爱米丽的个性冲突、所做所为源于她南方古老而辉煌的家庭背景,福克纳用神秘、暗语、象征等写作方法来揭示爱米丽是南方腐朽传统的象征。

故事的叙述采用了时序颠倒的手法,这一手法不仅使小说结构奇突,情节跳跃,更为重要的是其具有深化主题思想的艺术功效。

作者用这种手法打破时空界限,把过去和现在直接放在一起,在它们之间形成鲜明的对照,从而使读者深深地感到时代的变迁和传统价值观念的沦丧。

小说一开始就告诉读者爱米丽死了,全镇的人都去送丧。

她的死象征着南方古老传统、价值观念、生活方式的彻底灭亡和消失。

为展示新旧双方的矛盾和以爱米丽为代表的贵族阶级虽大势已去却拒不接受社会变革的心态,作者选取了一个极为典型的事件——纳税事件。

爱米丽父亲死后,沙多里斯镇长Ccolonel Sartoris如何编造了爱米丽的父亲曾借款给镇上,这样既可免去困境中的爱米丽的税款又不至于伤害她的自尊心。

然而,时过境迁,新一代镇政府官员对沙多里斯的举动颇有微词,便给爱米丽邮去税款单,并两次写信通知她面谈纳税一事,但爱米丽对此事不予作答。

镇政府当局便派代表团前往爱米丽住处,与她商谈纳税事宜。

然而,爱米丽拒不承认自己拖欠税款,并命男仆托比将代表团赶出寓所。

在这场冲突中,作者采用对话的形式揭示了爱米丽固守旧秩序、抵制新事物的心态。

这其实也是把两代人进行比较并反映出老一辈人富有同情心并顾虑周到,而新一代人则丧失了老一辈的优良传统和一些好的传统价值观念,把人与人之间的关系变成了冷酷的金钱关系。

那位为爱米丽操持家务、终生为伴、默默无闻、忠于职守的黑人男仆托比,在小说中作者只用寥寥几笔描写他,但就烘托主题而言,他也是极其重要的。

实际上当时的南方奴隶制已经废除,爱米丽仍继续使用黑奴,也反映了爱米丽拒绝放弃过去的优越。

爱米丽一死,“黑人随即不见了,他穿过屋子,走出后门,从此就不见踪影”,作者对托比的去向没有交代。

托比的消失具有极强的象征意义,进一步深化了小说的主题——旧势力大势已去,黑奴也随着贵族阶级的消亡而不复存在。

但旧传统并非一无是处,福克纳对传统的态度是很复杂的。

他反对资产阶级工商文明,为传统美德的沦丧、传统生活方式的解体感到痛心疾首。

尽管福克纳对南方社会中的各种罪恶的腐败进行了无情揭露和批判,但他对南方社会、对南方的生活方式及其传统的价值观有着强烈的认同感,怀着深厚的感情。

他之所以一生都在尖锐地批评南方,正是因为他是那样深深地爱着故乡那片“邮票般大小的土地”。

这从镇上老一代对爱米丽的矛盾态度中可以看出,他们同情她的贫苦与孤独,小说中随处可见“poor Emily”的字眼,人们关注她、可怜她,想方设法帮助她,甚至为她有所“寄托”指她与伯隆在一起而“高兴”。

但他们却不希望她这么一个被他们看做是南方“传统的化身”、出身高贵的小姐嫁给他们所仇恨的北方佬。

所以他们后来听说她买了毒药,以为“她要自杀”,竟然“都说这是再好没有的事”。

他们不能容忍她成为“全镇的羞辱,青年的坏榜样”。

三、《献给爱米丽的玫瑰》的艺术构架(一)人物描写的神秘性与暗语“爱米丽·格里尔森小姐过世了,全镇的人都去送丧”,为什么一位几乎与世隔绝、性情古怪的人的死会使全镇的人都去送丧并把她比作一座“纪念碑”,这无疑给读者留下一个谜。

这个谜从故事的开头就紧紧地吸引了读者。

在文章中,作者通过叙事人讲述谜一般的故事,把象征意义暗藏在谜底里,即通过爱米丽这一形象来代表一个传统,她的死亡是“纪念碑”的结局。

作者暗示美国南方陈旧、腐朽、落后、愚昧的传统观念及势力在北方工业发展所带来的文明进步的冲击下,终于走向崩溃的边缘。

这篇小说里的肖像描写十分精彩。

例如在纳税事情一节中,爱米丽给人的印象是“一个小模小样,腰圆体胖的女人……她的身架矮小,也许正因为这个缘故,在别的女人身上显得不过是丰满,而她却给人以肥大的感觉。

她看上去像长久泡在死水中的一具死尸,肿胀发白……她那双凹陷在一脸隆起的肥肉之中、活像揉在一团生面的两个小煤球似的眼睛不住地移动着,时而瞧瞧这张面孔,时而打量那张面孔”。

如果读者认为作者只是为了达到故事情节的曲折化、神秘化、恐怖化而故意玩弄文字游戏,那就错了。

其实,作者的真正意图在于通过对爱米丽形象、外貌的描写来展现爱米丽身体内所包含的那种与世隔绝、思想僵化、完全被旧传统腐蚀的思想。

这种通过外貌描写来展现主人翁内心世界的活动以及再现作者所表达的象征意义的艺术写作手法,使我们不仅能欣赏到作者高超的艺术技巧,而且能从栩栩如生的艺术画面中更为深刻地理解作品的主题。

小说以我们看到了“一绺长长的铁灰色头发”结尾。

尽管作者仿佛只是在漫不经心地如实描述现场的景象,但这根“铁灰色头发”却是整个第五节——人们破门而入所要揭示的关键目标。

对整个故事来说,最后这一笔起了画龙点睛的作用,成了一条重要的线索,巧妙地把故事中打破时序的人物和情节串连起来。

如果说爱米丽的一生是一个谜,这根铁灰色的长发便是解开这个谜的一个重要提示。

作者对爱米丽与荷默尸体共枕的原因只字未提,只是大力渲染神秘、恐怖的气氛,它给读者的感染力是强烈的。

作者也没有直接表现爱米丽内心的痛苦,但他对爱米丽多年同荷默的尸体睡在一起来满足自己的欲望,这种情形的暗示比对其内心痛苦的任何直接描写都更具有震撼人心的艺术效果。

(二)象征的手法追求象征意义几乎成为现代短篇小说的一大特点,由于巧妙地使用象征物或象征手法,平凡的故事往往被赋予多层含义,令人产生丰富的联想。

《献给爱米丽的玫瑰》以令人毛骨悚然的发现结尾,这只是毒死情人保留其尸体的恐怖行为,是女主人公心理变态的表现而已。

那么,对于一个心理变态者,一个性格怪僻的孤傲人物,为什么还要献上一朵玫瑰呢谈到故事标题的含义,福克纳这样说道:其含义是说,这儿有一个遭遇悲惨的女人,她的悲剧是无可改变的,任何人也无能为力。

我可怜她。

这是向她表示敬意,就像你在这种情形要向人作出某种姿态、行个礼什么的一样。

对一个男人,你会敬他一杯酒,而对一个女人,你则会献上一朵玫瑰。

福克纳对标题的解释,为正确地理解小说的主题思想提供了重要线索。

这是一篇悲剧性的小说,悲剧的女主人公值得人们去同情和尊敬。

福克纳的态度也在小说中充分体现出来,作者通过故事叙述人之口,发出了“可怜的爱米丽”的叹息,“可怜的爱米丽”这个词语曾出现六次之多。

爱米丽的悲剧是爱情的悲剧,对于造成悲剧的原因,人们是无法改变的。

爱米丽大胆追求爱情的顽强精神给人以深刻的印象,尽管她企图以死亡来征服时间和爱情的做法极为荒唐,但她这样做的心理是可以理解的,她的结局值得人们怜惜,她的精神应当受到尊敬。

因此爱米丽死后,人们慨叹她没有获得爱情的一生,钦佩她对爱情的向往和追求精神,于是向她献上一朵象征爱情的玫瑰作为补偿,也是对她的哀悼。

由此看来,虽然通篇故事没有献上玫瑰的情节,却是紧紧围绕着爱米丽的爱情悲剧展开的。

对于爱米丽这样一个被家庭和社会扭曲的人,无论读者对她的看法如何,作为一个南方作家,福克纳把爱米丽视为美国南方传统的代表,对她的爱情悲剧寄予深切的同情,向她献上象征爱情的玫瑰,这是完全可以理解的。

她的死亡像是“纪念碑”的倒塌,因而爱米丽被视为传统的南方及其价值观念的象征,而“带着一批黑人、骡马和机器来”的北方佬荷默则是工业的北方及其价值观念的象征,爱米丽拒绝纳税,甚至拒绝在她家门口钉上门牌号,设立邮件箱,可以表明南方忽视社会的变迁,抵制变化,死抱着原来的传统和惯例;爱米丽否认父亲之死,可视为拒绝承认南方社会制度的崩溃。

(三)时序颠倒时序颠倒是这篇小说的一大特色。

这一手法的采用使小说结构奇突,情节跳跃。

首先,小说以故事的结尾开头,叙述爱米丽死去的情形,时间颠倒了十几年,从而引起叙述者对爱米丽及其寓所的描述。

作者以爱米丽的死为支撑点,架起整个作品的轮廓。

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