对小说《死亡诗社》中尼尔悲剧的原因分析

AbstractAmerican classic novel Dead Poets Society mainly tells the story of the teacher and a group of young students with a personal independence of conduct of the story. The writer shows some contradictions and conflicts between the school and the students, parents and students, teachers and students with unadorned style. This is a part of life and freedom, and the traditional related educational novel, also is a classical literature which questions and challenges the traditional teaching, is a symbol of youth and vitality, is the freshness of the deep spring of life.The novel describes the process in detail that Neil fights against with the school, the parents and the tradition in order to pursue ideal and freedom. However the ideal is good, the reality is cruel, Neil fails to revolt and ends with suicide. The tragedy of Neil reflects from one aspect the influence of school education and family education on teenagers.The paper consists of the five parts: The first part gives a general idea of the novel Dead Poets Society. The second part describes the tragedy of Neil and its embodiments in the novel. The third part discusses the causes of the tragedy of Neil in the novel. The fourth part states Neils tragedy in the novel to the enlightenment of current education in our country. The last part is the conclusion of the paper.Key Words: education; freedom; Neil; tragedy摘 要美国经典小说死亡诗社主要讲述了一个特立独行的老师和一群年轻学生的故事。作者用朴实的文风展现了学校与学生，家长与学生，老师与学生之间所发生的冲突矛盾。这是一部关于传统，生命，自由的教育小说，也是一部向传统教学提出质疑和挑战的文学经典，是青春和活力的象征，是生命春意正浓时鲜活的记忆。小说详细叙述了尼尔为追求理想和自由，与学校，父母，传统相抗争的过程，然而理想是美好的，现实是残酷的。尼尔抗争失败，最后以自杀结尾。尼尔悲剧从侧面反映了学校教育和家庭教育对青少年的影响。本文由五部分组成:第一部分介绍了死亡诗社的基本内容。第二部分概括叙述尼尔的悲剧及其在小说中的体现。第三部分探讨小说中造成尼尔悲剧的原因。第四部分论述尼尔悲剧对我国当前教育的启示。最后一部分为本文的总结。关键词：教育；自由；尼尔；悲剧ContentsTOC o "1-3" h z u 1. Introduction 12. The Specific Embodiments of Neils Tragedy in the Novel. 12.1 Being Forced to Give up the Dream of Acting 22.2 Being Forced to Choose the Future Career 22.3 Suicide with Despair 33. The Causes of Neils Tragedy 33.1 The Factors of School 33.1.1 Severe School System 43.1.2 Traditional Teaching Methods 53.2 The Factors of Family 53.2.1 Autocratic Family Education 63.2.2 Rigid Father 73.3 The Factors of Neil Himself 73.3.1 Lack of Courage to Revolt 83.3.2 Dealing with the Problems in Extreme Way 84. The Enlightenments for Current Education in Our Country from Neils Tragedy 94.1 The Enlightenments for Current School Education 104.2 The Enlightenments for Current Family Education 115. Conclusion 12Bibliography 13The Analysis of the Reasons for Neils Tragedy in the Novel Dead Poets Society1. IntroductionDead Poets Society is an educational novel written by American writer N.H Klibomn who wrote it in 1989. This is the story of students who study at Welton Academy. There are four pillars in Welton Academy: “Tradition,” “Honor,” “Discipline,” and “Excellence”(Klibomn 4). A group of innocent and well-bred students have boring classes like ascetic monks, and the whole school is isolated and inanimate. Fortunately the new English teacher Mr. Keatings coming like a bolt of red lightning flashed across the sky at midnight which breaks the original life style of the school. Whats more, Mr. Keating leads his students to join the Dead Poets Society which represents romance and passion, and these students often get together in a mysterious cave. Under such an atmosphere, the young students seem to find romance and passion belonging them. However, the traditional power represented by Headmaster Nolan exert increasing pressure on Mr. Keating and his students again and again. Finally their arguments cause a shocked conflict: an excellent student Neil with outstanding talent of acting who kills himself with despair.2 The Specific Embodiments of Neils Tragedy in the Novel.Neil is a handsome, kind, outgoing, and pretty excellent student, also was a true leader among his classmates. Everything seemed to be perfect, but in Neils inner world, he was not happy at all. Because he was very passive under the traditional education system of learning step by step, and he lived in a family with autocratic education. Although Neil loved to act, he had to give the real dream under his fathers strong control to choose the future career he didnt like: to be a doctor. When his father Mr. Perry found that Neil managed to act A Midsummer Nights Dream(Shakespeare, 1600) he was very mad at his son, because in Mr. Perrys eyes acting was a waste of time. In order to throttle Neils dream of acting, Mr. Perry tried to withdraw Neil from Welton. Actually his arrangement intensified the contradiction further and accelerated the death of Neil. Faced with fathers control, Neil was weak to revolt, so he killed himself extremely with full of disappointment and despair. Absolutely we can see Neil was miserable in his short life. He couldnt choose school; he couldnt insist his dream; even so he couldnt control his