珍妮姑娘悲剧分析论文.doc

沈阳大学毕业设计（论文）On the Causes of Jennie’s Tragedy in Jennie Gerhardt专业：英语班级：09 姓名： 沈阳大学毕业设计（论文） No 4ContentsIntroduction..................................................................................................................................51 Influences Brought about by Social Transformation...................................................111. 1 Ethic Transmutation ........................................................................................................11 1. 2 Moral Confusion..............................................................................................................142 Causes of the Tragedy from the Perspective of Freud’s Psychoanalysis................192.1 The Viewpoint of Psychoanalysis ....................................................................................19 2.2 Jennie’s Psychology .........................................................................................................213 Causes of the Tragedy from the Perspective of Darwinism.......................................253.1 Darwinist Analysis ...........................................................................................................25 3.2 The Environment of Early 20th Century..........................................................................314 Causes of the Tragedy from the Perspective of Feminism.........................................384.1 Feminist Analysis.............................................................................................................38 4.2 Jennie’s Feminist Thought................................................................................................40Conclusion..................................................................................................................................44Acknowledgement....................................................................................................................47Bibliography...............................................................................................................................48沈阳大学毕业设计（论文） No 1AbstractIn the first half of the twentieth century, the American literature stepped onto a new stage, which is the golden time of the American literature. During these years, a lot of writers who flourished the literary world turned up. And American literature experienced an unprecedented booming period in the history. At that time, Theodore Dreiser played an incomparable role in the literary world. He is not only the most outstanding writer in the twentieth century, but also the pioneer of American modern literature. In the history of American literature, he is the first one to describe the new city life in American without any prejudice, which is the great contribution to American literature. Just because of this, he draws more and more attention of recent readers.Jennie Gerhard is Theodore Dreiser’s second novel, which brought him first true commercial success. It told us a story about a poor girl’s miserable life at the end of 19th century. Since it’s publication in 1911, it was well received by critics. Many people have made a lot of analysis about the reason of Jennie’s tragedy. Since the researches of both domestic and abroad pay close attention on society and class, while the author of the paper will analyze Jennie’s tragedy from Spiritual Analysis’ theory, Social-Darwinism and Feminism under the background of the special social transformation in America. At that time, because of social transition, the rapid economic development and rapid urbanization, there were a variety of social problems. In the prevailing social conditions, social ethic changes and moral confusion makes Jennie’s tragedy a social necessity. According to Freud’s psychoanalysis theory, analyze Jennie’s psychological process. This is the origin of Jennie’s tragedy. Survival of the fittest was not only the core and the sole of Darwinism, but also applies to the Social-Darwinism, that is to say, every creature in the world must face all kinds of influences and challenges from inside and outside and those who couldn’t adapt must be eliminated. Jennie is in the low status in the capital society, she couldn’t be accepted by the upper class, and her final density must be abounded by 沈阳大学毕业设计（论文） No 2the upper class. Take family as the most important thing, Jennie Gerhard has all of the typical traditional women’s virtues-she was pure, kind and fable; she has no dependent social status but only has to depend on men. Different from those new women who didn’t comply with men and were independent in economy, the fate of Jennie Gerhard must be a tragedy. The thesis is divided into three parts to discuss the cause of Jennie’s tragedy by mainly applying the two theories above and discuss Dreiser’s writing features in Jennie Gerhard. The first part describes the specialty of the soci。