Analyzing the Humanistic Spirits of A Tale of Two Cities from the Images of the Main Characters开题报告

 2022-07-30 15:01:52

1. 研究目的与意义

At the time Dickens wrote A Tale of Two Cities, it was the prosperous period of his novel creation, which reached the peak of his life both in art and in thought. The social and historical environment at this time also gave his work an extremely magnificent background. Dickens#8217; understanding of the society also continuously deepened at this time. Therefore, the connotation of A Tale of Two Cities is very rich, and it is worth spending a lot of time on analyzing it and doing research on it.Dickens even regarded the noble emotions and humanistic spirits of individuals as the only way to resolve the social contradictions. During this period, Dickens#8217; works almost praised the great humanistic spirits and noble emotions. He hoped to resist ugliness through human nature and emotions, and alleviate the irrational violent resistance from the lower classes.According to the reasons above, we can discover the importance of the humanistic spirits in Dickens#8217; works. They are so meaningful that we need to try our best to analyze the main characters and humanistic spirits in A Tale of Two Cities.

2. 研究内容和预期目标

1.Introduction 1.1The background and experience of Charles Dickens#8217; life. 1.2The characteristics of Dickens#8217; novels. 1.3The reflections of Dickens#8217; background and life experience in his works. 1.4Definition of humanistic spirit.2.The Images of Main Characters2.1Decadent aristocratic class represented by Marquis brothers. 2.2Revolutionary masses represented by the Defarge couple. 2.3The ideal character represented by Manette and so on.3.The Reflections of the Humanistic Spirits in the Characters 3.1The hatred of Marquis brothers.3.1.1Motivation and reasons of Marquis brothers#8217; rascality.3.1.2The evil of human nature reflected in the rascality. 3.2The tragedy of Defarge.3.2.1The causes of the double image of Defarge before and after the revolution.3.2.2The contradiction of Defarge 3.3Dickens#8217; ideal humanistic spirits.3.3.1The causes of their beautiful humanity.3.3.2The perfect humanistic spirit that Dickens advocated.3.4Contrast4.The Values and Influences of the Analysis of Humanistic Spirits in A Tale of Two Cities 4.1Social meaning 4.2Influence on the literary world 4.3Limitation5.Conclusion

3. 国内外研究现状

A Tale of Two Cities was the peak work of Dickens#8217; writing career. It was created in the case of personal life being twisted and unfortunate, and thus had a deeper observation and understanding of social reality. Therefore, this novel was more mature. Humanity could better reflect the author#8217;s ideological connotation. From the characteristics and content of the novel, it was not difficult to conclude that Dickens was a writer with a strong tendency to promote wonderful things, never concealing his own thoughts and emotions in his works (Kang Ping,Wang Yan,2006). Therefore, Dickens#8217; complicated and painful experience during this period prompted him to write this great work, and it was these experience that enabled him to create many profound characters#8217; images in his works.Dickens was a famous British critical realist writer in the 19th century. His works mainly showed the situation of Victorian British society at that time, fully revealing the evils of British capitalism. The humanistic spirits and the care for people throughout the work had enriched the connotation of the novel. Humanism was mainly produced during the Renaissance, and the foundation was humanity. The humanitarianism of this period was a heritage of ancient Roman and ancient Greek civil humanitarianism and was fully developed in the wave of the times (Zhang Yanqiong,2016). Dickens was deeply influenced by the humanistic spirits. The main reason was related to the environment in which Dickens grew up. Therefore, in his works, he reflected the concern and sympathy of the bottom of the public and the promotion of humanity and morality to the humanized society. However, due to the class position of Dickens, there were some limitations in his understanding and interpretation of humanism(Xing Xianglan,2010).Dickens believed that the class revolution of bloody revenge would only create another cruel ruling class. Only the pursuit of human nature and selfless humanitarianism were the directions of human society development. Although Dickens did not find the way to solve the basic contradictions of society because of the limitations of his historical era, he advocated humanitarian thoughts and made a ruthless criticism of the dark reality of society in the form of novels. Dickens#8217; portrayal of the many characters in A Tale of Two Cities reflected his humanitarianism - hate never surpasses love (Zhu Jie, Zhan Kai,2008). In view of the background of Dickens#8217; life and his thoughts, the humanistic spirits embodied in his works are also crucial.Dickens emphasized humanity and emphasized the use of the spirit of benevolence and forgiveness to treat hostile classes. It not only enabled hostile classes and hostile people to understand each other, but also changed the distorted mind and made people recover. Its humanitarian was focused on the scope of ethics, though its foundation was still the human. But it was embodied in morality. Morality was a measure of whether a person had humanity. Dickens believed that the good and evil human nature were united, which couldn#8217;t exist solely, and sometimes one could be converted to the other(Zang Change, Guo Yueqin, 2012). They believed that this was the core of the humanistic spirits advocated by Dickens.

4. 计划与进度安排

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the main characters in Dickens#8217; A Tale of Two Cities to explore the humanistic spirits which Dickens advocated and to show his unique style of writing.The paper is divided into four parts. First, the part gives the theories and concepts involved in the main body, including the background of Dickens#8217; writing and the characteristics of his works, and definition of the humanistic spirits. The second partis going to analyze the images of the main characters in A Tale of Two Cities, including three different classes, the decadent aristocratic class, the revolutionary masses and the ideal character. The third part will focus on the humanistic spirits embodied in the main characters. Finally, the last part will focus on the value of A Tale of Two Cities and the limitation of the humanistic spirits that Dickens approved.

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