英语论文嘉莉妹妹美国梦的破灭.doc

1、 XXXX大学本科毕业论文（设计）任务书论文（设计）题目： 嘉莉妹妹美国梦的破灭 学院： XXX学院 专业： 英语教育 班级： XXX级英语教育X班 学生姓名： XX 学号： XXXX 指导教师： XX 职称：XX 1、 论文（设计）研究目标及主要任务本论文的研究目标是探讨嘉莉妹妹中美国梦的破灭。其主要任务是通过分析嘉莉妹妹追求好生活、爱情以及名誉的美国梦的破灭及其原因来揭示在当时社会中，人们通过努力工作来实现美国梦的想法是不可能实现的。2、论文（设计）的主要内容 本论文分为三章，第一章介绍嘉莉妹妹追求物质生活的美国梦的破灭，第二章介绍嘉莉妹妹追求真爱的美国梦的破灭，最后一章讨论嘉莉妹妹追求名

2、誉的美国梦的破灭。3、论文（设计）的基础条件及研究路线 本论文的基础条件是嘉莉妹妹美国梦的破灭。 研究路线是通过对嘉莉妹妹所追求的美国梦的破灭，向读者阐释一个事实：在那个时代，仅仅靠自身努力地劳动是不能够实现美国梦的，美国梦已经失去了以前的含义。4、主要参考文献Dreiser Theodore. Sister Carrie. Toronto: Bantam Boodle, 1982Dreiser Theodore. Sister Carrie. Beijing: Foreign Language Press, 2009.David E.E, Sloane. Sister Carrie, The

3、odore Dreisers Sociological Tragedy New York: Twayne Publishers, 1992.常耀信, 2003,美国文学简史. 天津：南开大学出版社.王刚华, 2002, 嘉莉妹妹的欲望和驱动力.外国文学研究. 2002年第三期, 13页.5、计划进度阶段起止日期1确定初步论文题目3月16日前2与导师见面，确定大致范围，填开题报告和任务书，导师签字3月16日-3月23日3提交论文提纲3月23日-3月30日4交初稿和文献综述3月30日-4月20日5交终稿和评议书5月8日前指 导 教师： 年 月 日教研室主任： 年 月 注：一式三份，学院（系）、指导

4、教师、学生各一份 XXXX大学本科生毕业论文（设计）开题报告书 XXX 学院 英语教育 专业 XXXX 届学生姓名XX论文（设计）题目嘉莉妹妹美国梦的破灭指导教师XX专业职称XX所属教研室英语高年级教研室研究方向英美文学课题论证：通过嘉莉妹妹在追求美好生活、真爱和名誉的美国梦的破灭的过程中揭示出在那个时代，仅仅通过自己努力劳动是不能实现美国梦的。方案设计：第一章介绍嘉莉妹妹追求物质生活美国梦的破灭，第二章阐述嘉莉妹妹追求真爱的美国梦的破灭， 第三章探讨嘉莉妹妹追求名誉的美国梦的破灭。进度计划：3月16日前确定初步论文题目 3月30日前写开题报告、任务书3月30日前提交论文提纲4月20日前提交初

5、稿和文献综述5月8日前交终稿和评议书指导教师意见： 指导教师签名： 年 月 日教研室意见： 教研室主任签名： 年 月 日XXXX大学本科生毕业论文（设计）评议书姓 名XX学院XXX学院专业英语教育年级（班）XXXX级英语教育X班论 文 题 目嘉莉妹妹美国梦的破灭完成时间2013/5/8论文内容摘要嘉莉妹妹是西奥多.德莱赛所有作品中的代表作。它反映了19世纪美国社会的真实状况。当这本书出社会上发行时，有许多人批评它，所以主人公嘉莉妹妹一时成为一个热门的话题。当时，许多作者和读者都批评它，认为女主人公的行为是不道德的。这篇论文主要分析嘉莉妹妹的美国梦的破灭。同时，论文也分析了造成嘉莉妹妹悲剧的种种

6、原因。这篇论文由四个大章节加上引言和结论六个部分构成。在论文一开始，作者介绍了美国梦的起源与发展。然后作者对于德莱赛的生活经历和他的书目做了一个简单地介绍。然后作者讲述了嘉莉妹妹的追梦过程以及她的美国梦的破灭。在第一个章节中，作者向读者们展示了一个去大城市谋求更好生活的一个单纯的女孩。作者介绍了佳丽妹妹在第一阶段的美国梦是什么、她的美国梦是怎么样破灭的、以及破灭的原因。在其它的章节中，作者仍然像第一章节一样安排故事情节。作者先向读者们说明嘉莉的美国梦是什么，然后介绍她的美国梦是在哪买样破灭的，最后告诉读者美国梦破灭的原因。在论文的最后，作者做了一个总结：当时的美国梦是非常易碎的。它看起来美丽，

7、事实上非常的不可靠，就像翅膀一样脆弱。嘉莉妹妹就是脆弱的美国梦中的一个受害者。指导教师评语 年 月 日指 导 教 师职称初评成绩答辩小组姓名职称教研室组长成员答辩记录： 记录人签字： 年 月 日XXXX大学本科生毕业论文（设计）文献综述Literature ReviewTheodore Dreiser was bone in an immigrant family in Indiana. His childhood was not stable and often wandered here and there with his mother. Because of lacking of mo

8、ney, he discounted his studies, and came to Chicago for seeking a livelihood by himself. There he once worked as a dishwasher, a boiler, and did other odd jobs. Later owing to the help of his teacher, he came back to school and studied for one year in Indiana University. In the university he read a

9、lot of books, which was written by some very famous writers like Darwin, Spencer and so on. However, he realized that his studies can not solve his problems in life. So one year later he came back to Chicago and continued doing burdensome physical labor at the bottom of life.Later as adults, Dreiser

10、 wanted to seek another development, so he determined to devote himself into the field of the journalists. He worked for both Chicago Globe and St. Louiss Globe-Democrat. Here he got endless source of writing. In 1894, he came to New York to earn a living. Although New York was a big city, it was ha

11、rd for him to find an appropriate job. There Dreiser lived such a tough life that he even wanted to suicide. Thanks to his brother Paul, Dreiser found a job in New York Monthly magazine and worked as an editor and main contributor. The experience when he worked as a journalist made him meet people o

12、f all ranks in American society, which laid a solid foundation for his later art creation. He wanted to show his own experience to common people to encourage them, so he created a lot of books, including Sister Carrie.Theodore Dreiser was a man who has a lot of works during his life time. But his mo

13、st famous work is Sister Carrie, and it is also the masterpiece in all his books. Dreisers life experience is so tough that he is clear about the sufferings of people in lower class. As a writer, he hopes to tell his own life experience to the people in lower class in order to encourage them. He hat

14、es the government and sympathy the common people. And soon he creates Carrie Sister in 1900. When the book was came out, there were many critics commented on it. It was rejected because of its relentless honestly in presenting the true nature of American life. Then Dreiser felt so depressed by “a de

15、cades delay”in the words of Larzer Ziffin social recognition that he was said to have walked by the East River at the turn of the century, seriously contemplating suicide. He faced every form of attack that a serious artist could encounter, misunderstanding, misrepresentation, artistic isolation, an

16、d commercial seduction. But he endured all and held out long, and survived to lead the rebellion of the 1920s. He created many works, such as Jennie Gerhardt, The Financier, The Titan, An American Tragedy and so on. In the book Sister Carrie, Dreiser depicted a country girl, Sister Carrie, who came

17、to Chicago to look for a better life. She first stayed with her sister whose workingclass home is, however, too poor to keep her. Winter was coming and she was seriously ill. A traveling salesman, Douret by name, came to her rescue and took her home as his mistress. Sister Carries beauty appealed to

18、 Dourets friends, Hurstwood, so that the respectable manager deserted his comfortable home and family and forced her to elope with him. They ran first to Canada and then settled down in New York. For some time they experienced dire poverty. Sister Carrie went out to find work on the stage, but Hurst

19、wood proved himself to be utterly unfit to survive. He could not find work, and begged for and received some occasional support from Sister Carrie. His downfall was complete when he committed suicide on one cold winter night. Sister Carrie managed to move up in her career, and Douret came back to re

20、new some connection with her, only to be rebuffed and leave rejected. At the end of the book Sister Carrie was seen sitting in her rockingchair, still rocking.The book Sister Carrie was commented by many famous writers both in foreign countries and in China. For example, William Marion Reed once wro

21、te:At times the whole thing is impossible, and then again it is as life itself. the story, as a hole, has a grip that is not exercised upon any unwholesome taste. the charm, despite violence to taste and hovering intimations even of absurdity, remains superior to and defiant of analysis.3 Frank Norr

22、is had regarded Sister Carrie as a breakthrough in American realism. In 1901, William Heinemann published an English version of this book, and it sold well in England. As time passed, Comment on this book was reinforced by the new humanism. The representatives were Stuart Sherman, Paul Elmer More an

23、d Irving Babbitt and Robert Schafer. They commented on Dreisers books, and when naturalism got its full time, Dreisers works were extremely famous.In China, some critics would like to comment on the specific aspects of his works, such as the theme, style, structure and the cultural significance. In

24、1982, Luo Guanghuan wrote On Sister Carries Realism in foreign study. And then in 1984, Xu Ruzhi wrote A Brief Comment on Dreiser, Zhu Da wrote On Dresiers Sister Carrie in 1989, and in 2003 Lin Bin did A Feminist Reading of Sister Carrie: On the Ambivalence of Dreisers View of Womanhood. Some artic

25、les can also be found in journals. In 2000, Pan Qingling wrote Theodore Dreiser: Sister Carriein Commemoration of the First Centennial Anniversary of the Publication of Sister Carrie in the Journal of Shanghai University. In the same year, Jiang Daochao did A Cultural Assumption Difficult to Transce

26、ndA Review of the Twentieth Century Studies of Theodore Dreiser In China and USA in the Journal of Shenzhen University.本科生毕业论文设计题目： 嘉莉妹妹美国梦的破灭作者姓名： XX 指导教师： XX 所在学院： XXX学院 专业（系）： 英语教育 班级（届）： XXXX届 完成日期 2013 年 5 月 8 日 An Analysis of the Disillusion of Sister Carries American DreamBYXX Prof. XXX, Tuto

27、rA Thesis Submitted to Department of English Language and Literature in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of B.A. in English At XXXUniversityMay 8, 2013AbstractSister Carrie was the masterpiece among Theodore Dreisers works. It reflected the real social phenomenon in the 19th ce

28、ntury in American. When it came out in society, there were a lot of critics who commented on this book. Thus the main character Sister Carrie became a hot topic among people. At that time, Dreiser was criticized by other writers and readers because they thought Carries behavior was immoral. This the

29、sis was mainly to analyze the disillusion with Carries American dream. At the same time, it was also analyze the reasons which caused her tragedy.The thesis was divided into three chapters besides an introduction and a conclusion. At the beginning of the thesis, the author introduced the origin of A

30、merican dream and its development. Then the author gave a brief introduction about Dreisers life experience and his books, and later he told readers the process of Carries chasing dreams and the disillusion with her dreams.In the first chapter, the author showed his reader an innocent girl who came

31、to Chicago for better life. He told readers what was Carries dream and the process of pursuing her dream. And at last the author showed the reasons to his readers which caused the broken of Carries American dream with materials. In other chapters, the author still arranged the storyline the same as

32、the first chapter. The author first showed readers what was Carries American dream, and then the process of the disillusion of her American dream, and at last the reasons which caused the broken of her American dream. In the end of this thesis, the author made a conclusion: American dream was fragil

33、e in that time. Although it looked beautiful, it was not reliable in fact, just like wings. Carrie was just a victim of the fragile American dream.Key words: good life, true love, fame, American dream, disillusionAbstract in Chinese嘉莉妹妹是西奥多.德莱赛所有作品中的代表作。它反映了19世纪美国社会的真实状况。当这本书出社会上发行时，有许多人批评它，所以主人公嘉莉妹

34、妹一时成为一个热门的话题。当时，许多作者和读者都批评它，认为女主人公的行为是不道德的。这篇论文主要分析嘉莉妹妹的美国梦的破灭。同时，论文也分析了造成嘉莉妹妹悲剧的种种原因。这篇论文由三个大章节加上引言和结论五个部分构成。在论文一开始，作者介绍了美国梦的起源与发展。然后作者对于德莱赛的生活经历和他的书目做了一个简单地介绍。然后作者讲述了嘉莉妹妹的追梦过程以及她的美国梦的破灭。在第一个章节中，作者向读者们展示了一个去大城市谋求更好生活的一个单纯的女孩。作者介绍了佳丽妹妹在第一阶段的美国梦是什么、她的美国梦是怎么样破灭的、以及破灭的原因。在其它的章节中，作者仍然像第一章节一样安排故事情节。作者先向读

35、者们说明嘉莉的美国梦是什么，然后介绍她的美国梦是在哪买样破灭的，最后告诉读者美国梦破灭的原因。在论文的最后，作者做了一个总结：当时的美国梦是非常易碎的。它看起来美丽，事实上非常的不可靠，就像翅膀一样脆弱。嘉莉妹妹就是脆弱的美国梦中的一个受害者。关键词：美好的生活；真爱；名誉；美国梦；破灭Table of ContentsAbstractIIIAbstract in ChineseIVIntroduction1Chapter I Carries American Dream of Good Life5A. An embryonic of Carries American dream for go

36、od life5B. The first disillusion with Carries American dream7C. The reasons of Carries disillusion with the American dream7 Chapter II Carries American Dream of True Love and Happiness10A. Carries American dream in pursuit of true love and happiness10B. The second disillusion with Carries American d

37、ream11C. The causes of Carries disillusion with the American dream11Chapter III Carries Final American Dream of Fame and Materials14A. Carries final American dream about fame and materials14B. The last disillusion with Carries American dream15C. The causes of Carries disillusion with the American dr

38、eam15Conclusion17Notes19Bibliography2020Introduction It is known that America is a country in which almost every people have their own dream. The so called American dream was originated from Mayflower which was happened in 1620, and from then it was widely developed. The term “American dream” was a

39、national ethos of the United States, a set of ideals in which freedom included the opportunity for prosperity and success, and an upward social mobility achieved through hard work. In the definition of American dream by James Truslow Adams in 1931, “life should be better and richer and fuller for ev

40、eryone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement, regardless of social class or circumstances of birth”. 1 But with the changes of times, the development of capitalism and the prevalence of money worship in the United States, the original nice American dream has been distorted a

41、nd become a kind of way in which people get wealth by fire means or foul. Some historians say that American dream is the infinite desire for wealth and chase.Theodore Dreiser was bone in an immigrant family in Indiana. His childhood was not stable and often wandered here and there with his mother. B

42、ecause of lacking of money, he discounted his studies, and came to Chicago for seeking a livelihood by himself. There he once worked as a dishwasher, a boiler, and did other odd jobs. Later owing to the help of his teacher, he came back to school and studied for one year in Indiana University. In th

43、e university he read a lot of books, which was written by some very famous writers like Darwin, Spencer and so on. However, he realized that his studies can not solve his problems in life. So one year later he came back to Chicago and continued doing burdensome physical labor at the bottom of life.L

44、ater as adults, Dreiser wanted to seek another development, so he determined to devote himself into the field of the journalists. He worked for both Chicago Globe and St. Louiss Globe-Democrat. Here he got endless source of writing. In 1894, he came to New York to earn a living. Although New York wa

45、s a big city, it was hard for him to find an appropriate job. There Dreiser lived such a tough life that he even wanted to suicide. Thanks to his brother Paul, Dreiser found a job in New York Monthly magazine and worked as an editor and main contributor. The experience when he worked as a journalist

46、 made him meet people of all ranks in American society, which laid a solid foundation for his later art creation.His own ordeal equipped him to sympathy the common people in the bottom of American society. He thought it was imperative to tell people about his own life experience in order to reveal such confusing real life. Driven by this kin