海明威作品当中硬汉形象分析英语论文

1、On the Image of Code Hero Created in Hemingways WorksThe Thesis for Obtaining BA from SchoolOf Foreign Languages and Literature, HBUASBy Peng CongliSupervisedByA/Prof. Zhang Aohua June 2, 2014SignatureThe thesis “On the Image of Code Hero Created in Hemingways Works” by Peng Congli was reviewed and

2、approved by A/Prof. Zhang Aohua on June 2, 2014.Supervisor_(Signature)Abstract: In Hemingways works, there is a typical type of image that is called Code Hero. Code Hero, which means perseverance and never giving up, has been reflected in Hemingways works. As his saying goes, “Born not to&

3、#160;be defeated, one can be destroyed, but can not be beat” Simpleness, conciseness, nature constitute the basic characteristics of Hemingway's language and style. He abandoned painstakingly elegant and redundant embellishment. Just as his hero

4、and his spirit of Code Hero, this style associated with his life experiences and the background- two World Wars closely. So, in this thesis, I will illustrate the factors that shaped Hemingways code hero and the main characteristics of code hero. His life experiences and two World Wars have had grea

5、tly impact on his personality and writing style. They helped Hemingway to shape the image of code hero gradually. Key words: Hemingway; Code Hero; World Wars内容摘要：在海明威的作品当中，有一种经典的形象叫做“准则英雄”，又称“硬汉”，它意味着坚忍不拔和永不言弃。这一形象经常在海明威的作品中反映出来。像海明威自己所说的，“我可以被毁灭，但无法被打败”。简单，凝练，朴实自然是海明威构成了海明威的语言特色和文风。他摒弃了刻意的典雅和多余的修饰，

6、正如他描写的人物与他的硬汉精神。而他的这种风格的形成与他的个人经历和社会背景两次世界大战紧密相关。因此，在本篇论文当中，我将阐述海明威准则英雄的形成因素以及准则英雄的主要表现特征。他的成长经历以及当时的社会背景两次世界大战，对他的个人性格和写作风格产生了巨大的影响。它们帮助海明威逐渐塑造出了硬汉的形象。关键词: 海明威；硬汉；世界大战。AcknowledgmentsThe thesis was completed in June 2014, and many people have helped with it. Here I would particularly like to acknow

7、ledge my respectable supervisor, A/Prof. Zhang Aohua, for the valuable advice that she has given to me in the writing of this paper, in addition to what she has taught in her class on how to prepare and write the paper. I also want to acknowledge the teachers in School of Foreign Language of Hu bei

8、University of Arts and Science who provided me with rich information and gave me great encouragement. Besides, my friends should also be acknowledged for their kind and generous help. ContentsAbstract1内容摘要.11. Introduction22. Factors Shaping Hemingways Writing Style.32.1. Childhood Experiences42.2.

9、Two World Wars52.3. After Wars73. Characteristics of Code Hero.93.1. Brief Introduction.93.2 Common Characteristics of Code Hero.103.2 Significance of Code Hero.114. Representative Code Heroes in Hemingways Works114.1. Jack -An Unbeatable Hero114.2. Henry-A Gritty Fighter.124.3 Jordan - The Brave So

10、ldier144.4 Santiago-the Tough Guy155. Conclusion.16References17VIOn The Image of Code Hero Created in Hemingways WorksMajor: English EducationStudent No.:2010105131 Name: Peng CongliSupervisor: Zhang AohuaAbstract: In Hemingways works, there is a typical type of image that is called Code Hero. Code

11、Hero, which means perseverance and never giving up, has been reflected in Hemingways works frequently. As his saying goes “Born not to be defeated, one can be destroyed, but can not be beat” Simpleness, conciseness, nature constitute t

12、he basic characteristics of Hemingway's language and style. He abandoned painstakingly elegant and redundant embellishment. Just as his hero and his spirit of Code Hero, this style associated with his life experiences and the background- two World Wars closely. So, in this thesis, I will illustr

13、ate the factors that shaped Hemingways code hero and the main characteristics of code hero. His life experiences and two World Wars have had greatly impact on his personality and writing style. They helped Hemingway to shape the image of code hero gradually. Key words: Hemingway; Code Hero; World Wa

14、rs内容摘要：在海明威的作品当中，有一种经典的形象叫做“硬汉”。“硬汉”，它意味着坚忍不拔和永不言弃，经常在海明威的作品中反映出来。就像海明威自己所说的，“我可以被毁灭，但无法被打败”。简单，凝练，朴实自然是海明威构成了海明威的语言特色和文风。他摒弃了可以的典雅和多余的修饰，正如他描写的人物与他的硬汉精神。而他的这种风格的形成与他的个人经历和社会背景迷惘的一代紧密相关。因此，在本篇论文当中，我将阐述海明威准则英雄的形成因素以及准则英雄的主要表现特征。他的成长经历以及当时的社会背景两次世界大战，对他的个人性格和写作风格产生了巨大的影响。它们帮助海明威逐渐塑造出了硬汉的形象。关键词: 海明威；硬汉

15、；世界大战。1. IntroductionAmerican famous writer, Nobel Prize owner, Ernest Miller Hemingway, has created many vivid characters in his life. Although these figures are in different age, have different sex, occupation. But when we observed carefully, it is not hard to find that there is one thing in commo

16、n: they performed bravely in face of difficulties, misfortune and showed a kind of grace under pressure. These images that were shaped by Hemingway has been accepted as Code Hero by readers and literary critics. This image of Code Hero has experienced a process of development and change. And these d

17、escriptions are influenced by Hemingway's own experiences and the social background. And analysis on this spirit of Code Hero has great influence on contemporary era. Ernest Hemingway was a famous American novelist that has shocked the literary world. He was not only the image spokesperson of Lo

18、st Generation, but also a great master of literature in the history of the Western world and had made a great contribution to world literature. His image creation generally stands on his own personal point of view, based on personal experience, with unique vision for this world. He gradually shaped

19、the character of a world with Code Hero image. In Hemingways whole life, he experienced complex feelings in life and has married four times. His works on the life, world and society have shown the confusion and lost . Hemingway's life and literary career were controversial from the outside world

20、 in the beginning. Whether as a legendary figure, nor as a writer, Hemingway, with his unique artistic style and superb writing skills, created a simple and smooth, natural and succinct style, purified the traditional literature in Europe.After the outbreak of World War I, Hemingway, with a strong w

21、ill of experiencing the battlefields, he joined the American Red Cross teams, joining the Italian frontline. After the war, Hemingway was awarded the Medal of the Italian Government Cross medals, silver medals and bravery medals and obtained the rank of lieutenant. Along the honor were 237 wounds an

22、d lifelong might mare about wars.During the war，Lost Generation has suffered the bitter of war deeply, they were cheated by the publicity and education. Therefore they abandoned any kinds of lofty words : "What is sacred , glorious, and sacrifice of these vague terms child , I heard I would be

23、ashamed . did not see anything sacred , glorious things there is no glory , as the sacrifice, it's like Chicago slaughterhouse , the meat used to bury the difference is nothing . " (Wu Ran, 2004). So they respected minimalist in the literature creation . This minimalist style, Hemingway has

24、 pushed it to the extreme. He used the telegraph -style language, through simple dialogue and detail, with a subtle, indirect way imply dramatic changes in the character of the heart, rather than the traditional approach to lay out the character as described by heart. As to the end, there is often a

25、 sudden and unexpected end. Neither slovenly, nor sensationalist presentations, it is the so-called “zero end “instead it received more shocking result. Because of his mastery of narrative art, Hemingway won the Nobel Prize for Literature, and his “iceberg principle " is a concentrated expressi

26、on of his narrative of modern art, writers write only exposed on the surface of the water in the eighth , the rest seven eighths are leave to the readers by implication filler. This creative principle greatly influenced his contemporaries and younger creative tendencies writers. Colloquial prose sty

27、le became widespread characteristics. In his 62-years old life, he wrote The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, Whom the Bell Tolls, Old Man and other works. Hemingway's works, the Old Man and the Sea is blend faith, will, tenacity, courage and strength in one book, it makes it easy for people

28、to understand the power of an indestructible spirit of unbeatable. These characters have formed Hemingways Code Hero. So what is Code Hero? In brief, it means courage, perseverance and never giving up. It concentrated in four aspects: first, never give up hopes in any difficult conditions; secondly,

29、 keep this spirit and never admit failure in the process of fighting; third, behave heroically in the actual battle; and last, endure the loneliness in the long process of the fighting. In this thesis, Ill analyze some different aspects of code hero and Hemingway. First, I will analyze how Hemingway

30、s life experiences influenced his writing style and his works. Second, Ill talk about Hemingways code hero in detail. Third, Ill choose some typical characters in Hemingways works who could show the spirit of code hero.2. Factors shaping Hemingways Writing Style.Hemingways experiences of personal gr

31、owth and his family have influenced his characters and style greatly. Besides, the social environment-the World War One has a graven impact on his world view and self-worth. At the age of 9, he started smoking; when he was 11, he drank spirits slinkingly; when he was 13, he first had sex; when he wa

32、s 14, he was runaway from home. He was living for 62 years, witnessed a plane crash once, car accident twice, divorced thrice, married four times and he has participated in the war, military service, and because of shelling and gunfire he was hit by bullets and shrapnel more than 200 pieces. 2.1. Ch

33、ildhood ExperiencesHemingways childhood experiences had shaped his characters-his brave, passionate and aggressive and his writing style-his simple and concise. His parents fostered his love of literature and the spirit of exploration. The cultural icons he adored when he was a child shaped his writ

34、ing style in the rough.On July 21, 1899, Ernest Hemingway was born in Chicago, Illinois suburb of Rubber Town where the middle classs prefer place. It has not only all the conveniences of big cities living conditions, but also can escape from the uproar that brought by urbanization. He is e second b

35、aby in his family and there are six children in the family.His father was a surgeon; his faithful skill had gained reputation in the local place. Old Hemingway was the test person of three insurance companies and a dairy products company. Old Hemingway loved outside sports, especially fishing and hu

36、nting, and he was good at them even thought being a surgeon had taken a lot of his time and emerge. The boys mother was born in a good educational family and had a lifelong love of music. His parents are different kinds of person, they had different background and different interests and hobbies, bu

37、t they did have influenced Hemingway a lot.Hemingways strong personality has revealed when he was a little boy. He hoped to attract their parents attention about he was 4 or 5 years old- and he found that if he talked dirty was a functional way. Once he talked dirty, his morality consciousness mom w

38、ould come to forbid him, every child in the family would concern about the development.“Language can have an effect, studious and smart Hemingway began to like literature” (Wu Ran, 2004) Hemingway began to write poems when he was 10 years old, to be precise; he began to write poem as a way to imitat

39、e his cultural icon. He first adored Kipling, Stevenson and Lander. Kiplings poem has harmony rhythm, fluent syllables. His novels writing style is concise, no superfluous words, no unrelated things about the topic. This is much different from the popular English literature dilatory style-Hemingway

40、enjoyed it. This is a childs intuitive choice, over years, his appreciation has changed, but the first built influence wouldnt fade away.2.2. Two World Wars The World Wars have greatly impact on Hemingway, both his self character and his values. Wars damaged his physical and mental health, before th

41、e wars, he is a young man full of passion and aspiration. At that time, he volunteered to join the war regardless of the opposition of his parents. After witnessed and experienced the wars, he had seen the evil and cruel of it, his self character and values have changed greatly. He began to hate war

42、s and confused about life. But it was these experiences that gave Hemingways code hero the real soul. They all suffered from the reality, but they all, just like Hemingway, did not give up and faced it bravely. That is Hemingway, that is code hero. In 1918, during the First World War, Hemingway was

43、volunteered to Italy as a Red Cross convoy driver while he was less than 19. That was a memorable time. Nobody requested him to do so, he is not an inborn war resister, his passion of joining the war was a result of incite, delude, publicly and education, and also an inevitable result of youthful fl

44、air. To a young man, there is full of illusion and expectation of the future, they always think that war is just like the description in the books that it is mysterious and unrelated with self safe. They feel the war can not hurt them but can bring them newness. Hemingway wanted to be a formal fight

45、er, but his physical examination was disqualified, so he went there as an ambulance driver. He determined to experience the war regardless of status.Hemingway wounded in the battle and got 227 wounds. Next year, he went back his home, and this was totally a hero's triumph. The American media gav

46、e widely publicly; he was described as the first wounded American. “His scares are more than any person who wears military uniform or not” (Life Story: Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Bake, 1969) The welcome for a hero was faded over time. His father urged him to find a formal job, his girlfriend left him,

47、 too. Hemingway was depressing to the extreme. One of his short stories recorded “if there is light, I dont worry about sleeping, because I know that only in dark soul will leave me. Of cause, many nights that have lights, I could fell sleep. That is because Im so sleepy” (The Old Man and The Sea, H

48、emingway, 1987) Then, Hemingway began to think about the impression the war left to him. He thought that only his body was injured, but also his mind. Fear of war was down to the bone. Hemingway once wrote “I can remember it until now; it scared me for 10 years so that I could not write it down. The

49、 mental scars caused by wars are heal very slowly”. Two of his works reflected WWI, the Sun Also Rises, and a Farewell to Arms. The characters he shaped in these two novels are called Lost Generation. His spirit of Code Hero began to reveal sharply at this time. Just as his heroes in his books, both

50、 of them suffered from pain, lost and depression, but they did not give up to the difficulties, they performed brave and tough, never say die and fight against them.On September 1, 1939, the Second World War broken out. From 1937 to 1938, Hemingway has running around Spain frontline as a war corresp

51、ondent for the Spanish Civil War. During the Second World War, he took part in the army as a war correspondent and participated in the liberation of Paris. At the end of 1941 after the outbreak of the Pacific War, Hemingway immediately refit yacht to cruise boat, to spy on German submarine, providin

52、g intelligence for destroying the enemy. In 1944, Ernest Hemingway, along with the U.S. went to Europe to interview. But he was seriously injured in a plane crash. After recovered he still insisted on interview behind enemy lines. After the end of the Second World War, he won a bronze medal. “Spain

53、once gave Hemingway decadence as sunset, joy as sunrise and tragically of death of bulls, the mixed feelings that were intertwined with hope, joy, sadness; pathos when he was young fascinated him once more.” (Wu Ran, 2004). Within two years, Hemingway went to Spain for four times, experiencing the b

54、aptism of blood and fire of life. “The more you hate the war, the more you clear that once you are involved in the war, whatever the reason, you have to win. You have to win, to kill those who wage wars.” said Hemingway.In this place, Hemingway hooked on bullfight, there are many description of bull

55、fight in Hemingways books, Pamplona bullfight festival have profound influence on many of his works especially the Sun Also Rises. In this period, Hemingway wrote a famous novel about the Spain Civil War, that is For Whom the Bell Tolls. In For Whom the Bell Tolls, Hemingways thought transformation

56、had established and amplified. Jordan in For Whom the Bell Tolls and Henry in A Farewell to Arms are both volunteers and they participated in the war in a foreign country. But they formed a sharp contrast. Henry said goodbye to the war after disillusion. Otherwise Jordan was willing to carry on his

57、aspiration and he could get through difficulties. This change in books reflected Hemingways attitude had changed, too. He began to hate wars, but the spirit of Code Hero has become deeper in his mind. He would never yield to injustice; his desire to conquer the unknown world and difficulties is stronger than ever.2.3. After WarsIn recent unrest one hundred years, wars, or big or small, spread all over the world, especially the two World Wars are bitterly unbearable