毕业论文设计英语专业毕业论文对《雾都孤儿》中南希的性格分析

对《雾都孤儿》中南希的性格分析

摘要

《雾都孤儿》是狄更斯的早期作品，虽然作品以奥利弗为主角，但刻画最成功

的人物却是南希，她仅仅是小说中的一个次要角色，但却是小说中一个极为典型的人物，她不像小说中其他人物一样表现出或者好或者坏的某一面。她徘徊于善恶之间，是整个故事圆满结局的关键人物。南希这一人物有着无比丰富，复杂的内心世界，具有典型的双重性格。本文将详细地分析她的复杂性格，得出了南希性格形成是当时时代的产物的结论：资本主义制度剥削人的产物。她的复杂性格和内心争斗是由残酷的资本主义制度造成的，在当时的社会背景下，她的悲剧结局无法避免。她在内心良知和爱塞克斯之间斗争。正因为这样，这个人物才更贴近于生活，这个人物的人性之复杂才值得我们来探究。本文将重点探讨其性格特点及成因。

关键词： 南希 善良 复杂性格

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Analysis on Nancy’s Character in Oliver Twist

ABSTRACT

Oliver Twist was Dickens’ early work. Though Oliver is regarded as the protagonist,

the character Nancy is the most successful character. Though Nancy is a minor character in the novel, she is the most typical character. Unlike other characters throughout Oliver Twist, she is not entirely good or entirely bad. She is between good and evil, but it is hard to put a simple label on her. Nancy has an incomparably plentiful and contradictory inner world. She has typical double character. This paper will analyze her complex character in detail, and comes to the conclusion that the forming of her character is the product of that age: the product of capitalist system’s exploiting people. Her complex personality and inner conflicts are caused by the cruel capitalism. Under the dark social background, her tragic ending is inevitable. She has conflicts between her inner conscience and her devotion to Sikes. As a result of this, this character is more accessible to common daily life than any other characters in this novel. Thus her complex nature is worth us to explain. This paper will mainly discuss her feature of character and the causes.

Keywords: Nancy kindness complex character

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CONTENTS

摘要 ........................................................................................................................... I ABSTRACT ............................................................................................................ II 1 INTRODUCTION ........................................................... 错误！未定义书签。 1.1 Introduction on the Writer .............................................................................. 1 1.2 A Brief Introduction to the Novel ............................................................... 1 1.3 Writing Arrangement ...................................................................................... 2 2. LITERATURE REVIEW ................................................................................ 3 3 ANALYSIS ON NANCY’S CHARACTER..................................................... 4 3.1 Introduction on Nancy’s Miserable Fate ........................................................ 4 3.2 Nancy’s Contradictory Personality ................................................................. 5

3.2.1 Nancy’sGood and Evil ......................................................................... 5 3.2.1.1 Nancy’s Good Nature ........................................................................ 5 3.2.1.1.1Nancy’s Assistance to Oliver in Times of Crisis ............................ 6 3.2.1.1.2 Exposure of the Mystery of Oliver’s Status ................................... 6 3.2.1.1.3 Nancy’s Tact and Braveness .......................................................... 7 3.2.1.2 Nancy’s Bad Character ...................................................................... 8 3.2.2 Desire for Brightness butLack of Courage ........................................... 9 3.2.3 Contradictory View on Love .............................................................. 10 4 CAUSES FOR NANCY’S CHARACTER .................................................. 11 4.1 Characteristics of the Times ......................................................................... 11 4.2 The writer Dickens’ Individual Dual Character ........................................... 11 5 CONCLUSION ............................................................................................ 13 BIBLIOGRAPHY .............................................................................................. 14

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1 INTRODUCTION

1.1 Introduction on the Writer

Charles Dickens was born on February7, 1812, in Port Sea, England. His parents were middle-class, but they suffered financially as a result of living beyond their means. When Dickens was twelve years old, his family’s dire straits forced him to quit school and work in a blacking factory, a place where shoe polish is made. Within weeks, his father was put in debtor’s prison, where Dickens’ mother and siblings eventually joined him. At this point, Dickens lived on his own and continued to work at the factory for several months. After inheriting some money, Dickens’ father got out of prison and Charles returned to school. As a young adult, he worked as a law clerk and later as a journalist. His experience as a journalist kept him in a close contact with the darker social conditions of the Industrial Revolution, and he grew disillusioned with the attempts of lawmakers to alleviate those conditions. His first books, sketches by Boz, appeared in 1836.A collection of semi-fictional sketches entitled sketches by Boz earned him recognition as a writer. Dickens became famous and began to make money from his writing when he published his first novel, The Pickwick Papers, which was serialized in 1836 and published in book from the following year.

In 1837, the first installment of Oliver Twist appeared in the magazine Bentley’s miscellany, which Dickens was then editing. Even at this early date, some critics accused Dickens of writing too quickly and too prolifically, since he was paid by the word for his serialized novels. Yet the passion behind Oliver Twist, animated in part by Dickens’ own childhood experiences and in part by his outrage at the living conditions of the poor that he had witnessed as a journalist touched his contemporary readers. Greatly successful, the novel was a thinly veiled protest against the poor law of 1834, which dictated that all public charity must be channeled through workhouses.

In 1836, Dickens married Catherine Hogarth, but after twenty years of marriage and ten children, he fell in love with Ellen Ternan, an actress many years his junior, soon after, Dickens and his wife separated, ending a long series of marital difficulties. Dickens remained a prolific writer to the end of his life, and his novels---among them Great Expectations, A Tale of Two Cities, A Christmas Carol, David Copperfield, and Bleak House—continued to earn critical and popular acclaim. He died of a stroke in 1870,at the age of 58,leaving The Mystery of Edwin Drood unfinished.

1.2 A Brief Introduction to the Novel

Oliver Twist, one of the most famous works of Charles Dickens, is a novel

reflecting the tragic fact of the life in 19th century. The author who himself was born in a poor family wrote his twenties with a view to reveal the ugly masks of those cruel criminals and to expose the horror and violence hidden underneath the narrow and dirty streets in London. Oliver is a boy in a workhouse, who has no idea of his parents’ identity. His mother Agnes died in childbirth. By pure chance he is chosen as a scapegoat by the other starving boys, and is made to go and ask for an extra helping at a

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