《继承者》进步还是退步--威廉.戈尔丁对社会达尔文主义的批判.pdf

Acknowledgements My deepest gratitude goes first and foremost to Professor Zhu Wang, my supervisor, who has initiated me into the realm of literary criticism and has exerted great influence on both my research and my outlook of life with her enlightening lectures, rigorous scholarship, and invaluable guidance. Professor Zhu has given me consistent and illuminating instruction during the whole process of the writing of the paper. Her timely encouragement has helped so much for me to get over difficulties of all kinds. I am greatly indebted to her in every tentative step that I have made in the present study I would like to express my heartfelt gratitude to the faculties of the English Department of Shantou University because they have taught me broad knowledge from different perspectivesSpecial thanks should be given to my teachers, Li Jie, Chen Huayu, Yuan Guangtao, Peng Jian’e and Wen Bing. My gratitude also goes to the STU librarian Xu Yong, who has offered me a lot of help in finding academic books from the National Library in Beijing I have also received continual help of various kinds from my classmates Yan Jinling, Guo Chunjuan and Huang Jing. We have proofread each other’s writings and pointed out the weak points for improvementThe last, but not the least, is my peculiar affection to my parents, my relatives, and my friends, without whose support and encouragement it is difficult for me to finish writing this thesisiAbstract William Golding is one of the most prominent British writers in the twentieth century. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1983. His masterpiece The Inheritors is about the confrontation and conflict between the primitive People the Neanderthals and the New People Homo sapiens. The novel is concerned with human evolution and progress, revealing that the technological and cultural advances are achieved at the cost of bloodshed and humanity. The thesis makes an in-depth analysis of The Inheritors in the opposite positi