英语专业毕业论文AnExistentialStudyofSaulBellow’sHerzog.doc

2012届毕业生 毕业论文 题 目: An Existential Study of Saul Bellow’s Herzog 内容摘要 在美国战后许多伟大的作家当中，索尔·贝娄，一位出生于加拿大的美籍犹太人，被公认为同时期美国最富感染力的作家。由于在作品中表现出的对“当代文化富于人性的理解和精妙的分析”，1976年10月他被授予了诺贝尔文学奖。这个奖项的获得确立了他作为当代美国文学代表人物的地位，并使其成为继海明威和福克纳之后当代小说界的先锋作家。 本论文主要对现实世界里找不到‘立足点’的人们的精神危机及作品中主人公赫索格致力寻找人的真实存在意义进行解读，从存在主义及存在主义者对于人类生存条件的共同关注的角度—即人类存在的荒谬、异化及对人类真实存在的追求来分析，作品中主人公赫索格就在这样一个邪恶、不道德的极端社会下生活着，由于在这样的一个社会条件下，赫索格陷入了精神危机，他远离人群，远离这个没有原则、毫无意义、毫无目标的世界。 然而，存在主义所倡导的是一种乐观的精神，主人公赫索格在经历了自己内心的改变及自我调整及适应后，终于面对现实肩负责任，重返伯克郡，一个舒适的居住之地。在经历了众多的变化之后，致力追求一个真实的自我，追寻生活的真谛。他终于寻找到了内心的宁静及真实存在的终极意义。主人公赫索格对于人类存在的最终认识也正是贝娄对于人类存在的理解和评述的真实体现。尽管一些评论家曾经试图在存在主义的框架中对其进行研究，但是触动的仅仅只是小说中的某些存在主义成分，并没有对它进行深入细致的探索。因此，本论文将尽力全面而详细地从存在主义角度出发来剖析这部小说，以便使大家更好地理解它的主题及贝娄对人生存在意义的界定。 关键词：存在;荒谬;异化;真实;融合 Abstract Among the many great writers in postwar America, Saul Bellow, a Canadian-born Jewish –American, is regarded as the one of the most important. Marked by his “human understanding and subtle analysis of contemporary culture” in his works, he was awarded the Nobel prize of literature in October,1976, which established him as a representative figure in contemporary American literature and a vanguard of contemporary fiction in the wake of Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner. This paper focuses on the crisis of the people who are unable to find a “still point” in the world they live in and the truth of their existence. In the light of existentialism and the existentialist thinkers in their common concern about human living condition---absurdity man faces, alienation he feels, and his struggle for the authentic existence. The protagonist Moses Herzog is experiencing such human living condition in the wicked society. In such wicked society, Herzog sinks into a spiritual crisis and aloof from the people and regards the world as a disintegrating one without a unifying principle, without meaning, and without purpose. However, after some self-adjustment, Herzog has a true change of heart. He has been carrying on his shoulders and re