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Introduction………………………………………………………………………..3
Chapter I. Some words about Theodore Dreiser…………………………………..5
1.1. Biography of Theodore Dreiser……………………………………………....5
1.2. Some features of Dreiser’s work……………………………………………..6
Chapter II. The image of fallen women in works by Dreiser…………………….10
2.1. Images of Women in American Literature…………………………………..10
2.2. The image of fallen women in works by Dreiser………………………….....16
Conclusion………………………………………………………………………..30
Bibliography………………………………………………………………………33ВведениеIntroduction
Every writer has his own style of writing. Trying to gain the definite stylistic effects the writer uses the different stylistic means.
The stylistic makes use of different phenomena from lexicology, grammar and phraseology. But the stylistic doesn’t study the elements of language, it studies their expressive potential in the text. In other words, the stylistic studies their stylistic function.
The stylistic function is considered as the expressive potential of the interaction of the language means in the text. The stylistic considers the language means’ expressive features and consequently their role in the influence on the reader.
Our work is devoted to the image of fallen women in works by T. Dreiser.
The aim of the given work consists in a theoretical substantiation of a question on features of the image of fallen women in works by Dreiser.
Object of work has demanded the decision of the following specific tasks:
- To study Biography of Theodore Dreiser;
- To consider Some features of Dreiser’s work;
- To consider Images of Women in American Literature;
- To study The image of fallen women in works by Dreiser.
Object of research in the given work is Dreiser’s creativity.
Subject is image of fallen women in works by Dreiser.
Theoretical value - the given work brings the contribution to development of theoretical aspects of studying of creativity of Dreiser.
Practical value is, that the concrete theoretical material can be used in training courses under the theory of language, linguistics of the text, functional grammar, stylistics, rhetoric, literary criticism, translation theory, lectures on stylistics, the literature and other disciplines.
During our work we used the works on the translation theory of such linguists as Levitskaya T.R., Fiterman A.M., Komissarov V.N., Alimov V.V., Shveytser A.D., Garbovskiy N.K., Dmitrieva L.F., Galperin I.R., Arnold I.V., Yakusheva I.V., van Deik, Kolshanskiy and others. We used also the articles from the periodical editions.
Concerning the aim and the tasks we have used such method as a descriptive one, the method of the experience, the contextual method and the comparative method. These methods weren’t used as the isolated methods, they were used in their complex to satisfy the aim and the task in the best way.ЗаключениеConclusion
Too many critics about Carrie exist from 1900 when Dreiser finished the novel till now, and I can’t cite them one by one. Here I just classified them into two groups. From the totally different views, we can see that different people does hold different opinions. To me, I also have my own understanding of Carrie.
First, I really can’t agree Carrie is a “fallen woman”.
Those who criticized that she is greedy for material gains and she loses her sense of morality when she pursues her desire, to me, they failed to understand the novel deeply and they failed to treat Carrie equally as well. It’s quite true that Carrie had sexual relations with two men, which maybe the most unbearable thing for those who said Carrie is “immoral”, but when we read the novel, actually we can say that Carrie’s intention was to have a good husband.
First she met Drouet who attracted her with his beautiful clothes and fine manners which represented he belongs to a high class. That is very nature, as I say. Carrie came from a poor peasant family and she wanted to search a better life in Chigago. When she met such a young man who was “ an experienced traveller, a brisk man of the world” and was so courteous to her. “It disposed her pleasantly toward all he might do.”
After Carrie arrived the Hanson’s, she found things disappointing. She did efforts to search a job, but she failed at last. Drived by the desire for survival, she eventually accepted Drouet. Here we should notice that though the main reason Carrie accepted Drouet is he had the money to support her, but on the other hand, Carrie did have some good feelings on him. Besides, Drouet promised to marry her. So at the beginning, the story went like lots of other love stories. Poor young beautiful girl comes to a big city and wants a “better life”, then she meets a rich man who makes she believe that they love each other, inevitably she wishes a wedding with the man. That happens a lot now. but in the fact, the man didn’t have a plan to marry her.
And later, Carrie found another man who seemed worth her love. Hurtswood stands for a calss higher than Drouet’s. He was more attractive and he knew women’s heart better. Carrie once hesitated, but Drouet really couldn’t touch her heart any longer. Drouet himself was not a guy who really wanted to get married. So Carrie didn’t resist when Hurstwood lied to her and brought her to New York. That happened on a base that Carrie thought Hurstwood would marry her and gave her a happy life. That’s human’s instinct. Carrie’s instinct is to survive and to live better. That’s all. She didn’t have any intrigues like Mrs.Hurstwood. We still can say she is pure. She was just drived by the circumstances. So sexual relations with two men didn’t make Carrie a “fallen woman”.
Secondly, I don’t agree completely that Carrie is a “new woman”.
When Carrie met the living crisis in New York, at the beginning, she still believed that Hurstwood could made all things right. But later, she found Hurstwood was falling rapidly. She tried to encourage Hurstwood to find a job to support the family, but he failed. He couldn’t find his place in the bigger city New York at all. But Carrie didn’t want to wait and die. She got a job in a theatre, not so easily, then she left him. Here we can often see many critics said Carrie is “stone-hearted”. To me, Carrie’s behavior may be a bit cruel, but still can be forgave. Think what an environment she lives in! she needs to live! I also explain her action as a result of her instinct.
Next, Carrie made herself successful on the stage by a small chance. She got money and fame gradually. But these can’t make her a “new woman”, because her success has much contingency. Her self-consciousness hadn’t be aroused until she met Ames, a young engineer. His influence causes Carrie to become disillusioned with her success as an actress in comedy and makes her desire to perform more dramatic works. He introduced some writers to Carrie, and also gave some astonishing views about the surrounding people, which made Carrie think he was a special man. From that, Carrie started to think about lots of other things deeply. I say, Carrie at this moment is still not a “new woman”. She doesn’t has her own understanding of the world. She still can’t think and action as an independent woman.
To sum up, I don’t think Carrie is “immoral”. When she is drived by her instinct to find a way to live, she has nothing to blame for.ЛитератураBibliography
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