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摘要 美国作家菲茨杰拉德的代表作《了不起的盖茨比》生动地描述了20世纪20年代的美国社会，深刻的揭示了繁华的城市发展背后道德和精神的堕落。本文从道德观形成的背景、道德观在人物和象征事物上的体现三方面细致解读及阐释了《了不起的盖茨比》这本小说。本文将通过文本分析的方法优尔^文-论;文~网www.youerw.com，搜集有关该作品研究的相关资料，并加以整理，分析《了不起的盖茨比》中的道德观，来帮助读者们从不同的方面，透彻地研读《了不起的盖茨比》。43046
Abstract The Great Gatsby, the representative work of American writer Fitzgerald, depicted vividly the American society in the 1920s, revealed deeply the the moral and spiritual corruption behind the prosperous development of the city.Form the moral formation of the background,morality embodies three aspects on the character and symbolic things careful reading and interpretation of the novel The Great Gatsby.This paper is going to analyze the moral outlook in The Great Gatsby through the text-analysis, collection and reorganization of related materials about the work, which aims to help the readers study profoundly The Great Gatsby from various perspectives.
Key words: moral outlook; literature review; contradiction
Contents
摘 要 i
Abstract ii
I. Introduction 1
II. Fitzgerald and The Great Gatsby 5
2.1 The Life of the Author 5
2.2 The Outline of The Great Gatsby 6
III. The Moral Outlook in The Great Gatsby 7
3.1 The Overall Analysis of the Moral Outlook 8
3.2 The Moral Outlook of Specific Character 9
3.2.1 The Moral Outlook of Nick 9
3.2.2 The Moral Outlook of Daisy and Tom 10
3.2.3 The Moral Outlook of Gatsby 11
3.3 The Contradictions of Fitzgerald’s Moral Outlook 12
IV. Conclusion 14
Bibliography 16
Acknowledgments 17
The Moral Outline in The Great Gatsby
I. Introduction
The United States survived the first world war as a bystander, and opened a decade of boom after the war when the city developed rapidly, people entered the peak period of hedonism, but lost themselves in the thoughts and morality. All gods were dead, all wars were over, and all beliefs had finished. In The Great Gatsby, the writer Fitzgerald depicted the striking comparison between the prosperity of materialistic society and decadence of moral spirit with dramatic techniques.
The novel used Nick as the main line to start the narration. At the beginning, Nick said that he was clever, sensible and quick-witted, graduated from a prosperous university and stuck to the traditional ethics. But in the second half of the novel, Nick said that he was then involved into and outside the affairs and he felt disgusted and enchanted with the colorful life with infinite changes. How could this change happen to the protagonist. This was attributed to the protagonist Gatsby. Gatsby was from a humble origin, his and parents countrymen working all day, but the young Gatsby did not inherit his parents’ ideas, and he firmly believed that he would be successful. He changed his name from from James Gates to Jay Gatsby, which sounded like “god’s child” in English and also opened the chapter his pursuit of career success. Finally, when Gatsby won a large sum of money, and also had the ability to win back his love, but he died from the conspiracy of his lover and her husband, and ended his life.