摘 要美国黑人作家拉尔夫▪艾里森(1914年—1994年),在1952年出版了他的长篇小说《看不见的人》。小说通过描写主人公探索自我的艰辛历程,揭示了主人公对自我身份和自我意识觉醒的追求。主人公从“看不见”到“看得见”的转变，也是主人公自我意识觉醒的过程。本论文试图通过对比分析小说《看不见的人》中主人公自我意识觉醒的过程及其心理变化，从而认识到自我意识对个人成长和对社会发展的影响。通过对小说主人公自我身份的探索，有助于读者更深入的理解小说的深刻内涵，同时有助于读者自我意识的觉醒，实现个人的自我成长。29239
关键词：《看不见的人》；拉尔夫▪艾里森; 自我意识
Abstract
Ralph Ellison ( 1914──1994 ) is a famous African-American writer and his representative work Invisible Man was first published in 1952. The novel is about the process of exploring identity，and reveals the narrator’s self-consciousness awakening. In the process of the hero’s self-consciousness awakening, the narrator changes from invisible to visible. The paper attempts to analyze the process of the narrator’s self-consciousness awakening and his psychological change, which might enlighten the influence of self-consciousness for personal growth and social development. By exploring the narrator’s identity, can let the readers have a better understanding of the profound connotation, meanwhile, can help the readers know themselves and realize their inpidual development.
Key words：Invisible man; Ralph Ellison; self-consciousness
On the Hero’s Self-consciousness Awakening in Invisible Man
Contents
摘 要 i
Abstract ii
I. Introduction 1
II. A Brief Introduction of Ralph Ellison and Invisible Man 2
2.1 Life Experience of Ralph Ellison 2
2.2 Works of Ralph Ellison 2
2.3 The Significance of Invisible Man 3
III. The Narrator’s Quest for Identity 5
3.1 Losing Identity in the South as a College Student 5
3.2 Pursuing Identity at the Liberty Paint Plant and the Factory Hospital 5
3.3 Achieving Identity from Brotherhood to Underground 5
IV. The Narrator’s Self-consciousness 6
4.1 A General Introduction of Self-consciousness 7
4.1.1 The Essence of Self-consciousness 7
4.1.2 The Feature of Self-consciousness for College Students 7
4.1.3 The Way to Perfect College Students’ Self-consciousness 8
4.2 The Effect Factors of the Narrator’s Self-consciousness 8
4.3 The Significance of the Narrator’s Self-consciousness Awakening 11
V. Conclusion 12
Bibliography 13
Acknowledgements 15
I. Introduction
Ralph Ellison is a famous African American writer. He was born in 1914 in Oklahoma City, named by his father after Ralph Waldo Emerson. Ellison is best known for his novel Invisible Man ( 1952 ), which won the National Book Award in 1953. Invisible Man is narrated in the first person’s tone by the protagonist without name. The narrator is an African-American man who considers himself socially invisible because people never see his true self beneath the roles that stereotype and racial prejudice compel him to play. Though the narrator is outstanding, knowledgeable, and highly gifted with language, he could not be treated equally in the society was dominated by white people. As the story progresses, the narrator’s illusions are gradually destroyed through his experiences as a student at college, as a worker at the Liberty Paints plant and as a member of a political organization known as the Brotherhood. The narrator says that he has stayed underground ever since, the end of his story is also the beginning. At the end he declares that he is aware of his inpidual complexity and his own identity without sacrificing his responsibility to the community. And not only that, the narrator says that he is at last ready to break away from underground. The theme of the novel is the awakening of the narrator’s self-consciousness. The title Invisible Man told us the living conditions. The paper would discuss the narrator’s self-consciousness in several stages, such as the experiences of the narrator’s college life, working life and political life during his growing-up time, etc. 论《看不见的人》中主人公自我意识的觉醒:http://www.youerw.com/yingyu/lunwen_24385.html