Acknowledgments At the very moment of finishing this thesis, my heartfelt and foremost gratitude to Associate Prof. Yan, my supervisor, for her constant encouragement, conscientiousness, edification, critics and her inspirational and provocative ideas during many of our human nature alienation discussion sessions, I benefited a lot in the essay writing process. She has spared much of her precious time for me and walked me through all the stages of the writing of this thesis. Without her consistent and illuminating instruction, this thesis could not have reached its present form. I am also greatly indebted to the professors and teachers at the Department of English: Prof. Yuan Bin, Prof. Huai Peixin, and Prof. Zhong Lin who have instructed and helped me a lot in the past two years. Especially Prof. Huai, she is the most influential teacher who led me into the world of literature.32009
Secondly, I would also express my great thanks to all the authors of books I cited which provided me reliable fact and data. Additionally, I’d like to thank those leaders, teachers and working staff in the study of human nature and the novel The Invisible Man. Without their help, it would be much harder for me to finish my study and this paper.
Last my thanks would go to my beloved family for their loving considerations and great confidence in me all through these years. I also owe my sincere gratitude to my friends and my fellow classmates who gave me their help and time in listening to me and helping me work out my problems during the difficult course of the thesis
Abstract
Scientific achievements have made much more contributions that stimulated the process of human history, which is obvious. Human beings have benefited significantly from science so far while scientists have played an important role in bringing new inventions that can rapidly improve our health, change our nations, our world, nature or industries, to our daily life and let us understand why the world is as we see it and how it came to be. The world is very different now for man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life.
Most scientists can be motivated by the above ways, however, some of them may be driven by recognition from their peers, prestige and social wealth etc. When we talk of recognition, prestige and social wealth etc. which our human beings have fought for and will fight for from the very beginning of human history till the end of the world, we must take it for granted to use science as a weapon to make more benefits. The inside world and the outside world stimulates us to regard science and technologies as slavers to serve as much as possible. While under this circumstance, the human being would irreparably destroy the society. So that’s the why we should think of the relationship between science and human nature alienation, helping humans improve their humanity in the booming age of science and technology, preventing them from misusing science to damage the world and towards self-destruction.
This thesis is to illustrate human nature alienation under the scientific development by analyzing the novel of The Invisible Man. At the first, some subjects on human nature are discussed, followed by the study of the relationship between the social environment and human alienation, the protagonist’s inner world and human alienation, the contradiction of science and human nature. At last, the main purpose to talk over the relationship between science and human alienation will be highlighted, realizing the supplementary of moral standards and science, and giving some warnings and advice to improve the scientific world in nowadays.
Key Words: The Invisible Man, science, human nature alienation
摘要 众目所睹，科学成果为人类历史进步做出了众多贡献。至今，人类从科学中收获颇多, 科学家们在此起了举足轻重的作用。他们的发明创造改善了我们的健康、改变了我们的国家、我们的世界、自然和工业，也改变了我们的生活，让我们知道所看见的世界是如何形成的。如今的世界已与往大不相同，科学成果赋予人们的力量既可消除人类的贫困，也可解放人类生活。 《隐形人》中科学与人性异化关系研究:http://www.youerw.com/yingyu/lunwen_28396.html