摘要美国作家赫尔曼•麦尔文尔的著名作品《白鲸》是一部诠释人与自然关系的极佳作品。当今，人类正在面临着极其严峻的生态危机，自然环境及人类的生存条件受到巨大威胁。在这种趋势下，该论文将选取《白鲸》为研究对象，运用文献综述法和举例分析法,从和谐与冲突的角度探讨小说中体现的人与自然的关系，对如何做到人与自然的平衡进行分析。作者最后指出为了创建一个和谐的社会,人类应该与自然和谐相处，这对我们建设和谐社会有着至关重要的意义。40822
毕业论文关键词：赫尔曼•麦尔文尔；《白鲸》；人与自然；和谐与冲突
Abstract Moby Dick, the representative work of Herman Melville, is a wonderful work expounding the harmony and conflict between man and nature. Nowadays, human beings are facing severe environmental crisis, which bring tremendous menace to the natural environment and man’s living condition. Under this tendency, this paper takes Moby Dick as the study object to probe into the man-nature relationship from the perspective of harmony and conflict by means of literature review and case analysis methods. How to reach a balance between man and nature is also to be analyzed. The author finally concludes that human beings should keep in harmony with nature in order to establish a harmonious society, which is beneficial for us to deal with the man-nature relationship and plays a significant role in building a harmonious society.
Key words： Herman Melville; Moby Dick; man and nature; harmony and conflict
Contents
摘要i
Abstractii
I. Introduction..1
II. Moby Dick and the Theme of this Paper.2
2.1 Herman Melville and Moby Dick ..2
2.2 A Literature Review of Moby Dick. 4
2.3 The Significance of the Thesis.5
III. The Harmony and Conflict Between Man and Nature..6
3.1 Man-Nature Relation that Man is Faced in Our Daily Life6
3.2 The Harmony and Conflict Between Man and Nature Shown in Moby Dick..8
3.2.1 Ahab’s Conflicts with Nature 8
3.2.2 Ishmael’s Harmony with Nature9
IV. Establishing a Harmonious Man-Nature Relation.10
4.1 Ishmael’s Proper Treatment of Nature ..10
4.2 Countermeasures against the Man-Nature Crisis11 V. Conclusion13
Bibliography15
Acknowledgements .16
The Harmony and Conflict Between Man and Nature
in Moby Dick
I. Introduction
As one of the greatest American writers, Herman Melville who lived in the 19th century published the novel Moby Dick in 1851. This novel, through the mouth of a wandering young man named Ishmael, relates a story about the endless hunting and the relentless massacre under the leadership of Captain Ahab to take revenge on their old enemy “Moby Dick” in the sea.
Since human beings appeared, the relationship between man and nature has come into being. With the development of human society and nature, the relationship between human and nature has changed greatly. At the beginning of this century, through long-term evolution of the relative original dramatic, changes have taken place, conflict replaced harmony. These conflicts reflects mainly in the population, resources, environment and other issues. Moby Dick is widely recognized as one of the most representative works about the relation between man and nature. In the novel, the conflicts between human beings and whales are showed profoundly and obviously. Ahab abandons human reason and deals with the conflict between Moby Dick and himself through a brutal way. Ishmael shows great love to the whale. He is the only one who survived in the end due to his kindness inside. The death of Ahab, together with the survival of Ishmael, best illustrates that the harmony between man and nature is the most important factor that constitutes the harmonious human being existential space and also the ultimate redemption of the fate of human beings. 论《白鲸》中人与自然的和谐与冲突:http://www.youerw.com/yingyu/lunwen_39247.html