Symbolic Analysis in To Kill a Mocking Bird开题报告

 2022-08-13 14:31:29

1. 研究目的与意义

Symbolism is the use of symbols to signify ideas and qualities, by giving them symbolic meanings that are different from their literal sense. By proper use of the symbolism, some of the more abstract spiritual qualities can be translated into the image, thus leaving the reader to relish the lingering aftertaste. With symbolism, the importance and special meaning of objects can be created. When symbolism is used as an integral part of the language and structure of a work of fiction, it can stimulate and release the imagination, which is one of the primary goals of any style of art. The novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, is a perfect representative of symbolism.

The novel, To kill a Mockingbird, is the only autobiographical novel written by the famous American writer Harper Lee in 1960, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1961. It is a classic of modern American literature. In this novel, Harper Lee employs symbolism to present serious racial discrimination and ethnicoppression. By analyzing the symbolism used in this novel, it’s going to offer a better understanding and appreciation of the novel.

What’s more, there are lots of studies about To Kill a Mockingbird, most of which are about the characters’ symbolic meaning, writing techniques, the rhetoric in novel, the analysis of personality and the revelation of racial discrimination and so on. Compared with the previous research, the essay has more objects to dig in. The research is not limited to a particular person or one thing, but is done through the several major symbolic objects of novel together, so as to deeply express their symbolic meaning and the main idea of this novel. Through the analysis and explanation, we will not only learn more about the use of symbolic techniques in novels, but also have a better understanding of the situation about racial discrimination in the United States in the 1960s and people’s desire for a harmonious society of justice, fairness and equality in the context of the Great Depression.

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2. 研究内容和预期目标

In this novel, the social life of South Mekong Town in South American is vividly presented to the reader through the childhood memory of the six-year-old girl—Scout. It employs lots of rhetorical devices such as symbolism, irony, contrast and metaphor, etc., to attack the dark and decadent society and expose serious racial discrimination and ethnic oppression. The essay focuses on the use of the symbolic writing techniques in the novel from five aspects, namely the characters, animals, plants, buildings and natural scenery. The symbolic characters and features are analyzed through examples. Through an analysis of the symbols and Harper’s symbolic writing techniques, this essay tends to offer a better understanding and appreciation of the novel.

1. Introduction

1.1 Harper Lee and To Kill a Mockingbird

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3. 国内外研究现状

Since To Kill a Mockingbird was published, it has received a lot of attention from scholars. It was actively studied in many ways by the literary world. In this paper, the studies of the novel at home and abroad are presented.

1. Foreign studies on To Kill a Mockingbird

The researchers in western countries relatively do more research work about To Kill a Mockingbird than the domestic researchers. The research contents and the research directions are more extensive, most of which concern racial discrimination, the author Harper Lee''s creative process, writing skills of the novel, the growth of the mood and education problems of Scout. For example, Carol Lannone (2016) studies the novel To kill a Mockingbird from Tom''s trial, the mockingbird''s justice, the situation of Harper Lee, and the art of speaking, and pointed out that the division of black and white will cease to exist, and racial discrimination will also disappear. Meredith Miller (2009) mainly describes the relationship between racism, gender discrimination and the Gothic style of writing, also believes that Lee pastiches a generic formula established more than a decade earlier by Carson McCullers and Truman Capote and crucial ingredients in this recipe include Gothic effects, gender dissident white focalising characters, black women servants and the violence of Southern racism. In addition, Jean Armstrong (1987) mainly analyzes the use a variety of rhetoric devices, narrative perspective and other writing techniques in the novel. Adam Smykowsk (2005) goes deep in the symbolic meaning of snowman, blue jay, and mad dog and he thinks the symbolism reveals the prejudice and narrow-mindedness of the common citizens of Maycomb County, the fears they have, and all of the immoral things they do, which is also the silhouette of racial discrimination of that era.

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4. 计划与进度安排

1. November25, 2022 the selection of the topic;

2. December 10, 2022 opening report;

3. March 10, 2022 the first draft;

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5. 参考文献

Armstrong, J. (1987). To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. Palgrave, London.

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