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1、献给爱米丽的玫瑰中象征手法的分析Symbolism in A Rose for EmilyContentsAbstract.1Key words.1I. Introduction.21. About the author.22. The story and its background.21) The story.22) Its background.3II. Literature Review.31. Symbolism.32. Complex time and structure.43. Changing portraits in A Rose for Emily.5III. Symbol
2、ic Subjects.61. Rose .62. The decaying house.63. Miss Emily.74. Homer Barron.75. The Negro man .86. The present and the past.87. The new board of alderman108. Miss Emily and her house.11IV. Conclusion11References.12Abstract: William Faulkner is one of the greatest writers that America has produced.
3、Since he was awarded the 1950 Nobel Prize for literature, his reputation and influence have spread to every part of the world. His brilliantly intensive fiction drew admiration from a growing number of writers and critics in America and France. In his short story A Rose for Emily, symbolism is used
4、very frequently. In many different ways, symbolism has a very deep and penetrating insight to the short story of A Rose for Emily. And what is symbolism? Developed in the late 19th century, symbolism is an art movement characterized by the representation of the inner life of people through spiritual
5、 or mystical symbols and ideas. It began as a rejection of the purely visual realism of the Impressionists, and the rationality of the Industrial Age. The term, symbolism covers a great variety of apparently dissimilar modes of behavior. There are many different symbolic subjects such as Emily herse
6、lf, her old house and the old servant. By exploring these symbolic subjects we can understand this short story better.Key words: symbolism; A Rose for Emily; symbolic subjects摘要：威廉福克纳是美国最伟大的作家之一。自从获得1950年的诺贝尔文学奖以后，他的声誉和影响传遍了世界各地。在美国和法国，越来越多的作家和评论家被福克纳出色的小说所折服。在他的短篇小说献给爱米丽的玫瑰花中，许多地方运用了象征主义。从很多方面来看，象征
7、主义帮助我们更加深入地理解这篇小说。那么什么是象征主义呢？象征主义是一次起源于19世纪末期的文艺运动。它的特点主要是通过精神或者神秘的象征体和思想来表现人类的内心世界。它最初的目的是反对印象主义者纯粹的视觉化的现实主义以及工业时代的理性主义。象征主义这个术语包含了很多不同种类的行为方式。在这篇小说中有很多象征体比如爱米丽，她的老房子和老仆人。通过分析这些象征体我们就能更好的理解这篇小说。关键词：象征主义；献给爱米丽的玫瑰花；象征体I. Introduction Throughout the whole history of human beings, literature plays a gr
8、eat and irreplaceable role. Literature is a crystallization of the wisdom of mankind. Literature is the human spirit food. Without literature, there is no civilization. Therefore we, college students, should read literary works extensively. It provides us a more colorful world and a broader vision.
9、According to my interest and reading experience, I choose the great American writer William Faulkner and his representative story A Rose for Emily. It is necessary to learn something about William Faulkner and this short story.1. About the authorWilliam Faulkner was born in new Albanny, Mississippi.
10、 When he was four or five years old, his family moved to Oxford, Mississippi, where he lived for the rest of his life. Oxford had some fictional characteristics, a prototype of Jefferson Town, the setting of A Rose for Emily and one of Yoknapatawpha series. Faulkners mythical Yoknapatawpha County se
11、rves as the locale for many of his stories and is so well known both in print and in motion pictures as to deserve a real place on the map. Myth or not, it will always survive on the literary map of the United States because of Faulkners technical brilliance and gift for storytelling. After reading
12、Faulkner and experiencing the rush of life so vividly depicted in his stories and in his novels, a visitor to Yoknapatawpha might agree with Lenas assessment of her experiences in Faulkners A Light in August: My, my. A body does get around. Here we have not been coming from Alabama but two months, a
13、nd now its already Tennessee. (Faulkner, William. Novels 1930-1935. New York: Library of America, 1985.)His central theme, however, was not Oxford or Mississippi or even America. It was, as William Faulkner put it, the universal theme of the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself. Willi
14、am Faulkner is considered by many to be the greatest writer of fiction that the United States yet produced. His A Rose for Emily was originally published in the April 30, 1930, Issue of Forum. It was his first short story published in a major magazine. A slightly revised version was published in two collections of his short fiction. It has been published in dozens of anthologies a
