英语专业毕业论文论童话故事《小王子》的象征创作.docx

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英语专业毕业论文论童话故事《小王子》的象征创作

本科毕业论文（设计）

论文题目OnSymbolicWritingofFairytale-TheLittlePrince

学院外国语学院

专业英语（教师教育）

班级

姓名

学号

指导教师

填表日期2016年5月9日

CONTENTS

AbstractinChinese

AbstractinEnglish........................................................1

1.Introduction............................................................4

2.LiteratureReview.......................................................5

3.TwoKindsofSymbolicWritinginDifferentLevels.......................…...7

3.1.TheSymbolicMeaningofPhysicalWorld…………………………….………….7

3.1.1.TheStraightforwardandTransparentSymbolicMeaning....................7

3.1.2.TheSymbolswithComplexandDifficultMeaning………………...........9

3.2.TheSymbolicMeaningofMentalWorld……………........................11

3.2.1.TheLittlePrinceStandingforAuthor’sDream…………………………...……11

3.2.2.TheContradictionRelationshipBetweentheInnerWorldsofChildren

andAdults…………………………………………………………………………….12

4.Conclusion...............................................................13

Reference................................................................14

论童话故事《小王子》的象征创作

摘要法国作家安东尼·德·圣-埃克絮佩里的《小王子》自发表以来，深受全世界孩子的喜爱，也是一部不可多得的适合成人阅读的童话故事。

对《小王子》的研究有很多方面，例如：

作品背景，作者的双重形象，象征创作等等。

本文通过案例分析法、归纳法、文本分析法对《小王子》进行分析，深入探讨各个意象中的象征意义，从时代背景个性理解象征的内在含义，同时，通过分析象征中的意象可以理解其中的哲理。

整部作品由一个个或直白、或隐晦、或复杂的象征组成，向读者展示了作者的人生智慧。

笔者通过细细研读《小王子》，分析文中具有代表性的、不同层次的象征形象来剖析作者的人生哲学。

关键词《小王子》；象征；人生哲理

OntheSymbolicWritingoftheFairyTale-TheLittlePrince

AbstractTheLittlePricewrittenbyAntoinedeSaint-Exupéry,aFrenchwriter,attractschildren’saffectionallovertheworld.Itisalsoararefairytalethatissuitableforadults.TherearenumerouswaysinstudyingTheLittlePrince,suchasthestudyofthework’sbackground,dual-imageoftheauthorandsymbolicwriting.Thisessayistoanalyzethisworkbyusingcaseanalysismethod,induction,andtextualanalysismethod.Throughexploringthesymbols,thewritercanunderstandthemeaningofthesymbolsandphilosophyoflife.Thewholestoryismadeupofstraightforward,hidden,andcomplexsymbols,demonstratingtheauthor'slifewisdom.Thisessayistoanalyzetherepresentativesymbolsindifferentclassificationinordertodissecttheauthor’sphilosophyoflifebycarefulreading.

KeyWordsTheLittlePrince;symbol;philosophyoflife

1.Introduction

TheLittlePriceiswrittenbyAntoinedeSaint-Exupéry,aFrenchwriter.AntoinedeSaint-Exupéryisnotonlyanaeroplanist,butalsoachildren’sauthor.Antoinelovedadventureandfreedom.Whenhewasalittleboy,hewasagoodthinkerandliberalist.Hewasattractedbyhisaviationcareer.Heopenedupmanynewchannelairlinesduringhisserviceperiod.Duringthesecondworldwar,heenlistedinthearmybravelytothecountry,andhedevotedhislifetohiscountryunfortunately.Hehadadifferentvisionfromordinarypeopletothelifeandtheworldmaybebecauseheoftenoverlookedpeople’srelationship.Hoveringinthesky,hefoundthattheplanetwasformedbyhills,seas,sands.InAntoine’sview,hethoughthumanvaluewasn’tgivenbyGod,butcontributedtotheirownbehaviors.HegainedhisreputationfromTheLittlePrince,whichwasthemostwidespreadfairytaleinthe20thcentury.Since1943,TheLittlePrincehasbeentranslatedintomorethanonehundredlanguages.Theworkisbasedontheauthor’sownlife,narratingastorythatanotherworldlylittleprincestrivestoseekthetruthsanddream.Oneofthemostlightspotistheuseofsymbols.Heattachestrivialitypregnantconnationinordertosatirizetheadultworldandrevealtheinnocenceofchildren.TheLittlePrincepremisestheconcernandloveofeachotherandtheworldwelive.

Thisworkisafairytalecontainingrichphilosophy.Itisastoryfullofwisdomandrealhumannature,expressingtheauthor’srationalthinkingoftheoutsideworldandinnerworld.Thesymbolicwritinghasgeneralandapprovalconnationandisstudiedbydomesticandforeignscholarsmorethanonce.However,theselectedtopicistobreakthetradition.ByanalyzingTheLittlePrince,thewriterexcavatesthemeaningofaneweraofsymbols,andanalyzestheminparticularviewsothatmoreaspectsofTheLittlePrincecanbeunderstood.

Thisessayistoanalyzetherepresentativesymbolsindifferentclassificationinordertodissecttheauthor’sphilosophyoflifeinmyownopinionbycarefulreading.Theessayincludesfourparts.Thefistpartisintroductiontothetopic,purposeandtheframe.Thesecondoneisliteraturereview.Textanalysisisthefollowedpart.Thelastpartcomestheconclusion.

2.LiteratureReview

ThesymbolresearchstartedinancientGreeceperiod,lastingtwothousandyears.Thestudyofwesternsymboltheoryhasfourstages:

ThebuddingperiodofancientGreece,Medievalone-sideddevelopmentstage,thecharacteristicdevelopmentofthe18thandthe19thcentury,Diversifieddevelopmentstageinthelate19thcenturyandearly20thcentury.Inlate19century,theEuropeanintellectualsdissatisfiedwiththetemporalsociallifeandtheofficialsalonculture.Theyusedsymbolstomakeupanotheridealworldtoexpresstheirfeelings.Thatwashowthemodernsymbolismcameintobeing.In1886,JeanMoreas,aFrenchpoet,publishedabookTheDeclarationofSymbolism,whichsymbolizedthenaissanceoftheSymbolismGenre.CharlesBaudelaire,ArthurRimbaud,Verlaineweresymbolismpioneers.Theypublishedagreatdealofsymbolismworks.Theresearchofsymbolhadbeencoverednumerousfieldsfromlinguisticstopsychology,poetics,philosophy,anthropologyandsoon,appearingthesituationofinterdisciplinaryresearch.

Intheearly20s,intheriseofChina’snewliterature,Modernsymbolismworkshadbeenintroducedinquantity.In1920,MaoDunbegantointroduceandtranslatemodernsymbolismliteratures.Similarly,LuXunhadasymbolofcreativepracticeaftertheMay4thMovement.During1926,symbolismhadbeenpresented.Brieflyconcludedthatthedevelopmentoftheoryofsymbolizationexperiencethreestages:

buddingoccurs,tortuousdevelopmentandhardinnovation.

SincetheadventofTheLittlePrince,praisedas“TheFrenchRose”,ithasbeenlovedbychildrenandadults.Nowadays,manyauthorshaveelaboratedtheconnotationofTheLittlePrinceindifferentpointsofview,suchastheviewof“lifephilosophyandmodernsignificance”,“loveandresponsibility”,“therelationshipofchildrenandadults”.In1967,Paulstudiedthelifeanddeathofthelittleprince.Hethoughtthatthelittleprince’slivinganddeathsymbolizedthelifeexperienceofAntoinedeSaint-Exupéry.InChina,LingXuedongstudiedTheLittlePrinceintheperspectiveofsymbolism.Moreover,LiQianjunandLiXinstudiedthewarningforfuturegenerations:

beingawayfromthealienationandreturningtonature.In2005,LiaoShashauncoveredthepracticalsignificanceofTheLittlePrince,puttingforwardthatitreflectedtheproblemsofthetimesofhumansocietyinsecondworldwarbyapplyingsymbolism.Nevertheless,JiangYaminanalyzedthisfairytaleintheaspectofexploringlove,strengtheningloveofescapeandreturn.

Asthetimewentby,thestudyofsymbolicwritingtendstobemature.Manyaspectsarestudieddeeply.Forexample,thehistoryofsymbolicwritinghasbeenstudiedformanytimes.Thepurposeofthesymbolisalsoresearchedwidely.However,thefunctionofthesymbolcanbeinvestigated.Infutureresearch,wecanstudytheimages’rolestopromotetheresearchprogress.

3.TwoKindsofSymbolicWritinginDifferentLevels

EverysinglesymbolinTheLittlePrincecontainsabundantmeaning.Accordingtothesymbolofobjectivecorrespondingscale,therearetwoclasses:

thesymbolicmeaningofphysicalworldandthatofmentalworld.Andtheformerincludestwolevels.Thefirstlevelisthestraightforwardandtransparentsymbolicmeaning,andthesecondoneisthecomplexanddifficultsymbolicmeaning.Inthefirstlevel,theking,thedrunkard,thebusinessman,thelamplighter,andthegeographerareflatcharacters.Theycanbelabeledeasily,sothesesymbolsareeasytobeunderstood.However,rose,snakeandfoxsymbolizelove,deathandfriendship.Theseneedintensivestudy.Thedesertandthesnakevenomrefertobirthanddeath,whicharethephilosophicalproblems,sothesecondlevelsymbolsarecomplex.Accordingtothesymbolicmeaningofmentalworld,itreferstohuman’sinnerworldandthewritingbackground,sotheyareprofound.Thelittleprince’sinnerworldandthecontradictionrelationshipofchildrenandadultsaresymbols,whichneeddeepstudy.Eachspecificimageisnotisolated.Theseimagesareconstitutedcorrespondingrelationshipwiththelittleprince.Theauthordisplayshisvaluesthroughthecorrespondingimages.

3.1.TheSymbolicMeaningofPhysicalWorld

Thispartisdividedintotwolevels.Thestraightforwardandtransparentsymbolicmeaningisthefirstlevelwhilethesecondoneisthecomplexanddifficultsymbolicmeaning.Theking,thedrunkard,thebusinessman,thelamplighter,andthegeographerareflatcharacterswhocanbelabeledeasilyinthefirstlevel,sothesesymbolsarenotdifficulttobeunderstood.Nevertheless,therose,thesnakeandthefoxsymbolizelove,deathandfriendship.Thesesymbolsneedintensivestudy.Thedesertandthesnakevenomrefertobirthanddeath,wh