解析《长腿叔叔》少女茱蒂成长的日志.docx

1、解析长腿叔叔少女茱蒂成长的日志解析长腿叔叔少女茱蒂 成长的日志AbstractDaddy-Long-Legs, written by Jean Webster in 1912, has been always well received since it was published. It has been adapted for movies, cartoons, TV series and others. Among them the cartoon adapted by Japanese even won the Japan Culture Prize in 1990. The nove

2、l describes the growing up experience of an orphan Judy in the first person point of view. Therefore, it also seems to be a “blog” of a girls growth. Through the analysis of the structure of the novel and its epistolary style, the imaginations in it and the relationship between Judy and Daddy-Long-L

3、egs, this thesis points out that life needs magic and one himself is the biggest magic!Key Wordsan epistolary novel; growth; imaginations; relationship; magic摘要长腿叔叔由简韦伯斯特写与1912年。自从发表问世以来，一直受到读者的多方好评。之后更是被改编制作成电影，动画片和连续剧，其中由日本制作的同名动画片更是获得了1990年日本文化厅儿童优良影片奖。长腿叔叔用第一人称的口吻，讲述了孤女茱蒂四年大学生活的故事。因此，它又被看作是是一部关于

4、成长的日志性作品。论文将就小说中的写作结构，所涉及的想象力部分，以及茱蒂和长腿叔叔之间的奇特关系进行分析、阐述，其中我们不难发现一个真谛生活需要奇迹，而最大的奇迹是你自己！关键词书信体；成长；想象力；关系；奇迹IntroductionDaddy-Long-Legs describes a growing up experience of an orphan, Judy, in the first person point of view and the form of letter writing. Although the heroine in Daddy-Long-Legs grows u

5、p in an asylum (the place which is mentioned in the novel), she still keeps a childish, kind and optimistic heart. Judy is optimistic with an inflexible will, tough character, struggling for the better life In Daddy-Long-Legs there are 81 letters written by Judy to Daddy-Long-Legs during her four- y

6、ears- university life. The letters record the growing up stories of Judy from an orphan in asylum to be a confident university graduate, and the magic love between her and Daddy-Long-Legs. Reading this wonderful novel, one can find that life needs magic while he himself is the biggest one.This paper

7、 demonstrates the point that life needs magic while the biggest is 有yourself from three different aspects. The first part is to deal with the epistolary form of Daddy-Long-Legs, written in the first person point of view with 81 letters in total. Among these letters the shortest letter is just dozens

8、 of words while the longest letter is more than eleven pages. All of the 81 letters are written by Judy herself and we could not find any one letter written by others. The second part is about the function of imagination in Daddy-Long-Legs. There are many imaginations in Daddy-Long-Legs, which are w

9、onderful and express Judys different emotions. These imaginations could be divided into three groups, which are optimistic, neutral and pessimistic. It could be found more concrete description and analysis of them. The last one is to analyze the strange relationship between Judy and Daddy-Long-legs.

10、 From the three aspects the paper shows why Daddy-Long-Legs can be seen as a “blog” of Judys growth and suggests that everyone himself is the biggest magic in his real life. I. The style of Daddy-Long-LegsA. The Characters of Epistolary in the Novel What is Epistolary novel? Epistolary novel is in t

11、he form of a series of letters written by one or more characters. It allows the author to present the characters thoughts without interference, convey events with dramatic immediacy, and present events from several points of view. It is one of the first novelistic forms to be developed. It was fores

12、hadowed by Aphra Behns poem cycle Love-Letters between a Nobleman and His Sister (1683). The outstanding early example is Samuel Richardsons Pamela (1740); distinguished later works include Tobias Smolletts Humphry Clinker (1771) and Pierre Lacloss Les Liaisons dangerousness (1782). The genre remain

13、ed popular up to the 19th century. Its reliance on subjective points of view makes it the forerunner of the modern psychological novel. Anyone who has read a book named Daddy-Long-Legs will be attracted by its special writing style. First of all, the whole novel is built on the base of letter struct

14、ure. The author uses it throughout the whole novel to give readers a fresh feeling on his work. On one hand, it can keep recording Judys life in the orphan home. On the other hand, the inner heart of Judy can release. Thus, It can be clearly seen the relationship between Judy and Mr. Right.B. Analys

15、is of the Writing Form of Daddy-Long-Legs Social life is the source of literature. Any one who creates masterpiece is close related to what he has done during his ordinary life. To be specific, the author writes what kind of book and how to write it mostly depend on his experience, thought as well a

16、s his emotion. Compared with a book named The Sorrows of Young Werther, Daddy-Long-Legs is more simple and natural-reflected. Gothic, a great novelist, is the author of The Sorrows of Young Werther. Most of his works in his old age are just a giant segment of his self-expressed. The Sorrows of Young

17、 Werther, an epistolary novel which is wrote in the first person of view can be regarded as one of the most important and classic segmentations of his youth. It directly and entirely reflects Gothics life experience and emotions of young times. During the every phase of the whole life of Gothic, he

18、made an extremely contribution when he was young. The content of the work decides the form of the work. Only when the work has a proper form can be expressed the content effectively. The success of The Sorrows of Young Werther proves the dialectical relationship of content and form. On content, The

19、Sorrows of Young Werther is not a surprising story, without strange plots. There are plenty of phenomenons and things of daily life as well as the thought and reflection to these phenomenons from the heroin. On tasty, the story emphasis on exploring the inner heart of the heroin and writing about hi

20、s feeling, happy, dissatisfied, pursuit, or desperate. The feeling of subjective is deep. Basic on such content and tasty, it is not proper to use the writing style of drama or traditional novel, what is more, it is not suitable to use poem which can express the feeling from inner heart, however, ca

21、n not describe the trivial things of the daily life. Young Gothic properly chooses the first person way to write this novel so as to make the heroin as a close friend of the reader, telling his experience and emotion to the reader directly, moreover he perfectly ordinate unite of form and content. T

22、o be honest, this kind of novel style was not created by Gothic, but taking from the novel Clarissa, wrote by Charlie. Before Gothic, a novelist from German once used it. However, the issue is Gothic make good use of this style; completely enhance its advantage, plus some creation from him self.C. R

23、easons to Write Daddy-Long-Legs in Epistolary There are two main artificial characteristics in epistolary novel. First of all, the letter construction could express the strong feeling, dense poetic meaning, and specific reflection of the heart much better than other written styles. Secondly, feasibl

24、e structure, diaphanous cut powerful language. The structure of Daddy-Long-Legs is very feasible. It uses the experience of the heroin as a clue, putting nearly hundreds of letters together. There is no relation in the context among letters but the time between each letter is not the same, so as the

25、 content. Thus, the plots of the story can expand by leaps and bounds. It is not only save a lot of time for writing transition sentence, but also leave a room for reader to imagine. Enhance the value of the work without awareness.II. The Imaginations in Daddy-Long-LegsThere are many imaginations in

26、 Daddy-Long-Legs, all of them are very wonderful and express many different emotions of Judy. These imaginations could be divided into three parts. They are optimistic part, neutral part and pessimistic part. Because in authors eyes Judy is sunshine, lovely, brave, tough, and hardworking girl, just

27、like a sunflower, so here are emphases on the optimistic and neutral imaginations. As for the pessimistic parts just use a few words is used to relate.A. Description of the Imagination in Daddy-Long-LegsJudy is lovely, brave, tough, hardworking girl. She is brought up in an orphan home and is suppor

28、ted by a strange man who she wants to see. However, there is no chance for her to do it. What she could do is to write letter to him. First of all, the novel describes the imaginations which could be considered as the optimistic imaginations. “In imagination she followed first one equipage, then ano

29、ther, to the big houses dotted along the hillside. She pictured herself in a fur coat and a velvet hat trimmed with feathers leaning back in the seat and nonchalantly murmuring “Home” to the driver.” This is the first imagination in Daddy-Long-Legs and it is also a unique one in the third person for

30、 after the first chapter “Blue Wednesday” there are 81 letters all of which written by Judy in first person. “To recapitulate (thats the way the English instructor begins every other sentence), I am very much obliged for my seven presents. Im pretending to myself that they came in a box from my fami

31、ly in California. The watch is from father, the rug from mother, the hot water bottle from grandmother-who is always worrying for fear I shall catch cold in this climate-and the yellow paper from my little brother Harry. My sister Isabel gave me the silk stockings, and Aunt Susan the Matthew Arnold

32、poems; Uncle Harry (little Harry is named after him) gave me the dictionary. He wanted to send chocolates, but I insisted on synonyms.” From the words we could find how tough and optimistic in Judys character. Although Judy has been grown up in asylum she always has a kind and thanksgiving heart. Sh

33、e wants to have a normal family, she hope to live a happiness life like other same ages children and she always try her best to make herself like live in a normal and happy family. The different presents which come from different relatives have expressed her optimistic spirit although all of the pre