对《无声告白》中莉迪亚悲剧的分析文学专业.docx

Acknowledgements Thanks for giving me this chance to achieve this paper and to make the conclusion for my four years’ education. Through writing this paper, I have gained more knowledge than I supposed. My sincere thanks are due to my supervisor, Mr. Wang for helping me to clarify my thought and sharpen my thinking. Here, I also want to give my thanks to other teachers and my classmates who gave me much help. Thank you! Abstract Everything I Never Told You is Chinese American woman writer Celeste Ng took her six years to debut, with high reputation; she pulled ethnic and cultural conflicts of the United States under the eaves of a family. Once published, the book had received wide public attention. The book tells a tragic story of a child who born in a cross ethnic family named Lydia; she finally towards death due to the unbearable love and expectation of the parents. The novel is divided into two lines; one is the family guess, and the other is Lydia’s recount by herself. Celeste Ng portrays a family which attempt to conduct in the torrent of history, and a young girl who tries her best to integrate into society. This paper is divided into four parts. The first part introduces the author and the works in detail; the second part expounds on the internal factors of Lydia’s tragedy, which were caused by her characters and self-consciousness from the respective of Lydia; the third part is an analysis of the inevitability of Lydia’s tragedy from the external factors of family education, family members and social contradictions. The fourth part is the summary of this thesis. Through the analysis we know that the real cause of this tragedy is the failure of family education and the influence of social environment. The author thinks that people should be rid of others’ expectation to find their true self in the process of growing up. Key Words: tragedy; self-consciousness; family education; social environment 摘 要 《无声告白》是华裔女作家武绮诗耗时六年的处女作，满载盛誉，她将华裔在美国面临的种族和文化冲突拉到用一个家庭的屋檐下。此书一经发表便得到社会的广泛关注。该书讲述了一个出生在跨族裔家庭的孩子莉迪亚因不堪承受父母过分的爱与期待而走向死亡的悲剧故事。小说分为两线，一条是家人猜测，一条是莉迪亚的自述。伍琦诗用深沉饱满的文笔，描绘了一个在历史洪流中企图立身的家庭，与一名为融入社会而竭尽全力的年轻女孩。本文共分为四个部分，第一部分将对作者与作品详细的介绍。第二部分从人物自身出发，阐述了主人公性格和自我意识导致悲剧的内部因素。第三部分将从家庭教育、家庭成员间关系、社会矛盾所构成的外部因素来深入剖析莉迪亚悲剧的不可避免性。第四部分主要对本篇论文进行总结。最终得出造成此悲剧发生的真正原因是家庭教育的失败和社会环境的影响。笔者认为人在成长过程中应摆脱他人眼中的自己找到真正的自己。 关键词：悲剧；自我意识；家庭教育；社会环境 The Analysis of Lydia’s Tragedy of Everything I Never Told You 1. Introduction Celeste Ng is the second generation of immigrants in Hong Kong, grew up in Pennsylvania and Ohio who engaged in writing for many years, and worked in various journals. Everything I Never Told You is the first full-length novel which Celeste Ng took six years to write. The experience of her immigration has given her a unique perspective to arrange the story carefully, and the style of writing was calm and reserved. Once published, this book is well received by the community, and becomes the dark horse of 2014 year of the most popular and powerful. It not only jumped to the New York Times best-selling book, but also accessed to the best book of the year 2014, which were selected by numerous media including the Amazon website of United States, National Public Radio best book of the year, Buzzed best fiction books, “Huffington post” and “Oprah” best books of the year 15 for the year to read literature and fiction books and many other honors. The novel narrates a tragic story of a mixed race family in a small town in the United States in 1970s. Around the death of the second daughter, Lydia in this family, the author shows the surface of the harmonious family problems and secret buried in the hearts of everyone in this family from different levels. In the novel, Lydia’s father, James wanted to integrate into the environment; her mother, Marilyn was eager to escape out of the ordinary people; her brother, Nath got away from family regardless of personal danger. Lydia bared the dual love of parents, little daughter Hannah existed like air. Finally, the death would show all the problems, everyone had to face the cruel reality. Until the end of the novel, Lydia’s death was a mystery. How she died? And how should every living man continue to live after her death. The author abandons the identity of Chinese Americans and the identity of Native Americans as an outsider to explore the achievements of life, race, gender, family and personal path, giving full expression of the family’s stress and burden which is caused by the society. She represented some valuable things that transcend nation and culture. That is the universal life experience of people—family, love and loss, everyone can find their own shadow more or less from the characters in the book. Since the novel was published, many scholars have used different theories to explain the novel from different perspectives. However, most of the studies are focused on women’s consciousness, parent-child cycle and the writing of marginal characters. This thesis is for the purpose