英语本科毕业论文-解读《简.爱》的帝国主义意识.doc

本科毕业论文 解读简.爱的帝国主义意识学生姓名： 学生学号： 院（系）： 外 国 语 学 院 年级专业： 2003级英语本科4班 指导教师： 二七年五月on the imperialistic consciousness of jane eyrezhu geunder the supervision ofchen jianghongschool of foreign languages and culturespanzhihua universitymay 2007攀枝花学院本科毕业论文 contentscontentsabstract.ikey words.i摘要.i关键词.iintroduction1i. some treatises on the imperialism.2ii. the deep relations of the imperialism, the colonialism and the culture3iii.the imperialistic consciousness embodied in the background of jane eyre.5iv. main ideas of explanation and analysis about jane eyre.5 a. the mad woman in the attic5 b. religion hero8conclusion11acknowledgements.12bibliography.13攀枝花学院本科毕业论文 abstractabstractcultural aggression is one of the ways that imperialistic countries conquer the colonies, as the production of the culture; jane eyre includes many factors of the imperialism. in the middle of 19th century, britain began to expand to the outside rapidly, most of the british people revel in the dream of the white myth. as one of the represents of ideological novel, jane eyre was inevitable to advance to the cultural empire, and charlotte brontes jane eyre is one of the most important loops in the narration. in the novel, the antagonism between suzerain and colonies, the superiority of the empire and discrimination to the colonies permeated through it. the imperialistic flavour pervaded in it. from victoria times on, britain began to develop colonization. at the same time, the cultural source of ideology played an important part. jane eyre includes the recessive structure of the imperialistic consciousness, exhibits all kinds of cultural characters in the period of the imperialism, and reveals the connection between the culture and imperialism. key wordsimperialism; colonialism; culture; feminismii攀枝花学院本科毕业论文 摘要摘要文化战略是帝国主义国家控制殖民地的一种方式，作为文化的产物，包含了帝国主义的各种因素。19世纪中期的英国，以前所未有的速度向外扩张，人们普遍沉醉于白色神话的迷梦中，而作为意识形态表现之一的小说也在向文化帝国迈进。夏绿蒂.勃朗特的是其叙事链中举足轻重的一环。在这部小说里，宗主国与殖民地的对立，帝国的优越感和对殖民地的歧视都渗透其中，弥漫着十足的帝国主义味道。英国自维多利亚时代开始，就不断发展对外殖民事业。其中，作为意识形态的文化资源也起了举足轻重的作用。这部小说中也有着帝国主义意识的隐性结构，隐性话语，展示了帝国主义时代的种种文化上的特点，显示了文化和帝国主义之间的联系。关键词帝国主义; 殖民主义; 文化; 女权主义攀枝花学院本科毕业论文 introductionintroductionjane eyre was created in the middle of 19th century. it is always a classical love story in peoples hearts. charlotte bronte also became very famous all over the world because of it. jane eyre was figured as a great woman，who was chaste, well-informed and strong-willed. she lived in the bottom of the society, suffered enough from tribulations, however, she was stubborn, aggressive and brave to seek for her happiness and fairness. so her spirits was admired by people too. people never changed such kind of thought that it is just a love story, but after reading many times the writer got a lot of new views about it. according to the created time of the work, britain began to expand to the outside rapidly and develop colonization. and at that time the imperialistic colonization was not only the expansion of the territory and pillage of the source, but also the ideological colonization. at that time, as the ideology, the cultural source played an important part in the colonization and in the imperialistic condition, as one of represents of ideological novel, jane eyre was inevitably to advance to the cultural empire. charlotte brontes jane eyre that was created in this period implied strong imperialistic colour. there are full of the antagonism between suzerain and colonies, the superiority of the empire and discrimination to the colonies. the imperialistic flavour in this novel exhibited all kinds of the cultural characters in the period of the imperialism. as one of the representative works in the period of british colonization, jane eyre was a very great work of the love stories. from a love story to the reflection of the imperialism, charlotte bronte was at pains indeed, the love was difficult to escape from the affection of the imperialistic consciousness because in the period of the imperialism peoples live was related with the imperialistic consciousness in some degree.13攀枝花学院本科毕业论文 bodyi. some treatise 0n the imperialismin terms of the widest meaning, the imperialism refers to the structure of some empire, so if some country expanded its control to one or more neighbouring countries, the imperialism became one side in that period. according to the common meaning, edward said thought the imperialism was some metropolis centre of the control which ruled the distant possession it was a practice, a theory and a attitude, and the course was also different from colonialism which indicated migration and colonization in the distant possession.(edward said, 55) but generally speaking, the word “imperialism” as a public policy which through the way of the stratagem and politics to get the advantages of the economics and conquer the colonies appeared until 1880th. before that time, the word “ empire ” , especially in britain indicated a process that the europeans expanded to the colonies on the flag of beneficentthe colonies were not occupied, but accrued. in the middle of 19th century, the word “imperialism” was described for the government and the policy of napoleon iii who appointed the emperor for himself. till 1870, the word was used in the british parties who slandered for each other. but after 1880, the “imperialism” became all kinds of political, cultural and economical reasons among european countries. it was obviously an aggressive policy.the modern meaning of the imperialism is that the empires grab the overseas colonies. the imperialism is concerned with europeanization which has three periods: the great discovery of geography in the period of 15th and 16th; the commercialism in the period of 17th and 18th century; the imperialism in the period of 19th and early 20th. the europeanization was not caused by the european governments and countries, but the ten thousand of colonists, businessmen, churchmen and adventurers spreading all over africa and europe. it is difficult to trace back to the root of europeanization, but the very important thing is to understand how the european imperialism was laid the foundation by the usual travellers, adventurers, churchmen and colonists for several centuries.the imperialism is that a country conquers and robs to another country, from rome period to today, it has a very long history and the most obvious represent is that the historical power on its back is the plenty of the materials, the wide markets, and the cheapest labours are needed by the competitive economical system of the west countries. at the same time, the ideology supplied the important support to the imperialism and made it lay the foundation on the cultural and political advantages of the imperialistic countries. the strong ideology and the bureaucracy system moving all over the world was the reason why the imperialism was different from colonialism. the imperialism kept up the kind of systematic hegemony by a lot of ways, which included the slavery, the civilisation, and modernization in the politics, law, religion, health and education. after world war ii, the imperialism had new patterns which not leaned to the hostility, operation and arms race of the countries in europe, but aimed at the economical relation between first world country and third world country. this kind of new stage of the colonialism became the research object of the post-colonialism finally.ii. the deep relations of the imperialism, the colonialism and the culturethere is a simple way to explain the close relation among the imperialism, colonialism and culture: making phrases respectively with the word “culture” by the words “imperialism” and “colonialism”, two phrases have formedcultural imperialism and cultural colonialism. the two phrases can explain the deep relation among the imperialism, the colonialism and the culture very well.in order to give a perfect explanation of cultural imperialism to the learning world, there were a lot of savants had made good explanations of cultural imperialism. these explanations also embody the close relations of them. they mastered cultural imperialism according to the meaning that the economic was the pioneer and the culture was the aim and defined it according to the meaning of the culture was the pioneer and served for the economics and politics. some savants thought that cultural imperialism was medium imperialism and some others believed that it was a national culture in place of another one. hans j. morgenthau thought that it was a policy which is not by the way of conquering the territory and controlling the economic lives, but conquering and controlling peoples mind. according to his ideas, if a country carried out the policy of cultural imperialism to conquer the main peoples mind, further to rule the whole country, it was better than by the way of military affairs.the colonialism is also a policy that the capitalistic countries used the military affairs, politics and economics to conquer, enslave and exploit the weak countries, nations and the unenlightened areas and make them become the colonies or half-colonies. however, in the different periods of the capitalism, the colonialism have the different represent forms: in the primitive period of the accumulation of the capital, the colonialism take the ways of the bare violence such as the armed occupation, overseas colonization, plunder of the piracy, deceitful trade and bloody marketing of slaves; in the period of the liberal capitalism, it was mainly by the way of “ liberal trade ”capitalistic country made the undeveloped countries, nations and areas become its merchandise markets, the producing areas of the raw material, investment places and sources of the labours and employ soldiers; in the period of the imperialism, except for the above ways, the export of the capital was the main form to exploit these countries and nations. between the late of 19th and the beginning of 20th century, the countries and areas of the world that were occupied as colonies or half-colonies had formed the imperialistic colonization system. after world war ii, the nationalism ran up, most of the afro-asian countries got the independence and destroyed the imperialistic system. at the same time, the colonial countries used the ways of the indirect, covert and deceptive forms to maintain and figure for the more colonial benefits. on the politics, one side, they allow and admit the independence of the colonies and half-colonies; on the other hand, they educated and support their agent to control these countries. on the economics, they carried out the policy that economic assistant with the critical loan and unfair trade to control the economic vitals of these countries. on the military affairs, they used the form of “assistance” to build the military bases, station the armies, dispatch the military adviser and help them to train the armies and so on. in order to realize their strategic aims, they even planned the coup, provoked civil war and supported the puppet regime.from above these, i can say that the colonialism permeates in every stage of the capitalistic development. cultural colonialism is a policy that the west countries aggress undeveloped countries and make them lose the national culture; conquer the peoples hearts of these countries and make these countries become the colonies and half-colonies. cultural colonialism is a form of the colonialism, but cultural imperialism is a behaviour that a country forces to another country in cultural value idea, it is the succession and development of the cultural colonialism under the new history. the imperialistic consciousness needed the culture to spread and the culture needed a lot ways to spread too. as one of the ways, the novel played a great role in spreading of the imperialistic consciousness and charlotte brontes jane eyre was the representative work of the kind of the novel.e imperialistic consciousness embodied in the background of jane eyreculture aggression is one of the ways that the imperialistic countries conquer the colonies, as the production of the culture, jane eyre includes many factors of the imperialism. in the middle of 19th century britain began to expand to the outside rapidly, most of the british revel in the dream of the white myth. as one of the represents of ideological novel, jane eyre was inevitable to advance to the cultural empire. charlotte brontes jane eyre is one of the most important loops in the narration. in the novel, the antagonism between suzerain and colonies, the superiority of the empire and discrimination to the colonies permeated in it and pervaded pure and simple imperialistic flavour.iv. main ideas of the explanation and analysis about jane eyrea. the mad woman in the attic.in the jane eyre, empire eagle with the white myth hovered in the air of caribbeanthe birthplace of bertha mason. she was rochesters wife and also one of the most important characters in the novel. as the woman born in colony, bertha mason was the variety in the high-system empire, the wedding between rochester and she was not accord with the basic benefit of the empire. for the pureness of the empire, the wedding should be overset and the variety should be cleared off too. in this novel, the combat began with jane broke into thorn field, end up with bertha masons destruction, the “illegal” family composed by jane and rochester defeated the legal family composed by bertha mason and rochester. the imperialistic ideology offered reasons for janes wedding which from illegal to legal. in these reasons, as first world woman jane formed strong contrast with bertha mason who was third world woman.as the same as all the colonialism of the time, there was a trend existed in suzerain britain that was all the despicable behavior of human being that they had known ascribed to colonial. in the jane eyre, bertha mason was a humble, devilish and cruel creole. in order to confirm creoles truculence, through numerous descriptions, the novel repeatedly narrated the clich that hags ate the meat and drank the blood of human being in the west indies. jane arrived at thorn field before long, she experienced the fear in the midnight and heard bertha masons laughter “ this was a demoniac laughlow, suppressed, and deeputtered, as it seemed, at the very keyhole of my chamber door. ” mason came, “i heard thence a snarling, snatching sound, almost like a dog quarrelling.” in the course of rescued mason, the author emphasized purposely “the flesh on the shoulder is torn as well as cut. this wound was not done with a knife: there have been teeth here. ” the last night before jane and rochester walked into the church, charlotte finally let jane saw bertha masons face in the dream at the first time, “it seemed a woman, tall and large, with thick and dark hair hanging long down her back. i know not what dress she had on: it was white and straight; but whether grown, sheet, or shroud, i cannot tell. fearful and ghastly to me, i never saw a face like it! it was a discoloured faceit was a savage face. i wish i could forget the roll of the red eyes and the fearful blackened inflation of the lineaments! the face was purple: the lips were swelled and dark; the black eyebrows widely rose over the bloodshot eyes. it reminded me the foul german spectrethe vampire. ” in the novel, charlotte described bertha mason like this “in the deep shade, at the farther end of the room, a figure ran backwards and forwards. what it was, whether beast or human being, one could not, at the first sight. it grovelled, seemingly, on all fours; it snatched and growled like some strange wild animal: but it was covered with clothing, and a quantity of dark, grizzled hair, wild as a mane, hid its head and face.” under the authors pen, bertha mason could not be distinguished difficultly that she ever was a wild beast or a person, even was “ a wild beast covered with clothing ” , led a bestial lifeinhuman, sluttish and crazy.compared with bertha mason, jane was shaped to a new female of the empire in the novelaggressive, strong and ambitious. she was well-informed, strong-willed and militant when she was a child. but most important, there concealed an unusual heart under her mediocre look. she liked to dream and desired passion. the trace of the strength was carved on her face and the thought flied to here and there the entire world. the mind rippled “the rock standing up alone in a sea of billow and spray; the broken boat stranded on a desolate coast; the cold and ghastly moon glancing through bars of cloud at a wreck just sinking.” these chimeras made jane desired to become famous, she believed “the real world was wide, and that a varied field of hopes and fears, of sensations and excitements, awaited those who had courage to go forth into its expanse, to seek real knowledge of life amidst its perils.” in the novel, jane certainly was full of fight, struggled against the life bravely, and sought after the ideal steady; she was the knight of the empire in the period of blood and fire. (charlotte bronte,34-41)these descriptions above, the author made