毕业论文-[雾都孤儿]中南希的双重性格研究
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本科学生毕业论文
题目（中文）— 剖析《雾都孤儿》中南希的双重性格
（英文）：A Flower Blossoming in Winter —Expounding
Contents
摘要………………………………………………………………….…. Ⅰ Abstract ……………………………………………………….…. ……Ⅱ Introduction ………………………………………………………. ……1
1. Nancy’s Double Character Acts in Oliver Twist………………...…..4
1.1 The Attitude to Oliver in Different Time……………………….…4
1.2 The Attitude to Fagin in Different Time....……………………. ….6
1.3 The Attitude to Sikes in Different Time ………………. …... ……..9
2. The Reason of Nancy’s Double Character………. ……….. ….........13
2.1Social Environment‘s Influence to Nancy‘s Double Character..…..13
2.2 Human Nature‘s Influence to Her Double Character….. ………....17
3. Nancy’s Incorruptibility of Goodness in Double Character……....20
3.1 Nancy‘s Resistance to Crime ………. …………………….. ……..20
3.2 Nancy‘s Love to Oliver………………...................................... …..22
Conclusion …………………………………………………………. …....25
Notes ……………………………….. ………………………………….....27
Bibliography ……………………………………………………….. …....28 Acknowledgements
摘 要
《雾都孤儿》是查尔斯·狄更斯第一部重要的反映社会问题的小说。虽为文中的一个次要人物，南希在小说的发展中却有不可替代的作用。从贼窝里唯一的犹太女贼到最后为救奥利弗脱离虎口而命丧黄泉，其灵魂得到了升华，其双重的性格特征也在文中表现得淋漓尽致。本文通过对人物具体描述展示人性的复杂性和那个社会的真实面貌，以及人性和社会环境对南希双重性格形成的影响。
关键词: 南希；双重性格；人性；社会环境
Abstract
Charles Dickens was the greatest representative of English critical realist. Oliver Twist marks the very beginning of Dickens literary life. It reflects all kinds of social problems in Victorian period. Despite as a secondary character, Nancy is irreplaceable in the novel‘s development. From being the only female thief in the gang of to the death for escaping Oliver from abyss of misery, her soul gets sublimation and her double character displays thoroughly. By concrete character ‘s description, this paper reflects the truth of the society, the complexity of human nature and their influence to Nancy‘s double character.
Key words: Nancy; double character; human nature; social environment
Introduction
Charles Dickens was the greatest representative of English critical realist. Oliver Twist marks the very beginning of Dickens literary life. It directs at the nineteenth-century English Poor Laws with a bitter invective. As an unknown shorthand reporter of twenty-one, with a single tale just published in a magazine, he referred casually to ―my proposed novel ‖ in a way that shows it must in conception and materials have resembled this. But since he knew publication was ―hazardous‖, writing was deferred while he concentrated his forces (and used some of its matter) on sketches and short stories for various newspapers and periodicals.
―I have perhaps the best subject I have ever thought of…. I have thrown my whole heart and soul into Oliver.”[1](p2)
That its general purpose was clear in his mind is event from his latter-written preface:
“I wished to show in little Oliver, the principle of Good surviving through
every adverse circumstance, and triumphing at last,” [2](p3)
The companions among whom he was to be tried were the criminals‘ miserable world in London. The book was known to Dickens by close observation and various experience.
In Oliver Twist, Dickens portrays all kinds of characters in London, especially those who live in underworld, such as Oliver Twist, Fagin, Bill Sikes, the Artful Doger and Nancy. A major concern of Oliver Twist is the question of whether or not a bad environment can irrevocably poison someone‘s character and soul. As the novel progresses, the character who best illustrates the contradictory issues brought up by that question is Nancy. As a child of streets, Nancy has been a thief and drinks to excess. The narrator‘s reference to her ―free and agreeable…manners‖ indicates that she is a prostitute. She is immersed in the vices condemned by her society, but she also commits perhaps the most notable act in the novel when she sacrifices her own life in order to protect Oliver. Nancy has a double character, with ―soul of goodness in things of evil. ‖ Nancy‘s moral complexity is unique among the major characters in Oliver Twist . The novel is full of characters who are all good and can barely comprehend evil, such as Oliver, Rose, And Brownlow, and characters who are all evil and barely comprehend good, such as Fagin, Sikes, and Monks. Only Nancy comprehends and is capable of both good and evil. Her ultimate choice to do good at a great personal cost is a strong argument in favor of