论《白鲸》中人与自然的和谐与冲突
毕业论文关键词：赫尔曼•麦尔文尔；《白鲸》；人与自然；和谐与冲突
Abstract Moby Dick, the representative work of Herman Melville, is a wonderful work expounding the harmony and conflict between man and nature. Nowadays, human beings are facing severe environmental crisis, which bring tremendous menace to the natural environment and man’s living condition. Under this tendency, this paper takes Moby Dick as the study object to probe into the man-nature relationship from the perspective of harmony and conflict by means of literature review and case analysis methods. How to reach a balance between man and nature is also to be analyzed. The author finally concludes that human beings should keep in harmony with nature in order to establish a harmonious society, which is beneficial for us to deal with the man-nature relationship and plays a significant role in building a harmonious society.
Key words： Herman Melville; Moby Dick; man and nature; harmony and conflict
Contents
摘要i
Abstractii
I. Introduction..1
II. Moby Dick and the Theme of this Paper.2
2.1 Herman Melville and Moby Dick ..2
2.2 A Literature Review of Moby Dick. 4
2.3 The Significance of the Thesis.5
III. The Harmony and Conflict Between Man and Nature..6
3.1 Man-Nature Relation that Man is Faced in Our Daily Life6
3.2 The Harmony and Conflict Between Man and Nature Shown in Moby Dick..8
3.2.1 Ahab’s Conflicts with Nature 8
3.2.2 Ishmael’s Harmony with Nature9
IV. Establishing a Harmonious Man-Nature Relation.10
4.1 Ishmael’s Proper Treatment of Nature ..10
4.2 Countermeasures against the Man-Nature Crisis11 V. Conclusion13
Bibliography15
Acknowledgements .16
The Harmony and Conflict Between Man and Nature
in Moby Dick
I. Introduction
As one of the greatest American writers, Herman Melville who lived in the 19th century published the novel Moby Dick in 1851. This novel, through the mouth of a wandering young man named Ishmael, relates a story about the endless hunting and the relentless massacre under the leadership of Captain Ahab to take revenge on their old enemy “Moby Dick” in the sea.
Since human beings appeared, the relationship between man and nature has come into being. With the development of human society and nature, the relationship between human and nature has changed greatly. At the beginning of this century, through long-term evolution of the relative original dramatic, changes have taken place, conflict replaced harmony. These conflicts reflects mainly in the population, resources, environment and other issues. Moby Dick is widely recognized as one of the most representative works about the relation between man and nature. In the novel, the conflicts between human beings and whales are showed profoundly and obviously. Ahab abandons human reason and deals with the conflict between Moby Dick and himself through a brutal way. Ishmael shows great love to the whale. He is the only one who survived in the end due to his kindness inside. The death of Ahab, together with the survival of Ishmael, best illustrates that the harmony between man and nature is the most important factor that constitutes the harmonious human being existential space and also the ultimate redemption of the fate of human beings.
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