This paper documents the long history of feng shui belief and practice in Chinese culture, and its spread worldwide in the past half century. It shows that commitment to the peculiar qi or chi entity is central to fen...
In Pride and Prejudice,Darcy’s pride and change are two quite crucial elements that help to move the plot forward.However,Darcy’s pride is more shrouded with a romantic evil that his pride has promoted the interacti...
Jack London is one of the most outstanding naturalistic writers in America who composed many renowned full-length novels.Jack London’s short story,"To Build a Fire"is a good reflection of naturalistic tendencies.It c...
Frank Norris is a famous American naturalist writer.His novel McTeague is known as the“Declaration of American Naturalism”and its publication establishes him as“the father of American naturalism”.However,few schol...
The Call of the Wild is one of the representative works of American famous writer Jack London. This novel is full of the author’s naturalistic literary viewpoint. Different from traditional studies, this thesis is no...
Desire Under the Elms was a drama written by Eugene O'Neill in 1924,which is called the first greatest drama in American history.Through analyzing the naturalistic features in this drama and the combination of natural...
In The Call of the Wild,the dog Buck shows keen love towards nature and through it,he attains fullness spiritually as well as physically. This attitude towards nature is opposite to the principles on which naturalism ...
Thomas Hardy was an out standing writer in describing na ture and adop ting some allusions from Holy Bible.In his f amous masterpiece“Tess of the d’Urber villes”,he explored abundant descriptions in water,color,all...
Different from his naturalistic followers,Stephen Crane develops his naturalism in a restricted and special sense that contains many non-naturalistic elements.In his masterpiece The Red Badge of Courage,Crane scrutini...