浅析托马斯·哈代《还乡》中的乡土情怀

本科毕业论文（设计）

题目：The Analysis of Homeland Complex in The Return of

the Native of Thomas Hardy

浅析托马斯·哈代《还乡》中的乡土情怀

The Analysis of Homeland Complex in The Return of the Native of Thomas Hardy

A Thesis Submitted in Partial Fulfillment

of the Requirements for

The Degree of Bachelor of Arts in English to

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Acknowledgements

After having worked for several months, I finished my thesis eventually. I would like to express my gratitude to all those who helped me during the writing of this thesis.

First, I would like to express the deepest gratitude to my supervisor Ms. Xu Ruihua who has offered me so many valuable suggestions in the academic studies. Although she was in bad health, she still insisted on guiding my thesis. Without her careful guidance and active encouragement, the completion of this thesis would be impossible.

Second, I’m particularly indebted to all the teachers who taught me during my undergraduate years. From their lectures, I benefited greatly, with their patient instruction and constant encouragement, I could finish this thesis easily.

Last but not the least, I would like to express my love to my mom, without whose understanding, I can not finish this thesis. I also thank all of my good friends who have given me so much help for the completion of this thesis.

The Analysis of Homeland Complex in The Return of the Native of

Thomas Hardy

Abstract

The Homeland Complex is referred to a person who has deep love to his or her hometown, and he or she wants to try his or her best effort to return to his or her hometown. It is derived from the township of perceptual love feelings, but higher than this emotion. It is a kind of complex which is rooted into the culture of hometown. But it is different from other culture in essence. So it needs to analyze from the author’s birth environment to analyze such unique complex, the environment include the social environment and natural environment.

The traditional culture of hometown, the unique experience and the deep love are the basement of Thomas Hardys’ works. It is also the main reason which his works have full embodied homeland complex. This thesis analyzes the Return of the Native by its natural environment and customs and the characters’fate. The homeland complex is one of the representations of Hardy’s novel. This thesis analyzes this feeling from Thomas Hardy’s experience and social change at that time.

Key Words: Homeland Complex; Thomas Hardy; The Return of the Native