析《名利场》中反讽手法的运用_英语论文

On the Applications of Irony in Vanity Fair

摘要

威廉·梅克皮斯·萨克雷是十九世纪杰出的批判现实主义作家。在他的代表作《名利场》中，无处不在的反讽修辞成为一个显著特色。作者通过辛辣反讽技巧，给读者展示了一个十九英国社会的缩影，其艺术成就不可估量。反讽作为小说叙事一种最常见、最重要的一种修辞手段，是构成小说内在价值的重要因素，本文主要分析作者对反讽手法在文中的运用，主要从四方面入手：标题，人物塑造，情节发展，叙述方式。并探究其反讽效果，挖掘反讽的对象及背后的真正意图，这将深化读者对作品的理解，进而引起读者对当时社会现实的思考。

关键词：《名利场》；反讽；运用；反讽效果；反讽对象

Abstract

William Makepeace Thackeray is an outstanding critical and realistic writer in the 19th century. In Vanity Fair, his masterpiece, the irony art becomes a significant characteristic and the author presents a vivid panorama of English society of the 19th century with bitter tone and has superb artistic accomplishment. As one of the most frequent and important rhetoric means of narration in the novel, irony contributes a lot to compose the intrinsic value of the work, and is explored in Vanity Fair supremely well by Thackeray, This paper focuses mainly on the application of irony in this novel, and will analyzes it in four aspects: the title, the characterization, the plot arrangement, and the narration. Moreover, this paper will analyze the ironic effect and reveal the true object of irony and the intention of the author, which will not only assist readers to acquire a more profound understanding of the characters and the theme in this work, but also offer readers the perspective of thinking about social reality at that time.

Key words: Vanity Fair; irony; application; ironic effect; ironic object

Contents

1. Introduction 1

2. Literature Review 2

3. Applications of Irony in Vanity Fair 3

3.1 Definition of irony 3

3.2 Irony on title 3

3.3 Irony on characterization 4

3.4 Irony on plot arrangement 7

3.5 Irony on narration 8

4. Conclusion 11

Works Cited 13