Analysis of Main Contradictions in “the Joy Luck Club”开题报告

1. 研究目的与意义

The whole society and human life style has been changing as the development of modern science and technology, as a result, the people#8217;s ways of thinking and thoughts are very different. In the other words, changes are full of their life; will they still remember the traditions? What#8217;s more, many young men prefer to stay with the cold machines, like computer, micro phone rather than to face and talk with their parents. Throughout analyzing the conflicts between mothers and daughters in the Joy Luck Club, I think we can get some enlightenment.

2. 研究内容和预期目标

My paper will focus on the main contradictions in the Joy Luck Club, for example, the conflicts between Chinese immigrant mothers and their American-raised daughters and their struggling to understand each other. The first part will give a brief introduction to the book and its author. Then I will show a summary of the plots and the relationships of the characters. The third part will discuss the maternal love in the books and their relationships initial. Next, the thesis will explore the conflicts between mothers and daughters, the contradictions between two different cultrues and the conflicts between feudal society and women and so on. At last, the paper will try to conclude that inspite the inevitable conflicts between the different cultures, they can be coexisting and compatible with love; love and sincerity is the bridge of communication heart forever.

3. 国内外研究现状

Shortly after the Joy Luck Club published in American, academic circles have caused discussion. The author focuses on the conflict between mother and daughter and the reconciliation through this work, its essence is to discuss the conflict between American culture and Chinese culture and the fusion. Amy tan is the intersection on the typical character of two kinds of culture. The author analyze the development of the two kinds of the different cultures deeply through her own exerperience. In recent years as the promotion of the position of China in the international and Chinese culture is more and more attractive, the study of traditional ideology and culture should be more in-depth, through reflection and study the novel that contains the content of the Chinese feudal ideology; it can help us to rationally recognize and analyze problems and to make progress.

4. 计划与进度安排

1. IntroductionThe Joy Luck Club is about four Chinese immigrant women and their children grew up in the United States between the respective stories. The topic of novel 'the joy luck club' is the original mothers played mahjong party. These women moved to the USA for decades, but they still not forgot for a moment the traditional education since childhood, which penetrates women''s blood to stick to the Chinese for thousands of years. Those have become almost feudal patriarchal thoughts in nature. Their common ideal is to be strict with and discipline their daughter so that they can make this generation have happiness. However, for the mother''s thumb, daughters are in their different ways blindly resistance, in this race, class, gender inequality of American society, two generations of women staged a tragicomedy from against each other to all roads lead to Rome and mutual recognition.1.1 Amy Tan1.2 The Joy Luck Club2. Plot Summary3. Maternal Love in the Joy Luck Club 4. Conflicts4.1 Conflicts between the Mothers and the Daughters4.2 Conflict between feudal society and women4.3 Conflict between two different cultures4.4 Other contradictions5. ConclusionWe can learn from the joy luck club that more and more people immigrant to different countries for the sake of job and living. How can they confront and balance the culture conflicts? What#8217;s more, how to deal with the relationships between themselves and children? According to the author, love and communication are the best methods. All in all, no matter how difficult the situation is and how big the generation gap, people shouldn#8217;t give up. They need to look for a better way together to narrow them through conversations.

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