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【Abstract】For Whom the Bell Tollswas written by Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899-July 2, 1961), an American novelist, writer, and journalist. Hemingway received his Nobel Prize of Literature for “his mastery of the art of modern narration”. However, there are few people analyze his work from the point view of narratology. This thesis would focus on the techniques of narratology to analyze For whom the bell tolls. The author would give you four parts of analysis, including narrative perspective, narrative structure, narrative mode, and narrative discourse.
【Key words】For Whom the Bell Tolls; narratology; Robert Jordan; Maria
Introduction
For Whom the Bell Tolls is told in the third person narrator in the novel, which is regarded one of Hemingway’s best novels.
The book tells the story of an American young man who called Robert Jordan, who is a professor of Spanish in the university and volunteers to join in the Spanish army, under one mission, he was ordered to blow bridge with the help of local guerrillas. In his three days of blowing bridge, he wins the support of the guerrilla members; meets his true love; finishes the task, but ultimately; sacrifices his young life for the people of Spain. The main characteristics of Robert Jordan and Maria are designed for narratology. Jordan are designed a hero to rescue the people who suffered by Fascist. Especially, from the perspective of narrative structure, Jordan presents a classic heroic character by his lots of monologue in novel. Maria, a persecutor, her sufferings are adopted by repeating narrative.
Chapter 1 Narrative Perspective
Gérard Genette (1930-) has come up with the term of “focalisation” to replace “vision”, “field”, or “point of view” in his book Narrative Discourse, 1972, 1980 however, there are still many scholars prefer to use the term “point of view”, “narrative perspective”. (Shen Dan
【Key words】For Whom the Bell Tolls; narratology; Robert Jordan; Maria
Introduction
For Whom the Bell Tolls is told in the third person narrator in the novel, which is regarded one of Hemingway’s best novels.
The book tells the story of an American young man who called Robert Jordan, who is a professor of Spanish in the university and volunteers to join in the Spanish army, under one mission, he was ordered to blow bridge with the help of local guerrillas. In his three days of blowing bridge, he wins the support of the guerrilla members; meets his true love; finishes the task, but ultimately; sacrifices his young life for the people of Spain. The main characteristics of Robert Jordan and Maria are designed for narratology. Jordan are designed a hero to rescue the people who suffered by Fascist. Especially, from the perspective of narrative structure, Jordan presents a classic heroic character by his lots of monologue in novel. Maria, a persecutor, her sufferings are adopted by repeating narrative.
Chapter 1 Narrative Perspective
Gérard Genette (1930-) has come up with the term of “focalisation” to replace “vision”, “field”, or “point of view” in his book Narrative Discourse, 1972, 1980 however, there are still many scholars prefer to use the term “point of view”, “narrative perspective”. (Shen Dan