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No matter how many times della counts, one yuan and eighty-seven cents will never increase, St.
With the arrival of Christmas, she can't have any time to earn money. "Della, who loves her husband deeply, can't buy a gift that satisfies her husband.
He cried sadly and said, "The screenwriter doesn't write about family financial difficulties, but simply quotes the whole article with 1.87% dollars."
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The composition and relationship of characters in novels.
As we all know, propp's $ narrative function% theory, a pioneer of structuralism, has had an important influence on Gremas, while propp once
If all the characters in Russian folk stories are classified into seven action ranges, we already have the structuralist theory of character composition.
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"but the study of $ TERM plop lacks universality, and it is impossible to explain these people in other forms than folk stories.
The form of the story and its basic rules%
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"Grimas obviously got a lot of inspiration, he and Tenniel # Martin together.
Action elements, namely actors, recipients and beneficiaries, correct their over-formalization and lack of comprehensiveness.
For example, the combination and cohesion between the categories of behavioral elements are not considered, because the beneficiaries are not combined with the actors, but with the actors.
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Courtes, a student of Gremas, said: $ subject = full of thoughts, object = thought% "&; title of a collection of bizarre stories by Pu Songling of the Qing Dynasty
The subject in Alien is not necessarily a specific person, but some other anthropomorphic creatures, such as sycophantic flower demon and Sylveon. And the object is moving.
The future is an uncertain wish and its variant, that is, the object is an action element with the largest variable, which can be people or money #
Love # Happiness # Status # Justice and so on. (The objects in martial arts novels are generally martial arts cheats, and the objects in romance novels are often
Love) "For example, in&; In Water Margin &; In the passage of "The Outline of Taking a Birth by Intelligence", the protagonist Yang Zhi is the main body, and his wish! ! ! Escort delivery class
Arriving at Taishifu in Tokyo is the object, and the novel shows the process of how the subject realizes the object, that is, how Yang Zhi escorts the birth class.
The process of being finally outwitted by a group of classicists.
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As far as Maggie's gift is concerned, the object is a Christmas gift and the theme is one of the novels.
The couple "sold their most precious property in order to give each other birthday gifts, and as a result, they lost all the gifts."
Yes, but the real object is love, love between husband and wife, knowing each other and loving each other.
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It is because of this love.
Only now have they made such a difficult and dramatic choice. "
What connects the subject and the object is $ action%, and the function of the story is to form meaningful feelings through these intentional actions.
Section "These actions are not only the activities of the subject pursuing the object, but also the activities of other actors, which are represented by charts:
Sender, object 2 receiver
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In the text, the subject/object% is not an isolated $,and the sender/recipient% is related to the object.
Type and final destination "In The Gift of the Magi, the process of the subject realizing the object is that the sender sends the object and it is received by the receiver.
In the process of acceptance, if these two elements of action are missing, the object will become passive water and a tree without roots. "But in some simple stories,
Subject and receiver, object and sender are the same in function and role. "$ helper/objectior%" is a pair of auxiliary elements.
Narrative text is very important.
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Propp calls $ opponent% $ villain% and $ assistant% $ assistant% "gray".
Mas thinks it has two functions: 1. The first function helps to realize desire, and it uses communication 2. On the other hand, it also creates obstacles.
Obstruct the realization of desire, it hinders communication.
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"Because of the existence of these two forces, the text becomes rich and complex." The author believes that the auxiliary
Helpers with different ideologies will influence or even determine the fate of the subject to a great extent, such as
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Sister Xianglin in Blessing is sad.
The end of a person's life is strongly influenced by the life values of people around him; & Although the Tang Priest in The Journey to the West went through hardships,
However, the Monkey King's insistence was the main reason why he finally got the True Scripture.
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The main line of Maggie's gift is that Della sells her hair.
Buy a platinum bracelet for my husband. Opponents of "$ opponents% create contradictions out of nothing, $ helpers% use their quick wits to reverse Gan Kun".
And the helper's actions make the whole story ups and downs and interesting.
"Of course, it is also mixed with the author's interpretation and interpretation of feelings.
Interpretation of these two groups of relationships can also show the structure of the work, taking the most basic relationship between the hero and heroine as an example:
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# Opponents: All property, one yuan and eighty-seven; The next day is Christmas; Life is all about crying, sniffling and smiling, especially sniffling.
Dominate; Beggars' gang: furnished apartments; There is never a letter in the mailbox, and no one rings the doorbell; His income has decreased.
A new interpretation from the perspective of structuralism
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Feng Tao (#', #! ), male, from Weinan, Shaanxi, lecturer in English Teaching Department of hunan university of science and engineering University. His research interests are British and American literature research and English teaching methods. "
Re-interpretation of Maggie's Gift from the perspective of structuralism
Tao Feng
(English Teaching Department of hunan university of science and engineering University, Yongzhou, Hunan 425 100)
This paper analyzes Europe (Henry's short stories &; Maggie's gift. And research
Studying the composition of the characters and the deep structure of the novel can not only make readers re-interpret the works, but also make readers understand the truth.
The understanding of love also has a new interpretation.
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) Keywords * structuralism; & "Maggie's gift"; Europe (Henry; Text structure
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Structuralism is not a simple philosophical theory in the traditional sense, but belongs to some humanities and social scientists themselves.
A research method applied in the professional field of * * * * aims at trying to make humanities and social sciences like natural sciences.
Learn to be precise and scientific. "The ultimate goal of structuralists is eternal structure: individual behavior # feeling and posture.
States are all contained in them, and their ultimate essence is derived from them.
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It also illustrates a basic idea of structuralism: language! ! ! that is
System! ! ! It is an independent # internalized # self-satisfied system, which has nothing to do with external physical things.
The method of righteousness has two basic characteristics.
"The first is to emphasize wholeness, and the second is to emphasize temporality." * * * The sum of temporality and wholeness.
Systematization is consistent, so the research method of timeliness is the inevitable extension of holistic view and systematic view.
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"This article is the application of the knot.
Constructivism theory and
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Semantic structure to be analyzed%&; The Semantic Structure of The Gift of the Magi and the Interpretation of Its Specific Meaning
O (Henry's novels are ingenious, unique and novel, and their creative techniques are popular in the world literary world. ) His works are usually to embody beauty.
The hardship of the lower class life reveals the social phenomenon of disparity and polarization between the rich and the poor in the United States.
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Maggie, the pinnacle of "Maggie", is the three Tessa who came to give gifts when the son Jesus was born. They pioneered Christmas presents.
In the eyes of westerners, Christmas gifts are the most precious, so they also hope to get the most valuable Christmas.
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This novel describes a wife who sold her hair in order to buy her husband a platinum watch chain as a Christmas present.
Coincidentally, the husband also sold the ancestral gold watch and bought a set of combs for his wife for the same purpose.
Gift, and the truth came out. Their precious gifts lost their use value, but they got something more precious than anything in kind.
Things! ! ! Through the analysis of the text, this paper shows the semantic structure of this short story and analyzes the deep layer of the work.
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"&The first paragraph of Maggie's gift says US dollars: one dollar and eighty-seven cents." That's all. Sixty cents is still odds and ends. "
These are all from the grocery store
# When the vegetable vendor and the butcher bargain, they dig down one by one. "The thought of being so insidious."
What's more, don't talk to others. She blushed with shame.
"Della counted three times, and it was still one yuan and eighty-seven. The next day,
Today is Christmas
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"at the beginning, the author hinted that there were $ NUMBER large pieces of gold, silver and property that were not here, and a large number of them.
All the valuable money is in the rich man's house.
Grocery store owner # greengrocer and butcher disdained the poor couple, Journal of Baoshan University.
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Down to $20, the balance of payments is unbalanced; Splash on the worn red carpet
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2# helper: I plan to give him a lovely gift; Simple platinum bracelet; Carved bracelet, just like Jim himself.
Quiet and precious; Della's hair eclipsed the queen's treasures; Jim's gold watch made King Solomon jealous. The price of hair
Value: twenty dollars; Jim can look at the time on any occasion.
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We can find that 1- 14 constitutes the' whole story structure' of Maggie's gift.
O (Henry described in detail Della's anxiety that she had no money to buy a gift for her husband, wrote Della's waterfall-like hairdressing, and wrote Germany.
The whole process of selling hair and buying a platinum watch chain, but I carefully avoided the process of Jim selling a gold watch and buying a hair comb.
"the analysis of the text
After that, I can appreciate the author's originality, especially the description of Della, which deepens the connotation of the article and inspires readers' love.
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# Thinking about the value of money makes readers have a deeper understanding of the meaning of love. "From Della's hesitation in counting money to the back."
Her decision to sell her hair is a foreshadowing and interpretation of the meaning of love. "The couple's declaration of love is not sinking, isn't it?
The end of time, but they have been infatuated with each other for thousands of years and are willing to sacrifice their most precious things for each other.
Love has already merged into each other's blood, which is more romantic than Qiong Yao's novels. "
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The text structure and deep meaning of "".
Gremas put forward three narrative combinations, namely contractual combination, complete combination and separated combination.
Ben completed the structural framework of the whole novel, and through these combinations, everyone's activities formed a vivid storyline for each character.
In addition, the novel also expresses the author's ideological connotation, including his love and hate, that is, through unique
Creative forms convey valuable meaning to readers "such as&; In the story of "Taking a Birth by Intelligence", Yang Zhi and others took great pains to protect the birth.
Class came to a surname mansion, classical gang already ready, at the same time, using Bai Sheng to play a play, induce Yang Zhi and others cheated, and finally go away.
Yang Zhi and others were drunk because of drinking medicinal liquor by mistake, and the birth class was easily taken away by Chao Gai and others.
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The plan to outsmart% must come from Wu Yong.
Hand, planning master is classical, and Gongsun Sheng road flyover provides an accurate position.
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Huangnigang, Bai Sheng sells wine, and the rest.
Although people do their own things, there is no clear division of labor. In this story, only some linguistic symbols play an auxiliary role.
For example, pretending to sell dates, pretending to drink, and finally robbing classes.
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Such a fragment can be transformed into such a semantic structure: X escorts the birthday class to Tokyo, Y intends to outwit it halfway, and Z.
Starring in "Vertigo" with Y, X was cheated, Y and Z robbed the birth class and ran away, and X lost the birth class, which caused great disaster. "
It can be seen that all structures are dominated by proper nouns (X#Y#Z) and verbs. "We can completely follow the semantic structure.
The model finally comes down to three combinations: X escorting the birth class, X being caught drinking, and X causing great disaster. He regards the whole work as a whole.
Enlarged semantic structure
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if &； After reading three narrative combinations, the following semantics can be formed in Maggie's Gift.
Structure:
1# Contract Combination: Narrative Command (Time: People: Della and Jim on Christmas Eve) Social Environment: Poor family, beggars.
Help ") take orders (event: give gifts to my husband); Prohibition (the next day is Christmas, and gifts are imminent)
Life is crying # sniffles and smiling, especially sniffles "); Breaking the ban (How many happy days did Della spend planning?
In order to give him a lovely gift, Della wants to sell her hair to choose a gift for Jim.
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2# Complete Combination: Narrating Adventure and Struggle (From Beauty to Ugliness: Hairdressing was sold, and Della had crystal tears in her eyes.
Flowers, covered with a lock of small curly hair close to the scalp.
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); Finish a task (Della spent twenty-one dollars on a platinum watch.
Chain) "
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# Separation and combination: narratives come and go (Jim sold his gold watch and bought a full set of combs for Della); Parting relationship (they hope to be right.
The party sacrificed the most precious thing in their family.
) From the semantic structure analysis above, we can see this short article more clearly.
The deep meaning of the novel, and interpret and explain the theme of the novel from many angles.
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At the end of the novel, Henry left a meaningful sentence: $ I want to say one last sentence to today's wise men.
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