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1、精品名师归纳总结潍坊科技学院本科毕业设计 论文题目在路上中迪恩的人物性格分析 院（系）外国语学院专业英语学号202103480004同学姓名徐晓燕指导老师王景文起讫日期 2021 年 12 月 31 日 2021 年 4 月 25 日设计的点潍坊科技学院可编辑资料 - - - 欢迎下载精品名师归纳总结A Character Analysis of Dean inOn the RoadA Thesis Submittedto Faculty of International Studies of WUSTin Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Deg

2、ree of Bachelor of ArtsBy XuXiaoyanSupervisor：Wang JingwenApril,2021Abstract可编辑资料 - - - 欢迎下载精品名师归纳总结It is Jack Kerouac who first proposed the concept of the Beat Generation. On the Road, a masterpiece of Kerouac, is the most important novel of the Beat Generation literature. Dean is the main charact

3、er in On the Road, and his prototype in reality is Neal Cassady. Besides, Kerouac, the writer himself is the prototype of Sal Paradise in the book, and Allen Ginsberg is the prototype of Carlo Marx. Dean is a typical person in On the Road and in even the whole Beat Generation. He is a devil as well

4、as an angel. For the evil side, he is a drug addict, a tippler 酒鬼, a thief, a reprobate（恶棍） , a mad man, and he will do anything which violates the law. For the angel side,he is a kind, vigorous, determined and charming gentle man. Everyone likes him, and everyone is crazy about him. The author Kero

5、uac admits that, Dean, th“emad”man is the only clear-headed person at that age. The Beat Generation which is represented by Dean, has it s special social and cultural backgrounds. Thus, this generation is far more complicated than the normal degenerates.This paper mainly focuses on the character ana

6、lysis of Dean, whose purpose is to get into the real Dean, and to uncoverthe veil of the Beat Generation.Key words: the Beat Generation。On the Road。Dean。 character analysis摘 要“垮掉的一代”是杰克 .凯鲁亚克第一提出来的，并且他的在路上是“垮掉的一代”文学中最重要的作品。迪恩是凯鲁亚克小说在路上的主人翁，他 是以“垮掉的一代”典型现实人物尼尔 .卡萨迪为原型的。此外凯鲁亚克是这部作品中萨尔的原型，艾伦 .金斯伯格是卡罗 .

7、马克斯的原型。作品中迪恩是垮掉派的领头人物。具备着垮掉的一代全部典型特点。他集天使与恶魔于一身，他 吸毒、酗酒、偷窃、颓废、放纵、离经叛道、桀骜不驯、无恶不作，但他同时 也温顺和善执着坚决、无所恐惧、热血沸腾、布满激情、赋有魅力，让四周 全部男男女女都为他着迷。然而作者却说这个“疯子”是那个时代唯独清醒的 人。以迪恩为代表的垮掉的一代的形成有其特定的社会和历史文化背景，这一 代的特点也远比一般的堕落更复杂。本文旨在从迪恩这一典型人物的性格分析 入手，明白真正的迪恩，并剖析垮掉一代的真正内涵。关键词：垮掉的一代。在路上。迪恩。性格分析可编辑资料 - - - 欢迎下载精品名师归纳总结Table o

8、f contentsAbstract摘要 ITable of contents错误！未定义书签。Chapter One Introduction0Chapter Two An Introduction to On the Road02.1 The Main Story of On the Road22.1.1 The Definition of the Beat Generation32.1.2 The Background Information4 2.2The Author: Jack Kerouac42.2.1 Jack Kerouacs Life42.2.2 Jack Kerouacs

9、 Writing Style4Chapter Three An Analysis of Deans Double Characte6r3.1 Deans Negative Nature6 3.1.1Irresponsible6 3.1.2Selfish63.1.3 Hypocrisy63.1.4 Inpulsive73.2 Deans Positive Nature73.2.1 Vigorous and Energetic73.2.2 Determined73.2.3 Kindhearted73.2.4 Strong Sense of Self-existenc8eChapter FourTh

10、e Reason for Deans Complicated Charact9er4.1 Tragic Life of Dean94.2 Influence of Society9Chapter FiveAnalysis on Dean by Contrasting with Others105.1 Comparison between Dean and Sasl Character10可编辑资料 - - - 欢迎下载精品名师归纳总结5.2 Comparison between Dean and Marylouls Character105.3 Significant Contrast bet

11、ween Dean and Camille11 Chapter SixConclusion12Reference9Acknowledgement9可编辑资料 - - - 欢迎下载精品名师归纳总结Chapter One IntroductionHuman personality is contradictory, Dean is such a double character iOn n the Road.In the novel Dean shows bothpositive sideand negative side. Dean is also a very typical figure o

12、f the Beat Generation.His complex character is worth studying.On the Road is a masterpiece by Kerouac. This novel is famous for exposing the living state of the youths after the Second World War, exposing the corruption, selfishness, and hypocrisy of society and exploring the spiritual worldof the B

13、eat Generation. Through this novel we can follow the writer into the real life of the Beat Generation and get to know the people who live at the bottom of the America society. This thesis aims at helping readers appreciate this debatablegeneration by analyzing Deans role and his character. I am goin

14、g to explore the reasons for the shaping of his characterfrom several aspects. And to get some useful conclusions by associating it with modern society.Chapter Two An Introduction to On the Road2.1 The Main Story of On the RoadOn the Road is an autobiographical fiction by Jack Kerouac. It is a Story

15、 about two restless young men in the late 1940s who cross and recross America, searching for parties, girls, drugs, loneliness and their own dreams along the way. This book can be divided into five parts and every part is a journey experience. At the first part, Dean Moriarty stops Sal Paradises sta

16、ble life when they first meet in New York, 1947. At that time, Dean just escapes from a jail and newly married. He comes to New York, meets a group of young writers and makes friends with them. Among his friends, youcan see the young writer Sal Paradise and the poet Carlo Marx. Dean likes these guys

17、, and so do they. Their relationship becomes closer by years of restless journeys back and forth across the America. With a combination of all kinds of adventures and escapades, Sal sometimes goes to west to join Dean and more friends in Denver, and sometimes goes west by himself. He works as a fiel

18、dworker in California for a while, within that time lives with a married Mexico girl, Terry, they meet on the way to California. When the weather getting too cold to work in the filed, he has to leave the可编辑资料 - - - 欢迎下载精品名师归纳总结field and Terry, and back to home goes on his writing.At the second part

19、, it happens in 1948, when Deans life is in a miserable chaos, he drops his pregnant wife Camille at home alone and brings his ex-wife Marylou to east to find Sal again. Life once more becomes crazy, and they drive west together, with more crazy adventures on the road. The winter after that, Sal goe

20、s to Dean, and then Dean settles in New York for a while.At the third part, it happens in the spring of 1949, Sal goes to Denver alone, but Dean soon joins him. They travel across the American continent and back to west. Sal knows better about Dean and his girls after the travel, and their friendshi

21、p comes to a higher place.At the fourth part, they go south to Mexico City, the terminal place of their journey.Dean plans to get a cheap divorce papers there with his second wife Camille. In Mexico they go sightseeing in the car and repeat the same crazy behavior as they are in America. They make f

22、riends with Victor, a local resident in Mexico. Victor is a very kind man, they ask Victor to give them marijuana大麻 and lead them to hangwhorehouse（妓院） . They spend a happy time in Mexico, but Sal get a strong feverin the last few days in Mexico, Dean can not wait to break up with Camille and to get

23、 married with Inez. So Dean leaves the sick Sal and Stain in Mexico, drives home alone.At the last of the book, because a letter of Sal, Dean cannot help to missing Sal, so Dean stops his plan, comes to east immediately, to see Sal and Ssagl irlfriend. He just spends three days with Sal, he even doe

24、s not know why he comes here except seeing Sal, then he backs to west by five days of train. At last he comes to New York again.But he fails to ask Sal and his friend to join his journey, so the old, lonely and sad Dean travels alone this time. In reality, Cassady, the prototype of Dean is died at h

25、is last journey to Mexico, none of his friends know the reason why him dying. His death becomes a lasting mistery.The main story of On the Road is based on Kerouac and his friendstravelexperience, and the main charactersare originated from the writer himself and his friends. Many of them are promine

26、nt Beat Generation writers like Allen Ginsberg可编辑资料 - - - 欢迎下载精品名师归纳总结who is Carlo Marx in On the Road ,William Burroughs Bull Lee and Neal Cassady Dean Moriarty. They are bohemians who always lust for thrills and search for freedom. They abandon normal regulations and abandon everything of material

27、izedsociety, they are addicted to theillusion created by drugs. They flounce（摆脱） monotonous枯燥无味的 industrial social mode and establish a sense ofself-existence.2.1.1 The Definition of the Beat GenerationThe Beat Generation refers to a group of artists who led a movement in culture throughout the 1950

28、s. The adjective beat originally means tired or beaten down, over timeadding the paradoxical connotations by Holmes and Kerouac. Jack Kerouacintroduces the phrase Beat Generation in 1948, and expands the meaning of the term“Beat”, as it means exhaustion, beatification, upbeat,beatific,and he writest

29、hese in his diary “beat does not means tired, or bushed, so much as it means beat, theItalian for beatific: to be in a state of beatitude, like Saint Francis, trying to love alllife, trying to be utterly sincere with everyone.”TheBeat Generation areat the bottom of society, but they are optimistic,

30、they enjoys everyday. And it associated with somephrases from Buddhism by which they were influenced. The young writers who are tired of conventional society, believe that thoroughgoing break up from all aspects of the manners and morals of what they see as a corrupt commercial world would bring a m

31、ore meaningful life, just like the fabulous illusions created by drug, alcohol or others.2.1.2 The Background InformationIt is a literary movement after the Second World War. The young men who have experienced the WWII are doubtful of American Dream. People hate war, and there isa horror atmosphere

32、among people. Though the United States has a booming economy,people havent got rid of the shadow of the bomb. They think that American society is filledwith corruption, selfishness, hypocrisy, commercialization, etc. These young people seems interested in nothing but denying everything from the mate

33、rialized America.2.2 The Author: Jack Kerouac可编辑资料 - - - 欢迎下载精品名师归纳总结2.2.1 Jack Kerouacs LifeJack Kerouac was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1922. Died in 1969 when he was 47 years old. His parents are French-Canadian immigrates. He had a private and Catholic early education, and he got a footbal

34、l scholarship to Columbia University, where he met the famous poet Allen Ginsberg who wrote the long poemHowl, and William Burroughs. Kerouac quit school in his sophomoreyear and then joined the Merchant Marine, which starts the travel of his youth andthat would become the basis of On the Road, his

35、second and most favored novel. His first novel is The Town and the City.On the Roadwaspublished in 1957, it makes Kerouacbecome the most famous writer of the Beat Generation.2.2.2 Jack Kerouacs Writing StyleKerouac is good at stream-of-consciousnesssentences and page-long paragraphs, Kerouac used to

36、 typing his novel on a long roll of paper, he says he never changes paper when writingeven make mistakes. Because he thinks it willinterrupt his thinking if changes typing paper during his creating. And he says he rarely amends his draft, because he thinks the original writing is the truest.And acco

37、rding to Allen Ginsberg, Kerouac types the first draft of On the Road on a fifty-foot-longroll of paper.Chapter Three An Analysis of Deans Double Character3.1 Deans Negative Nature as a Devil3.1.1 IrresponsibleHe is an irresponsible husband, he always escapesfrom the demand of life. For example, he

38、leaves his wife Camille and takes away all the money when she is conceiving a new baby, which causes Camille has to take care of their first baby as well as to work at the same time. From those we can see how hard Camille is. And how irresponsible and shameful Dean is. At the end of the book his wif

39、e Camille writes a letter to him “My heart broke when I saw you go across the tracks with yourbag. I pray and pray you get back safe.I know you willmake it but I cant helpworrying.Dear Dean, it s the end of the first half of the century. Welcome with love可编辑资料 - - - 欢迎下载精品名师归纳总结and kisses to spend t

40、he other half with us. We all wait for you. Signed Camille, Amy, and Little Joanie.”It breaks my heart when I read those words in the letter. However, it seems does not work on Dean, Dean does not come back to Camille at last, he goes on his journey to the West Coast.Besides, he is an irresponsible

41、friend. When in Mexico his friend Sal got a strong fever and became delirious and unconscious. Dean said these to his friend“Poor Sal, poor Sal, got sick. Stan will take care of you. Now listen to hear if you can in yoursickness: I got my divorce from Camille down here and I m driving back to Inez t

42、he third girl he is going to marryin New York tonight if the car holds out. ”He left his friend who had got a strong fever and needed care. He always making such mistakes, when his wife needs him most he comes to his friends whilst when his friend needshim most he comes to his wife. He seems always

43、escapes from his responsibility.3.1.2 SelfishHe leaves his wifes and children for his friends and even leaves Sal in Mexico for his wifes. He always searches for his own happy and ignores others. He thinks himself is the most important, everything must cater to himself first.3.1.3 Hypocrisy and Inde

44、centHe is indecent in his personal life, and he is dishonest and untruth, the author writes“he was only conning because he wanted so much to live and to get involved with people who would otherwise pay no attention to him, I knew he was conning me, and he knew I knew, this has been the basis of our

45、relationshi.p”Besides he often tell lies when circles around his girl friends. And he steals cars, he is the top one thief in Denver. He is over Self-indulgent，and abuse of alcohol, drugs and sex, etc.3.1.4 ImpulsiveHe takes out all of his money to buy a car, just because he see it in a sale. Then h

46、e drives the car to find his ex-wife Marylou and his friend Sal. Dropping his child and newly pregnant wifeCamille at home, withoutlivingresource. Ifhe is not so impulsive, his life would not be that sad. If he did not take all money out to buy the car, and did not drive the car to find Marylou and

47、Sal, he would live a simple, happy and stable life with Camille. But he did those, he ruins Camilles happiness, as well as可编辑资料 - - - 欢迎下载精品名师归纳总结his own happiness. He sacrifices his stable life to search for his vague and insubstantial dream. Which brings miserable results to the people who loves him deeply. Such as Marylou, Camille and even himself.3.2 Deans Positive Nature as an Angel3.2.1 Energetic and VigorousHe is fond of jazz, he dances to sweat every time when he listen to Bull Lees music, he has a zest for life, however hard the life is, he smiles