ananalysisofmartineden’stragicimage(编辑修改稿)

ananalysisofmartineden’stragicimage(编辑修改稿)内容摘要：

e, she still cannot have a happy ending with Martin Eden. Lizzie is the representive of girls from the working class and the counterpart of the bourgeois ladyRuth Morse in the book. Russ Brissenden: Russ Brissenden is Eden39。 s sickly writer counterpart, who encourages Eden to give up writing and return to the sea before city life swallows him up. As a socialist, he introduces Eden to a group of amateur philosophers he calls the 39。 real dirt39。 . Brissenden‘s final work 39。 Ephemera39。 causes a literary sensation when Eden breaks his word and publishes it upon the writer39。 s death. Joe Dawson: Joe Dawson is Eden39。 s boss at the laundry. He wins Eden over with his cheeriness and capacity for work, but lacks any ambition for selfimprovement. From these characters, readers have a rough overview about this novel. These main characters make readers know the early 20th century in American. Each of them stands different class in American history. Ruth and her parents are the represents of the bourgeois. Martin stands the lower class that has dream about the society and successfully achieves his aim. All of them are the toy for that dark society. They have 5 their own tragedy. While they can‘t change their tragic status, they have to follow the suit. Martin Eden is the delegate among those tragic men. Martin Eden is an intellectual39。 s tragedy. 2. Martin Eden’s tragic image Martin Eden bees a successful man from a poor sailor. To some extent, he is lucky. While everything has its tragic side, just like Martin Eden chooses suicide in the end for he loses the hope to this world. In other people‘s eyes, he is a lucky man. In fact, he is just a toy for the upper class. His tragic life is doomed. A tragic story Martin Eden was born in a poor family, as a sailor, one day he happened to rescue a man Arthur from a gang of drunks who is a lawyer of Morse39。 s son. To pay back him, Arthur invited him to go his home. There he meets Ruth and he was infatuated by Ruth who is Arthur39。 s sister at the first sight. Ruth own good and younger look, noble character and pure. She is a university student. Martin falls in love her at the first sight, but he realized that their differences in family and position. He feels shabby and small of himself. In order to win Ruth‘s love, he decides to study hard to change his poor situation. He decides to bee a writer. He writes lots of works and sends them to many publishers, dreaming that they can be published soon. However, all of these works are rejected. Life is very hard for Martin. Ruth leaves him, and he even doesn‘t have money to buy food. Surprisingly and ironically, luck goes to him now. All his works have been published and bee popular in the country. People from the upper class are eager to make friends with him. Even Ruth wants to e back to him. Martin Eden now finds the society where he lives in, money and fame are everything, and his pursuit for pure and high ideal, for the warmest spiritual life is just a dream that does not exist at all. He feels very tired and sick of his life. ―Life is a blunder and a shame.‖ Martin Eden gradually loses himself and he drowns himself in 6 the deep sea, ending his life. Therefore, the tragic image of Martin Eden reflects not only Martin himself, but also the writer, even the society, which is really worthy of thinking. The main causes to the tragic ending of the story After receiving fame and money, he is popular with upper class. While he is still a poor man for the upper class for his background is poor. Ruth—his goddess, makes him from struggle to letdown. Meanwhile his success changes his character, and he is gradually far away his relatives and his old friends after his success. Loneliness is filled with his life. Martin Eden chooses suicide to end his life. His tragic ending is mostly caused by his disillusion of love and his loneliness after success. The disillusion of love Martin falls in love with Ruth at first sight. He regards her as his goddess, so he is willing to sacrifice everything for her. He makes his mind to be rich so that he can match her. For Martin, love is the power to succeed. His love to Ruth is the romantic spiritual admiration. At the beginning, he even has no idea of punctuation, fragments. He learns English by himself, studying grammar, memorizing vocabulary and changing his manner of speaking and pronouncing habits. He only spent several months in acplishing elementary course as a mon person who needed two years. He often spends four to five hours sleeping every day, and as worked on hard work, as studied and wrote. Sometimes, he endured hungry and pain, continuing on his writing, making his living. He sent out his all works, but returned .However, Martin Eden continued on his writing ,in any case, defend or success ,he always just as past .as he said, my head is bloody but unbowed .Everything, in order to be able to crowd into upper society one day. Changing into a noble being equal to Ruth, such a life is an inspiration to all of us. Surprisingly, he bees an excellent writer a few years later. The main purpose of his hard struggles to succeed is just to match Ruth. 7 Ruth‘s love is mainly from body. She is attracted by Martin for his vigorous body at first, having the unconscious thought of embracing his strong neck. Such thought always appear in her mind, which makes Ruth feel shame. Although Martin loves Ruth from his bottom of heart, Ruth don‘t show any love for him. She is just curious about Martin for his vigorous body, his experiences and his status. She never thinks she will marry him one day. If she knows Martin loves her, she must think it is a ridiculous thing that she has ever heard. Ruth‘s wants to make Martin success. So her love towards Martin has nothing to do with love. Al。