| Joyce Carol Oates, American famous female writer, has published more than 100 works,including novel, poetry, drama and literary criticism. She won a lot of prizes, like the American National Book Award, O. Henry awards, Pulitzer Prize, Malamud Pen Lifetime Literature Achievement Award and so on. In recent years, Oates has been one of the top candidates for the Nobel Prize for Literature. Her work mainly exposes violence and evils in American society, involving a variety of physical or psychological and sexual injuries that can be imagined or not can be imagined. The works of Oates constitute a panorama of contemporary American society.Oates has always insisted on using the "psychological reality" to reflect the "social reality", the psychological problem has become the focus of Oates novels and a tool for Oates to express her social criticism. This thesis mainly analyzes the abnormal psychology of Oates' novels. Through the abnormal psychology,Oates shows contemporary American social problem and expresses her strong social concern. By Oates' novel,readers can understand the endless desires of Americans.In order to show the abnormal psychology, Oates not only adhere to the traditional psychological description skills, but also increased the modern novel writing techniques.Oates dare to explore innovation,her works insist on realism,and the same time,use the techniques of stream of consciousness novel and various narrative methods. These methods make the characters who have abnormal psychology appear more real and vivid.Through the presentation and description of the abnormal psychology, Oates shows it's meaning and value. The abnormal psychology in Oates' novels not only shows the complexity and profundity of human psychology, and shows Oates' concern for the contemporary people and today's social problems.By looking directly at the twisted psychology of the human, after the fear and shock, the readers gain more unique experience,and their souls are purified and sublimated. |
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