本科毕业论文威尼斯商人中的人物形象分析学生姓名： 学生学号： 200320207100 院（系）： 外国语学院 年级专业： 2003级英语本科5班 指导教师： 二七年五月An Analysis of the Characters inthe Merchant of VeniceHe LiUnder the Supervision ofJiang LuSchool of Foreign Languages and CulturesPanzhihua UniversityMay 2007攀枝花学院本科毕业论文 ContentsContentsAbstract.Key Words.摘要.关键词.Introduction 1. Social Background of the Play the Merchant of Venice. 2 A. The Reality Social Information in Elizabeth Throne.2 B. Special Social Background Reflecting in the Merchant of Venice.2. Analyzing the Heroes in the Play.3 A. Antonio3 B. Bassanio.4 C. Shylock5III. Analyzing the Central Character in the Play-Portia .6A. The Essential Nature of Portia.6B. The Humanism Spirit Shown by Portia 6C. Portia- a Self-conscious Female.7D. An Explanation on Portia Masquerading as Man8IV. A Comparative Study of Characteristic Differences among Main Figures10A. Portia and Jessica.10B. Portia and Shylock.11C. Antonio and Bassanio.12Conclusion.14Acknowledgements16Notes.17Bibliography18攀枝花学院本科毕业论文 AbstractAbstractAs we known that the merchant of Venice is one of Shakespeares most important works. It is a comedy. The theme of this play is to extol kindheartedness, friendship and love. And also it reflects the conflicts between the capitalists and usurers at the beginning of the capitalist society. And it expresses the authors humanist idea on money, law and religion in capitalist society. This thesis analyzes the main figures in the play by using independent and contrast ways. It shows the heavily flavor of humanism at the beginning of capitalist society; and expresses some thoughts for society and human being. The thesis also makes a hard criticism to Shylock, who is a representative of feudalism, and puts a heavy humanism on Portia. It displays the thoughts of feudalism personality liberation, and stressing the great breakthrough of womans status and feminine consciousness in Elizabethan era. Key WordsCharacter analyzing; humanism; personality liberation; women consciousnessII攀枝花学院本科毕业论文 摘要摘要众所周知，威尼斯商人是莎士比亚著名喜剧之一。 该剧的主题被定义为对善良、友谊和爱情的颂扬。 本剧不但反映了资本主义早期资产阶级同高利贷者间的矛盾冲突，也揭示了作者对资本主义社会金钱、法律和宗教信仰的人文主义观点。本论文采用了个案分析法以及对比分析法对该剧的主要人物形象作了一一剖析，展示了资本主义萌芽时期人文主义的浓厚气息，表达了莎士比亚对社会、对人类生活的反思，并寄以自己的理想。课题对封建旧势力的代表夏洛克作了无情的批判，而对形象鲜明、富有光彩的鲍西娅则添上了浓厚的人文主义理想色彩。文章彰显了女性个性解放，突显了文艺复兴时期伊丽莎白当权期，女性地位、意识的重大突破。关键词 人物分析；人文主义思想；个性解放；女性意识 攀枝花学院本科毕业论文 Introduction1IntroductionThe Merchant of Venice is one of the Shakespeares famous comedies in his early time. Its theme is to extol kindness, friendship and love. It is the mirror of the contradiction between business bourgeois and usurer at the beginning of the Capitalist society. Its also expressed the authors humanism ideas on money, law and religion in this society. There, we mention Humanism-the main distinguishing feature of that period, also the brightness characteristic which is shown from the important role in this play.In this thesis, the author introduces the background of the play firstly. Reading the play, we can know that the social background in the play is according with the real society. We know at that time, the society was under the leadership of Elizabeth who was the symbol of power in England. Next the thesis gives an introduction of the main figures in the play. Antonio is rich and kindhearted. From him we can see the spirit of humanism. Portia plays the most important part in the play. The thesis talks about her character, her hobbies, and her attitude of love and the inner meaning-humanism of this figure. She is the center of all these figures the play refers to. Humanism is an ideological weapon for capitalism to fight the feudalism combat, and also it is the core idea of capitalism advanced-literature in Renaissance, and its combat refers to the ideal of Feudalism in Middle Age, especially the religion belief of Catholics. After that, the thesis gives more details about the information mentioned above. T