《吸血鬼日记》中达蒙的恶魔性格所折射的美国价值观

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摘要

摘要：在当今的社会中，人性的善与恶每天都在被每一个人所演绎，爱情、亲情、友情等一系列情感将社会上每一个人都同别人联系在一起，人们相互影响，相互伴以生存，往往也会做出些不被周围人待见的事或者说出些言不由衷的话。本论文主要以电视剧《吸血鬼日记》为主线，小说《吸血鬼日记》为依据，来举例分析剧中男主人公达蒙·塞尔瓦托恶魔性格的本质所折射出的美国价值观。在这部电视剧中到处充斥着黑暗与光明，恶势力与正能量的斗争，反复循环并互为因果，剧中男女主人公的性格也都漂浮不定，其中美国价值观被诠释得淋漓精致。一个国家的价值观影响着这个国家人民的思考与行为方式。美国价值观引领着每一个美国人走向更加美好的未来，从某种程度上来讲，美国价值观就是美国梦，这个梦一直生长在每个美国人的心中，使人们为之奋斗。达蒙与人处事的恶魔方式总不被看好，可他之所以这么做的根源里处处都透露着来自于他人性的光辉。最终得出人性本善的启示。

关键词：达蒙·塞尔瓦托；恶魔；美国价值观；人性

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ABSTRACT

American V alues Reflected from the Essence of Damon’s Diaboli cal Character in

the Vampire Diaries

Hua Lingling

Abstract: Nowadays, in this society, the goodness and badness of the humanity are displayed by everyone at every day. Love, family ties and friendship relate every person to others, so people influent and live by each other. Meanwhile, they also do something which cannot be accepted by others and say something they do not mean to. This paper mainly bases on the TV series the Vampire Diaries and uses the novel the Vampire Diaries as its foundation. It uses several examples to analyze American v alues reflected from the essence of the protagonist Damon Salvatore’s diabolical character. This TV series is fulfilled with the conflict between darkness and brightness and the fight between evil and justice. All elements keep going and going and at the same time these are always the causes and effects of each other. With changes of these elements, heroes and heroines’characters also keep changing. Combining with all these points, American values are perfectly displayed. One nation’s values always affect people’s thinking and behavior in this nation. American values lead every American people to a much better and brighter future. To some extent, American values are just American dreams. These dreams live in the bottom of everyone’s heart and strive everyone to fight for these. Damon’s diabolical behavior of treating people and handling affairs is not accepted by others, but the reason why he does it always shows his brilliance from the humanity. Finally, the implication of humanity being always good can be included naturally.

Key words: Damon Salvatore; diabolical; American values; humanity

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

摘要 (ii)

ABSTRACT (iii)

TABLE OF CONTENTS (iv)

Chapter One Introduction (1)

Chapter Two American Values and the Vampire Diaries (3)

2.1 American Values (3)

2.2 the Vampire Diaries (4)

Chapter Three American Values Reflected from the Essence

of Damon’s Diabolical Character (6)

3.1 Rashness (6)

3.1.1 Performance (6)

3.1.2 Reason (7)

3.1.3 Essence (7)

3.1.4 The reflected American values (7)

3.2 Selfishness (8)

3.2.1 Performance (8)

3.2.2 Reason (9)

3.2.3 Essence (9)

3.2.4 The reflected American values (9)

3.3 Cold-blooded (10)

3.3.1 Performance (10)

3.3.2 Reason (11)

3.3.3 Essence (11)

3.3.4 The reflected American values (11)

3.4 Atrocity (12)

3.4.1 Performance (12)

3.4.2 Reason (12)

3.4.3 Essence (12)

3.4.4 The reflected American values (13)

Chapter Four Conclusion (14)

References (16)

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS (17)

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Chapter One Introduction

Goodness and badness are two different aspects of human characteristics. In western cultures, badness is a situation that exists against with the goodness and they are of the same place in human nature. If there is no badness then there is no goodness. Goodness and badness always are separately judged. But in the real life, goodness and badness usually coexist in human being. In one hand, there is no one among his characteristics with no badness existing. In another hand, there is no one among his characteristics with no goodness existing. So in a word, goodness and badness are unified. But people used to separate them up. In the American popular TV series the Vampire Diaries vampires, just as the paper mainly studies about, among them, there are good ones and bad ones. Concerning a bad vampire, such as Damon, the protagonist of the TV series and this paper, in his characteristics, diabolical one takes the dominant part. The first memory given by Damon to the audience is diabolical. But if the audience makes a deep understanding of him, they will find that Damon, to some extent, is a little bit pitiful for his concealment of his true feeling from the people he loves. He always means to do some good things, but he does not know how to express it, so the result always leads him to the misunderstanding of others. “Conversation can fill the gap between human beings and it can also make up defects.” (Chen 2007: 117) Being an epitome of American people, Damon’s behavior reflects American values apparently.

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