| Introduction | 第1-12页 |
| Chapter 1 Herman Melville and his works Moby Dick, Pierre and Billy Budd | 第12-17页 |
| ·Brief view of Melville’s life experience and his literary career | 第12-13页 |
| ·Introductions to Moby Dick, Pierre and Billy Budd | 第13-17页 |
| Chapter 2 Interpretations of Melville’s tragic tendency | 第17-27页 |
| ·Family background | 第17-19页 |
| ·Sense of tragedy in life and his inherent disposition to melancholy | 第19-20页 |
| ·Double thought: belief and doubt | 第20-22页 |
| ·Second growth in mind | 第22-27页 |
| Chapter 3 Sociological analysis of tragic elements in Moby Dick and Billy Budd and some more reflections on good and evil | 第27-43页 |
| ·Ahab’s doom | 第27-32页 |
| ·Spiritual pursuit for revengeful grandeur vs. material pursuit for profit | 第27-29页 |
| ·Evil lurking in everything and duality of good and evil | 第29-32页 |
| ·Billy’s persecution | 第32-38页 |
| ·Conflict between good and evil | 第32-35页 |
| ·Conflict between nature and civilization | 第35-38页 |
| ·Ethical and philosophical discussions of good and evil | 第38-43页 |
| Chapter 4 Psychological analysis of tragic elements in Moby Dick and Pierre | 第43-68页 |
| ·Shame psychology | 第43-57页 |
| ·Brief introduction to shame psychology | 第43-45页 |
| ·Ahab’s disaster | 第45-52页 |
| ·Pierre’s ultimate death | 第52-57页 |
| ·Jung’s psychological types | 第57-68页 |
| ·Brief introduction to extraversion and introversion | 第57-59页 |
| ·Ahab’s disaster from morbid absorption in the image-Moby Dick | 第59-62页 |
| ·Pierre’s death from desperate pursuit for eternal truth | 第62-66页 |
| ·More reflections on imbalance of personality | 第66-68页 |
| Conclusion | 第68-70页 |
| Bibliography | 第70-72页 |
| 论文独创性声明 | 第72页 |
| 论文使用授权声明 | 第72-73页 |
