| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 第1-7页 |
| ABSTRACT | 第7-9页 |
| 摘要 | 第9-13页 |
| CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION | 第13-28页 |
| ·Introduction to Toni Morrison and Her Major Works | 第13-18页 |
| ·Introduction to A Mercy | 第18-22页 |
| ·Literature Review of A Mercy | 第22-28页 |
| ·Studies Abroad | 第22-25页 |
| ·Studies at Home | 第25-28页 |
| CHAPTER TWO THEORETICAL BASIS | 第28-38页 |
| ·Ecocritism | 第28-35页 |
| ·The Emergence of Ecocritism | 第28-32页 |
| ·The Development of Ecocriticism | 第32-35页 |
| ·Methodology and Significance of Ecocriticism | 第35-38页 |
| ·The Critical Methods of Ecocriticism | 第35页 |
| ·The Significance of Ecocriticism | 第35-38页 |
| CHAPTER THREE NATURAL ECOLOGY IN A MERCY | 第38-53页 |
| ·Toni Morrison’s Standpoints of Natural Ecology | 第38-40页 |
| ·The Reflections of Nature in A Mercy | 第40-46页 |
| ·Beauty of Nature | 第40-43页 |
| ·Destruction of Nature | 第43-45页 |
| ·Jacob Varrk’s New House: Human Lust Ravening Nature | 第45-46页 |
| ·Inquiring about the Relationship between Man and Nature | 第46-53页 |
| ·Lina: Woman talking to Nature | 第47-48页 |
| ·Rebekka: Pagan with Deep Love for Nature | 第48-49页 |
| ·Florens: Black Slave Girl Seeking Harborage and Hope from Nature | 第49-51页 |
| ·Sorrow: Daughter of the Sea | 第51-53页 |
| CHAPTER FOUR SOCIAL ECOLOGY IN A MERCY | 第53-71页 |
| ·The Distorted Social Relations | 第53-62页 |
| ·The Oppression and Enslavement Suffered by Slaves | 第54-56页 |
| ·The Distant Family Ties | 第56-58页 |
| ·Men’s Control over Women’s Bodies | 第58-60页 |
| ·Hypocrisy of the Religion | 第60-62页 |
| ·The Reconstruction of Cordial and Harmonious Social Relations | 第62-71页 |
| ·The Sisterhood between the Women | 第63-64页 |
| ·Mother-Daughter Love between Lina and Florens | 第64-66页 |
| ·Jacob’s Compassion to His Slaves | 第66-67页 |
| ·Giving Favors and Co-creating the Equality and Harmony between the Sexes | 第67-71页 |
| CHAPTER FIVE SPIRITUAL ECOLOGY IN A MERCY | 第71-86页 |
| ·The Lost Eden: Abnormal Inner World of the Protagonists | 第71-78页 |
| ·Florens’ Hatred for Her Mother | 第72-73页 |
| ·Florens’ Self-consciousness of Slavery | 第73-76页 |
| ·Jacob’s Unceasingly Bloated Material Lust | 第76-78页 |
| ·Throwing off the Spiritual Shackles: Ways of Self-salvation of the Protagonists | 第78-86页 |
| ·Lina: Returning to Native Culture to Recreate Herself | 第79-80页 |
| ·Sorrow: Becoming a Mother and Moving from “Fragmentation” towards “Completeness” | 第80-82页 |
| ·Florens: Fulfilling the Sublimation of Self-consciousness through Writing | 第82-86页 |
| CHAPTER SIX CONCLUSION | 第86-87页 |
| WORKS CITED | 第87-91页 |
| APPENDIX | 第91-92页 |
