Anne of Green Gables: Personality and Destiny Abstract Anne of Green Gables is the first long novel of famous Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery, published in 1908. Its publication lightened the spirit of Canadians of that age, giving a place to Canadian native literature in the literary world. Current studies on Anne’s personality is mainly about Anne’s lunacy, mercuriality, narcissist, rebellion,precocity, imagination,love for nature and life. These personalities are considered fixed and invariable .But there is few studies comprehensively exploring the development of Anne’s personality and destiny as well as their interactions. So this topic is new to us and worthy of thorough study. The thesis will be divided into three
She also was elected to the Literary and Artistic Institute of France in 1935. After her death in 1942, the National Sites and Historic Board of Canada declared Montgomery a person of national historic significance. In June 2008, an International Celebration of Imagination and Creativity in Honor of the 100th Anniversary of L.M.Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables was held in Prince Edward Island.So, L.M.Montgomery has remained a household figure across two centuries.Montgomery died in Toronto, Ontario on April 24th, 1942. In death, she returned to her beloved Prince Edward Island, where she was buried in the Cavendish cemetery.
2.Anne of Green Gables Anne of Green Gables is the masterpiece of Lucy Maud Montgomery . It is her bestselling novel . Written as fiction for readers of all ages, since the mid-twentieth century, the literary classic has been considered a children’s novel. Since publication, Anne of Green Gables has sold more than 50 million copies, and has been translated into 20 languages. Numerous sequels were written by Montgomery, and since her death, another sequel has been published, as well as an authorized prequel. The original book is taught to students around the world. It tells the growing up stories of Anne from the age of eleven to sixteen . The novel begins with a mistake that two old siblings ,Marilla and Matthew