| This dissertation was based on ideas research of J. M. Coetzee's novels.J. M.Coetzee thinks about some problems as regards person in his novels from the beginning of creation to Nobel Prize, and it is main content for his novels as regards existing and the dilemma. He places personages in a special environment for revealing the human nature when writing personages, either in South Africa sometimes, or in this special period of the postcolonialism sometimes, or in a special context. It can thus be said that J. M. Coetzee had his own features in terms of characterization and the exploration of the human nature.It is a thread for human to being rescuing out of dilemma in J. M.Coetzee's novel. It is the process that personage be rescued out of dilemma in J. M.Coetzee's novels on one hand, it is a true reflection about J. M.Coetzee'development of thought on the other hand. J. M. Coetzee lives in a turning period that regime is from white people to South Africans while J. M.Coetzee writes fiction until he was awarded the Nobel Prize.As a humanitarian, J. M.Coetzee is sympathetic to the black's experiences and situations while white people in power. It is also impossible to unmoved for J. M.Coetzee as the white man is in the dilemma while South Africans in power. As to being rescuing out of dilemma, J.M. Coetzee explores a way for individual if focussing on small, and then seeks a road for nationality and country if taking a long view. Therefore he expresses a sense of urgency for human survival.Reading the text in detail, this dissertation gets clear about thought for human problem in J. M. Coetzee's novel.Speaking from the horizontal, this kind of reflection mainly focuses on two major aspects. On one hand, It is the anxiety awareness while one gets into a living dilemma. In the sources of anxiety and influence in western literature, It is a result of influence for western literature about the anxiety awareness in J. M. Coetzee's novel, Moreover, J. M.Coetzee has his own characteristics in term of awareness of anxiety. On the other hand,It shows distinctive features of the will to life in J. M.Coetzee's novel while one being out of a living dilemma. J. M.Coetzee not only accentuates the anxiety awareness, but also pays attention to the will to life. This dissertation makes an analysis and interpretation of works of the will to life in J. M.Coetzee's novel after exploring theories source. Speaking from the vertical, it is divided into four different stages of J. M. Coetzee's reflections on the problem of human.That can be regarded as a series of development of his thought development too.This dissertation makes an analysis and interpretation of the content of four stages with the Western ideas, as well as the J. M.Coetzee's living environment. The answer J. M.Coetzee gives is different in different stages of development of his thought on one how to find a way out in trouble. In the first period of his thought, J. M.Coetzee thinks one can cope with the dilemma by way of Madness. The reason is that individuals believe their own strength on one hand, Individual living environmentit is bad on the other hand. In fact, Madness is a result from dilemma. It is a resistance to the difficulties at the same time.J. M.Coetzee's novels meaning is profound, the reason is that South Africa is in the reign of white terror while J. M.Coetzee wrote these novels.In the second stage, one seeks to save by the way of resisting directly while facing the predicament with a clear understanding of reality. J. M.Coetzee wrote these works in the eighties of last century. This period was that Resistance organizations were suppressed and banned, the reason is that Blacks change from the non-violent resistance to violence against the government. Thus, J. M.Coetzee's content of the novel is closely linked to social background.In the third stage, the individual losts hope for being rescued due to special historical conditions and the complexity of the external factors, so sink into the depravity. Indeed, the result of resistance is depressing, the future is confused. The individual has no choice apart from sink.It is obviously linked to realistic environment that the author lives, It is extremely difficult at home and abroad for the white regime to subjected to international sanctions. Moreover, J. M.Coetzee' family suffered misfortune, his son died in a car accident. He expressed his frustration thought by the stories of his predecessors. One is from the story of Robinson Crusoe, the other is from a certain stage of Dostoevsky's life.In the fourth stage, People have gone through repentance, the human spirit to achieve the purification and distillation, reached a peace of mind.it is a kind of awakening after sinking, a kind of recovery after the purgatory. His novels have profound meaning if the combination of the social background of South Africa. At this time, White privilege in South Africa come to an end after Blacks in South Africa was in power. In this case, it is only through repentance to get settlement and get saved.Actually, In order to achieve national reconciliation, South Africa's new government set up Truth and Reconciliation Commission.The repentant consciousness J. M.Coetzee expressed in his novel doesn't stop there, it has the universal significance for people's existence.As to structure of the thesis, the introduction is a survey of the overview regarding J. M. Coetzee and his writing at home and abroad, also led to the views of the thesis at the same time:J. M. Coetzee's reflections on the problem of human. The first chapter discusses the anxious consciousness of people displayed in J. M.Coetzee's novel.These parts explore separately some choices which people make in order to extricate oneself from a predicament, namely the embodiment of person's anxious consciousness in J. M.Coetzee's novel from chapter two to chapter five.The sixth chapter explores the life will of the person displayed in J. M.Coetzee's novel, that life will is a power source that an individual being saved from the predicament, and shows the strength about the human nature. The seventh chapter is a summary about J.M.Coetzee's ultimate care for human to being rescuing out of dilemma. The concluding section is a summary about the significance and achievement of the study of the thesis. It is the strategy for the structure of the thesis adopted for the way of lateral-vertical-lateral or total-divide-total. |
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