The Cloudy And Gloomy Archetypes Of Francois Mauriac's Novels

There are such distinguishing features as images, characters, themes, and styles with cloudy and gloomy flavor, which possess the conventional semantic association and then result in the emergence of series of cloudy and gloomy archetypes,, appear repeatedly in Mauriac's novels. The images of the cloudy and gloomy archetypes in Mauriac's novels consist of the waste land, Erebos, fog and fire, and so on. Those images with rich symbolic signification reveal the change of the survival surroundings of people in the Waste Land and set off the characters' gloomy temper and ruined faith of living. The characters of the cloudy and gloomy archetypes consist of frightful mothers, the poisonous snakes (or the monsters), the gloomy angels and the Sisyphus. The author creates these characters, either horrible or pitiable, and he displayed pictures of cloudy and gloomy of life between the lines while describing those archetypal characters. The archetypal form of Mauriac's novels is represented by a type of extensive confession form, which is reflected by the fact that the leading characters, while they are looking systematically back on their course of life, introspect their faults and sins and advocate a road that the spirit of sinners will be rescued by the Lord. His works is pervaded by consciousness of confessions. Meanwhile Mauriac did not take up the type of autobiography that is regarded as the characteristic of genuine narration, but adopted the way of fabrication and of assumption to achieve his private purposes of both monologue in his heart and expression of his true emotion in the confession form. The themes of the cloudy and gloomy archetypes include such as original sin, rescue, the social evils, loneliness, gloom and nothingness and so on. The features of the cloudy and gloomy archetypes embodied in Mauriac's novels are consistent with his religion ideal. But he holds the violent opposition to the asceticism claimed by the doctrines of Christianity. The humanistic ideas flicker within his works.