| Gorky's Mother has long been considered as a socialist realistic classic, but the specific time it composed as well as Gorky's personal understanding to the Russian socialist revolution provides an ample space to re-expound. Russian Utopian Trinity consists of three invariable elements: society, religion and Eros, upon the basis of which, my thesis is mainly divided into three parts. In the first part, my thesis gives a brief introduction to the thought of Utopia, and intends to find the Utopian effect Gorky has in his thoughts. In the second part, my thesis is divided into three sections to analyze Gorky's social blue-print emblematized by the individual in the collective and characterized by the extensive relation established between the individual and the collective, explains the potential religious impact Gorky cherished deep down in his mind on the content, the special relation among the characters in his work, and the plots and the structure of the text, and explores the psychological reasons for creating the female images and the transition of narrative perspective in his works respectively. In the third part, my thesis reiterated the Utopian influence in his works. |
