Hemingway's Idiosyncrasy Of Personality And Creative Thoughts

Ernest Hemingway was an outstanding novelist in American modern history as well as a writer with a particular individuality in the world literature of the twentieth century. The idiosyncrasy of his personality such as loneliness, perplexity, pessimism and bravery all have a direct influence on the formation of his creative thoughts, which are further presented in his unique style, his painstaking creation of ideal images and his orientation of values. The article aims at searching into the author's idiosyncrasy of personality' and creative thoughts with regard to the complicated social environment, the cultural psychology of the nation, the trend of western philosophy, and the abundant personal experience of the author at that time, etc., accurately analyzing the subjective and objective causes for the formation of his idiosyncrasy of personality. Hemingway was a person of very intricate ideas, whose personal temperament was made up of many contradictory elements, and lots of completely conflicting psychological characteristics coexisted on him. His disposition was full of sensitivity and impulse of choleric temperament, spiritual experience of melancholic temperament, and liveliness and vivacity of sanguine temperament. Frailty and firmness appeared occasionally in his character by turns, despair and optimism as well in his emotion. However, in general, loneliness, perplexity, pessimism and bravery dominated his distinctive individuality'. His particular idiosyncrasy of personality and his negative attitude toward the world and his suspicious attitude toward life determined his creative thoughts and process, which were filled with a strong tragic trait. This article starts from the author's idiosyncrasy of personality, reasoningly analyzing and exploring the author's creation of novels. It considers that the author's idiosyncrasy of personality is inseparably interconnected with his own creation, the relationship of which is focused on the process of the author's creation, directly setting against and representing the creative thoughts of the author. The braver}7 in Hemingway's idiosyncrasy of personality infuse loneliness, perplexity, pessimism into Hemingway and Hemingway heroes, contributing to the creation of the image of "a man of strong masculinity" striving for his life under his pen, which further presents Hemingway's unique style of creation distinct from any other writers of his age. The author's idiosyncrasy of personality influences his creation in several ways. During the whole course of creation, the author's consciousness and the manifestation of his consciousness are solidly linked with his personal psychological quality, his emotional patterns and his mental outlook,which is fully displayed in the choice of the subject matter, the literary image, and the writing style, etc. The article considers that Hemingway's vivid and distinctive creative thoughts are closely interwoven with his orientation of values. On one hand, his thoughts of creation themselves present certain outlook on the world, life and values; on the other hand, the orientation of values is not only a direct manifestation of his creative thoughts but also a concentrative representation of his complicated idiosyncrasy of personality in an important respect. To a great extent, the orientation of values is the most direct and convincing window through which Hemingway's idiosyncrasy of personality and creative thoughts are reflected. Therefore, referring to Hemingway's idiosyncrasy of personality and creative thoughts, this article further illustrates the orientation of values in the author's creation, especially emphasizing the exploration on the tragic consciousness of the creation, the way of existence of a man of strong masculinity' and the multi-values of ethics and the choice of culture and so on. At the end of the article, a brief summary is given on Hemingway's idiosyncrasy of personality and creative thoughts in order to make the readers have a complete cognition and understanding of them.