Rethinking History Subject Of Günter Grass's Novel

Günter Grass, the Germany contemporary writer, the winner of 1999 Nobel Prize in literature, from his Danzig Trilogy (The Tin Drum, Cat and Mouse, Dog Years) to his latest book Peeling Onions(2006), all of them are persisted through the rethinking of Germany history during world warⅡ. With the theory instruction of Hannah Adrent's research totalitarianism essence, this thesis through how deepen from the society mass base of Nazi who came on stage to the intrinsic individual mind in the subject development vein of Günter Grass novel, expanded from servant's disassimilation which under the whole control to the revelation of national psychology, layer upon layer thoroughly discussed the reason which totalitarianism emerged, attempted to make a general survey on the thought development flow of Günter Grass.The paper is mainly composed of three chapters. Chapter 1: modern Germany's myth. It provides the background content for as follows which analysis Grass novel's on the rethinking history subject, Grass fills the deep anxiety about the real, the history and the initiation rationality, and he proposed only entrust suspect consciousness with rational spirit, the history would avoid make same mistakes over again. Chapter 2: individual mind with frantic and lonely. Describes how does individual mind poisoned with militarism and "the hero" worship, Grass further proposed that servant's disassimilation under the whole control produce the banality of evil, while the mediocre evil plot has caused the collapse of social morals system. Chapter 3: ethnic relations with envies and hatred. Grass through describes the national psychology which resembles enemy or friend between the Germanic nationality, the Judea nationality, the Bohemian and the Pole, criticizes anti-Semitism, at the same time, reveals disaster's thought root why these nations suffered from the persecution of Nazi.