The Death Concept Of Singer's Works

The motif of human life and death are always important parts of mankind. Exploration of death, re-establish the death in reflective consciousness is the best form of testing each life in physical living conditions. As the American Jewish writer, Singer experienced death in World War II, the profound reflection and the inquiry on death become his looming potential theme in his works. Death permeates his works, leads him to probe human being, life, faith, and morality.The introduction describes the present status of the research of Singer's works both domestically and abroad, manifesting the depth and breadth of the scholars'research. The study domestic is divided into three parts in details. Firstly, religion and morality-the content of the theme is discussed. Secondly, applications of methods of analyzing work are used into Singer's works-specific work analysis. Thirdly, style study, ethnic flavor-writing characteristics emphatically are foci of this part. As to the studies abroad here are some references to be given only due to lacking of enough information of this scope.The paper present is composed of three parts to discuss the concept of death and people's reflection on it. The first part deal with what a view of death, culture of death Singer's inherits from the past, to wit, the basic elements in Singer's concept of death. This chapter will answer Singer's view of death " why". This chapter deals with the topic from the background, displaying Singer's journey, his acceptance on Jewish culture, and American culture, and the cross-effects between the two. This chapter discusses the family background of Singer also, the influence from his brother and father, and his knowledge composition, Spinoza's theory. Finally, the reasons of Singer's concept formation of the death will be revealed to the readers.The second part describes his work all aspects of death in-depth and shows complexity and contradiction in Singer's concept. This chapter answers the question of "What the concept of death is ". Three main aspects of Singer's concept of death will be unconcealed in this section. The first is the natural death, which in Singer's view comes to contradiction to irony to the pious and suspicious to God. The second type is the magic death, which reflects the smart of Singer's head. The phenomenon as such also demonstrates Singer's perception on death cultural, and to be aware of the absurdity of human nature, ideological distortions, psychopathic. On the third one, also Singer's emphasis is the spiritual dead, which result in self-destructive death, for lack of faith in human live. The third death parses the causes of lacking faith in the human spirit: The sense of family, love and other emotional trauma and destruction; in society, the religion is often put into an awkward position by the science; and the modern consciousness breaks the old traditions to make people suspect even give up the faith. Through the analysis of specific works, Singer death concept is evident.To undertake the two content above of Singer's death which describe the concept of death inquiry, the third part is reflect on the concept of human society and the various contradictions and characteristics. This section consists of three subsections. First of all, the consistence with, and the difference from, Singer's view of death in modern major study of death will be considered mainly here. To descript death is to transcend death, to progress and prolong the life. Death is an aesthetic symbol and the transcendence of human life. Secondly, here I pay more attention to the confliction between the era spirit and the significance of death. People today live in the tension between modernism and nationalism. Human thinking and behaviors must be constricted by its environment, and death culture is also caught in the dilemma as such. Finally, from the spirit of faith and morality to talk about the death is to return to traditional moral belief, in the nature of human culture and in the spirit of the area.