The Lost And Reconstruction Of "Self"

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle written by Haruki Murakami is a masterpiece about Ego, in which the hero is no longer to be the prisoner for his spiritual world but to revolve in the real society with active actions. And it concerns the history of the country, questions the major historical events and their significances. Therefore, the former lost "self image" can be reconstructed. This thesis explores the historical and reality reasons of self lost and find the self positive actions to establish themselves in the history and reality, and make themselves be reconstructed.Chapter one explores the reasons of the self lost from both inside and outside. The rapid development of material civilization causes a barren world of the human spirit, the loss and emptiness of individuals, and the individuals are in the spirit of self threshold, self-lost is spiritual lost. Under the pressure of social reality, the individuals lost their freedom, interpersonal relationships become strange, the nation’s history were also distorted, therefore, they could not find their position.Chapter two analyzes the efforts to find themselves in a desperate. The mission to find themselves is like "wind-up bird",twisting clockwork world to make the world run. Action is the only hope for human in which the existence of the individuals is established. There is no way to escape and all the problems can only be solved in action. Looking for themselves include looking for personal connection with others and the association between the history and reality.Chapter three explains the two dimensions of self-reconstruction:Reality dimensions and historical dimension. Complete self should have social responsibility and historical responsibility and courage to go against violence and evil in reality and history. In the process of self-rescue, the individuals recall the historical truth and reconstruct the history of self-reconstruction.According to the analysis of the three chapters, we can see clearly the process from self lost to self finding and to reconstruction. "Wind-Up Bird recorded" also made Murakami cultural warrior, which not only concerns about the inner soul, but it also concerns about nation and history. And it has more positive social significances.