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Disillusionment With The Pursuit Of A Life Force To Self-worth

Posted on:2005-04-25Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:J J LiFull Text:PDF
GTID:2205360152466499Subject:Comparative Literature and World Literature
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This essay, from the angle of life ontology, compares and contrasts the female images of Hardy's Wessex novels in a system, so as to reveal the causes and ways of their trying to realize their self-value, and the formation of their tragedies and the causes. It is creative in that it puts aside the case study method, personality analysis method, the fetter of the pure social criticism, and analyzes the female characters in the novels of Hardy from the view of innate character and its aim - realize self value by pursuing happy love, which may be considered as a kind of new trial. As "the problems of the world may be solved by beginning with the problems of the body (Faulkner)", literary problems could also be tried in similar ways. From the angle of research and the theoretical method, this provides revelation and example to understand the female characters in the novels of Hardy and even in the literature works of the same period in England. Moreover, the modernism revealed at the end of the essay explains the abundance and complexity of Hardy's artistic works, which provides greater possibility for further of Hardy, and for placing Hardy at the right position in the literary history.The thesis is divided into four main parts. First, it is the "great Hardy, as an explorer of the mystery in female life. It mainly analyzes Hardy's strong consciousness and sources of female innate character. It points out that comparing with other writers, Hardy pays egregious attention to females and, female becomes his angle the reason of which is from Hardy's realization of the essence of life. This kind of realization came from three sources. First, at that time prosperous and emerging feminism movements make the authors even pay more attention to female than before. But this aspect Hardy is particularly sharp. He is thorough in the female life inner part, thorough in deep place in female mind. Secondly the Darwinian Theory of Evolution deeply affects Hardy. It makes him consciously from the female nature property namely life essence angle; looking after and represent. Third, the ancient Romeculture of Greece, especially the affection that the ancient Greece, Romes pursue really make the female image of the writer's style of writing and it shows that the nature man's natural character, and make open the character pursue.Second, the heavy soma: Primitive strong attraction and instinctive life individual, mainly analyze the cause that the female person of Hardy writing of ego value purse, the dint from Nietzsche from the body of the life essence, the consciousness set up the theory. That is the female person, and a kind of scholarship angle of view or research possibility. It points out that, for a long time, the person's essence exists, namely the person's body is banished in literature holy land outside, therefore it should study from this kind of the angle commence to the female image that analyze the Hardy's style of writing, presuming the body sense organs consciousness that face person's oneself first, presuming to admit soma in return to literature. Body's the most basically property is the person's life instince. Following this way of thinking, causable every kind of ego for digging, fructified the female person of Hardy's style of writing to ego value pursue of cause, namely life instince excite satisfies the desire, this is the vital inside dint, is a humanstic innate character request. However, the performance excites in the strong instinct of these female artses image body, the cotton is brigade, and it is outside in carnal and all kinds of taboos, so its soma is particularly heavy. However, "chemisette spirit ratio the man even hopes earnestly to fly".Third, "open the humanistic plait wrinkle. Look for another kind of existing the appearance, mainly analyze the instinctive direction in life in female person in style of writing on hehalf in Hardy the pursue, the path that ego value realizes. It is pointed out that the female person of the Hardy's style of writing that derive formthe instinctive impulse in life, derive from...
Keywords/Search Tags:Hardy, feminism, human nature, life instinct, body, love
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