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A Metaphorical Interpretation Of The Novel "Perfume—The Story Of A Murderer"

Posted on:2013-02-27Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Q ZhuFull Text:PDF
GTID:2215330374960092Subject:Comparative Literature and World Literature
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This paper is based on the growth process of the hero in the novel"perfume--he story of a murderer".According to Lacan's psychoanalytic theory,the author layout the full text in accordance with the the main stage and key point in the growth process of the hero. This paper equate the perfume manufacturing process of the hero with the pursuit of the self.Depicting the tragic course of protagonist that how to establish the self, ceaseless and negative ego, eliminate the self in the process of pursuiting of self.At the same time,it's based on a complementary line that implicit in the various contradictions and uncertainties of the process in the hero's growth,analysising the many doubts and questions behind the growth story of the hero on the surface of the novel. Explore human rational go to a certain stage of the paradox of type after tragic fate. At the same time trying to find and use lacan mirror in the theory of religion mean, the introduction of Christ the death and life of religious interpretation revelatory, in order to seek the plight of paradox in another new dimensions of possibilities.The novel "perfume" is an open text,so the interpretation of cues and the path is not the only one.This article aims to provide an interpretation of the path, with a view of in-depth analysis that to explore the inner depths of the novel.This paper is divided into four chapters.The first chapter is the introduction, mainly describes the research status at home and abroad, and briefly elaborated the theory, method and structure.In the second chapter,it starts with Lacan's mirror theory,and in the novel,the odor imagery was an interpretation of the mirror in Lacan's theory of the mirror.Heroine of the self is built on false mirror that presents on the mirror.Self was starting from deceptive, complexity and instability.The third chapter mainly analyzes critical design that the heroine lacks its own smell.The author try to answer two questions.First the protagonist is how to find this fact that his lack of experience and second what's the deep meaning of this lackage.Based on a statement that Lacan 's theory about the object of small a,that people are always in the eyes of others,and in a punctate objects surrounded by small a.It represents a fundamental lackage that human body cannot truely master.But it also has the strong temptation and deceptive, constantly raise the subject's desire. At the same time, using the Christian about people limitation and sin's statement, that is the plight of the lack of human, and make the freedom possible.The fourth chapter of the novel is the interpretation of the end, use about sacrifice ceremony and the Christian the death of Christ of the relevant contents of understanding the novel the protagonist's on himself. In order to found life in death.
Keywords/Search Tags:Perfume, The mirror stage, Desire, Shortage, Death
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