The Günter Described "Ugly" Image

Gunter Grass like the idea of the novel with fairy-tale fantasy and artisticexaggeration to make good use of animals, gnomes, half-human, half-animal tosymbolize male image. That create a variety of "ugly" image."Ugly" in his works canbe divided into three types. one animal type, Günter· Grass in two ways to shape thatimage, first, let animals play the role of the novel, ugly appearance of such animals,evil heart. Second, people play the role of the novel, such person outside looks likeanimal, the heart also distort such as animal. Dwarf type, the shape of the appearanceof such people dwarf, but individual inner spirit different part to ethical conscience,the part with the flow disoriented. The half-human, half-animal type, refers to theappearance and inner contradictions division, like the appearance of the animal has astrong heart of revolt. And those, with the person’s appearance, but the heart is justlike animal cruelty.Günter Grass pen the Series "ugly" is rich in implication. Type animals, cats anddogs vicious and cruel is a symbol of the evil of the Nazis and the original, cats anddogs under the evil in the "mouse" with the help of numerous made the scapegoats,alluding to the crime of the people of Germany. Halibut on behalf of the principles ofa male-dominated, male domination implication. Dwarf type degraded dwarf malefeatures weakening moral subversion of patriarchal myth, Oscar self-mutilation dwarfmeaning the survival of the modern environment of despair, intellectuals the Oscarand bebra are dwarf, a symbol of Nazi rule intellectuals Circumstances, Oscar beatdrums signifying Oscar for representatives of conscience intellectuals brave resistance,different Oscar and bebra, signifying differentiation of World War II Germanintellectuals. Half-human, half-animal male image represented by Mattern, Amsel andOtto Mattern contradictions and separatism became heinous fascist, and will never beable to come out from the shadow of the fascist, the characters meaning fascist peoplepoisoned and destroyed. Amsel and Otto, an artist, a University professor, bothpersonal appearance are ugly, but the heart is upright, kind, strong, brave, on behalf ofthe "national spirit". Nazi manipulation of state power "on behalf of" ideological spiritintellectuals persecuted, signifying "the German culture and the arts and politicalopposition. Might suppress the appearance alienation like animals Amsel and Otto intheir own way against this "collective political weight appearance alienated intellectuals inner resistance performance of existentialist thought."Günter Glass works in the series "Ugly" men have a special aesthetic value,write "ugly" in order to talk about the guilt of the German people, to let people towardthe United States in the reflection of the "ugly" and "ugly"examine learned skepticismand rational thinking...