The Human Nature Research On Maugham’s Moon And Sixpence

William Somerset Maugham is an English famous realistic writer in the late nineteenth Century and early twentieth Century. His works is of unique features because of calm stroke and objective vision. After the tumultuous century transition, he constantly absorbed the advanced thoughts in each field of philosophy, literature, psychology and so on, and gradually formed a unique, rational, comprehensive view of human nature. The Moon and Sixpence is one of the representative works of Maugham. The academic study of this novel mainly focuses on the theme, narrative skills, artistic characteristics, symbolism and existentialism. It also has a research on the theme of humanity, but more concentrated in the text. The paper combined the philosophy and psychology viewpoint to analyze the complicated humanity which is internal doped in this novel. It found that Maugham constantly showed the world his own hardships of miserable experience and humanity exploration, and also conveyed the modern people the path of self-recognition and spiritual liberation in exploration of the loss or release of humanity under the bondage of Western civilization.Basing on the analysis of the character image and combing human nature view of Zhang Kuanzheng, the thesis firstly arranges and analyzes the characteristics of The Moon and Sixpence respectively from people’s desire, ability and acting view. Then through the analysis and study of the characters’ own liberation and exploration of human nature, it reveals the inner struggling and exploration of Maugham and social human, finding inspiration and enlightenment of humanity for the readers and unearthing the current meaning of this novel. Finally, it mainly analyses the writing features of humanity of The Moon and Sixpence and excavates art techniques in exploring the complexity of human.Maugham has always been a controversial writer in the history of literature and has a very unique understanding of people and society. His life experience is ups and downs. He gives special attention to the theme of humanity in creation. He analyzes not only the complexity of morality and human nature, but also the freedom of human nature maximally.