A Study Of Unbearable Lightness Of Being From The Perspective Of Biblical Archetypes

Unbearable Lightness of Being is the French-born Czech writer-Milan Kundera’s most famous novel. It was introduced to China after the publication.Han Shaogong’s and Xu Jun ’s translations were published and sparked heated debate in Chinese mainland one after another. Milan Kundera’s philosophical perspective to life trajectory spy characters in the novel and Course, take the Christian "Bible" archetypes and the story mode, and many other elements appliy to the creation of novel characterization and plot structure, froming the perspective of religious myths prototype gives the novel a rich cultural connotations and deepening the novel complex philosophical significance.Unbearable Lightness of Being is the main object of study in the thesis, analysing of the "Bible" Prototype Novel from the view of Myth-Archetype Criticism Theory, mining novel in characterization and plot construction and other links between the text and the inheritance and development of the “Bible”, revealing the "Bible" archetypes in religious philosophy, the fiction gives meaning and destiny of mankind on the current beliefs and build inspiration.This thesis is divided into six parts:In introduction, the background of this novel is introduced briefly, as well as its current research status, the method that this thesis applies, and its innovation.ChapterⅠ: Myth-Archetype Criticism Theory. This chapter is the theoretical source of this article with the basic support, analyzing myth- archetypal criticism support two- Myth and Prototype, briefly presented their production and development in West, meanwhile Myth-Archetype Criticism longitudinal combing the theory, and summarized.Chapter Ⅱ: People’s "Bible" prototype in Unbearable Lightness of Being. This chapter compares Thomas, Franz, Theresa, Sabine and the four main characters and the "Bible" of human’s ancestors Adam and Eve, the two prototypes of the characters from the excavation and comparative analysis of personality traits to choose the road of life, etc.Finding the intrinsic heritage and fictional links between image and prototype images.Chapter Ⅲ: The "Bible" prototype structure in Unbearable Lightness of Being. This chapter focuses on comparative analysis of the novel and the "Bible" similarities in terms of narrative structure. Respectively, from leaving- Rangers- return of these three aspects of the characters in the two works each life path and destiny choices horizontal comparison, revealing different faiths can reach the other side of the place soul rest in peace through their personally honed.Chapter Ⅳ: Motivation and meaning of creation of Myth-Archetype Criticism Theory. This chapter covers the novels of Milan Kundera’s novels and Why the "Bible" to produce inextricably linked, and revealing classic "Bible" on the novels and implications for the moment the destiny of mankind and faith Choice Construction.In conclusion, the whole thesis is summarized, and the arguments are further strengthened. Works by the characters and story structure prototyping process, revealing the "Bible" of the text and the theme of the sublime meaning and inspiration across the classical sense of the times.