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On The Characters Of Philip Roth's Novels From The Perspective Of Existentialism

Posted on:2017-08-04Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:X WuFull Text:PDF
GTID:2335330491957583Subject:Comparative Literature and World Literature
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Roth "kepesh, whose series" novels is from a man: from the perspective of kepesh, who to write his desire of different age stages of feelings, from the youth erotic obsession, middle age "deformation" to old age facing the aging and death of the challenges and threats. The writer of Kepesh by the life course and situation description of sexual love, freedom, life and death theme variation. From the "desire" to "Professor" to "breast dying flesh", Roth's novels not only has distinctive contemporary consciousness, but also permeated with a strong sense of philosophy. Roth's works of the ordinary individual life existence meaning and value of inquiry, and bears for human survival situation of fundamental thinking, reflecting the with rich connotation of artistic realm. In this paper, the characters of Roth's "kepesh, whose series" novels placed in Jean Paul Sartre's theory of existentialism from the perspective of analysis, interpretation, and to explore the novel gives us inspiration.In addition to the introduction and conclusion, this paper includes four parts: the first one is about existential philosophy, Existentialism Literature and their association and the focus analysis, further elaborates the existentialism theory to analyze the possibility of Ross "kepesh, whose series" novels. In the second part, from the three aspects of the survival state of desire, the survival state of "deformation" and the living condition of aging and death, the part discusses the situation of life in the novels of "Kepesh series". The survival value of the third parts from the character of sexual orientation choice, people's living conditions and selection character of life analysis of the three aspects of "Kepesh series" novels in the choice of life. The fourth part from the freedom and responsibility to explore and to life and death review and Reflection on the two aspects to further explore the Roth characters of significance, clarify the deep implication of "kepesh, whose series" novels, and further deepen the discussion about free love and life theme.
Keywords/Search Tags:Philip Roth, novels, character analysis
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