The Theory Of Of Natsume Soseki’s “Gate”’s Moral In The Gate

Natsume Soseki is a Japanese famous writer.Both Natsume Soseki and Mori Oogai are Meiji-Japan’s great writers.They are also the Japanese mordern representative literature writers.Natsume Soseki enjoys a high status in the history of Japanese literature,known as the national great writer.From the first novel I am a cat came to its last unfinished work The light and the dark,Natsume Soseki has shown his attention to the process of modernization of Japan and the critical spirit of Japanese Meiji society.The Meiji spirit embodied in every work of Natsume Soseki’s literature,and Natsume Soseki is a unique literary man of the Meiji era in Japan.This thesis chooses the last work of the first three novels to study.The gate is the last of the first three love novels,and is also Natsume Soseki’s favorite work.From the Sanshiro,Sorekara to The gate,all run through one main line of love,society and family ethics,highlighting the Meiji spirit in the Japanese social life.Especially the last work The gate,is a prominent family ethical relations,reflecting the reality social novel,but also Natsume Soseki’s first novel of describing marriage life.The door in the Japanese love marriage novels has representative breakthrough in traditional feudal.But in Natsume Soseki’s research field,The gate’s research was rather final thin and didn’t be payed much more attention.The gate’s creation background and the story’s background were both in the Meiji era.At that time Japan was in the Meiji Restoration,and people followed western culture blindly,especially the conflict and shock of the culture was very sharp.Although it seemed like the development was the society’s mean line and the society was in the development,but it’s still in a very feudal society.The "gate" created by Natsume Soseki was also clearly influenced by the western civilization at that time,and the spirit of the Japanese national life was clearly reproduced,the work’s description and perspective is profound and sharp.This kind of cultural oppression directly affects people’s inner world,and the most fundamental victim is the intellectuals themselves.At the same time of the expansion of their desire to live,but they lost the internal ethical benchmarks.They put theirselves’ s consciousness into the realm of slavery and keep the consciousness of freedom and equality from the world’s civilization away from their own happiness.The gate is also the mind portrayal of intellectual who pursue personal happiness and can not get rid of moral norms of the fetters.The gate’s protagonist is an intellectual of coming down family in the world,and is also a representative personage with the meiji spirit of the Meiji Restoration period.Especially the hero and heroine Sosuke and Ami’s love marriage is completely inconsistent with the social ethics and is the work’s main line.They broke through the tradition making up a family.And what they did meaned declaring war on society.They live a lonely but usually warm husband and wife life.From the title can’t know clearly what it writed.This paper sticked to the theme of “gate”.This article attempts to use analysis of psychological description and the article’s structure,from the The gate’s author Natsume Soseki’s growing background,the article’s background the background of the creation of the to analyze the The gate’s theme source and from the protagonist’s character and temperament changes to analyze the intellectuals are how to fight with the community in the Meiji Restoration period,and from the family relation to analyze the relationship between the traditional family and modern family ’s differences of value on love and marriage and finally rise to the theme,we can analyze the " gate " in the The gate’s theme meaning.