Arguing Shame,crisis And Survive: Multiple Themes Of Coetzee’s Diary Of A Bad Year

Since he won the Nobel Prize in literature in 2003,Coetzze has gained increasing attention at home.This paper mainly takes the Dairy of a Bad Year as the research target which is the first work when Coetzze formally moved to Australia.It systematically summarizes and concludes the theme of novel from three aspects,including the argument of shame,the crisis of humanity and the concern of survive.The thesis divides into five parts.The introduction part briefly introduces the growing environment of the writer effects his writing thoughts,summarizing the research history and present situation of Coetzze and his work the Dairy of a Bad Year by researchers and critics at home and abroad,and it also make a brief introduction of the innovation part and research methods of this thesis.The first chapter mainly explores figures’ different opinions toward shame and individuals’ opinions toward shame in Warning.It analyzes the practical significance behind figures shaped by Coetzze from two aspects,doubting that the western hegemony social thought is unreliable and unsustainable,thus it reflects that Coetzze hopes that individuals can reflect on history and save the nation.The second chapter emphases on summarizing and analyzing crisis awareness’ s representation in the article,it focuses on the specific text,exploring the origin and representation of writer’s crisis awareness as well as crisis faced by individuals under the social environment.On the one hand,it exposes that the society treads on individual life,and then discovers Coetzze’s respect and reflection on life value;on the other hand,it shows that Coetzze is positively appealing for country’s concern for individuals.The third chapter explains the social meaning of Coetzze’s works established on culture and philosophy,it starts from Coetzee’s anxious out look on subsistence,mainly explains human’s existence value and human’s reflection on animals’ living conditions,clarifies how can human face survival predicament and how to solve problems exist in survival predicament.The conclusion part tries to explain the reason why Coetzee sets multiple themes in the Dairy of a Bad Year.The novel highlights various crisis exist in modern society,exposes hegemony society’s neglect on individual life value,destructs the unreliable speech of hegemony countries,then shows the humanistic feelings when writer positively explores survival way under the anxious living conditions.It expresses Coetzee’s genuine concern of individual life value as an intellectual.