The Prototype Study Of Kleist’s Drama

Heinrich von Kleist was one of the greatest dramatists and novelists in Germany.Unlike contemporaries,he was a writer of great controversy in the history of German literature for that Kleist did not fit the metrics and popular elements of the time.He made a very profound understanding of the world based on his sharp thoughts that transcend his era,which solved the personal,social and national problems and crises.His drama had the characteristics of deviating from the classical customs and rebelling against the real world.From the perspective of Frye’s archetypal criticism,based on the relationship between the biblical image,the biblical figures,and Kleist’s theatrical productions,the paper tries to introduce the biblical archetypes of the works of Kleist’s drama by interpreting the four theatrical works: Kleist’s The Broken Pot,Heilbronn’s Little Katie,The Battle of Hermann and Prince of Humboldt in order to explore the nature of the world.The full text was divided into five parts.The first part of the introduction mainly introduces the domestic and foreign research status of the works of Christine’s plays and the archetypal criticism theory applied in the thesis.The second part used Northrop Fry’s myth-archaic criticism theory to interpret the biblical archetypes of these dramatic works,focusing on the imagery of the divine revelation and the magical imagery.The third part mainly discusses the character prototypes in the works of Kleist’s plays,mainly including the prototype of Jesus Christ,the prototype of Virgin Mary and the prototype of Satan of the devil.The fourth part focuses on the structural prototypes in the works of Kleist’s plays,mainly including the Eden-style ideal paradise,the lost paradise-style broken reality,and the complex paradise-style dream paradise.The fifth part summarizes the full text,analyzes the modern elements in Kleist’s works,and reveals the classicism of Kleist’s works.