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The Research On Kazuo Ishguro's View Of War

Posted on:2020-11-15Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:C X ZhaoFull Text:PDF
GTID:2405330575463300Subject:Comparative Literature and World Literature
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Since the origin of mankind,the war has constantly to appear,accompanied with the growth of human beings.Contemporary,it is recognized internationally that war is a special political form.And human never stopped to write war stretches from the beginning of Homer's epic.Every book about wars from writers is not only describing the harm which war brings,but more importantly,these works are full of every writers' thoughts about whether the war is justice and moral.In contemporary society,grasping the correct view of war plays an important role in world peace and stability during the surging international situation.This paper takes Kazuo Ishiguro 's 6 novels,A pale view of Hills(1983),An Artist of the Floating World(1986),Remains Of The Day(1989),When We Were Orphans(2000),Never Let Me Go(2005),The Buried Giant(2015)as examples,starting with the portrayal of the war between different countries,this paper discusses the attitude of Ishiguro about war in detail,discusses the right of war and the responsibility of war from the angle of justice and injustice,and thus obtains the Ishiguro ‘s view of war.This article is divided into 5 parts,consisting of an introduction,three chapters and a conclusion.The introduction defines the scope of the war from the perspective of justice,and shows author's life and the main content of the novel.The introduction also discusses domestic and foreign research status,as well as the significance of this study and the basic research ideas.The first chapter analyses Ishiguro's thinking about his home country of Japan's war,mainly from the Japanese war narrative.The writer described that Japanese who lost their homes and loved ones in the war,suffered all kinds of tribulations,and criticized the destructive nature of the war.But it comes to the ethics of war responsibility,the writer defends for Japanese intentionally or unintentionally,tries to dispel the crimes committed by the Japanese during the "World War II",and opposes the American power culture from the perspective of post-colonial.The second chapter analyzes the attitude of Ishiguro to the war of foreign nationalities from his series of works which wrote China,British and Japan.Ishiguro objectively and calmly described an indelible disaster which war brings to foreign country.In additionally,he euphemistically expresses the non-responsibility of Japanese soldiers to participate in the war of aggression against China,and he believes that the central culture of British imperialism had accelerated the World War II process.While singing a lament for the Japanese Empire culture,the writer also expresses his contempt for the rising American culture.The third chapter distinguishes the justice of war from the two aspects of the right of war and the responsibility of war,combined with the interview record and novel of Kazuo Ishiguro,which concludes Kazuo Ishiguro's idea about war is incomplete.On the one hand,he condemns the perpetrators of war,but affirms the behavior of combatants from the point of view of loyalty,on the other hand,he believes that the victims of war will not forget history,which pushed the world to the path of vengeance.The conclusion pointed out that Kazuo Ishiguro social significance of historical novel writing,points out that his thinking is not the objectivity of the war and his thinking of the future society is warning for human society.his writing in line with the attitude of a kind of engagement with the war,trying to arouse the historical consciousness of young people,but in the process of writing and brought the inevitable emotions to think about history.
Keywords/Search Tags:Kazuo Ishiguro, The idea about war, War, War responsibility, Justice, Revenge
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