A Study Of Modern Dilemmas In J.M.Coetzee's Novels

J.M.Coetzee,a famous English writer in South Africa.He won the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature for his "exquisite structure,long-lasting dialogue,and profound thoughts." As a skeptic with moral principles,Coetzee relentlessly criticized the shallow moral sense,the false civilization view and the rigid rationalism in the current Western Civilization.Coetzee insists that literature should truly reflect and expose the dark side of society.His work is also thought-provoking because it focuses on the complex colonial culture,political oppression and racial conflicts in South Africa.Among them,Coetzee pays attention to the survival dilemma of modern people.He can see each of his works as the crystallization of thinking about modern dilemmas.This paper mainly analyzes and studies some dilemmas in Coetzee's works.The introduction part mainly combs Coetzee's life experience,literary creation and research status at home and abroad,and puts forward the research topic of "modern dilemma" on the basis of previous studies.The main part focuses on the individual dilemmas,family dilemmas and social dilemmas involved in Coetzee's works,and analyzes the deep roots of these dilemmas.It is divided into four chapters: The first chapter is the background research,through combing the diaspora experience of Coetzee himself in the four countries and the colonial and post-colonial environment,to explore the writer's unique life experience and the close relationship between the historical and social reality environment and literary creation;The second chapter focuses on the individual dilemmas in Coetzee's works,and explains the various dilemmas encountered by individuals from the three aspects of the collapse of real politics,the attack of sudden changes,and the fall of human nature.Pointing out the social reality of the colonial era and apartheid,sudden traffic accidents,and the damage caused by the inherent attributes of human sexual desire,aging and death to the individual's survival and mental state;the third chapter focuses on the family dilemma involved in Coetzee's works,which explains in detail Three variant family models: single-parent families,recombined families,and coupled families.By interpreting the lack of parental love,the single-parent family encounters the emotional imbalance,the intergenerational conflicts in the remarried family and the intertwined contradictions and the emotional entanglement problems and the family form that is arbitrarily formed by chance.The problems of weak family consciousness reveal the dilemma of structural variation and loss of emotional function faced by modern families.The fourth chapter is the difficulty of the paper.This chapter describes human beings from the perspective of ecological criticism and describes human beings and non-human organisms.By describing human beings' deliberate destruction and killing of nature and non-human species,it evolved into a real situation of the ravages of some human beings,thatis,colored people,revealing the problems of colonialism and hegemonism hidden behind "species discrimination."As a humanitarian writer with moral conscience,Coetzee's novels take South Africa,which experienced Colonial history and Apartheid,as the writing background,and reflect the overall living conditions of human beings in the care of the real situation.