A Triple Ethical Interpretation Of Nadine Godimer’s Post-apartheid Novels

White South African female writer Nadine Gordimer(1923-2014)was the winner of the 1991 Nobel Prize for Literature.She used sharp pens to expose unusual ethnic relations under the apartheid system,known as the "South African social explorer".Throughout her life,she has been paying attention to the current situation in South Africa.Even after the apartheid system was abolished,she still did not give up thinking about the living conditions of South Africans in postmodern society.This paper focuses on Gordimer’s three novels in the post-apartheid era,None To Accompany Me(1994),Pick Up(2001)and Get A Life(2005),and conducts an ethical analysis of the family,race and ecology issues that pervad them.On the basis of the close reading of the text,by using the Ethical Literary Criticism,Post-Colonial Criticism and Ecological Ethics theory,explaining the development of family,race and ecological ethics in the three works separately.In the later three works,there are three problems appeared: disorder of family relations,contradiction of race relations and crisis of ecological environment.The paper aims to elucidate these abnormal ethical relationships,and finally to explore the construction of these three ethical relations from the ethical choices made by the characters in the three disordered ethical relations.The paper consists of three parts: introduction,text part and conclusion.The introduction introduces the relationship between Godimer’s life and his later creations,combs the research dynamics of Godimer’s works at home and abroad,and finally discusses the theoretical methods and practical significance of the research.The first chapter takes the family ethics of the three later works of Gordimer as the object of deconstruction.From interpersonal ethics environment of apartheid,the alienation of interpersonal relationships caused by unrestricted freedom is analyzed.Specific manifestations of chaos in marriage and deformity of parent-child relationship.Finally from the diachronic level,three novels’ characters in the game between the sphinx factor of ethical choice as a result,it is concluded that the text of the family ethics construction;The second chapter focuses on ethnic ethics,starting with the complex ethnic ethical environment in the period of apartheid,combining the Post-Colonial Criticism,analyze white people’s adherence to self’s "Subject" identity and black people’s resistance to "The other" identity,and from the ethical selection process of white and black mutual recognition,look at the ethical construction of "New South Africans" in which black and white blend.;The third chapter focuses on ecological ethics,and also starts from the ecological ethical environment in which it is located.It analyzes the dynamic change of the ethical identity between human and nature in the three novels from alienation to close relationship,and combines the deep ecological theory in ecological ethics to interpret the ethical choice of characters in the text reconstructs the natural and spiritual ecology.In the concluding part,through careful interpretation of the three novels,it is found that the three ethical nets woven by the three ethical lines all point to a purpose,that is,to criticize the ethical values of self-subject as the goal.Only by abandoning the "Individual Subject" in the family,the "White Subject" in the race,and the "Human Subject" in the ecology,returning to reason,understanding humanity care,upholding virtues such as love and tolerance can maintain a normal ethical order.