| Kazuo Ishiguro is keenly aware of the constant alienation of contemporary people.In the immigration life,with the personal pursuit and technological pursuit,people are separated from themselves step by step,and gradually in a homeless wandering situation.Kazuo Ishiguro reveals the rootless living situation of human beings in three aspects of family,society and emerging technology,and deeply seek how to get rid of this living situation,and to get to the spiritual home.Chapter One analyzes the alienation of Ishiguro’s novels,finding people are abandoning their lives step by step.In the immigrant family with dual cultural background,people have the feeling of life torn caused by cutting off the cultural foundation.However,when they move to the wider platform of society,they found all they pursued were failed,and their lives were occupied by social responsibility.As a result,they abandoned their families,suppressed their emotions,and even gave up their lives.However,with the rapid development of science and technology,human beings gradually master the biological and genetic technologies,but they are faced with the fate of being substituted by scientific and technological products.People are alienated into non-human beings.Chapter Two reveals the rootless living situation of human beings.As far as the family is concerned,mankind is in a hopeless state of homecoming.Due to the separation of the native land,immigrants lack of a sense of stability in life,so they constantly exile themselves in mind.Due to the trauma of the past family,the conjugal relation and parentage are very cold,people gradually become "outsiders of the family".In terms of the value of life,people are always pursuing an illusory career mission,playing the role required by the society and abandoning their own consciousness.At the same time,they lack a keen insight into the the floating world.They often blindly follow the temporary values and get lost in them,unable to find the habitat of survival value in the turbulent floating society.With the continuous rise of science and technology,human beings excessively worship the instrumental rationality of science and technology,which leads to the continuous erosion of human body and moral emotion,making human beings completely lost in science and technology and unable to find the survival foundation to live.Chapter Three is going to discuss the way to get rid of alienation.Through reminiscence,people have a profound reflection on their life and admit the neglect of life in the past.At the same time,they appropriate other’s identities in memory to bear the pain and reconstruct their self-image,so as to gain the courage to build their homeland.In the process of remembering,they also awaken their inner love for life.This kind of love is the basis of the existence of life.It starts from the mutual care between families,becomes tolerance and understanding in the society,standardizes the confused ethics of science and technology,and becomes the confirmation of the uniqueness of human being.Kazuo Ishiguro writes about the wandering feeling of human beings separated from himself,reveals the rootless nature of human existence,and ultimately points the hope of survival to the love.He believed that love is the home of human spirit,will maintain the stability of life,repair the broken of life.Therefore,Ishiguro’s humanistic concern is fully demonstrated in his writing of human alienation experience. |
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