A Comparative Study On The Ethical Interpretation Of Unnatural Narratives

The unnatural narratives in the 21 st century have continued the traditional narrative techniques,but also injected new narrative elements and modernity ideas.Take The Lovely Bones and Clara and the Sun as examples,both of which use unnatural narratives to give deep ethical connotations to literary works.This paper combines unnatural narratology,literary ethics and socio-historical criticism,and uses textual scrutiny and comparative research methods to compare the common ethical themes and different ethical claims of the two works on the basis of discussing the unnatural narrative representations of the works.The introductory section clarifies the development path and current state of research on the ethical interpretation of unnatural narratives,and states the research methodology and ideas of the thesis.The main text is divided into four parts: the first part discusses "unnatural narratives" and "unnatural stories".On the level of "unnatural narrative",The Lovely Bones uses the deceased Susie as the non-human narrator,which preserves human emotions while getting rid of physical limitations,and intersperses second-and third-person narratives,presenting diverse narrative perspectives;Clara and the Sun uses the artificial intelligence robot Clara as the non-human narrator,showing the reflection on the nature of human beings and the ethical order of technology.On the level of the "unnatural story",the murder devastates Susie’s family relationships,extending to the destruction and reconstruction of the ethical environment and ethical identity.In Clara and the Sun the unnatural events revolve around Josie’s parents’ plan to replace humans with robots.The second part explores the important influence of unnatural narrative art on the shaping of ethical identity and the construction of ethical environment in the text from two dimensions: "the ethical identity of the unnatural narrator" and "the construction of ethical environment and the presentation of ethical choices".Through the unnatural narrators,unnatural events,and ontological metalepsis,the two works express the common ethical theme that love is the key to solving ethical dilemmas and establishing ethical order.The third part compares the unnatural narrative forms and ethical themes of the works in the context of socio-historical criticism,analyzing their different narrative strategies and thus reflecting the two authors’ differing ethical issues and demands.The textual comparison shows that the former takes love as the ethical thrust of the answer,emphasizing the return to and maintenance of the traditional ethical order.The latter,on the other hand,pursues the true meaning of love,showing a deep concern for post-human ethical problems and calling for the establishment of a new ethical order adapted to the needs of the times.The concluding section reiterates the main research ideas and perspectives of the dissertation,arguing that the ethical identities of the unnatural narrators of the two works,and the judgment of the ethical environment form a unique developmental relationship-from the divorce of matter and consciousness to the emergence and application of intelligent robots,and then to the reflection on the nature of human beings.In general,both works present different perspectives on the eternal proposition of "love" through unnatural narratives,Using defamiliarization to break through the limits of narrative,reflecting and critically calling for the return of human conscience and love under the crisis of humanism caused by the mechanism of desire,the logic of capital,intelligent algorithms and other products of modern and post-modern society,giving full play to the ethical function of literature and realizing the role of literature in teaching readers.