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Otherness Like A Mirror

Posted on:2012-10-14Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:L H WangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155330338454865Subject:Comparative Literature and World Literature
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For literature, animal has become the aesthetic object and the motif of literary creation,and become a writing objective, as well as, the mankind voice the special symbol of cordiality. Animal form in the literature is a product of mankind productive thinking, which come out with the mankind's language character expression. For animal cannot speech and become otherness. With the development of the mankind's cognition degree, Knowledge Level and practical experience, the animal image will also be constantly labelled a new different name or give different meaning. The same animal can be portrayed as the messenger of Heaven or as a devil and the other, which become idol or a false god. The author projects his own thoughts and feelings into the personality of the animal of his play, as well as, a collective imagination thing of reflection. That therefore, the animal form stretching moves mutually with the human review and the introspection of present condition, which outlined the mankind's unseen and social life.Jack London with Young zhijun shoot with only the lens pointing at the subject—animal form(respect animal instincts and the range of animal living creature attribute) , they create typical characters and add personal cultural attitude, emotional inclinations, best wish into their works, which guide reader into a unfamiliar and actual world. In this thesis, the writer mainly takes the animal image of Jack London and Young Zhijun's writings as a research object, and with the aid of special scope of otherness . At last, three means were listed to summarizing the different and similar of the two authors . First, the retrospect of the ideaistic evolution and development focuses on the background, main components, and challenges faced of the wolf's image, also comparative analyze it .by this way, reveal that Jack London has forward-looking ecological disaster consciousness, and Young Zhijun criticizes the natural appearance of many areas has been degraded by human, which hope to build a harmonious society. However, they have failed to penetrate into the anthrocentrism. Secondly, the writer use superman philosophy of Nietzsche to analyze the two likeness tracks of author's Writings, which by the aid of dog's image to reflect the divergence of the different national daily habits and the abstract thinking and the abstract thinking, as well as, human fallen to an inferior or undesirable state, especially in mental or moral qualities. Third, from Zola's genetic and environmental determinism perspective described the relationship of people, animals and nature. With the help of the eyes of animal, Jack London marked each trying to cheat or outwit the other of social life, and demonstrated barbarity suggestive of humanity : rapaciously savage. Young Zhijun create loyal, reliable, courageous and prudent image of the Tibetan mastiff. by contrast, he Speak in dispraise of the traditional virtues of human society, the more dilute the noble sentiments and moral quality are passing away, and lament the distortion and alienation of human nature, calling human turned their backs on the grave insult to human dignity. The end, study the relationship with of Divinity , human nature and beastliness, explain that the animal image is playing important role in human cultural activities.
Keywords/Search Tags:animal image, cultural "otherness", naturalism, human nature
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