Terry Eagleton, A Theoretical Study Of The Relationship Between Literature And Morality

As a representative of Western Marxism,Terry Eagleton pays extensive attention to hot social issues and is committed to solving practical problems relying on literature.Eagleton believes that in the post-theoretical era,people are increasingly avoiding thinking about ethical and moral issues.Existing cultural theories only focus on individual desires and ignore the construction of social responsibility and social morality.Under the macroscopic vision of Aristotle’s moral ethics,Eagleton regards literature as a moral model in the post-religious era,and believes that the morality of literature is an important foundation for its existence and development.Eagleton regards literature as a strategy,and believes that literature relies on language,form and content to repair the real moral crisis and help build a new social morality.Eagleton also explained the relationship between literature and morality from the perspective of tragedy.The moral meaning of tragic heroes and scapegoats themselves can arouse people’s pity and fear,arouse people’s underlying sympathy mechanism,and achieve emotional purification.