A Spiritual Ecological Study On The Tragic Fate Of Dorian Gray

With the development of modern society,human spiritual ecological crisis has become an important problem to be solved urgently.The Picture of Dorian Gray,written by Wilde,a British writer,describes the crisis state of Dorian Gray’s spiritual ecology in the form of a magical fable and vivid literary discourse.The spiritual ecological enlightenment contained in it is worth our in-depth analysis and exploration.From the perspective of spiritual ecology,using the relevant theories of spiritual ecology and ecological aesthetics,this paper systematically combs the process of the change of Dorian Gray’s spiritual ecology,analyzes the spiritual essence and spiritual root of the formation of Dorian Gray’s tragic fate,as well as the internal correlation with the spiritual ecological crisis of contemporary society,which has certain enlightenment for the solution of the contemporary spiritual ecological crisis.In the whole novel,Dorian Gray’s tragic fate presents three mental ecological states: "unbalanced","unstable" and "out of order",as well as three mental ecological characteristics: the opposition of physical and mental duality,the instability of cognitive dimension and the disorder of value dimension.The reason for this situation is Dorian’s excessive pursuit of beauty and sensory enjoyment,which leads to individual moral decline,spiritual ecological crisis and even tragic fate.At the same time,the prevalence of consumerism and the extreme expansion of material desire in the Victorian era made people’s minds gradually materialized and the overall value orientation of the society out of order.On this basis,through the analysis of the internal relationship between the loss of individual morality and the disorder of social value orientation implied behind the imbalance of spiritual ecology and the survival predicament of people in contemporary society,we can know that the disorder of Dorian Gray’s spiritual ecology and the extreme of value scale are similar to the spiritual ecology situation faced by modern human beings.In the context of modern industrial society,people’s spiritual world is affected by consumerism,technological culture and hedonism,and the dual destruction of natural ecology and spiritual ecology makes people’s living home and spiritual home doubly lost,leading to people’s living situation in an unprecedented predicament.By studying the spiritual ecology of Dorian Gray’s tragic fate,we hope to guide people to face the spiritual ecological crisis of modern society,explore the path of ecological personality construction under the framework of ecological civilization,and promote the rapid development of contemporary ecological aesthetic education and ecological civilization construction.