Research On Arishima Takeo's Novels From Perspective Of Parent-child Relationship

This dissertation makes an analysis of the Parent-child relationship in five novels written by Arishima Takeo, a modern Japanese writer, from the perspective of Parent-child, and proposes that "Love, Ruthless Plunderer" is at the core of the Parent-child ideas of his novels. The idea makes people improve themselves and pursuit better Parent-child concept, on the other hand, the idea brings people into conflict with traditional values and makes ideal Parent-child concept cannot be realized. The coexisting of contradiction enriches his novels.This important idea is expressed through the presentation of the Parent-child relationship, which is the basic framework and important concerns of all his novels. The extreme, variation, break, dilemma, harmony of Parent-child relationship not only have a basic meaning but also a profound metaphorical meaning:with Japan stepping into modern age, people are facing conflicts between tradition and reform, Eastern and Western, which reflect conflicts between Parent-child concepts in Arishima's novels and writer's independent aesthetic ideal and value orientation. Arishima intends to realize Parent-child concept without any constraint through his writing, but he meet disturbs from many aspects. This dissertation not only describes Parent-child relationship, but also describes relationship between male and female, intelligentsia and laborer. Sex and knowledge become important factors which affect Parent-child relationship, thus raising the discussion on Parent-child relationship in Amy Tan's novels to a new height.This dissertation consists of three chapters besides Introduction and Conclusion.The Introduction makes a summary of the domestic researches on Arishima Takeo's novels in China from three aspects, i.e., "comparative literature", "feminist view" and "artistic thoughts". At the same time, the Introduction makes a summary of the domestic researches on Arishima Takeo's novels in Japan from seven aspects, i.e., "love aesthetics", "social research" and "geographical space". On the basis of the above summary, this dissertation puts forward that analyzing the aesthetic idea of his novels from the aspect of Parent-child relationship is of great significance. This helps to understand not only Arishima's novels but also his ideas about the history of his family, cultural conflicts between the East and the West and many problems in relation to the contemporary world like women's and peasant's liberate. Research methods of this dissertation include "positive research", "aesthetic point of view" and "influence study". Lastly, definitions are given to such keywords as "Parent-child relationship", "Parent-child" and "instinct".The title of Chapter One is "Five Patterns of Parent-child Relationship in Arishima Takeo's Novels". This chapter is composed of five sections, in which the Parent-child relationship and their developing tendency are discussed. First of all, the opposition and conflict is the main pattern in A certain Woman, which reflected from two aspects, "conflicts between Yoko and parents" and "conflicts between Yoko and daughter, sisters." Parent-child relationship gets into extreme in oppositions and conflicts. The indifferent and insensitive is the main pattern in Osue's Death, which is demonstrated in three aspects, namely, "Parent-child relationship in economical crisis", "Parent-child relationship facing death" and "variations of Parent-child relationship." The hiatus and disillusion is the main pattern in The Descendents of Cain, which is demonstrated in three aspects, namely, "instinctive father", "reticent mother" and "break of Parent-child relationship. The fetter and reject is the main patter in Born with Sufferings, which is also demonstrated in three aspects, namely, "sincere love between parent and offspring", "serious love between parent and offspring" and "dilemma of Parent-child relationship." The toleration and understanding is the main pattern in The Constellation, which is also demonstrated in three aspects, namely, "conflicts between intelligentsia and laborer", "conflicts between nature and science" and "harmony of Parent-child relationship."The title of Chapter Two is "The Type of Parent-child Concept in Arishima Takeo's Novels." This chapter is composed of four sections, in which the connotation of Parent-child relationship and related resources are analyzed. Parent-child concept of patriarchy concludes two contents, namely, "patriarch standard" and "obeying rule", which is a constrained concept. Democratic Parent-child concept also concludes two contents, namely, "shaking of patriarch standard" and "resurgence of matriarch", which is an intelligent concept. Instinctive Parent-child concept also concludes two contents, namely, "self standard" and "personality developing rule", which is a ideal concept. At last, this dissertation points out that the difference of Parent-child concepts attribute to "living environment difference", "life ideal difference" and "sex difference."The title of Chapter Three is "Parent-child Concepts and Multi-image in Arishima Takeo's Novels." This chapter is composed of three sections, analyzing Parent-child concepts from aesthetic view. Arishima used a great deal of artistic skills to reflect conflicts between Parent-child concepts, among which multi-image is the most important. The multi-image can be divided into three types: geography image, time image and Bible image. Geography image is demonstrated in two parts, "image of land and sea" and "image of champaign and city". Land and sea, champaign and city are contradicting, which reflect contradictions between Parent-child concepts. Time image is also demonstrated into two parts, "season image" and "clock image." Arishima uses season's changing to mirror changes in Parent-child relationship, and uses clock image to reflect modern age's approaching. Bible image is demonstrated into three parts, "stumbling block image", "white tomb image" and "bread image", which not only enrich expressions, but also symbolize constraints.The last part of the dissertation draws a conclusion and offers further explorations to some other questions relevant to Arishima Takeo's aesthetic idea of "love". Arishima always wanders between ideal and reality, intelligence and instinct, which make him exploring "Love, reuthless plunderer" in literary creations. His persists, his suffering cause readers'sympathetic responses. It's important for understanding characters of Japanese modern literature to study differences between Arishima and other Japanese writers in Parent-child motif.