To Seek The Destination Of Spirit

The 20th century is an era of subversion and controversy, which is also an epoch with revolution and development. The literature display an intricate status with ideas varied frequently. The study of western literature is just from the view of history or language, but few from morality. Herein, this paper try to make a holistic study on the creation of western literature by viewing from the angle of morality and referring to the philosophical affiliations and cultural context in 20th century.The value construction is an integral part of human spirit. Since the times of Ancient Greece, the construction and perfection of value system have become the major criterion for the progress of social civilization in western literature. From the beginning of the 20th century, the rapid improvement of productivity and the further development of material civilization have also beseted human society which has lapsed into major scare due to the war, colonialism and pollution while the ruin of belief, morality and ethics have made human lose confidence. Hence, with the contemplation for human morality and the exploration to creation on morality subject, there has brought forth many different morality codes in the western literature of the 20th centuryThe morality subject in this paper is refered to the reflection of cores value in literature in different period and ideological sphere. The morality pattern is the value point constructed on the basis of cores value in the western literature of 20th century which is influenced by different trends of thought in each stage. The cores value is also consequently the origin of the morality modes. These have been well reflected in the literary works of 20th century, either from ideology, self- transcendence or different angles of philosophy, they all aimed at seeking the destination of human spirit. So the study of morality subject in western literature of 20th century has become to research how the value construction was influenced by the cores values, its subsequent change and feedback to the western literature. Hence, the study of morality subject in the western literature of 20th century can help to understand the human cognition to nature, society and the selfhood. It can also conduct to realize the influence of value construction transmutation to human development and learn a lesson to construct the perfect value system. In this process, the human civilization developed amidst twists and turns by the method of trial and error. No matter how long it would take, thedevelopment would always move forward in a higher level to seek the destination of spiritand perfect the moral system, although there would be also a lot of hardships. Herein, thispaper is started with the morality subject mentioned above, to seek some valuable ideas.