The Life Consciousness Of Doctor Zhivago

"Doctor Zhivago" is a masterpiece which integrates the thoughts and the art technique of Russian writer Pasternak. In this piece of work, the philosophical reflection and art feature both embody his unique thought of life. This life consciousness can be seen in the characters, among which Zhivago is center figure and the abundant symbolic images of the work, becoming the major factor which promoting the plot development. Thus, systematically researching this awareness of life can be a vital entry point of comprehend the whole piece of work. In a more concrete vision, the awareness can be divided into the view of life, which including the cognition of death, as well as reviving and immortal.This essay includes the preface, the life consciousness of natural images, character images, Dr. Zhivago, and the conclusion. The preface mainly focuses on the current researching situation of this life awareness from former scholars. Through this overall seeing, we can discover that this life awareness have already been paid high attention by many researchers, however, not have been summarized with full aspects.Nature, as the most important reference, reflects the life laws of living and death. In the first chapter, I will based on traditional culture, focus in detail the representative natural images of the novel to analyze the further meaning. In this essay, I will take the two layers of the four seasons, the water and plants to make concrete analysis. Although these too parts may have differences when we considering whether they have life or not, they are all connected with the protagonist's life, and express the eternal strength of the life.The massive characters of the novel constitute the main position of explaining the author's thought. From the stratum people to the upper noble, form the revolutionaries to the conservatives, all figures from different hierarchies turned out in the work, and reflect the meaning of life. The author admired those who follow the law of life, denied those wo wanted to change the discipline. In the second chapter, I will take the legendary figures, the grass roots and the main characters these three aspects as the objects, from far and near to interpret the life attitude of Zhivago. Among these three images there are people who defend the life and who break the life law, full of symbolic meaning. Therefore, this chapter chooses several typical characters to do the research, in order to fully analyse the distinctive point of view of the times, history and human-being of the author.The final intersection of the thought of the whole work is the protagonist—— Doctor Zhivago. His performance makes the idea into practice and achieves sublimation. Therefore, the third chapter will follow the order of researching of death and living theme, reviving and immortal to do analysis. The author paralleled the law of human life and the law of nature, considering the dynamic-moving-breeding-in static-state and unceasing reviving mode is actually meaningful, and who tries to break the law is breaking the life itself. This is also the basis the author evaluates the history, figures and the plots setting. In the leading of such life pattern, death does not exit. Human beings with the flesh-formed life will sure transcend death. In this way, the author points out several paths:the revival at birth, the spiritual revival in others' life and constant revival in suffering. Immortal is the ultimate target of humans, thus they should get the eternal in the history heaven, which is the history after Jesus'birth, for from then on people started to have the divinity and have owned the immortal power as gods.In the conclusion part, the essay uses brief language to summarize and sublimate the whole thinking and content. This essay concentrates the life consciousness which running thought the whole novel, compensating the insufficient coming with researching a single mind, offering a new angle for the researching of "Doctor Zhivago".