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Power And Freedom Of The Conflict

Posted on:2012-09-08Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:R F BianFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155330338454670Subject:Comparative Literature and World Literature
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Norman mailer is an American jewish writer, who continued writing life to create the life of many excellent works. The theme of Mailer's novel is extremely rich. Among of the discussion, the "power" is of the main points of his writing. The domestic and foreign scholars's investigations on mailer were always based on this starting point. In mailer's novel, power-freedom is the theme of the presence of the novels. However, analyzing the"power" problems, at the same time, it cannot ignore his attention to freedom. Accordingly, the body text analysis in the study was based on the study of theme, impact and descripition, discussing conflict of power and freedom to extract from power in dual aspects. Then, mailer's characters facing the predicament, and survivingfrom the novel authors was further analyzed, in order to seek the human spirit efforts to redeem dig out the important value of novel creation significance.This paper is divided into five parts. The introduction of briefly introduced the mailer's life and creation, and the creation of the mailer staging at home and abroad, mailer is proposed on the basis of this case. The first chapter first from society atmosphere, social reality, human nature of good and evil opposition analyzes the mailer novel power and freedom of reality, and cause conflict with mailer representative novel "the naked and the dead", "LuYuan", "a American dream" and "the night of the army" for an example text reading, show mailer novel texts power and freedom of conflict and confrontation. The second chapter further reveal characters bring power to give the survival of the crisis, described in conflict characters of novels under existence dilemma. The first part of the novel text to mailer in war and their dreams for human beings face image of the birth and death of the problems of the questions reveal characters of meaningless death of fear and lonely, life, the plight of the; And then to "the devil" image and incest behavior for points of moral decay argument reveal characters and the loss of human nature; Finally through the characters to explore the meaning of life and nothing fantastic show state of existence. The third chapter discusses mailer to seek for the human spirit redeemed effort and try. Mailer of fictional character dilemma of redemption experience from "traditional hero" the demise of the "new heroes" to the rise of, after "rational resistance by the way" to "irrational resistance" change the way of characters of novels, for redemption road looking for "prescription", and the way of mailer redemption reflection. Conclusion points out, mailer characters face reflects the modern living predicaments existence crisis, mailer through to the existence dilemma highlights the show the dangers of totalitarian, from the side of the negative power grab, affirms the value and meaning of freedom. Facing the predicament of the survival, and the world in the sense of history should be brave enough to take responsibility for their own, with free, fraternity and friendly spirit constructs human new humanistic living environment.
Keywords/Search Tags:Norman mailer, power, freedom, dilemma, redemption
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