Entangled In The Confusion Of Tradition And Modernity

Explore the theme of the spirit of Maugham have been some research in the country, but most of these studies focused on the pursuit of the spirit of Maugham exploration results, and the point of departure or from the image of the study explained Maugham an "other" look east as culture and its attitude to the Oriental culture; or spiritual exploration of the end result will be Somerset Maugham in his relentless pursuit of freedom above. However, studies have neglected to explore the spirit of Maugham Why are the reasons. Therefore, this paper selects the confusion Maugham, from which the fork in the traditional and the modern cuts of this era, the creation of the entire comb and trace the source of a comprehensive , and then analyzes the performance of Maugham signs of the spirit of exploration. Article to interpret the text of Maugham based on the times of political, economic, social and cultural background, the text illustrates the use of research methods, to the writer himself and Literary Creation System.The thesis has three parts,including the introduction, body and the conclusion . Introduction to some of Maugham's research status, I propose the perspective of academic and research goals, the text chapters:Chapter one focuses on personal life experiences with Somerset Maugham and the historical background, analysis of the East-West ideological and cultural origins, and this complex The cultural structure of life brought him confused;Chapter two focuses on three classic works of Somerset Maugham, respectively, demonstrated in "traditional" and "modern" Maugham between entangled when it comes to traditional ethics, material and the confusion arising from religious beliefs, which is reflected in his work ethics and the pursuit of freedom, materialism, and spiritual exploration, and three aspects of abstinence and interpretation of the paradox of desire;Chapter three summarized the spirit of Maugham to solve puzzles and carried out to explore the path, which is to explore from the West Lost the East and back again to the spirit of exploration in Western history. Embodied in the spirit of the Orient as possible to explore the export, but the oriental culture can not be entirely necessary to give him food for thought, the final exhumation of the West only in accordance with the will of the individual's freedom to start living.Spirit of Maugham's own conclusion and make a comprehensive summary of exploration, the full recognition of its "East Studies Western" way of thinking and active life, the pursuit of free attitude towards life, his perseverance in spiritual exploration, to break the so-called pessimistic scholars identified advocates of the thesis. Although Maugham do have pessimistic thoughts, negative elements, but we can still be seen through the depth of interpretation, either the level or in real life as expressed through the spiritual text, Maugham is a fact of life is full of persistent pursuit of the best efforts and optimistic about the positive long for practitioners.