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Kurt Vonnegut's New Rich Person And Utopia

Posted on:2007-06-07Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Z Y HanFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360185464630Subject:Comparative Literature and World Literature
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The image of 'The new rich person" is a kind of character image which in the Kurt Vonnegut 's novel frequently appears, they are a crowd good rich person who are goodness,recreance,have the firm ideal faith, engages in introspection, even sometimes they are morbid. Through the induction to the characteristic of "the new rich person", the new rich person represents personage's analysis, as well as the contrasts with other rich person images in Vonnegut's novel, The article makes every effort to completely comb the new rich person's character system , returns to original state uniquely which has the Vonnegut's individual bright character in the system. There has close relationship between the new rich person and the Vonnegut's personal experience and thought, From the new rich person.we can easily see how Vonnegut treats his own experience ,hold it appreciatively and relocate it, as well as the thorough ponder to money and now American society question. The new rich people's biggest dream lies in realizing the Utopia, their Utopia is different from the ordinary Utopia, also have the sharp comparison with the the counter- Utopia in Vonnegut's novel creation . It has the family -like structure to construct the way, which pursues concord and harmony relationship between families and rejects lonely, simultaneously it seeked help to Christianity's annotation way. The formation of Vonnegut's Utopia has three stratification planes origins in the Vonnegut's experience: the source of family relastionship, the realistic root and the theory origin. The image of new rich person is the concrete application of Vonnegut's Utopia, also the Vonnegut's Utopia only depends upon the new rich person's image that it can express more vividly, they both are Vonnegut's idea writing and ideal reposing. Finally, the new rich person and the Vonnegut's Utopia gathers a body.
Keywords/Search Tags:Kurt Vonnegut, the new rich person, the Vonnegut's Utopia
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