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The Passion Burst From The Repression And The Fate Caused By Accident

Posted on:2008-12-27Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:X H FuFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360215953387Subject:Comparative Literature and World Literature
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In 20th century European literary arenas, there are three short story writers who were generally acknowledged as the most excellent ones, they are Russia's Chekhov, France's Mauriac and Austria's Zweig. And considering the amount of the translation languages and sales of the works, Zweig's are the best.Zweig (Stefan Zweig. 1881-1942) was born in a Jewish factory owners family in Wiener ---the capital of Austria. In the early age he studied philosophy and Germanic language and Welsh language in Berlin and Vienna, and gained a doctorate of philosophy. Then he traveled through western Europe, India, North Africa and all over North America, contacted with Roman Roland, Weierhalun, Rodin and other writers and artists, and was influence by them a lot. In 1919, Zweig emigrated to Salzburg, and began his creativity.Zweig's creative activities are started from the poetry, but only because he was good at short stories ,he gained the world fame. Zweig created a large number of characters in his works, most were female roles. For instance: "A Letter from an Unknown Women", "24 Hours in a Woman's Life", " A Female Family Teacher", "Woman and the Earth" and "Housemaid Lebeileila", "The Alike and Unlike Sisters" and so on. With his unique perspective and superb skill, he molded a special group of women with typical style .In Zweig's emotional story, there are subtle and noble affairs of the eternal human. For example, from a few outstanding novella "24 Hours in a Woman's Life ", " A Letter from an Unknown Women " " Lebeileila " and "Horror", we can see the puzzles in marriage and love which the women in Zweig's works are facing and questing for its ideological roots, exploring the characteristics of the female image. We will further savor great creative charm and moving force of Zweig's masterpieces. Display of women's lives and thinking is the important component in Zweig's novel. He was particularly good at depicting passion at the whim of female psychology, these women are often in a calm state of living, touched by some accidental or unintentional incidents, then they burst forth with passion, made a surprising move, also make their lives were greatly affected, or even pay the price with their lives. In Zweig's novel, the intense emotion of the heroine often makes us surprised and sighed. And to pursue their primitive living conditions are often calm and even suppressed, but it is this calm and the suppression led to the extra fanaticism and particularly enthusiasm of the emotions.Lust and moral behavior of the female role are mutual penetration, and continually struggle with each other, both of the two factors play important roles in female's behaviors. It is noteworthy that the female sexuality which author describes "is by no means a simple and cheap way to vent the indulgence, it was analyzed by the moral and rational analysis. In the pentium unceasing waves of emotional ups and downs, the life and philanthropy microwaves were floated the social reality's projection and inside information were contained."Zweig's creative purpose was to promote the renewing and improving of people's moral values and spiritual outlook.If we explored on the direct causality of the peculiar fate of the female characters experience which were described in the Zweig's novel, most are the accidental or unintentional act. As Zweig wrote in the "Housemaid Lebeileila" : "fortuitous events like the tougher all the same can penetrate steel walls." And strange fanaticism behavior of the heroine is often unintentional. Zweig is particularly fond of using accidental and an unintentional act to promote the story's unfolding.Zweig went through two world wars, as an intellectual, especially as a compassionate, introvert with a rather astute artist, he keenly felt the misfortune which was brought by the economic recession and a decline in morality to mankind, particularly women. In society, marriage and the family women were often in the situation without the respect and comforting. Therefore, the display of women's emotional world, life experiences, to give sympathy for their unfortunate, to honor the gifts of women and sacrifice, had become important components in Zweig's novel. With the help of the fate of female characters in the works, Zweig's expressed his personal live in troubled times, not realizing idealism and became illusory helpless confusion. Zweig cared for women with tremendous enthusiasm and had boundless curiosity on exploring human psychology.In the end of the 19th century and early 20th century, people in the West began to taste the inward turn, to the subjective world of loneliness! This "spirit of climate", as well as the European literary psychological novel artistic tradition, affected and gave birth to Stephen. Zweig's pursuit of the aesthetic and artistic viewpoint : "From the psychological point, reproduce the people and their lives. "The interest fostered the creation of Zweig's first feature - carefully delicate psychological descriptions, Zweig has thus gained the excellent reputation as "world-class artists" (Gorky) are. His novels mostly based on psychological analysis, performed figure's unconscious passion items and fully demonstrated the feature of spiritual and psychological fiction. Zweig was the first to recognize Freud's theory among the German writer. The description of consciousness and unconsciousness in Zweig's works is the reflection of Freud's consciousness theory."For the sake of giving a fatal attack to a heart, fate is not always necessary to accumulate forces himself to the intense; from the insignificant reasons brought about the destruction, this naturally aroused the fate of crutches fun."Zweig said in the introduction of"The decline of One Heart". Only according to the passion of the soul, fortuitous event can influence in her the main consciousness in the figure, and the causes and methods of its behavior. Aristide said a tragedy can vent excessive intense compassion and feelings of fear in the heart, and to achieve spiritual pleasure. Zweig also allowed people to seize the "accidental" opportunity to air flourish passion to gain the pleasant sensation after venting or reappear life vitality, or cause "psychological degeneration," or to find relief and gain spiritual comfortable. From Zweig's works, we can also find Zweig's drawing lessons from Freud's personality theory (person's characteristic pattern): the internal controlling passion is the energy which is released from subconscious. Zweig choose to learn Freund's theories to tap the deep psychology, explored the reality roots which caused passion (including genuine, perfect, beauty and false, ugly, wicked in the social life); praising passion of inspiring vitality, forgiving the blame of a generous enthusiasm, also criticized the society which suppressed the life of human being; such passion is the personality subjective emotion which was formatted in the spirit of the times and culvert cloaks and the projection of the real world. In the works, Zweig also used sexual examination to interpret social phenomenon, ultimately aimed to call for the return of human caring and stimulate initiation.In all, Zweig has a keen insight into the performance and activities of the female inner world, and he had scored outstanding achievements in the portrayal of female image reveals the psychological aspect of women. He created the unique female image with "Zweig's style". These women always wandered around repression and passion, struggled in the moral and wants. Despite in the vast majority Zweig wrote the instinctive impulse, lust and sex in his works, but no filthy, just to give a pleasure of beauty, a reason of human nature, a moral distillation. The image of women which were created by Zweig will shine brilliantly forever in the gallery of world literature.
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