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Utopia's Upset And Reconstruction

Posted on:2008-12-31Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Y ZhengFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360215992961Subject:Comparative Literature and World Literature
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Utopia literature refers to a category literature which describes ideal political institution and life style.Utopia literature points to the desire for less external control and more intrinsic worth in everyday existence. The British utopia literature undergoes the process of utopia, mock-utopia and dystopia. Brave new world by Aldous Huxley, 1984 by George Orwell and Lord of Flies by William Golding represented the main works of the British dystopia. The utopia world-the final fantasy of the spirit comes to its opposite. It has become the wholly irony of the modern human society, from the utopia heaven to the hell. The British dystopia shows the distortion of the human life and human spirit. It upset the utopia. The utopia desire falls into the darkness of hell. With the evil, the weakness, the cell of the human by the nature, society and self, the utopia was subverted by all these fetters. Human ideal was overthrown by the times and the technology.The Chronicle of Narnia was created by English writer C. S. Lewis, which transcended the phenomena of Dystopia and inherited the western classic culture, and it is narrated by the genre of fairy tale. The Chronicle of Narnia has their collections with Christianity. Lewis was interested in telling new stories of the biblical type: The creation of a new utopia and the realization of the paradise of the human spirit. C. S. Lewis constructed a man-centered ethical system and ultimate ethical utopia where truth, good and beauty are harmoniously unified. He changed the British dystopia by his Narnia, and lasts the utopia-the paradise which fulfills the void of the imagination of human being and outbreaks the ultimate monopoly of the technology. Lewis took western classical literature as root and found his images from the human culture history, which produced the beautiful fruit of Utopia in the modern wasteland.
Keywords/Search Tags:Narnia, Utopia, Dystopia, Imagination, Cultural-root Exploration
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