Sex, Ethic And Taboos

From their historical similarities of the two books, Jin Ping Meiand Lolita, which were firstly suffered from prohibition, then lifted the ban locally and finally promoted to the literature sutra, and, on the basis of clearing up the two authors' lifetime, writing background and the handed down experience of the two novels, this paper carries its comparative research on the two novels from the paradox of the existence of eroticism, fornication, ethic and taboos.Jin Ping Mei and Lolita revealed the taboos of fleshliness and fornication, which were prohibited by the taboos and finally somewhat subjected to the taboos. This paper tries to find out and clarify the relevant literature issues about taboos, ethic, eroticism and fornication to get the conclusion of that eroticism and fornication is the ever blossom "flower of evil".By the comparison of the authors' lifetime status and the books' similar destiny of spreading and publication, one can tell how Jin Ping Mei and Lolita were related to the taboos. The process of being prohibited, being deleted and being reprimanded is exactly the process of the forming of taboos. Hidden under the surface of sex taboos are the taboos of ethic, which make the two books look like that they offended the sex taboos seemingly, but by ways of dormantly stating human guilty desires, the two books were actually against ethic ( including the ethic of common customs and of bodies, etc.) What Jin Ping Mei and Lolita revealed are eternal questions of human beings.Jin Ping Meiand Lolita are both a tragic history of women and of mankind. They violated human taboos and defended for human taboos and human culture from different degrees. Though Jin Ping Mei and Lolita turned out to belong to sutra of literature history, we can still find out they are the products of taboos and fixed systems. It is art that offered a shelter for them. Taboos are forever stronger and more tenacious than we imagined. So offending taboos has been a kind of original drive of literature creation.