Historical Ponder Emotional Mercy

Swiss Royal College awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature to Boris Pasternak in 1958 for "his outstanding achievement in the field of modern lyric poem and great Russian narrative literary tradition". As is known to all, the significant reason that helps Pasternak won the prize is the novel Doctor Zhivago.The thesis consists of five parts. The first chapter is the analysis of historical discourse in Doctor Zhivago. The historical discourse relates to the realationship of history and Christianity, nature, revolution. People's position in history. The second chapter discusses the necessary spiritual equipment of individual in history that includes love, free personality and life taken as sacrifice. These thoughts are existential philosophy of character in the novel in troubled times. And help them keep personal dignity and intellectual independence. The third chapter is the analysis of the aesthetic characterstics of Doctor Zhivago.Generally speaking, for our Chinese people, The novel may be indicate that we should keep concern on the society life,politicity,Regular psychology,morality andso on.The conclusion of the thesis exposes that the substance of Doctor Ziwago is an enduring immaterial and psychological epic of Russia's socialism. Pasternak's works indicates the psychic trial of an epoch.