"Diagnosis" And "Treatment" Of Modern Civilization Disease

"The Lord of the Rings" recognized as a founder of modern fantasy literature has a unique ststus in the history of fantasy literature.It emerged in the later period of Western European citifying under background of World Warâ…¡in the 1950s with anti-modern tendencies.Tolkien took criticism and reflection on the deformity of Western capitalist modern civilization and offered a profound lesson for the "treatment" of modern Western social civilization disease,accomplishing one purifying salvation of modern spirit for readers.This paper is an attempt to the profound ideological connotation of "The Lord of the Rings" and its significance in the "diagnosis" and "treatment" of modern civilization disease.First of all,this paper use Myth Prototype Criticism Theory to comprehend the image in "The Lord of the Rings" and analyzes Tolkien's "diagnosis" of modern civilization disease in the part of "no escaping reality:'diagnosis' of modern civilization disease ".He criticized the corrosion on human brought by"the only material" in modern society and the serious damag on nature and human nature from the war and industrial technology at the same time in his "Lord of the Rings".Be in modern civilization Tolkien is unfortunate:he criticized the malformation of modern society but he could not escape from the reality integrated with modern society.However,his greatness is just this:although he knew the contradictions and helpless of being in modern civilization,Tolkien as a modern "hero",still cherished his ideal and did not abandon the self-rescue efforts of mankind.In the part of "the resistance of modern heroes:the enlightenment of treatment of modern civilization disease",by analyzing the artistic image in the text,we can see that Tolkien revived the ability of narrating truth of myths with his own unique concept of the myth and adjusted the traditional rational thought,providing profound enlightenment.In terms of the significance of the "treatment" of Western modern social civilization disease in adjusting the way of thinking,and the relationship between man and nature,man and others as well as man and the development of society.The analysis of "Lord of the Rings" triggers the thought and exphoration of modern civilization disease at the level of philosophy as well as the excavation of its root.As a betrayal of the tradition modernity inevitably containsthe seeds of conflict,whose root causes exist in the establishment of human's concept of subject and thus the subjective and objective way of thinking,which splits man and his life of the world causing a high degree of alienation between man and nature,man and himself,man and others as well as man and society and hence triggering modern civilization disease. "The Lord of the Rings" lets us know that we are integrated with modern civilization just like Tolkien living in modern socity,so no matter who attempts to escape from it is futile.Nevertheless,in the face of this reality we should not have no action but should have a positive attitude- "return." "Return" is not a "retrogression" but a correction of modern survival attitude of man and adjustment of the relation between man and his life of wrld,which is a self-climbing and surpassing of human spirit."The Lord of the Rings" as Tolkien's fictional literature,reflects people's split and depressed mental state and their confusion of modern life in modern society,finds a way out of the future for these people conducts a soul purifying modern spiritual salvation for us.Therefore,we believe that Tolkien,as a great writer,is a"prophet" and "doctor" of an era.