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On Fitzgerald's Tragic Novel

Posted on:2012-01-13Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Z LvFull Text:PDF
GTID:2215330344450247Subject:Comparative Literature and World Literature
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In youth, Dream is reality. When grow old, reality is dream. Disillusion is a moment, time proves what used to be and what will to be again, the only feeling is absolute nihility. This pessimistic feeling is always passing through Fitzgerald' works, with this feeling, some true powers come to tragedy's height. There are little works infecting saintly and faith brilliancy, true tragedies are much less. Desire, dream, power and mission, these capacities sometime being pure, and sometime being corrupt, always tear up human soul, and further separate hero from ordinary person.Although some characters in Fitzgerald's novels can not match with heroes, but much like heroes in deed. Tear in tragedy is no longer hard to live up to a great reputation. Fitzgerald put tragedy and heroes'blood into his novels and characters. The problem is this persistence becoming to be the rim of elimination, ignoring by flavor and time pace which are changing with each passing day.But this paper still pays close attention to Fitzgerald's novels'quality which ignored and unserious attended. Through form, meaning, esthetics feeling, this paper tries to approve Fitzgerald's insisting and pouring into his work glorious literature spirit. Using tragedy form is a distinguishing feature. Bring tragedy form into full play is a inheritance, for novel become rich in mean and form expressing, and using novel form to fulfill tragedy'tradition transformation is a surpassing beyond inheritance. Through transforming of chorus, drama element, tragedy novel absorbs the essence of tragedy form, which makes tragedy a new life.Obviously, if there is no tragedy meaning, only supporting by form issue, tragedy novel will not establish. Certainly, Tragedy meaning is passing through Fitzgerald's novel. Tragedy characters, conflict, spirit, his novels are full of these far and load-bearing echoes.For two distinguishing characters connecting, novel appears tragedy's art effect. It is comfortable to Fitzgerald, for his insisting on being a serious writer. With tragedy form and meaning, his novel actually distributes limitless lofty and pain of tragedy aesthetic feeling. Actually, what his novel distributing is so similar to Nietzsche and Schopenhauer's tragedy aesthetic feeling, therefore, his novel transforms classic tragedy's catharsis in some way.
Keywords/Search Tags:Fitzgerald, Tragedy Novel, Form, Meaning, Aesthetic Feeling
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