A Jewel Hidden In A Secret Vault

Taiwan literature is an important part of the literature of the motherland. Echo as a typical representative of Taiwan literature in the1960s and1970s created many outstanding works with her unique creation. Her works are rich in ideology, but also reveal authoress’typical emotions, and loved by readers. Echo spent her whole life in travelling around56countries, constantly pursued the essence of life, and dedicated to exploring the vita value and significance. All the experiences made her spiritual world rich and deep. This thesis analyzes Echo’s spiritual world from her personality style, humanitarian emotion, living attitude of confronting the death in order to explore the value and significance of her spiritual existence.Personality charm is a prominent feature of Echo’s spirit. In the exposition of this chapter, the author discusses her personality charm from the character of longing for freedom, the female experience of life as well as beautiful romance. Pursuit of freedom including the freedom of body and mind as well as her free natural writing style occupied his whole life. The authoress’life experience is also profound and unique in cognition towards feminine as human as well as in the dickey and strength as a mature female; she shows her pursuit of beauty and romance by her works no matter on her own rough and varied life or on gorgeous foreign landscapes.Humane emotion is another feature of the Echo’s spirit. As a literary female, Echo was of fraternity and tolerance, there is no false affectations in her works; her narrative are filled with real people, real things, true love so as to show Echo’s real life. And this humanitarian emotion is closely linked with traditional culture, Western Christian culture, her lonely life and the pursuit of love, traditional culture of Confucianism and Taoism is the background of Echo’s cultural heritage; Christian culture is external factors, in addition to her own special experiences.Living in confronting death is her spiritual feature as well. Life and death is the eternal theme in literature. Little presentation of death though her works, her life are closely linked and death. Therefore this female writer understood life and death on own point. This part explores Echo’spirit through her attitude towards life and death. The life experiences demonstrate the female writer’s extraordinary and unique spiritual pursuit. However this life experience is painful and bumpy, spirit is indifferent and aloof in religion and philosophy. To Death is the ultimate thought of the authoress.Echo’s spirit is unique and complex with pursuing vita essence and self-realization. Living is a mystery, death is another mystery. Echo passed away from us, but long lives her works and her soul. It is significant for people to retrieve Echo’s spirit, further more to recall people’longing for great in the modern society...