Biblical Archetypes In Fitzgerald’s Full-length Novels

In America, F·Scott Fitzgerald is considered as a great writer that is as famous as Hemingway and Forkner. However, in our country, the research on him is less wide and comprehensive than the research on the latter two. Therefore, the paper aims to analyze the biblical archetypes, mainly the character archetypes and theme archetypes in Fitzgerald’s full-length novels by using the theory of archetype criticism. And the paper concludes that by using his rich knowledge on Christianity, Fitzgerald expresses his love for Adamique characters, his negation to Satanic characters and his distrust to Eve-type characters through the transformation and replacement of biblical archetypes. Therefore, readers get a more clear recognition of the spiritual aridity and the ethical degeneration of American society in the20s of20th and Fitzgerald’s own American Dream Theme also owns more depth and uniqueness than other writers’same themes.. Besides, the using of archetypes makes Fitzgerald’s works go beyond the American society and become great works that possess eternal artistic charm.