Probe Into The Kite Of Human Nature-The Reading Of The Master-slave Relationship In The Kite Runner And The Symbolic Meaning In The Kite

The Kite Runner is the very first novel in English by an Afghan-born American writer Khaled Hosseini. Critics home and abroad have studied this work from the perspective of bildungsroman, war and racial discrimination. Many critics fix attention on the redemption subject, and the master-slave relationship is also a prominent subject for analysis.By analyzing the text, this paper explores the relationship between the master-slave relationship and the implied meaning of the kite to reveal the transformation of the master-slave relationship and the conception of the real democracy under the background of globalization, through the master-slave dialectics in The Kite Runner.The structure of this paper can be divided into four parts:chapter one makes a brief introduction about Khaled Hosseini and his works. Also this part makes a summary about Hegel’s master-slave dialectics in The Phenomenology of Mind. Chapter two analyses The Kite Runner from the vision of master-slave relationship, detailed analysis of the relationship between master and slave and father-son relations (Amir vs. Baba, Ali vs. Hassan, Hassan vs. Soharb). This part focuses on analyzing the transformation between the master and servant. Chapter three analyzes The Kite Runner deeply from the implied meaning of the kite. This part could be divided into three segments:the relationship between master and the kite; the relationship between slave and the kite; also the relationship between master-slave consciousness and the globalization. Chapter Four summarizes the thesis.According to the text, it discussed the relationship between master-slave relation and the symbolic meaning of the kite. All of these try to explore the allegorical meaning of The Kite Runner. Compared with the foregoing studies of The Kite Runner, this dissertation not only analyzes the complicated master-slave relationship of the four characters, but also discussed the present social system and the globalization of democracy. It might be viewed as a new perspective of thinking to interpret this novel.