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The Difference Between Chinese And Western Culture From "Soul Drama"

Posted on:2015-01-15Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:X Y YuFull Text:PDF
GTID:2255330428469575Subject:Comparative Literature and World Literature
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In recent years, people doing in-depth comparative study to "wilderness" and "The Emperor Jones" as with further understanding on the two works gradually, however,"wilderness" is obvious referenced to "The Emperor Jones" in the artistic technique, academic used to explore the relationship between the two plays from the level of artistic skill, but rarely covered the Cultural Differences. This article will show these two plays by the complexity of human nature as a starting point to explore the differences between Chinese and Western cultures in-depth.In this paper, including of five parts with the introduction and afterwords, the main contents is the first, second and third chapters. The main frame of the article is mainly based on the cultural differences between "wilderness" and "The Emperor Jones", these is an in-depth discussion according to the development of two dramatic conflicts.In the introduction, I will describes the "wilderness" and "The Emperor Jones" at comparability, also the status and significance of the research, the methods of this article.In the first chapter, I wil starting with human nature, the first part of the characters embodied the original desire and the wild life, revealing humanity "evil" conscious; The second part describes the hero Dream dedication and the face of injustice against the fate of awareness, demonstrate the impact of the individual and the awakening of "free will". Through the entire chapter to explain the impact on the fate of humanity, digging the differences between Chinese with Western cultures behind the humanity.In the second chapter, as an opportunity to Chou Hu and Jones’s fled, I wil depth investigate "escape" in Chinese and Western cultures in different metaphors from the different reasons, and the different nature of the three different aspects of psychological. And in-depth analysis, although both are widely used expressionist techniques, has different affects’cultural reasons.In the third chapter, I wil discusses different cultural spirit from the Chou Hu suicide and killed Jones demonstrated, then by describing the process of these two evil souls self-redemption, look of The natural ultimate return based on the distinctive between Chinese and Western cultures.Finally, in afterwords, I wil concludes the paper and discusses the "soul drama" related to the complexity of human nature, and thus show that both Chinese and Western cultures have a huge contribution to human cultures.
Keywords/Search Tags:Wilderness, The Emperor Jones, Chinese and Western cultures, Humanity, difference
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