"Doctor Zhivago" - Beyond The Reality Of Emotional Expression

As Pasternak’s magnum opus, Doctor Zhivago helps him win the year’s Nobel Prize for Literature. The work gives a description on the intellectual’s depressing misfortunes during the October Revolution in Russia, and implied the author’s spiritual exploration. Ever since the birth of the work, critics have shown different opinions on it, and through analysis, we can see clearly that the disagreements result from the fact of discussing it with bonding the work and their real life. Actually, the emotional expression in the novel surpasses the then existing real-life situations, and it is a reflection of the omnipresent emotion in human society. In the novel, the emotion surpasses the limited one of the romance between lovers and among relatives; the accuse towards the violence and revolution also should be taken into consideration as it is a way of showing respect to the common human emotion. At the same time, the intellectual should always pay close attention to the nation’s fate, which is the common particularity in different times, and the novel confirms it. It is the emotion that has given the novel long-living vitality.The thesis analyzes the work from the perspective of artistic emotions by a detailed analysis on the novel Doctor Zhivago. It uncovers the universal fraternity of human beings, the feelings of "do the good deeds for the sake of kindness", and respect for life, praise for the intellectual concerns in different times. At the same time, it gives enlightenment for literary criticism—the task of literary criticism is to uncover the emotional expression in the place of merely showing reality casted in the novel.