Ethical Analysis Of The Punishment Of Sandalwood

In numerous works,Mo Yan," Ethical Analysis of The Punishment of Sandalwood "is the most can reflect social reality and ethical significance.The novel The Punishment of Sandalwood as described in the era of the story, is theage of the Qing dynasty strife-torn, is an age of social turbulence.In the process of socialunrest, the old social moral system increasingly lose their effectiveness, and new socialmoral constraints or has not been formed yet to be established, this situation is often easyto lead to the moral crisis of the society. Is novel Punishment of Sandalwood is thesubject of a story in terms of age, with the decay of the feudal rulers on the economic,political, the mainstream of the feudal ethics is becoming more and more decadent, thismakes the moral crisis of the time were more serious. In this era of severe moral crisis,the alienation of human nature can be seen everywhere, even shocking! The author ofthe novel through psychological deformity of the characters in the novel and the moraldistort the description of these two aspects of art to reproduce the moral crisis eraalienation of human nature.As The Punishment of Sandalwood story background of the society in late Qingdynasty, because of the social turbulence, laws, is the so-called "gone". In this "gone",not only social moral backbone, namely the main body of social moral framework hascollapsed or is failing, and the individual also easy a dilemma in moral choice, even if theindividual can evade moral dilemma, but may be to the tragic ending. Two characters inthe sandalwood punishment–Qian Ding and Sun Bing story, it is the individual moralchoices of this kind of helpless situation of vivid annotation.Individual moral dilemma cannot transcend desires as well as the unreasonablesocial system limit, can cause the historical tragedy. In order to head off a repeat ofhistorical tragedy, people should be lessons from the historical tragedy, avoid repeatingthem. First of all, we should attach great importance to the moral rationality of socialsystem design: the impartiality of the system should be embodied in the moral rationalityof system, the integrity should be displayed as the rationalization of social members ofthe rights and obligations relations.System is reasonable to see whether this kind ofsocial rights and obligations relations between separation and distortion. If socialmembers generally cannot reach to the requirement of social system or resistance, orsocial system set by the code of conduct to spread in the social members, then you can have challenged the rationality of the institutional setting. Then We should start from thesocial system of morality and as members of the moral main body of social self moralcultivation of the two aspects of the novel describes historical tragedy of moral lesson.Even though the government official moral self accomplishment of ascension may bebeneficial to purify the ethical climate of the officialdom, but the bureaucracy system andeven more extensive social system of morality set is more fundamental problem, if thesystem is immoral,then, individual moral choice is often under this kind of immoralsystem caused by the tragic ending.