Reconstruction A Spiritual World For The Old Men

Cormac McCarthy (1933--) is regarded as one of the greatest American writers, including its literature works about Southern Gothic fiction, western novels and the post-apocalyptic novels. His various literary styles and the grumous values of the works make him renowned in the American literature. However, critics about McCarthy’s writing style is acknowledged that his works are filled with violence. We can say that the violence has become a symbol of McCarthy s literary works, and throughout the different styles of his literary creation. No Country for Old Men published in 2005 is a quite different work from works that make McCarthy renowned in American literary. It is a novel about the post-western. In the text, it narrates a western world filled with violent in the postmodern context such as guns and drugs, and the narrative form is very unique that it is similar to the post-modern narrative style. But for now, only a few people have concerned about its connotation. This paper focuses on the violent content that it presents in the text based on a close reading of the text, and then gradually dig the novel’s violence and deaths in order to reconstruct a spiritual world for the old men. The author believes that McCarthy is intended to show a modern context of modern living in the world of modern tragedy of violence with the perspective of the elderly, and the violence is intended to raise people’s awareness of the tragedy by self-survival situation clear to reconstruct their cognitive about pastoral dream. It is the pursuit of a spiritual kingdom of the old age. The subject of this paper consists of four parts:The first chapter discusses the context of the violence in No Country for Old Men, and it is divided into two sections. In the first section, the author focuses on the creation of the context under the post-modern West, as it is McCarthy’s Western novels presented another masterpiece space and time; the second section focuses on the text’s violent reality that it is on the basis of the western myth after the total collapse of the modern west.The second chapter discusses the "marginal man" image under the violent trauma presented in the text who survives in a black western world. The text created three characters, they are Bell, Chirgh and Moss. The first section focuses on the wounds soul exhibited between the past and now; the second section analyzes their chooses in the western world that is already lost. Having traumatized by the violence, they are trying to establish in this world among the violence.The third chapter focuses on the analysis of the text’s ironic narrative language and structure, and is intended to interpret the survival paradox in the text which is full of chaos and violence in the western world. The first section discusses the paradox to survive from their plight and self-mockery of the social system in prison violence from the use of language; the second part explores the fate tragedy in the pursuit of the narrative structure. The story line of chasing and escaping is full of black comedy that its arrangements are intentionally produced.The fourth chapter returns to the connation of the text, focused on the deconstruction of the aesthetic text violence purport western myth by showing a depraved, violent Western world in order to reconstruct McCarthy’ pursuit of a spiritual world. This chapter is divided into two sections. The first section is to explore the literary aspirations of violent connotation of No Country for Old Men. Violence is the way to explain McCarthy’s pastoral dream in a modern context perspective. And it is already a reflection about the burden of history. The second part discusses about the text’s construction of the spiritual homeland.In the conclusion, the author combs Cormac McCarthy’s violence complex, and then makes a summary of the literary value of the text.