The Response,Resonance,Discrepancy Of Parable Figures

The existing comparative studies about Chuang Tzu and Thoreau emphasis on abstract philosophical ideas, but ignore their enormous contributions to literature. This paper aims to compensate for this shortcoming, and compare them through some concrete literary image. The author finds that both of them created a large number of fables and these fables have many similarities, and this paper is going to put them into following four categories.1, Material use: by listing the fables which are related to life, to understand the ideals and attitude to life of Chuang Tzu and Thoreau from ordinary things, Chuang Tzu pointed that Material use means just using the nature of the existing things, not contrary to their nature. While Thoreau based on his own subjective ideas, thus the point of view is of a little self-contradictory.2, Fishing: Fishing of Chuang Tzu contains the spirit of seclusion and inaction, while Thoreau’s Fishing is an understanding of nature and the process of recognizing one’s own, as well as the mix of some of his personal views on social and political attitudes.3, Gains and Losses: Chuang Tzu thinks that gains mean abundant support, and losses mean distortion, however, Thoreau views that gain is divine nature, loss is also a distortion. The same distortion, but essentially different among "gains".4, Freedom and Beyond: their interpretations of freedom are very consistent, both of them think that freedom is the return to nature.However, the pace of ’Beyond’ is not the same. Chuang Tzu pointed out that "AlthoughTaoism is abstract but still can continue to stimulate new things, new progress, so that can continuously exceed. Thoreau considered “Beyond” is to find the divinity from nature, in fact, it is the reversion of a divinity, and it is a process of cycle.The author has identified both similarities and differences through the comparison of the four categories of allegories. In the view of fables, the similar and analogous figures are summarized, which overcomes the cavity and abstract in the previous studies. Some common views found from this process still have cognitive values today, but the differences are from the divergence of “Dao” and “God”.Thoreau was a theist and it was impossible for him to break away from “God” to look for “Dao”.