The Existence Predicaments Of McEwan’s Works

McEwan s works are multi-dimensional, through reading, you will find that he is a writer with a high degree of social responsibility, he is consistently concerned about the survival of the human predicament, I think he is the most important artist of our time.He used the aesthetic form to analyze the relationships between individual,environment, society, and self, show the living predicament of modern people for us.What can we learn from McEwan s profound reflection on the human survival and his efforts to explore a way out.This paper is divided into five parts: this chapter is the introduction, introduces the research status of McEwan and his works, as well as the significance and method of the paper.The first chapter, introduces about the related questions of human existence predicament, explains the connotation of human survival predicament, and classify the existence dilemma of human beings.What are the analysis of the plight of human existence in the second chapter, in which man and nature, man and society, man and man and man and self these aspects, McEwan were respectively drawn the different map of the natural environment,social environment and the spiritual space.Through the depiction of the novel’s city image to highlight to the destruction of the countryside, city make people lost the natural foundation and the protection of nature,reveals the alienation of man and nature. The alienation of man and nature will affect the people and society, the relation between person and person.Then expose the existence of various crises in society, such as: political centralization, the wealth gap,moral deterioration and deteriorating relationships, outstanding people and society,human alienation issue.Not only is the nature of human existence, but also the existence of social, spiritual existence. Facing alienation between man and nature,man and society, man’s alienation, people will have a variety of anxiety, insecurity,can not find the sense of presence in the community, not in the spirit of satisfaction,people will have the spirit predicament, cause people with their own alienation.The third chapter, focuses on the analysis of the cause of the dilemma of human existence,Because of the attention to human survival ignore natural existence, caused the deterioration of the environment, the balance of the relationship between man and nature is broken.Due to the importance of "I" while ignoring the "other" survival led to the imbalance between people and people.As the emphasis on material life and spiritual life of neglect caused by an imbalance in the relationship between man and self.The fourth chapter, McEwan not only reveals the survival plight, but actively explore the way out for the plight of human existence.Firstly, introduces the different images in the novel, but also analyzes the writer points out the bright road. Finally,the conclusion part.