Study On The Christian Factors In British Desert Island Fictions

As a kind of unique literature achievement in world literature history,desert island fiction has grown into a desert island fiction text group which is numerous in amount, as well as rich and abundant in content after advancing through the beginning, developing, and mature stages gradually. With the particular geographic position of sharing borders with the sea and plurality in islands, Britain has generated works that are especially rich and varied in ideas and themes, among which are books reflecting every aspects of the society and possessing great research value.Religion, considered to a significant constitute factor from the human spirit level, requires attention rather than negligence. In this thesis, four British deserted island fictions, typical of four different ages respectively,are chosen for deliberation, namely, the Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe, The Coral Island by Robert Michael Blantyre, Lord of the Flies by William Golding, and The Beach by Alex Garland. The thesis focuses on the study on the Christian factors mentioned in the four books, describes how Christianity was presented in deserted island fictions of different ages, and explores the evolution process that the British deserted island fictions went through. Given this, the thesis is divided into four parts as follows:Chapter I is the introduction, in which, firstly, the status of studies on religion factors in British deserted island fictions, as well as the achievements are sorted and demonstrated; secondly, the importance, the study methods and the innovative points of the thesis are explained, so as to prove the fact that the universality of religion has penetrated deeply into every aspects of human society, and the religious expressions in literature are, in fact, the real refection of the human society.Chapter II explains British desert islands. In this part firstly, the origin, the constitution, and the causes of the deserted island fictions are taken as the starting point to further move on to the studies on British deserted island fictions transitively, so as to prove the fact that as fiction is an essential part of literature, study on the pluralized relations between religion and literature is an inevitable and non-ignorable key point that researchers must confront when studying deserted island fictions and Christianity.Chapter III discusses the prosperity and spreading of Christianity in deserted island fictions. In this chapter, the following topics are mentioned. To be specific, the religious myth in the age when Robinson was in reflects the prosperity of Christian society. As is seen in Robinson Crusoe by Defoe, the personal growth of the protagonist is coated with religious color and the economics of the Robinson himself is combined with a tendency towards Puritanism. The world has suffered enormous changes in the age of Blantyre, and with the curtain of the Uncharted Waters unfolded, the prosperity of Christianity was spread overseas all around the world through navigation; the missionary task of Christianity was completed; and the development of Christianity was led into a brand new stage on some extent through the popularization of The Coral Island…Chapter IV shows the confusion and decomposition of Christianity in deserted island fictions. In the chapter, related details are referred, to be specific, during the global spreading of Christianity in its prosperity and development stage, the Christian ideas are inevitably mixed with the ideas of other ethnics, and along with the collision of inconsistent civilizations and the influence of the modern society, the God was about to be shaken off from the heaven, and for what role could the God play so as to maintain his part in leading the soul of the mortals, which is the question that Christians had to work on, and eventually, Christian went up to the path of decomposition under the repetitive confusion and doubts.Those facts was reflected and deliberated in Golding’s Lord of the Flies,and Garland’s The Beach.