Comparison Between The Mirror Images Of Updike And Haruki Murakami Characters

After World War Ⅱ, with the advancing of industrial civilization, urban space is expanded and also the intermediate status, the consumption model,,values and social order of people have been entirely changing for the inconstant ethos and the cultural movement. Many people are anxiety followed by the commercialized and symbolized society, as a result,they can’t find the value of subjects. As the writers of caring about life,Updike and Haruki Murakami focused their attention on the body who come from the middle class,scanning the bewilderment,and also looking for ways. This passage will explore the phenomenon of people how to survive from a new view through the theory of survival mirror.The first part of this paper intends to briefly introduce the theory of Lacan’s Mirror Image helping us to understand what is mirror image. And then to analyze the characters who have the similar social background from two different writers, and also describe some ordinary people who is caught in alienation in this special background, it is mainly talking about the characters’survival mirror which belong to two different writers through macro aspect.The second part will have a comparison about the survival mirror’ similarity. It will take on a new and meticulous comparison through analyze the characters’ similar survival mirror. The write abstract the subject,emotion and life to explore how to survive, and have a conclusion about the contradictory mirror image of different people’ experience according to the reference.In the third part, we will have a discussion about the opposite aspects of survival mirror of two different writers. There appears various text analyze in this part through exploring the way of survive, the role in life and meanings of life, accordingly the aspect of imaginary, symbolic and reality. You will find the reason why people have alienation in some degree through analyze different behavior and to describe the statement of people’ life.In the next part, we can know the writer how to solve the problem of people who have being in alien.We have varieties of life style in modern life, and constantly we identify with other different image. So the study of survival mirror can promote surviving better.