On The Tragic Heroes In Fitzgerald’s Novels

As a famous writer of the United States who enjoys the same reputation with Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner, Fitzgerald shaped a series of tragic heroes by using his poetic writing vividly, captured the various aspects of life, and revealed the pursuit to beauty and goodness and truth lives on the spiritual level.The tragic heroes in Fitzgerald’s novels have three types, they are: First,a loss of self-rescuer, the prototype is Amory in "paradise on earth", he suffered from confusion and searched for ideal "paradise"; Second,ideal knight and love to "the great Gatsby," the protagonist Gatsby represented determinedly to pursue the ideal of love and dedication to the dream until their youth life; Third, "Oedipal" type of self-sacrifice hero in "tender is the night," the hero Dick represented Nicolette bear rescue and treatment and improving society morbid dual role, with a strong fighting spirit of self-sacrifice style.Fitzgerald tragic heroes in his novels have three characteristics. First, the failure of the sublime. Fitzgerald failure and struggle are the two main themes in the works, he described the tragic hero fighting failure after failure still yield, having a noble heroic qualities; the second is a lonely struggle. Tragic hero in the process of pursuing the face of "a" to "many" lonely and cruel reality of the situation to defend the spirit of the land and struggling to break through. Third, the persistent pursuit. The tragic heroes are persistent dreamers, they love the pursuit, the pursuit of ideals, the pursuit of perfection, the pursuit of the noble pursuit of value and so, despite encountering a time of frustration and disappointment on the road of life, but persevered, till the end.The tragic heroes mainly come from two factors: First the age factor, breaking consumption times and carnival culture to quit, although faith let this generation of writers into the pain and confusion, but Fitzgerald as a writer with a strong sense of the times maintained a clear sense of its unique acumen take the initiative to open up in the desolate thriving mission; the second is the personal factor, Fitzgerald hardships of life, the tragedy led to the formation of his consciousness, and his strong and optimistic attitude towards life and the creation of rigorous and meticulous attitude is his heroes qualities inherent formation genes.Fitzgerald highlighted a decisive ideological value by portraying the tragic hero image,in one side, criticize the social reality, through his heroes which are bound to fail in contrast tothe worship of money, consumerism, hedonism, extreme prosperous era love and marriage go bad, "American dream" of disillusionment and moral bankruptcy of society and ruthless. In other side, to pursue the ideal of freedom. Fitzgerald described the tragic heroer are himself,his character, passion and dreams of sustenance, he expected to realize the people lost faith in salvation and spiritual emptiness in through their own efforts. At the same time, an irreplaceable aesthetic significance. First, the hero of "little people" of his tragic hero is "one of us", but their pursuit of self and ideal, indomitable will and courage is not lost on the classical hero; the second is intense tragedy conflict. Conflict demonstrates man and society,man and self, something different portions of the opposite, showing three-dimensional, full of tragic heroes images.