The Role And Identity Research Of Kipling's Kim

Based on "Kim" for text analysis, I emphatically discuss the binary opposition relations of the text. Rudyard Kipling completed this novel in 16 years, and won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1907. The scholars generally agree that this is his most successful work.The hero of the novel is an Irish boy who was born in India named Kim. The novel has two lines, one is the travel in India, telling the story of Kim and lama pursue towards spiritual goals all the way; another clue is that Kim was involved in the British secret service plan called "Great Game", the aim is to defeat Russia's method of the insurgency in the plot in India.In the novel, there are a lot of relevant national politics, race, religion, historical narrative. At the same time I also read the individual cultural identity contradiction caused by dual identity, once individual has self existence identity anxiety he or she will start the searching process, ask for the nature of existence and true meaning of life. Pursuit of an ideal spiritual goals have the status of the results will lead to change.For Kim, his pursuit of process is a process from marginal to rule.India is a special part of the east, is also the most typical British colony.What Kipling arranged in Kim highlights the binary opposition between margin and center as well as the relationship between the rights of the east and the west.This paper intended to send from this a few details to launch the analysis.Full text is divided into four parts:the first part "introduction", an overview of Kipling's life and work, I'll do review about his literary studies at home and abroad, mainly from translation, biography research and introduces these three aspects of literary criticism, to know the domestic and foreign scholars study situation about him.The second part of "role and individual", the role and initiative is difficult to reconcile the contradictions between individuals, the second chapter use Derrida's "differance" view to explain the problem, that is what this paradox embodies the meaning of existence, only in he system of "differance", the individual can not controlled by role.The third part "the margin and the center". This chapter use the "land" and "treatment" of Heidegger's point, the individual need to get the "Earth" in order to get a cure for the asylum. I cited Foucault's "panoramic view of the open vision" revealed Kipling's idea of the European center. The fourth part "East and west", Kipling's imperialist thought embodied in the "Kim" through the cover of real history.He obscures the real political context. Combing the Indian writing vocabulary from him and other writers and "repeat" phenomenon certificates that western writers describe Oriental by fixed traditional vocabulary.Finally I use "Orientalism" and the binary opposition theory of deconstruction to criticize the doctrine of the center of Europe.