Harold's Journey Of Self-discovery:PATH Schema Interpretation Of Rachel Joyce's The Unlikely Pilgrimage Of Harold Fry

Rachel Joyce(1962-)is a British veteran playwright and also a novelist.She has written scripts for the British Broadcasting Television Broadcast for 20 years,which wins her many "The Best Play" awards.The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry is Joyce's first novel,which receives an army of media's attention from all walks of life,and also wins numerous compliments.The book is believed to be about the return of the love,self-discovery,beliefs,and beauty of affairs of everyday life.Image schema is derived from people's daily life experience,and it refers to the conventional style recurring in the process of interactive experience between human and the objective world.Cognitive semantics researcher Lakoff summarized seven kinds of image schema.PATH schema is one of the basic schemas of image schema,containing source,path and goal.This paper is going to analyze Harold's entire journey from the perspective of PATH schema theory,to divide his journey into three levels including:source,path and goal.Life before this journey is regarded as the source of PATH schema,and his journey as the path,his destination Berwick as the goal.In the trip,after all the memories and reflections,Harold has reflected on his past life,after self-reflection and self-awareness,he fulfilled his journey of self-discovery.Rachel Joyce not only gives deep concern for the mental health of senior citizens,at the same time presents with care their reflections of family love,love and friendship.This paper puts forward a new perspective,and PATH schema theory can help the reader to look into the protagonist's inner world.This paper uses PATH schema theory to look into the three stages of protagonist's spiritual pilgrimage and to explore the difficulties to get a way out in his inevitable journey of life.