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The Green World In Shakespeare's Light Comedy

Posted on:2018-06-30Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:X TangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2335330536972782Subject:English Language and Literature
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The elegant natural scenery in As You Like It offers a natural shelter for the characters who had faced persecution in their secular world.Even the villains will repent and learn to do good.Such a pure and fascinating natural world is really a dreaming geological masterpiece.Besides,the natural world in this play serves as a peacemaker who has helped resolve many contradictions and conflicts.Also,it serves as a purifier cleansing villains' sin and makes them realize their mistakes.They confessed their mistakes and earned a forgive from the positive characters who had faced long-time torment.But in this play,on the other side,on the background of the beautiful world of nature,there exists many crisis happening in the secular world.And the natural world eventually serves as a way of pulling themselves out of crisis.Thus,this play is conform to the ecological thinking on the one hand and has the sense of anti-ecology in the other.The sense of superiority of human exposes itself in the whole play.The human-centered doctrine rooted in the tenets of the Christianity leads to the fact that natural resources are developed and utilized by human being excessively.The concept that nature exists for human being and the whole biosphere is seen as a productivity tool dominates the culture in western world.Husserl,studying the relationship between conquest of nature and conquest of society,once claims that with the growth of human being,and with the growth of human's cognitive ability to the whole universe,human get to acquire the power to control over the world around.The first chapter mainly concerns the relationship between human being and nature in the light of ecological holism.The tenets of anthropocentrism separates the natural world and the ideal world inside human being' spirit,which leads to the binary opposition between spirit and material,soul and body,individuality and universality.Besides,the tenets of humanism made people believe the strong power of human being to dominate the whole world.The arrogance of human being leads to the fact that the non-human organism in the natural world is inferior to human.The conception that all the things can be understood mechanically is accepted widely and leads to the fact that the whole world suffers the crisis of ecological disorder.The tenets of mechanism separates subject and object,most importantly,it denies the connection between the whole and the part,which causes the opposition of human and nature.For the second part,the author gives an analysis about the social field where people make productivity.This social eco-system includes all the non-human substances and artificial systems which is created in the forms of the nature.The center of this social system lives the desire and will of human being.This kind of concept of overcoming and dominating leads to the disorder inside the whole social system.With the fast development of human society,the control of the nature has been more and more tight.On the other hand,the control and management of society is also more and more integrated.In this background,human society has become more and more centralized.Eventually,the destiny of human kind has been tied to a end-button.The third part mainly analyzes the spiritual eco-system which contains the beliefs,the longings an languages.For human being,spirit is actually an internal need and it is a self-consciousness and value orientation.The major serious of troubles and disorder in the society are not owing to the nature inherits of humankind,but owing to the symbol system of human.Beyond the field of lithosphere,hydrosphere and atmosphere,there exists a special field called spiritual circle.Through tireless efforts,human eventually get access to their own highest spiritual point.The conclusion part draws a conclusion that in the Renascence time,the arrogance of human dominates people's spiritual world.In Shakespeare's As You Like It,the disorder and crisis lies in the field of spirit,society and nature.These three parts are connected with each other closely and eventually affect each other.
Keywords/Search Tags:Shakespeare, green world, ecological holism, As You Like It
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