The Function Of The Door In Maeterlinck's Drama

Maurice Maeterlinck who was born in Belgium,he is a player,a poet,and an essayist.He had performed in many aspects of literature.Especially his dramas are imaginative,symbolic and poetic,which contain profound life enlightenment.Therefore,Maeterlinck was known as Shakespeare in Belgium.As a modern drama master with unique ideas of drama and thoughts of philosophy,Maeterlinck combined the theory of symbolism drama and the theory of static drama with practice,which made his plays different from the form of traditional dramas.Besides,his works show the unique artistic style of modernist drama and influence the development of Western drama.Maeterlinck took a variety of modern drama techniques in plays and he created a significant imagery door to build theatre arts country where we can chase his aesthetic pursuit and philosophy thinking,even think the fate of humanity.This paper includes four chapters.The first chapter,from imagery to structure,mainly discusses the literary narrative function of door.As symbolic center imagery,it implies the death fate of people,deepens the death theme of drama and forms the change of drama structure.The second chapter,from background to spirit,explores the performance function of door.As an important stage props,it creates the nightmare stage effect,constitutes the hazy drama space-time,and even builds the mental space-time,which makes theatrical scene become an externalization of the spiritual world.The third chapter,material and optimistic,explores the philosophical function.In Maeterlinck's dramas,there are so many such phenomena,including the lack of awareness person,full of intellectual stage image and all the material relationships on the stage.These phenomena reflect the social reality,in which Capitalist enters a monopoly phase.The fourth chapter tries to analyze the cause and influence of door.External causes include social history around the turn of the century and the impact of the Capitalist production mode.Inner causes include the growth environment of writer,his modern views of drama and philosophy thoughts.From what has been mentioned above,we can draw a conclusion that it is of great significance to discuss Maeterlinck's drama view that regards door as the important carrier.And we can feel the special artistic connotation in his plays.Maeterlinck,as the founder of symbolism,his unique view of drama can be treated to the source and the pioneer of western modernist drama.Maeterlinck reforms and enriches the modern drama,which contributes to the development of modern drama poetic greatly,and shows the value and significance of all mankind beyond the times.