On The Identity Of The Characters In Kazuo Ishiguro's Fictions

Kazuo Ishiguro is a famous contemporary British Japanese writer who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2017.He,together with Sir Salman Rushdie and Sir V.S.Naipaul,is also known as the “three most outstanding immigrants writers” in the British literary world.Up to now,Kazuo Ishiguro has composed 7 novels,which are famous all over the world for his wide range of themes,exquisite brushwork and profound theme.Different from other immigrant writers,Kazuo Ishiguro uses a “worldwide vision” in novel writing.His works often bear the sense of responsibility of world literature writers and shows the problem of human common identity in modern society as well.This paper takes Kazuo Ishiguro's seven novels as the research object,takes the identity theory as the basic framework,and analyzes the performance and causes of the crisis of self-identity,family and social identity encountered by the characters in Kazuo Ishiguro's novels through careful reading of the text.And it also tries to excavate their construction process of ego,family and social identity in order to enrich Kazuo Ishiguro's research.This thesis takes Ishiguro's seven novels as the research objects including A Pale View of Hills,An Artist of the Floating World,The Remains of the Day,The Unconsoled,When We Were Orphans,Never Let Me Go and The Buried Giant.Through the analysis of the embodiment of the crisis of ego,family and social identity of the characters in the novels,and the exploration to reconstruct the process of identity and the presentation of the text of the novel,this paper makes an in-depth study on the self-identity of Kazuo Ishiguro's novels.This thesis is divided into three parts: introduction,body parts and conclusion.The introduction part mainly introduces Kazuo Ishiguro's profile and his works,expounds the basic concept of identity theory,as well as the research content and research significance of this paper.The body parts are divided into four chapters: the first chapter analyzes the crisis of self-identity,family and social identity encountered by the characters in Kazuo Ishiguro's novels in the process of social history,and explores the reasons behind the crisis through the text analysis of the crisis they encounter;The second chapter explores the struggle and exploration of the characters in Kazuo Ishiguro's novels after various identity crises,through a careful reading of the key plots of the novel.This paper summarizes the process of constructing ego,family and social identity,and shows the author's sympathy and expectation for the individuals in the deep identity crisis.The third chapter discusses the influence and significance of self-identity writing in Kazuo Ishiguro's series of novels on the construction of identity of writers' self,modern individual,collective memory and cultural memory.The conclusion part is mainly a summary of the full thesis.