Identity?Emotion And War

This thesis cuts through the consistent memory points in Kazuo Ishiguro's novels,uses memory theory,analyzes the clever memory traces in the works and the identity dilemmas and suppressed emotions of the characters,and then studies the post-war America,Britain,Japan and Japan Relationship,analyze the trauma of adults from the perspective of post-war children,and use this to explore the roots of deep warfare under these appearances.The writer expresses the intrinsic element of war through the character's memory and the identity dilemma and emotions caused by it,which embodies the writer's own unique expression of his emotions and reflections on war and memory.The thesis is divided into three parts: introduction,main text and conclusion.The main text is divided into four chapters.The first part is "Introduction".Explain the research significance of this article,outline the overall research status of Ishiguro at home and abroad and the framework of memory theory.The first chapter,"Individual Memory and Collective Memory",mainly examines the traces of individual memory,the forgetting of collective memory,and the relationship between memory and narrative in the works of Ishiguro.The first section analyzes the traces of individual memories in the work,and the special form of visual images in the process of the disappearance of the memories;the second section analyzes the performance of the forgetfulness of the collective memory in the work,and explores the possibility of healthy and beneficial forgetfulness for peace;The third section examines the unreliable narrative and blanks brought about by the characters' fragmentation and selectivity in the narrative process,and the reader empathy effect.The second chapter,"The Identity Dilemma of Memory Subject",takes different texts as research objects,and shows the identity dilemma of memory subject through different stages of life represented by different characters.The first section describes the identity dilemma caused by banks to get rid of the unbalanced childhood in When We Were Orphans;the second section analyzes the three clones in Never Let Me Go who only live to the youth,and breaks through the denied collective identity dilemma through mutual recognition of the Hailsham who lived together;the third section examines Masuji Ono,the painter who is in the An Artist of the Floating World.In his later years,through the memory of the past "seeking pleasure and avoiding pain" to ease the embarrassing status situation of facing "the general situation has gone" after the war.The third chapter "The Emotion Suppressed by Memory Subject",focuses on analyzing the complex emotion suppressed by different individual and collective memories.The first section mainly analyzes Ishiguro's nostalgia for the past in When We Were Orphans,and seeks for a better and more friendly pure emotion in the past as a positive narrative way to resist forgetting;the second section mainly discusses the mourning and trauma shared by Ryder and the residents of the nameless city in The Unconsoled;the third section mainly examines The Remains of the Day,through Stevens' memory,to excavate his proud professional dignity,and to confess to the past irreparable things.The fourth chapter,"Memory and War",systematically studies the war elements presented by the memory in Ishiguro's works,as well as the more core root issues involved behind.The first section analyzes the significant impact of the United States on post-war Britain and Japan;the second section examines the intergenerational projection of post-war children to adults in the works;the third section analyzes the war responsibility of the main body of memory and the root cause of the war.The third part is "Conclusion".Ishiguro Ishiguro's works take memory as a carrier,identity dilemma and emotional repression as expressions,and war factors as a summary of memory roots.