Salvation Of Suffering Heart:A Study Of John Fowles’ Trauma Writing

John Fowles is a famous British contemporary novelist,whose novels are full of mystery and unknown mystery,and are loved by ordinary readers and concerned by literary critics.He is good at depicting the complicated psychology of the characters in the extreme environment.Behind the traumatic narration of time and space misplacement,delay and fragmentation,he pays attention to and cares for the individual existence and survival predicament in the post-modernism era,reflecting strong philosophical thinking and humanistic care.John Fowles’ life is painful and confused.People look for love and redemption in the traumatic experience.In his novels,there are detailed descriptions of individual suffering from family trauma,gender trauma and social trauma.The descriptions of lust,disease and madness run through the whole process.His unique ugly and sad narration is unpleasant and alarming.John Fowles enjoys a unique literary position in the European and American literary circles.There are many researchers and achievements in the study of John Fowles’ novels at home and abroad.Scholars have published a lot of rigorous,detailed and thorough research results on the characteristics of postmodern writing techniques,existential philosophy,free theme,feminist thought,psychoanalytic theory application,etc.Based on existing materials,it can be found that most of the researches on John Fowles’ novels at home and abroad focus on the influence of psychoanalytic psychology,existentialist philosophy and post-modern humanistic feelings on John Fowles’ novels.Psychological criticism researches mostly apply Freud and Jung’s psychological theories to analyze the prototype of the relationship between parents and children,myths and other characters in novels;existential criticism researches mostly start with Sartre and Heidegger’s existential philosophy to analyze the existential sad experience embodied in novels;postmodern theory researches mostly analyze the rich irony,parody and intertextuality in the Postmodern writing techniques and humanistic feelings behind the misplacement and fragmentation oftime and space.As for John Fowles’ novels,scholars generally believe that the three novels,The Collector,The Magus and The French Lieutenant’s Woman,are the most representative.The research of the three novels also has different emphases.The French Lieutenant’s Woman is widely concerned by scholars because of its distinctive postmodern narrative technique;the study of The Collector mostly involves the crime plot,abnormal love and power competition;the study of The Magus mostly focuses on its existential philosophy and the rich symbolic meaning of the novel.There are many researchers in the former,followed by the latter two.Other fictional novels have not been published in China due to the poor translation and introduction,so there are relatively few researchers.In all these achievements,few researchers concerns about the connotation of trauma writing on the basis of trauma theory.Trauma theory is a new kind of literary criticism,which was born in the 1980 s in the United States.It integrates literature,philosophy,psychology and other disciplines,and pays attention to the psychoanalysis,historical culture and ethical interpretation of trauma literature.The author of this thesis believes that the analysis of John Fowles’ novels from the perspective of trauma theory is the specific application and improvement of trauma theory,which can provide reference for readers to understand and understand John Fowles’ novels.The main body is composed of five parts: the first chapter introduces the trauma theory and John Fowles’ creation background and experience.The second chapter analyzes the family trauma,gender trauma and social trauma in the novel.The author believes that John Fowles’ characters suffer from unconscious traumatic memory all the time.It is traumatic experience that pushes the characters to tragic fate.The third chapter discusses the close relationship between the three trauma images of scapegoat,crazy woman and sick person and Western history and culture.The fourth chapter discusses the trauma experience of the characters caused by the two extreme trauma environments of imprisonment and exile and the important influence on the survival of the characters.Chapter five analyzes the theme of trauma treatment in the novel and reveals two ways of trauma treatment in the novel,internal self-reconstructionand external love and trust.The conclusion summarizes John Fowles’ trauma writing,proposes to use the perspective of trauma theory to study the possible shortcomings and shortcomings of his novels,and reveals the paradox in his novels.The collector,The Magus and The French Lieutenant’s Woman are the most representative novels of John Fowles.Scholars generally believe that his creative ideas are continuous and consistent.Taking John Fowles’ novels as the research text,the author tries to analyze the trauma writing in John Fowles’ novels from the four aspects of trauma plot,trauma image,trauma environment and trauma theme,reveals the trauma narrative and trauma aesthetics of his works,and concludes that the trauma writing in John Fowles’ early novels is the author’s own pain creation The artistic reappearance of trauma experience is also the concern and concern for the trauma group in the post-modernism era.To some extent,the deep humanistic feelings and strong sense of social responsibility embodied in John Fowles’ novels can also inspire the trauma writing during the current epidemic.