The Growth Dilemma Of The Characters In Kazuo Ishiguro’s Novels

The British Japanese writer Kazuo Ishiguro has won the Nobel Prize for Literature,Booker Prize and other awards,and is well-known in contemporary literary circles.Thanks to his dual cultural backgrounds in Britain and Japan,Kazuo Ishiguro observes the living conditions of human beings with a broad and profound vision,and uses delicate brushstrokes to describe individual growth and its dilemma.This thesis intends to study the growth dilemma of the characters in Kazuo Ishiguro’s novels.The thesis is divided into three chapters besides the introduction and conclusion.The first chapter focuses on the main growth environment of the characters in Ishiguro’s early years-the family,analyzes the suppression and dilemma caused by the family prison,especially the arbitrary patriarchy,on the growth of people,and traces the "cultural gene" of this family inheritance.Negative influence of the character in adulthood.The second chapter focuses on the closed society in which the characters in Ishiguro’s novels grow up.In a single,closed school environment or an autocratic militarist social system,young people are indoctrinated by arbitrary culture and ideology,and lack critical thinking,which leads to the dilemma that it is difficult for them to develop physically and mentally.The closed social environment allows young people to form a one-sided cognition of the world.When they are adults,they show a sense of loss and tolerance when facing the complex and changeable real world.The third chapter discusses the confusion and growth crisis of people’s identity caused by cultural mixing in Kazuo Ishiguro’s novels.In the living environment of Shanghai concession or emigrating to a foreign country,young people’s cultural identity is torn and confused due to multicultural differences,but on the other hand,the hybridity of culture requires them to construct their own multiple identities with an open and tolerant attitude,which heralding the possibility of more free and comprehensive growth and development.The paper analyzes Kazuo Ishiguro’s worries about the growth dilemma revealed between the lines in depth,and reveals the ideological implication of his writing about the growth dilemma.Kazuo Ishiguro’s writing of human growth dilemmas involves a single closed family,a social environment,and a diverse and mixed cultural environment.He examines the world with an international and open vision,and explores the issue of human growth with a more free,diversified and open vision,which is full of enlightening significance.