Reflection And Reconstruction Of The Value Of Life ——A Literary Ethical Interpretation Of The Unlikely Pilgrimage Of Harold Fry

As the representative work of British writer Rachel Joyce,The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry has attracted wide attention in academic circles since it was published.Joyce shows the spiritual dilemma faced by modern people with the exquisite brush strokes peculiar to female writers.Taking The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry as the research model and literary ethical criticism as the theoretical basis,this thesis analyzes the ethical environment,ethical dilemma,ethical identity,ethical choice,ethical order and ethical education in the works.the ethical and moral values contained in the works are discussed.The introduction part mainly discusses the research background,research significance,research status at home and abroad,research methods,research ideas and the innovation of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry.The first chapter mainly introduces the basic connotation,basic terms and the relationship between literary ethics criticism and moral criticism,which lays a theoretical foundation for the full text.The second chapter mainly analyzes the ethical environment and ethical context involved in the works,and discusses the reasons for the individual’s loss of subjective spirit from the perspective of the restraint of capital rationality and the alienation of the objective world.The third chapter focuses on the ethical trauma caused by the alienation of family ethics,marriage ethics and interpersonal ethics.This thesis discusses the double damage to individual body and spirit caused by ethical disorder from the perspective of literary ethics criticism.The fourth chapter focuses on the confirmation of the ethical choice of the main characters and the transformation of ethical identity.Ethical choice is the core of literary ethical criticism.Different ethical choices will cause different ethical dilemmas and form different ethical identities.Through the analysis of Harold’s ethical choice,this thesis focuses on the possibility that Harold can achieve spiritual redemption.Based on the educational function of literary ethical criticism,the fifth chapter discusses the ethical education and ethical enlightenment given by the works to modern people from the perspectives of the redemption of female power,the healing of natural forces and the reconstruction of spiritual belief.The conclusion part combs the ethical direction of the full text,starting from the whole process of Harold’s pilgrimage,discusses the important role and significance of attaching importance to ethical and moral values in today’s society.On the theoretical basis of literary ethical criticism,this thesis probes into the ethical dilemmas faced by modern people through the analysis of the ethical choices of the main characters in the works and the carding of the ethical lines and ethical knots referred to in the works.The solution of ethical dilemma is an important way for individuals to achieve spiritual redemption.This thesis hopes to provide modern people with a way to realize spiritual liberation by exploring the value of ethical education in literary works,so as to warn modern people to pay attention to the important role of social ethics and moral ethics.to realize the return of traditional ethical and moral concepts in the context of modernity.