TY - JOUR A1 - Li, Huiling A1 - Cao, Yingzhe T1 - An Analysis of Bride’s Loneliness from the Perspective of >Love< [>爱<的理论视角下布莱德孤独现象的探究] [application of Fromm's theories to art] N2 - 随着经济发展水平的不断提高,科技进步给人类生活带来便利的同时也造就了人们的孤单焦躁、疏离恐惧。在这个快速发展的社会中,人与人之间的关系变得前所未有的疏远与陌生,人们感到生活意义的缺失,被深深地笼罩在>孤独<的困境中。针对此现象,弗洛姆把>爱<作为核心,提出了>爱才是解决人类生存问题唯一答案<这一概念。聚焦《孩子的愤怒》女主人公布莱德,结合弗洛姆关于>爱<的相关理论,深入剖析造成布莱德孤独困境背后的原因,以及她是如何通过>爱<使自己走出孤独困境的,对在现代化快速发展的社会中人类所遭遇的精神困境有一定的帮助。 N2 - In this fast-developing society, the advancement of technology has undoubtedly brought convenience to human life, but created people’s loneliness, anxiety and alienation fear simultaneously. The relationships between human beings, however, have grown more alienated, and people find themselves deeply shrouded in loneliness. In response to this phenomenon, Fromm puts forward that >love< is the only answer to the problem of human existence. It will offer great help to those people suffering from the spiritual dilemma in this rapidly developing society by analyzing the heroine Bride in >God Help the Child<, the reasons behind Bride’s lonely predicament, and how she lifted herself out of loneliness by nurturing love both for herself and for other people [Author's translation] Y1 - 2020 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Li, Huiling T1 - An Analysis of Bride’s Predicament of Loneliness from Fromm’s Theory of Love, Master thesis, World Literature, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin, Heilongjiang, China 2020 [application of Fromm's theories to art]. N2 - Toni Morrison(1931 – 2019), a renowned and influential African-American literary giant who enjoys univer¬sal acclaim, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993, making her the first black woman who ever receives this distinction ever since the award started. Throughout her literary career, her novel achievement has undoubtedly become a monument in the history of African-American literature. Morrison’s novels are deeply concerned about the destiny of African-Americans and the survival of their cultural identity in the white mainstream society. >God Help the Child< is Morrison’s 11th novel which officially came out to public in 2015. Contrary to her previous works that are based on the American histories, >God Help the Child< is her first novel that is set in contemporary American life in the 1990s. Main characters of the novel are Bride, Sweetness and Booker. The novel mainly reveals the various injuries and crises encountered by different characters in society, and reveals the complex relationship between family, couples, and friends. The society is developing rapidly nowadays, whereas, people can’t feel the existence of love and the value of self-existence, only to find themselves deeply shrouded in the cage of loneliness. As a result, people are eager to find a way to re-establish connections with others and to rediscover the meaning of life. Social theorist and psychoanalyst Fromm once lamented the fact of people’s spiritual crises and the collapse of traditional values. In response to this phenomenon, by making love the core of his study, Fromm puts forward his love theory to help human beings get rid of the plight of loneliness. In Fromm’s eyes, love is the only answer to solve human beings’ existential problems. Combined with Fromm’s theory of love, this thesis intends to analyze Bride’s predicament of loneliness in >God Help the Child<, and how she successfully escapes from loneliness by connecting love with other people.– This thesis consists of five parts. The first part is the introduction to Toni Morrison, >God Help the Child<, Fromm and his theory of love. In the second part, combined with Fromm’s theory of motherly love, erotic Love and brotherly love, this thesis points out Bride’s dilemma of loneliness by analyzing Bride’s relationship with her mother, her ex-boyfriends, and her friends. The third and the fourth parts deeply analyze the reasons that have engendered Bride’s plight of loneliness by thoroughly demonstrating the social as well as Bride’s personal causes. The fifth part demonstrates how Bride succeeds in getting rid of the shackles of loneliness and successfully regaining the value of her self-existence and the meaning of life by nurturing love to other people. The last part is the conclusion part, which points out that in the contemporary society where spiritual crises are widespread, only by proactively looking for effective solutions and establishing healthy love connections with other people, can human beings eliminate loneliness and regain the meaning of life. [Translation: www.cnki.net, 4/2023] Y1 - 2020 ER -