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The Human Struggle between Darkness and Light: A Study of Virtue Ethics in John John Steinbeck's >The Winter of Our Discontent< [application of Fromm's theories to art]

  • [Chinese abstract not available] With the American psychologist Erich Fromm's humanistic ethics as a point of reference, this article analyzes >The Winter of Our Discontent< (1961), John Steinbeck's final work of fiction. This novel focuses on protagonist Ethan Allen Hawley as he succumbs to the influence of corrupt social values and thereby fails to actualize his primary potentiality for goodness. At the novel's end, however, as he is on the verge of suicide, he thinks about the innocence of his daughter, Ellen, and experiences an epiphany of light that leads to a realization of love for self and others. Overcoming his sense of alienation from the good, he embarks on a course of active freedom that will enable him to go on with his life. Steinbeck's exquisite depiction of Ethan's moral development reflects his own ethical concerns about the well-being of his beloved America. [Translation: www.cnki.net, 9/2023]

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Verfasserangaben:Li Zheng
Titel des übergeordneten Werkes (Englisch):Steinbeck Review, Vol. 14, No. 2 (2017), pp. 164-176. [Online ISSN 1754-6087] [doi.org/10.5325/steinbeckreview.14.2.0164
Dokumentart:Artikel / Beiträge
Sprache:Chinesisch
Jahr der Erstveröffentlichung:2017
Datum der Freischaltung:04.04.2024
Format:no download and copy possible
ID-Nr.:Zheng_Li_2017
Schriften über Erich Fromm (Sekundärliteratur):Articles / Artikel
Bibliothek von Erich Fromm und Erich Fromm-Archiv:Articles / Artikel
Lizenz (Deutsch):
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