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An Anatomy of Human Dilemma in >The Moon and Sixpence< from Fromm’s Humanistic Theory [基于弗洛姆人本主义理论剖析《月亮和六便士》中现代人的生存困境], Master thesis, English Language and Literature, Xi'an International Studies University, Shaanxi, Xi’an, China 2017 [application of Fromm's theories to art].

  • 威廉•萨姆赛特•毛姆(1874-1965)是一个跨世纪的英国作家,他的作品既继承了传统现实主义对现实生活的真实刻画与批评,又吸收了20世纪现代主义关注个体心灵的特点。他总是擅长通过平实易懂的语言来讲述一个个精致复杂的故事,冷静犀利地批判人性。《月亮和六便士》是毛姆代表作之一,小说主人公的原型是法国后印象派画家保罗•高更。小说一经出版便得到广泛关注。作者以第一人称的叙述方式,讲述了人到中年的证券经纪人思特里克兰德突然抛弃家庭和财富,去追逐自己的绘画梦想的故事。跟小说中的其他人相比,斯特里克兰德显得古怪而难以理解。小说中对包括主人公在内的形形色色的人物的性格刻画入木三分,充分展现了毛姆对人性的洞悉及对现代人生存困境的担忧。本文试图结合社会文化背景,从与毛姆同一时期的哲学家埃里希•弗洛姆(1900-1980)的人本主义学说角度对《月亮和六便士》进行分析和研究,首先分析了小说中主要人物的性格,小说中的现代人在社会中被金钱和地位蒙蔽了双眼,迷失了本心。接着从社会和个人两个方面分析找出形成现代人非生产性性格并陷入生存困境的原因,通过这些分析,本文试图找出解决精神危机的办法,帮助现代人建立具有创造性的爱的健全人格,构建和谐社会。
  • William Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) was a cross-century English writer, whose works not only inherited the vivid description from the traditional realism in the 19th century but also concentrated on the individuals’ spirits which was absorbed from the modernism in the first 20th century. He always tells different complicated stories through his plain, understandable language and exposes the dark side of human inner world sharply. >The Moon and Sixpence< is one of Maugham’s masterpieces and the French painter Paul Gauguin is the prototype of the protagonist. Once published >The Moon and Sixpence< has been paid great attention. Maugham gives a story from the first-person point of view about a conventional middle aged stockbroker Charles Strickland who suddenly abandoned all his family and wealth to pursue his dream of painting. In the novel, it is very different and weird about Charles Strickland from others in that society. Obviously every character in the novel including the protagonist was depicted vividly and which shows the Maugham’s deep insights to human spirits and the very concern to the spiritual crisis of modern people. This paper attempts to combine the modern social and cultural backgrounds with the humanistic theory of Maugham’s contemporary philosopher Erich•Fromm (1900-1980) to analysis >The Moon and Sixpence<. It firstly analysis the character of the main characters in the novel, who lost their minds in the material society and then throws light upon the real causes to modern people’s nonproductive character orientation and spiritual crisis both from the social and individual causes. According to this analysis, it is supposed to find out the solutions of getting rid of spiritual crisis and help modern people establish the sane and sound character as well as building a harmonious society. [Author’s translation]

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Author:Dou Liu
Document Type:Dissertations
Language:Chinese
Year of first Publication:2017
Release Date:2019/03/04
Format:no download and copy possible
IdNo:Liu_Dou_2017
Writings about Erich Fromm (Secondary Literature):Dissertations / Dissertationen
Erich Fromm's Library and Erich Fromm Archive:Dissertations / Dissertationen
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