This paper attempts to analyze Paul Morel＇s instinctual drives--in D. H. Lawrence＇s Sons and Lovers （2006}---toward survival, neurotic refusal to accept life, and his will to give life meaning after a fierce and pr...This paper attempts to analyze Paul Morel＇s instinctual drives--in D. H. Lawrence＇s Sons and Lovers （2006}---toward survival, neurotic refusal to accept life, and his will to give life meaning after a fierce and prolonged internal strife--in the light of psychoanalysis. It will explore how his ＂Id＂ strives to bring about the satisfaction of instinctual needs on the basis of the pleasure principle driving him to seek pleasure. His ＂libido＂--psychic energy, emanating from the id, especially the sexual urge--has empowered his ＂Eros＂ or life instinct. It will also explore how ＂Thanatos＂ or death instinct, in contrast, has yearned for an almost lifeless state and curbed entering into human relationships as experienced in his last rejection of Miriam after his mother＇s death leaving a great trauma on Paul who has been on the verse of extinction as a result. Therefore, Eros and Thanatos, both coincide and conflict within him, are dynamically involved and thus are interacted infusing life not stagnation in Paulin consequence展开更多
Eros and Thanatos are the forces of life and death. The Ancient Greek Philosophers never showed the two gods together. Nevertheless, in the main myths related to the netherworld such as those of Orpheus or Persephone,...Eros and Thanatos are the forces of life and death. The Ancient Greek Philosophers never showed the two gods together. Nevertheless, in the main myths related to the netherworld such as those of Orpheus or Persephone, the two gods are in a continuous fight which has determined the human condition until nowadays. The author wishes in this paper to examine how the Orpheus＇ myth related to the duality Eros and Thanatos is treated in Theo Angelopoulos＇ world and especially how it appears in Ulysses＇ Gaze （1995） and Trilogy： The Weeping Meadow （2004） and Dust of Time （2008）. In this last Angelopoulos＇ Trilogy, we will search the unfolds of the love story of two young people started in Odessa in 1918 and finished by the death of the woman at the end of the century, under the lens of the duality Eros and Thanatos as literal and metaphorical qualities. The historical and personal adventures of the two characters represent a daedal itinerary from East to West, which offers multiple levels of reading of the filmic texts. A comparative approach with myth, literature, and historical research will demonstrate the richness of artistic expression and a profound relationship of Angelopoulos＇ thought with the formulaic myths he introduces in his filmic work.展开更多
Set in a highly advanced society, Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go tells a tragic story of a group of clones who are created to donate their organs for the purpose of saving homo sapiens' lives. This thesis ai...Set in a highly advanced society, Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go tells a tragic story of a group of clones who are created to donate their organs for the purpose of saving homo sapiens' lives. This thesis aims to explore homo sapiens' living condition under modern civilization revealed in Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go based on Marcuse's exploration of Western civilization. By creating a future world where technological rationality is at its apex, Kazuo Ishiguro shows us that people are still haunted by mortality and no happiness is guaranteed under that kind of civilization. Then by showing how those clones face their mortality under modern civilization, Kazuo Ishiguro pushes us to reflect on how human beings should live their lives in this modern world.展开更多
文摘This paper attempts to analyze Paul Morel＇s instinctual drives--in D. H. Lawrence＇s Sons and Lovers （2006}---toward survival, neurotic refusal to accept life, and his will to give life meaning after a fierce and prolonged internal strife--in the light of psychoanalysis. It will explore how his ＂Id＂ strives to bring about the satisfaction of instinctual needs on the basis of the pleasure principle driving him to seek pleasure. His ＂libido＂--psychic energy, emanating from the id, especially the sexual urge--has empowered his ＂Eros＂ or life instinct. It will also explore how ＂Thanatos＂ or death instinct, in contrast, has yearned for an almost lifeless state and curbed entering into human relationships as experienced in his last rejection of Miriam after his mother＇s death leaving a great trauma on Paul who has been on the verse of extinction as a result. Therefore, Eros and Thanatos, both coincide and conflict within him, are dynamically involved and thus are interacted infusing life not stagnation in Paulin consequence
文摘Eros and Thanatos are the forces of life and death. The Ancient Greek Philosophers never showed the two gods together. Nevertheless, in the main myths related to the netherworld such as those of Orpheus or Persephone, the two gods are in a continuous fight which has determined the human condition until nowadays. The author wishes in this paper to examine how the Orpheus＇ myth related to the duality Eros and Thanatos is treated in Theo Angelopoulos＇ world and especially how it appears in Ulysses＇ Gaze （1995） and Trilogy： The Weeping Meadow （2004） and Dust of Time （2008）. In this last Angelopoulos＇ Trilogy, we will search the unfolds of the love story of two young people started in Odessa in 1918 and finished by the death of the woman at the end of the century, under the lens of the duality Eros and Thanatos as literal and metaphorical qualities. The historical and personal adventures of the two characters represent a daedal itinerary from East to West, which offers multiple levels of reading of the filmic texts. A comparative approach with myth, literature, and historical research will demonstrate the richness of artistic expression and a profound relationship of Angelopoulos＇ thought with the formulaic myths he introduces in his filmic work.
文摘Set in a highly advanced society, Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go tells a tragic story of a group of clones who are created to donate their organs for the purpose of saving homo sapiens' lives. This thesis aims to explore homo sapiens' living condition under modern civilization revealed in Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go based on Marcuse's exploration of Western civilization. By creating a future world where technological rationality is at its apex, Kazuo Ishiguro shows us that people are still haunted by mortality and no happiness is guaranteed under that kind of civilization. Then by showing how those clones face their mortality under modern civilization, Kazuo Ishiguro pushes us to reflect on how human beings should live their lives in this modern world.
