论《过界仪式》中主人公塔尔伯特的成长 [2]
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关键词:英语毕业论文《过界仪式》暴力成长
摘要:本文是英语毕业论文,本文认为塔尔伯特的成长表现在其认知上的变化及其采取补救过错的行动上。本文说明了戈尔丁通过主人公成长经历,揭示了由于普通民众丧失道德判断能力导致的集体暴力。表明了人们一旦放弃了独立思考,陷入盲从,表现出平庸的恶,必然会造成暴力的产生。
(162). In addition, Golding furtherpoints out that the protagonist Talbot goes through a “rite of passage”, and “he isgrowing up” (162). Golding himself points out the theme of initiation in Rites ofPassage. This first-hand material is an overall review of Golding’s literary creationand provides author’s viewpoint in understanding the theme of initiation contained inthe novel.
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CHAPTER II THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK
In Rites of Passage, the parson Colley’s death appears that he dies of suicide buthis suicide has a lot to do with the violence impressed on him during the voyage.Therefore, in order to discuss how the protagonist Talbot gains his growth from hiswitnessing, awakening and the reflection on violence, it is necessary to make clearwhat violence means, how many forms the violence contains and in what wayviolence can be legitimized. Hannah Arendt’s elaborations on violence can be a greathelp for the exploration.Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) was a Jewish-American political theorist who wasborn in Germany and was one of the most greatest and influential theorists in the 20thcentury. Arendt published her controversial work On Violence after her attendance in aconference which is entitled “The Legitimacy of Violence” among the New Yorkintellectuals in 1969. The panel is chaired by Robert Silvers from New York Review ofBooks, and the other notable scholars including Noam Chomsky, Conor CruiseO’Brien and Robert Lowell.
2.1 The Definition of Violence
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the term “violence” isdefined as “the international use of physical force or power, threatened pr actual,against oneself, another person, or against a group or community, which either resultsin or has a high likelihood of resulting in injury, death, psychological harm,maldevelopement, or deprivation” (Global Status Report on Violence Prevention 20142). Therefore, not only evil conduct which causes other’s psychological panic can bedefined as violent conduct, but also those would cause physical harm to others.According to Arendt, how to define violence depends on how to understand thepower. In On Violence, Arendt not only outlines the discussions of power in the pastbut also discovers that the theorists from both Left and Right have a consensus to theeffect that “violence is nothing more that the most fragrant manifestation of power”(Arendt 35). She quotes from C. Wright Mills that “[a]ll politics is a struggle forpower; the ultimate kind of power is violence” (qtd. in Arendt 35). And this quotationechoes with the definition of the state by Max Weber who says that “the rule of menover men based on the means of legitimate, that is allegedly legitimate, violence” (qtd.in Arendt 35). She also mentions Voltaire’s viewpoint of power that “consists inmaking others as [the owners] choose” (Arendt 36).
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2.2 Forms and Causes of Violence
When analyzing the causes of violence, it is unavoidable to interpret theinterrelated relationship between power and violence. Arendt conducts acomprehensive analysis of the relationship between power and violence. Althoughthey are usually coupled together, these two terms are totally different phenomena.According to Arendt, no matter where these two phenomena show together, “power[…] is the primary and predominant factor” (52). In order to define violence, itsopposite side—power serves as the prerequisite under the discus
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