斯宾塞《仙后》中的疾病和宗教身份认同焦虑 [4]
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关键词:英语毕业论文疾病宗教身份认同焦虑
摘要:本文是英语毕业论文,本文导论主要介绍了伊丽莎白时期人们对疾病的理解。当时人们对疾病认识分别受到古希腊哲学、《圣经》、盖伦的体液说以及当时盛行的帕拉切尔苏斯学说的影响,另外,当时人们对疾病的认知与政治、社会、文化、宗教有着紧密联系。
oncocted a colorful ensemble of medico-politicalremedies - “purges,” “potions,” “glysters,” “pharmacha” - designed to expel the bodypolitic’s afflictions. (3)Harris’remarks shows that Elizabethan people seek to apply the medical treatmentsinto the recovery of England health. As a devout defender of Queen Elizabeth, Spenseralso acts as one of “national physicians” at that time who explores positively the way tocure the diseased nation. Actually, The Faerie Queene exactly proves his endeavor. Inbook 1 of The Faerie Queeen, many medical treatments are applied to cure the diseasesin Redcrosse’s body. Furthermore, almost all of these treatments are related to purgation.Purgation tightly connects to Aristotle’s Catharsis to describe the therapeutic function oftragedy. It describes the process of purgation or purification of affects and passions.Therefore, purgation refers to the release of emotion. In addition, Purgation is also amedical term, and refers to expel something out of human body. In The Faerie Queene,it means to expel disease in the knights’bodies.
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Conclusion
Not merely limited in physiological phenomenon, disease is generally related topolitics, religion, and economy in Elizabethan people’s thought. Political crisis andsocial problems are usually unveiled through the analogy of bodily disease. As a devoutProtestant, Spenser in his The Fearie Queene presents the complex condition of religionin his time. Great fear and anxiety of the health of Protestant England were spread afterQueen Elizabeth’s access to throne because of the threat and invasion of the Catholicand Islamic forces. Disease in The Faerie Queene truthfully reveals this kind of fear andanxiety.In Spenser’s epic, disease can be considered as hostile enemy as well as thepunishment of God for human’s sins. Disease usually in epidemic form in the time ofSpenser connects a horrible tyrant, poisonous monster, and is conceived as enemy.Disease, such as syphilis and plague frequently appears in The Faerie Queene, and isendowed with religious significance. The diseased figures in book 1 and book 2 arecorrelated to the Catholic and Islamic forces. Their attacks to the knights are just likeravaging disease, and their aim of bringing the knights to the infection of disease vividlyreveals the attack and threat of the Catholic and Islamic forces. In addition, the knightsrepresent the ideal protestant. Redcrosse identifies himself as St. George, the knight ofHoliness and Guyon is the knight of temperance, a heavenly virtue in Protestantdoctrines. Therefore, by metaphorically treating disease, the condition thatProtestantism in early modern England is under the threat and invasion of the Catholicand Islamic forced is revealed, and the attack of the diseased Catholic and Islamicforces shows that the Protestant identity of England is also under threat. The anxiety ofreligious identity subsequently is triggered.
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