Creative Freedom in Geling Yan's The Lost Daughter of Happiness
| Autor: | CHENG, YU-HSIN, 鄭玉鑫 |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
| Druh dokumentu: | 學位論文 ; thesis |
| Popis: | 106 In this thesis, I explore that how a person creates his or her spontaneous freedom via the examples of three core characters—Fusang, Da Yong and Chris—in Geling Yan’s The Lost Daughter of Happiness. Spontaneous freedom means that a person has free will to create his or her unique freedom, regardless of his or her physique and his or her spiritual burdens. Based on Rollo May’s Freedom and Destiny and The Courage to Create, and Erich Fromm’s The Fear of Freedom and The Art of Loving, I probe three stages of freedom—existential freedom, freedom to escape, and freedom to create. Existential freedom is a person’s custom or activities in his or her everyday routine. These collective concepts dominate a person’s freedom strongly. It is not a person’s real freedom. However, a person cannot cut off his or her existential freedom. If he or she refuses to get along with existential freedom, he or she weakens his or her potentials. Without existential freedom, a person would be lost in chaos. On the other hand, a person can not just live his or her prearranged pattern of life because he or she would lose his or her good possibilities of growth. Thus, when a person is aware of a sense of danger, fear and anxiety, he or she would give up developing his or her journey of individualism and escape from his or her existential freedom. Namely, when a person is willing to build his or her true freedom through the courage to create, he or she will have the power of subjectivity and shape his creative freedom. In the novel, Fusang, Da Yong, and Chris respectively are via spontaneous creativity, such as compassion, responsibility and redemption to win their own subjectivities and create their real freedom. Fusang throws off the shackles. Her generous compassion lets her cross over unequal sexual boundary and wins her subjectivity. Because of her great compassion, she changes both Da Yong and Chris, and helps them create their spontaneous freedom as well. |
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