A Spiritual Collapse in the Jazz Age
——The Interpretation of The Great Gatsby from the Perspective of Spiritual Ecology
Abstract:
The Great Gatsby is the masterpiece of Francis Scott Fitzgerald, a most famous American writer who is known as the spokesman for the Jazz Age of the 1920s. The novel displays three kinds of alienation that people in the Jazz Age are confronted with, that is alienation between man and nature, alienation man and man, alienation man and his inner world through the depiction of the protagonist Jay Gatsbyrsquo;s love tragedy.
From the perspective of the theory of the spiritual ecology, this thesis attempts to interpret the spiritual conditions of people in the Jazz Age, an era of economic booming and prosperity which is similar to nowadays society. The interpretation is mainly from three of the five aspects of manrsquo;s spiritual plight summarized by Professor Lu Shuyuan, that is spiritual vacuum, materialization of spirit and alienation of existence. The three kinds of alienation eventually lead to manrsquo;s spiritual collapse such as loneliness, emptiness, depression, etc. From the interpretation, the imbalance between manrsquo;s material and spiritual desire may be responsible for the imbalance between manrsquo;s three kinds of ecology and consequent spiritual plight. In addition, a suggestion could be put forward by the essay that traditional values and morality may serve as an adjuster between manrsquo;s spiritual desire and material desire in order to pursuing the balance between their natural, especially social and spiritual ecology.
Key words: F. Scott Fitzgerald; Jazz Age; spiritual ecology; spiritual plight; traditional values and morality
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