Black Elk as a Romantic Hero Compared to Werther
TTable of contents
1. Introduction
2. Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse
3. Joyce’s Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
4. Conclusion
5. References5。参考
本论文的主要目的是提出一个比较分析的黑色麋鹿为主要的英雄Neihardt工作“黑麋鹿说话”的英雄和著名的歌德的书《少年维特之烦恼》的痛苦”。这看来是合适的描述,呈现一些短暂的主要观点的书,一些事实约作者也形成的历史的作品,这真的是很重要的一个更深层次、更详细的分析主要英雄。
这个故事的黑色麋鹿提出了笔者在一个不寻常的方法。读者成为证人会议的两个人之间——在黑色的麋鹿、别人。从这个故事我们了解那个黑色的麋鹿是关于这样的事告诉Neighardt他不敢跟他的最亲密的朋友。这是一种独特的技术的作者。这有助于首先开展一些不寻常的故事和舒适的气氛,也为主要表现的英雄在一个浪漫的人,以及他的个性,原来是更复杂,除了被一些神秘的面纱。作者竭尽全力使读者感到同样的尊重和兴趣的历史和文化对苏族印弟安人心目中他做。
一个重要的事实就是:大英雄,相信他其实没能成为一个很好的领导者,也必代替他的民。他甚至认为我院任务维持在“神圣环形之中,他的国家“未能完成他的文化是苏族印弟安人心目中,因此丢了。多数学者不接受这种观点——他们反而相信这个文化虽幸免于难,但再生新形式的预订的生活。
目前还不清楚谁对读者要么选择- - - - - - - - - - - - Neighardt还是黑色的麋鹿接近尾声的故事在我受伤大屠杀的膝上,我们也无法确保这样的作者希望加入一些“香料”苏族印弟安人心目中浪漫的观点的生活。
这本书“黑麋鹿讲“本来是要成为一个真正的印度书籍,作者希望创造一个好的小说和黑色麋鹿的理由就是让和保存记录的文化、生活方式和传统。这刻写黑麋鹿为而不是一个人专注于自己的能力,但作为一个真正的一种心灵和思想的他的部落,以人为本,真正重要的历史人物。作者将自己的态度“另一个“世界,而他的主要思想,提出了关于这个故事的第二项已:“这是所有生命的故事,是圣洁的,是有好处的,two-leggeds告诉我们分享了他的翅膀four-leggeds的空气和一切绿色的东西;因为这些都是一个母亲的孩子和他们的父亲是一个的灵魂”(1)。
The main goal of this paper is to present a comparative analysis of the Black Elk as the main hero of the work by Neihardt “Black Elk Speaks” and the hero of the well – known book by Goethe “The Sorrows of Young Werther”. It seems appropriate to present some short descriptions of the main ideas of the books, some facts about the authors and also about the history of creation of the works, as all this is really important for a deeper and more detailed analysis of the main heroes.
The story of the Black Elk is presented by the author in an unusual way; the readers become the witnesses of the meeting between two men – between Black Elk and somebody else. From the story we get to know that Black Elk is telling Neighardt about such thing he didn’t dare to talk to his closest friends about. This is a kind of a unique technique of the author. This helps first of all to develop some unusual and intimate atmosphere of the story and contributes to the presentation of the main hero as a romantic one as well, as his individuality turns out to be even more complicated and besides covered by some mystery veil. The author does his best to make the readers feel the same respect and interest towards the history and culture of Sioux he does.
An important fact is that the main hero is convinced that he actually failed to become a good leader for his people. He even comes to a conclusion that the task to maintain the “sacred hoop of his nation” was not completed by him and that the culture of Sioux is therefore lost. Most scholars do not accept this point of view – they on the contrary believe that this culture survived but was reborn into some new form of reservation life.
It is not clear for the reader whose choice - either Neighardt or the Black elk – was to end the story with the massacre at Wounded Knee, and neither can we be sure that in this way the author wanted to add some “spices” to the romanticized view of Sioux life.
The book “Black Elk speaks” was supposed to become a truly Indian book, the author wanted to create a good novel and Black Elk’s reason for doing it was to make and save the records about the culture, life style and traditions of his people. This characterizes Black Elk as not a person concentrated upon himself, but as really a kind of a soul and mind of his tribe, as humanist and really important historical figure. The author had his own attitude to the “other” world and his main idea concerning this was presented in the second paragraph of the story already: “It is the story of all life that is holy and is good to tell, and of us two-leggeds sharing in it with the four-leggeds and the wings of the air and all green things; for these are children of one mother and their father is one Spirit” (1).
The doubts about life and his choice in life of Black Elk are a little alike with those of the main character of Goethe’s novel “The Sorrows of Young Werther”– Werther. But the great difference is the fact that Black Elk was trying to take care and felt responsible for the whole tribe, and Werther couldn’t even cope with some problems about his mother’s household. He created his own “paradise” getting to know some “nice” people. It is hard to be really critical about his shooting himself, as he was suffering from his love to Lotte, the question whether suicide is a weakness of a human’s nature or the result of his power as he could decide to kill himself, is still without concrete answer.
There is an opinion that the story of Werther has some aerobiological characteristics, it comes from the statement of Goethe in his letter to C.F.Zelter: “Werther hardly leaves anyone doubting that all of the symptoms of this wonder- ous, as natural as unnatural disease have once roamed within me, too. I still remember quite well what efforts it has cost me to escape the waves of death back then...” (2).
Overall, the two above mentioned heroes are both rather bright personalities and their stories, emotional experience and views certainly grasp the attention of the readers, but they still present different types of romantic heroes – one being the real hero of his nation, of his people, and the other reflecting the moral sufferings of the author of the book and sinking into the inner world of the person experiencing unrequited love.
Sources:
1. “Black Elk Speaks” , Neihardt
2. “The Sorrows of Young Werther”, Goethe