The Game of Spiritual Ecology and Spiritual Wasteland
-- An Exploration of the Ecological Aesthetic Theme of More Die of Heartbreak
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https://doi.org/10.54097/ehss.v14i.8800Keywords:
Spiritual ecology, Spiritual wasteland, Saul Bellow, More Die of Heartbreak, Eco-AestheticsAbstract
More Die of Heartbreak, a postmodernism novel by Saul Bellow uncovers a grey and gloom picture, in which people in postmodernism period are intoxicated by fragmented emotional purchase, losing spiritual belief. By using the theory of Eco-Aesthetics, this essay intends to research on the life and image of the protagonist Bain, or Kreidel. The essay draws a conclusion that the novel, centered with some ecological images like trees, plants, etc., sketching his inner world—plant utopia. He experienced a process from isolation, alienation, loss to protest, and to departure. Entertaining a desire for plant paradise, an ideally sacred land, the hero is engaged in a sun-game with the age of desire around him. Luckily, he realized his dream, thus stimulating his life upward.
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