《莫斯卡特一家》的文学伦理学解读英语语言文学专业论文.docxVIP

Ⅱ Ⅱ The chapter two focuses on Asa?s ethical consciousness. It presents the Jewish traditional ethical values since his childhood and the idea of reason brought by Hasakalah firstly, and then reveals Asa chooses Spinoza?s ethical thoughts instead of the traditional ethics as the guide of his life under the influence of rationalism and free will. The third part presents Asa?s ethical predicament caused by his new ethical values. Instead of the Scriptural Commandments, ethical orders advocated by Spinoza lead him to keep the relationship with God and the relationship with family. It turns out to be a failure with his confusion with God, the broken marriage and indifference to family to follow the ethical selection. It is the displacement of his ethical identity that makes Asa caught into the ethical confusion and predicament without salvation. The fourth part concentrates on ethical environment and explores the relationship between space and his ethical selection. The ethical context of Asa? ethical selection is constructed by Tereshpol Minor and Warsaw, while study room becomes his shelter from the ethical chaos both in his hometown and modern society. The chapter five is the conclusion. Presenting Asa?s tragic fate in the work, Singer reveals the motivation leading to his selection of ethical awareness and ethical identity. The ethical predicament Asa faced with results from not only the acceptation of rational idea and free will, but also the involving of his living space forcedly into the modern secular society. It is demonstrated that the traditional ethical orders conformed with isolated place could not be applied to urban space and the new ethical orders has not established for the Jewish people with modernity, while Spinoza?s ethical thoughts is an illusion for them by showing Asa?s loss of his identity and embarrassment in Warsaw. By this ethical tragedy, Singer strengthens the power of ethic and warns that one violating any ethical orders and sticking to the