Humanity Division of Edna and Ishmael-Ahab—Seeking for the Whole⁃ness of Humanity

• 作者: 思媛媛 王晓艺
• 来源期刊: 海外英语（上）
• 年，卷（期）: 2021,（6）
• 所属期刊栏目: 中外文学文化研究
• 页码范围: 247-249
• 页数: 3页
• 分类号: I106
• 语种: 中文

摘要

Everyone is living with two hearts. One is controlled by the social rules and moral standards while the other is possessed by wild fantasies that go against the conventions. The first may be called reason and the second inner passion. More often than not people try to behave as good and normal as the society expects them to be but keep a tight lid on their feelings that do not fit in the moral requirements. Struggling between the two, a lot of writers have delved into the discussion of the humanity division, attempting to seek for the wholeness of humanity again. Chopin and Melville are without exception. Their characters—Edna and Ishmael-Ahab are all beings with split minds and fragmentary personalities. Through frustrations and determinations, those characters dem?onstrate the sorrows of incomplete humanity and lead readers to aware their own incompleteness, think about the issue seriously and make up their mind to pursuit the wholeness of their soul.