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. References
本dissertation的主要目的是提出一個比較分析的黑色麋鹿為主要的英雄Neihardt工作“黑麋鹿說話”的英雄和著名的歌德的書《少年維特之煩惱》的痛苦”。這看來是合適的描述,呈現一些短暫的主要觀點的書,一些事實約作者也形成的歷史的作品,這真的是很重要的一個更深層次、更詳細的分析主要英雄。

這個故事的黑色麋鹿提出了筆者在一個不尋常的方法。讀者成為證人會議的兩個人之間——在黑色的麋鹿、別人。從這個故事我們了解那個黑色的麋鹿是關于這樣的事告訴Neighardt他不敢跟他的最親密的朋友。這是一種獨特的技術的作者。這有助于首先開展一些不尋常的故事和舒適的氣氛,也為主要表現的英雄在一個浪漫的人,以及他的個性,原來是更復雜,除了被一些神秘的面紗。作者竭盡全力使讀者感到同樣的尊重和興趣的歷史和文化對蘇族印弟安人心目中他做。

一個重要的事實就是:大英雄,相信他其實沒能成為一個很好的領導者,也必代替他的民。他甚至認為我院任務維持在“神圣環形之中,他的國家“未能完成他的文化是蘇族印弟安人心目中,因此丟了。多數學者不接受這種觀點——他們反而相信這個文化雖幸免于難,但再生新形式的預訂的生活。

目前還不清楚誰對讀者要么選擇- - - - - - - - - - - - Neighardt還是黑色的麋鹿接近尾聲的故事在我受傷大屠殺的膝上,我們也無法確保這樣的作者希望加入一些“香料”蘇族印弟安人心目中浪漫的觀點的生活。

這本書“黑麋鹿講“本來是要成為一個真正的印度書籍,作者希望創造一個好的小說和黑色麋鹿的理由就是讓和保存記錄的文化、生活方式和傳統。這刻寫黑麋鹿為而不是一個人專注于自己的能力,但作為一個真正的一種心靈和思想的他的部落,以人為本,真正重要的歷史人物。作者將自己的態度“另一個“世界,而他的主要思想,提出了關于這個故事的第二項已:“這是所有生命的故事,是圣潔的,是有好處的,two-leggeds告訴我們分享了他的翅膀four-leggeds的空氣和一切綠色的東西;因為這些都是一個母親的孩子和他們的父親是一個精神”

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.#p#分頁標題#e#
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.#p#分頁標題#e#
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