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The main dissertation is to analyze the pieces related to death among Shiga Naoya’s literatures, and to study how Shiga Naoya was affected by death and the way he expressed the meaning of life in his stories and novels.
In Chapter 1, the study is focused on the death experience occurred in Shiga Naoya’s actual life and how this experience brought the effect on his literatures. Shiga Naoya terminated his literary creation for more than three years after the tram accident at his 30’s. This death experience and three years discontinuance of writing had made Shiga Naoya’s thoughts became riper. The paper Shiga Naoya published named “at Kinosaki” has amply manifested his view to life and death is detached. The first part of Chapter 1 is to discuss the paper “at Kinosaki” and point out five traits related to death in five compositions. First: silent frame of mind. Second: no fear about the death. Third: death by accident. Forth: introspection arose from death. Fifth: death is not the end of life, but exists with life. The second and third parts are discussed based on the death of Shiga’s mother and first daughter. In Chapter 2, the discussion is based on Shiga’s papers which share the similar theme, but results in reverse. In part 1, there were two results formed based on the subject of tram accident – the child die or survived from the accident. In part 2, the discussion is based on the theme of wife’s betrayal. Two results are firstly, the wife was killed and secondly, the wife was forgiven. Through discussing these two results, I try to know how Shiga lookout on death and how he think of life. In Chapter 3, the study is based on those compositions which are fictitious. The first part is about suicide. The second part is about suicide committed with rage. The third part talks about the psychology of cursing someone to death. And to know how Shiga think about the dead imprecations. In Chapter 4, it discusses spiritual death. By analyzing Shiga’s long novel named “ Walking in the darkness” to interpret his mentality and to know how he overcomes the spiritual death and gets spiritual rebirth.
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