享乐主义论文文献综述英文

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Chapter Two Literature Review 2.1 Definition

2.1.1 The definition of hedonism

The hedonism is the doctrine that pleasure is the sole and the proper aim of human action.It is usually aociated with a more physical, egoistic, or unrefined definition of \"pleasure\" than that found in the related doctrine of utilitarianism.2.1.2 The brief introduction of Garfield\'s A Tale of Two Kitties Garfield\'s A Tale of Two Kitties is a very famous cartoon in America .Garfield, America’s favorite feline, follows his owner, Jon, to England.The U.K.may never recover, as Garfield is mistaken for a look-alike, regal cat who has inherited a castle.Garfield savors the royal treatment afforded by his loyal four-legged subjects, but his reign is in jeopardy.The nefarious Lord Dargis is determined to do away with Garfield, so he can turn the castle into a resort.Garfield’s bigger, better, more purr-fect world is soon turned upside down in this tale of two kitties.2.2 The foregoing researches 2.2.1 The hedonism in the picture of Dorian Gray

The author of the picture of Dorian Gray is Oscar Wilde.Hedonism is one of his important representative of English aesthetics.His novel the picture of Dorian Gray reflects the hedonism.It mainly talks about the bad results and the nature of the hedonism.

“ To mention the hedonism, from the pont of outlook on life, we can say that in fact, the picture of Dorian Gray in the novel is exactly the picture of hedonism.Once „the father Devil‟-Lord Henry Wotton, inspired Dorian to enjoy the unbated and infinite pleasures every term the young man takes in his life is definitely for the worse.Why? The answer lies on the proce of how the young man changes from the pure boy to a crude and crazy man.......This novel reveals the visible symbol of a new Hedonism.Then we can conclude that the life style adopted by Lord Henry and Dorian Gray is just the typical life style of Hedonism.” -----(Yanghui, 2013, Page 9)

“According to Floyd‟s „personality Theory‟, the two famous critics Bernard Green and Li Ruixue reach an agreement that Dorian Gray is the symbol of „ego‟(one of Floyd‟s personality Theory:id, ego, superego), and the painter who help him find his beauty is the symbol of id, the devil who lead Dorian Gray to death is the symbol of superego.”---- (Yanghui, 2013, Page 10) 2.2.2 The Cause of the Formation, Eence and Harm of the Current

Hedonism -----written by Zhang Yonghong

“The formation of the hedonism has its practical causes: the development of socialist market economy objectively offers physical conditions and social setting for it; the changes of the values since China‟s reform and opening up to the outside world have made mental basis of it ready; and the negative influence of popular culture makes for its cultural root.Hedonism is both materialism and egoism, the harm brought by which should not be ignored: it is a threat to the benign progre of economy, a corrosive of politics, a midwife of social corrupt phenomenon and a goad of social contradiction; it is also a cauterant of the Chinese spirit----fighting laboriously.So we have to attach enough importance to it and fight definitely against hedonism.” ------ ( Zhang Yonghong, 2004, Page 36) 2.3 Summary The previous research is mainly discu about the bad results and the nature of the hedonism and the cause of the formation, eence and harm of the current hedonism.But the study on the influence of hedonism to college students is few.So I will focus on this part.

I will focus on the hedonism in the cartoon of Garfield\'s A Tale of Two Kitties.Through the analysis of the character of Garfield and his behavior, I will explain the hedonism of Garfield’s and the hedonism in real society.I will also focus on the reason and harm of the hedonism and its influence to the college students’ life to help them avoid hedonism.

Bibliography

1.Oscar Wilde.The picture of Dorian Gray [M] Oversea Publishing

House, 1994 2.Richard Ellmann.Oscar Wilde [M] New York: PenguinBooks, 1988 3.The analysis of hedonism in the novel the picture of Dorian Gray

-----written by Yanghui, 2013 4.The Cause of the Formation, Eence and Harm of the Current

Hedonism -----written by Zhang Yonghong

(Politics Department, school of social science and humanities,

Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China)