远方的呼唤-浅析《月亮与六便士》

more public, with only a textbook on the “romanticism” of the influence of poetry, it is difficult to have a aesthetic capacity of “modernist” poetry.But I have own opinion for this charater.

Fist, we must understand the real reason of Strickland ran away and left his family.

In fact, I think he ran away from home and want to become an artist it is only a surface acts, lead to such acts are the real cause of his inner world of the original nature of a call, that was the call of human nature. You know. Gauguin is a strong personality, a nuisance, rude and arrogant, self-expression are strongly requested at the expense of all the consequences of a person, lonely and has plenty of strong-minded excess of a person, but his prototype is Gauguin, so always a bit of Gauguin’s projection.

Strickland is also a artist.Literature, painting, music and even chess, etc. are interlinked in essence, they all use a method (or technical) go for the thinking of services. They are all required to use sensitivity analysis approach to go to capture the feelings of the moment; all required the absolute freedom of mind; all required a process of the first lap up his own into a “cocoon”. The level does not lie in technology and form, determined by talent and inspiration. Efforts are not crucial here, because there is no inspiration, no matter how the efforts can not create a perfect work. Everyone knows that inspiration is not in the city, and not in the work, not the tedious life,where can find the inspiration? Only bid farewell to the noisy city, bid farewell to the hypocrisy of society, bid farewell to all of the crowd. Only in a deserted place to find the most the original of a natural feeling, only far away from the noise and crowds to find the kind of inspiration from the most deepest of the soul, that’s from the call from afar. Strickland just is the pursuit of this kind of call, so he can disregard anything to the run away from home. As if is an enlightenment suddenly of person walk out from the illusions and become a monk.

Through the novel’s plot. It’s not difficult to find, when he arrived in Tahiti he did find some things that are necessary. I think this book deserves it's great reputation, not only because it is beautifully written, but Maugham gives some startlingly

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perceptive and powerful insights into the nature of creativity and genius. He never for one moment recommends Strickland to us as a nice man, or even a decent human being. He never makes any apologies for his behaviour, and the narrator is frequently driven to exasperation by his callousness towards the people he hurts. That said though I actually found it hard to have sympathy for the people in Strickland's life, with the possible exception of Shroeve, the buffoonish little Dutch painter who is far too kind for his own good, and who Strickland tramples all over sadistically. The women in Strickland's life come across as a vacuous lot, none of them with the nerve to get what they want out of him and then tell him to go to hell. I also found some of the Tahiti scenes quite tedious, that sort of thing has been done so many times now and it's not that interesting. By contrast the Parisian scenes are absolutely marvellous, very akin to Zola. This must have been a brave novel for Maugham to write at the time, with its lack of sympathetic characters (it's hard to even feel sorry for Strickland's abandoned wife or his suicidal mistress, as neither are very warm or pleasent) and an even remotely likeable central character.

In reality our society has been very difficult to have a person like Strickland, is a genius or a madman, or civilizations are original, each person has their own reason. But each of us should have a piece of the spirit of paradise as him, although we will not necessarily go to follow it.

Personally I should say Strickland is a great genius.

4.2 Analysis of the plot

The all basically of talented artists are vampires, they will blot up all love by

around people as all dry absorbent sponge. The art of living because they fully demonstrated the formation of life, gorgeous and a huge whirlpool and traps, no matter who enter, as long as their own lack of such artistic qualities that will get involved go. Drain until all of the feelings and passion, and then brutally abandoned, so the most prominent artists are often relatives and friends will become a calamity.

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We are looking into the novel \the Moon and Sixpence\a situation? It was a very happy family, because Strickland has left and turn into a disaster.

Indeed, the novel also shows the writer has an almost pathological of hobby to lonely, the book describes a number of psychological also confirmed the existence of such a pathological, this pathological is psychological. Only “ I ”( here mean author ) can tell own mental activity to readers, so only adopt the first-person approach can the most authentic of description.

Well, let’s Analysis of the plot :

We all know the author is the third person narrator, everything all things are speaking out through him. When he first meets Charles Strickland, a London stockbroker, the young narrator of this novel thinks of him as \plain.\Strickland suddenly abandons his wife and children and takes off for Paris, the narrator, on seeing him again, decides he is a cad. Though he has had no training, Strickland has decided to become an artist, a drive so strong that he is willing to sacrifice everything toward that end. Anti-social and feeling no obligation to observe even the smallest social decencies, Strickland becomes increasingly boorish as he practices his art. Eventually, he makes his way to Tahiti, where he \

Basing the novel loosely on the life of Paul Gauguin, Somerset Maugham creates an involving and often exciting story. His narrator is a writer who, after Strickland's death and his posthumous artistic success, feels impelled to set down his memories of their early interactions in London and Paris, in the interest of \Because the \narrator never saw Strickland after he left Paris, the narrator depends on his meetings with a ship captain and a woman in Papeete for information about Strickland after Strickland arrived in Tahiti. The ship captain is described as a story-teller who may be spinning tall tales, a constant reminder to the reader that this is fiction, and not a biography of Gauguin.

By depicting Strickland as a \so overwhelming that nothing else matters to him, Maugham involves the reader in

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his actions, which even the narrator claims not to understand. The least convincing aspect of Strickland's characterization is the narrator's observation that Strickland is completely indifferent to his wife of seventeen years and his children. No confrontation between Strickland and his wife appear, and one wonders if perhaps Maugham found himself unable to depict Strickland's abandonment realistically. The story moves quickly, however, and whatever is sacrificed in the characterization is more than recouped in the plot and its development.

I think this book deserves it's great reputation, not only because it is beautifully written, but Maugham gives some startlingly perceptive and powerful insights into the nature of creativity and genius.

He never makes any apologies for his behaviour, and the narrator is frequently driven to exasperation by his callousness towards the people he hurts. That said though I actually found it hard to have sympathy for the people in Strickland's life, with the possible exception of Shroeve, the buffoonish little Dutch painter who is far too kind for his own good, and who Strickland tramples all over sadistically. The women in Strickland's life come across as a vacuous lot, none of them with the nerve to get what they want out of him and then tell him to go to hell. I also found some of the Tahiti scenes quite tedious, that sort of thing has been done so many times now and it's not that interesting.

The end of novel,the author return to Mrs Strickland’s house and meet her and two daughters, a son.He tells all things about Strickland in Tahiti, but he doesn’t tell them about Strickland’s the second wife and their children. This information seems to tell readers: all are back to reality. With he was tragic death, never be brought back to that piece of the spirit of paradise.

Just like author sees mirage finally, only can hear the call from afar but can’t follow it.

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