| Summary: | 碩士 === 輔仁大學 === 日本語文學系 === 92 === My thesis is consist of four chapters to elaborate on my previous section. In Kenzaburo Oe’s nearly 45 years of writing career, I have chosen to focus on his career to explore the work. I’ve picked the novel “A Personal Matter” and the short story “The Monster In Sky AGUI” to make a comparison. From some of the characteristics of his writing and how those two works have expressed the essence of redemption.
Chapter one, to confirm Oe’s starting point and his standpoint in literature, we sure can say there has been a great deal of influence from his childhood experience after the war.
I spent my chapter two in exploring Oe’s several ideas of redemption. The Utopia, imagination, sex and the existentialism, some of the subjects he used that have been popularly criticized for his literature characteristics. This chapter mainly discusses the redemption, and to extend those characteristics into writer’s creative origin.
I’ve gone deep into his work in chapter three to analyze main characters in “A Personal Matter”, birds, Himiko, babies have all appeared in the form of redemption. You might have to look closely into those characters, and then you will find the complex meanings and analogies behind the story. This chapter talks about whether true redemption was found through characters’ change of thinking.
Chapter four is the contrast and comparison of “A Personal Matter” and “The Monster In Sky AGUI”. Based on the similar contexts, difference and similarity of the characters, and are they going to turn out to be the vicious criminal or the perfect saint? From the dramatic comparison, you can see clearly the idea of redemption in “A Personal Matter”.
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