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摘要小说《路》是美国作家考麦克•麦卡锡在2006年完成的作品。这部小说讲述了在世界末日之后一对父与子的故事。这对父子在灾难后历经千幸万苦克服重重艰险，一路上穿越过灾难后过往文明的废墟朝着南方的海边艰难的行进。这部小说之中提及的食人主义与现象也是这部小说之中的一个亮眼之处。人吃人的现象展现了人性的沦丧，显示了在世界末日之后爱与人性的丢失。本篇论文主要结合中国历史上的食人现象与小说之中的食人联系，从总结出人吃人的4大原因：1.求生性食人--因战争与灾荒引起的食人行为；2.因特殊目的引起的食人行为；3.人肉的医疗“效用”而导致的食人行为；4祭祀而导致的食人行为。通过食人原因的探析揭露在人性深处隐藏的鲜为人知的问题，探索人吃人之谜。25907
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Title Comment on the cannibalism in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road
Abstract
The Road is a novel written by American writer Cormac McCarthy in 2006. It is a post-apocalyptic tale about a father and his young son. They overcome many difficulties and struggle to cross the ruins of civilization ahead to the beach. The cannibalism plots in the novel is a highlight. It not only shows the degeneration of humanity, but also presents how love and humanity are lost after apocalypse. This paper mainly researches on the cannibalism in the novel as well as the cannibalism in Chinese history. Four motivations causing cannibalism are listed in the paper: 1.Cannibalism for survival due to wars or natural disasters; 2.Cannibalism for particular purpose; 3.Cannibalism for keeping healthy; 4.Cannibalism for sacrifice. Through the study on these motivations of cannibalism, problems in human nature are disclosed.
Keywords The Road post-apocalyptic tale cannibalism human nature
Table of Contents
1 Introduction 1
1.2 Cormac McCarthy 1
1.2 The Road 1
2 Cannibalism in The Road 3
3 Cannibalism in Ancient China 6
3.1 Cannibalism for Survival due to Wars or Disasters 6
3.2 Cannibalism for Particular Purpose 6
3.3 Cannibalism for Keeping Healthy 7
3.4 Cannibalism for Sacrifice 7
Conclusion ..8
Acknowledgments ..9
References 10
1 Introduction
1.1 Cormac McCarthy
Cormac McCarthy is a famous American novelist, screenwriter, and playwright. He has written influential works which have different writing style, ranging from the Southern Gothic, Western, to post-apocalyptic genres. In 1992, depending on All the Pretty Horses, he won two influential awards-- the U.S. National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award. All the Pretty Horses, The Road, and Child of God have also been adapted to movies, and all of them have achieved good reflection from the public. In 2006, depending on the novel The Road, he won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction and the Pulitzer Prize (Michael, 2010, p.25-27) . His novel No Country for Old Men was adapted to a film in 2007 of the same name. The film won four Academy Awards including the Best Picture.
1.2 The Road
The Road is written by American writer Cormac McCarthy in 2006. The novel depicts a post-apocalyptic world. Everything was enveloped dilapidated atmosphere, and gray is the maintone of the novel. But we can still find some colorful pictures of old days in the novel, which is presented by the scenes that the father recalled the good times with his wife. The time is wonderful and colorful because of love and warmth. When it is extinguished, dark and cold will come. In the novel, it is not only natural disasters , but also the loss of love among human beings that caused the apocalypse(Michael, 2010, p.48-50). Indifferent heart, selfish human nature makes people eating people a common thing. It is also because of the loss of love during the apocalypse, which makes the apocalypse caused by nature more horrible, finally turns a former beautiful world into a man-made apocalypse. People are suspicious of each other, and kill each other. The apocalypse has led to the doomsday of love. The father and the son overcome many difficulties to travel across the ruins of the civilization ahead to the beach to find a better place to survive after an unspecified cataclysm that has destroyed almost all life on Earth in the intervening years (Cusher, 2014, p.223-230) . The novel was awarded the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction in 2006.