scholarly journals Analysis of Humbert’s Ethical Choices

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 30
Author(s):  
Weihua Gao
Keyword(s):  
Free Will ◽  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Ethical Dilemma ◽  
Ethical Choice ◽  
Ethical Choices ◽  
Inner World

Humbert’s mumbling in prison shows the readers his true inner world and his tragic fate. Throughout Lolita, it is evidently clear that Humbert’s ethical choice is inextricably linked with his depressed heart and tragic fate. Based on ethical literary criticism proposed by Professor Nie Zhenzhao, this paper analyzes Humbert’s life, which is a life full of ethical choices. This article, based on Humbert’s ethical choice of Charlotte Haze, Lolita and Quilty, and his ultimate ethical redemption, reveals his ethical dilemma in ethical choice, his Sphinx Factors, the interweaving of his free will and rational will, and his ultimate ethical choice. Humbert’s ethical choices eventually led to his tragic fate.

The Risk, the Real, and the Impossibility of Life

2017 ◽  
pp. 163-177
Author(s):  
Maximiliano Emanuel Korstanje
Keyword(s):  
Free Will ◽  
Ethical Dilemma ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
The Real ◽  
The Matrix ◽  
Liberal Thought

The discourse of the Matrix not only wakes up philosophy from the slumber they are, but reflects the rise of fears which are proper of a culture, that manipulates anxieties to fix policies otherwise would be rejected. Basically, Neo is subject to an ethical dilemma which means that we are free to make the decision to live in a fake without suffering or in “the real of the dessert” as Morpheus put it. At this extent, if technology is used to protect humankind, Matrix evinces under some circumstances, it can oppress human beings when they renounce to their “free-will”. This chapter not only explored the limitations of the society of risks within liberal thought but taking into consideration the role of authenticity serves ideologically to legitimate suffering. Indeed, accepting to live as Neo did, may lead to oppression or liberation.

scholarly journals Euthanasia and the Ethics of Free Movement Law: The Principle of Recognition in the Internal Market

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (6) ◽  
pp. 1417-1436
Author(s):  
Barend van Leeuwen
Keyword(s):  
Member State ◽  
Assisted Suicide ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Internal Market ◽  
Free Movement ◽  
Criminal Prosecution ◽  
Member States ◽  
Ethical Choice ◽  
Ethical Choices ◽  
The Right

AbstractThe free movement provisions enable EU citizens to follow their own ethical preferences by going to a Member State that has made a different ethical choice from their home Member State. However, UK citizens who have assisted suicide or euthanasia abroad could be criminally prosecuted on their return to England. This possibility of a criminal prosecution constitutes a restriction on free movement. Nevertheless, the free movement provisions have so far not been used to challenge the English prohibition of euthanasia. The aim of this article is to show that, based on its ultimate aim, free movement law does have a legitimate role to play in ethical issues. The internal market is based on a principle of recognition, which forces Member States to engage with regulatory choices made by other Member States. This also applies to ethical issues. Member States are not required to justify the existence of different ethical choices. However, if they decide to restrict free movement, they have to be able to show that these differences in fact exist. This approach achieves a balance between the right of citizens to make their own ethical choices, and the ability of Member States to protect their legislation on ethical issues.

scholarly journals Ethical Anguish, Ethical Conflict and Ethical Choice: An Exploration of Futon from the Perspective of Ethical Literary Criticism

2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 82-88
Author(s):  
Yang Jian
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Social Care ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Social Ethics ◽  
Ethical Awareness ◽  
Bottom Line ◽  
Ethical Implications ◽  
Ethical Choices ◽  
The Common ◽  
Violent Conflicts

The transcendence of society and ethical dimension are often embodied in the Japanese I-Novel. The writers of the I-Novel are not outside society, actually their social care permeates their literary works in which the characters possess a strong ethical awareness within a deep, dignified, and sentimental ethical narrative wri ting strategy. Futon, an I-Novel masterpiece, contains many ethical implications from the perspective of Ethical Literary Criticism, such as the ethical anguish in love affairs which is caused by their ethical environment in the late Meiji. With violent conflicts between individual desire and social ethics, the common Japanese faced the crisis of emotion and belief and felt confused on ethical issues during that period. The ethical choices made by the hero and heroine in this novel had touched the moral bottom line of human being.

Ethical Choices in Aesthetic Medicine and Beyond

2015 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 235-240 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sonia Lopez-Moriarty
Keyword(s):  
Ethical Dilemma ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Ethical Dilemmas ◽  
Thought Process ◽  
Aesthetic Medicine ◽  
Professional Careers ◽  
Aesthetic Plastic Surgery ◽  
Ethical Choices ◽  
The Aesthetic

Practitioners will likely encounter significant ethical dilemmas during their professional careers. As these issues arise, practitioners will be required to analyze ethical issues and evaluate available choices. This case study discusses such an ethical dilemma in the context of aesthetic plastic surgery. The aesthetic provider is confronted with the question of whether or not to provide an ethically questionable procedure. The thought process discussed here can be extended beyond aesthetic medicine to all practitioners facing ethical dilemmas. An analysis of the principles of bioethics was undertaken. The principles of bioethics were then applied to the dilemma faced by the practitioner. Finally, a practical, 4-step system was constructed to be incorporated by the practitioner to guide in making ethically sound decisions.

THE FEATURES OF THE IDIOSTYLE OF ZULFIA

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 143-156
Author(s):  
Victoria Gudzina ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Research Methodology ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Classical Literature ◽  
Urgent Task ◽  
Artistic Life ◽  
Inner World ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Individual Style

Introduction. This article examines the poetic heritage of the outstanding Uzbek poetess Zulfiya, who is the brightest figure in Uzbek poetry. The 30-90s of the XX century, when Zulfiya made her debut and became famous for her poems, was a time of intense search in the artistic life of Uzbekistan. Description of the specifics of the individual style of the Uzbek poetess of the XX century Zulfiya is an urgent task of modern literary criticism. It should also be recognized that Zulfiya's connections with the previous tradition are insufficiently studied in revealing the inner world of the lyric heroine. Research methods. The research methodology is based on an integrated approach that includes various methods: biographical, historical-literary, relative-comparative, structural-semantic. Results and discussions. In the works of the poetess, one can trace an appeal to classical literature.

Voices from the Threshold in Attia Hosain’s Sunlight on a Broken Column

2018 ◽  
Vol 66 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-77
Author(s):  
Tanvir Sachdev
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Private Sphere ◽  
Western World ◽  
Women's Sexuality ◽  
Women’S Sexuality ◽  
Inner World ◽  
The Law ◽  
Class Community

Abstract Multiple patriarchies have attempted to circumscribe women within the private sphere, encrypting their identities with broader definitions of class, caste, community, and nation. Malashri Lal in The Law of the Threshold has suggested the threshold – a real as well as symbolic bar that patriarchies place before women – as a tool for literary criticism. The paper takes up Attia Hosain’s Sunlight on a Broken Column to examine negotiations of women from varying classes and communities with the dynamics of the threshold and their positioning inside, on, and outside the threshold. Issues of gender and the transgression of the controls and harness upon women’s sexuality are examined with the intersecting paradigms of class, community, and the changing face of the nation. The forces and anxieties emanating from opposing pulls of the inner world of the traditional order and the outer modern Western world that pre-empt the move outside the threshold are also traced against a colonial backdrop.

scholarly journals Deconstruction of Ethical Predicament in J. M. Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians

2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 136-143
Author(s):  
Huang Hui
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Cognitive Process ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Binary Opposition ◽  
Ethical Discourse ◽  
Ethical Choices ◽  
Civilization And Barbarism ◽  
Waiting For The Barbarians

Waiting for the Barbarians is an allegorical novel by J. M. Coetzee, which tells a story of the confrontation of civilization and barbarism. The old Magistrate, as the main character of the novel is called, is a defender of the civilization of the Empire at the very beginning. He falls into the dilemma of the binary opposition between civilization and barbarism through the cruel torture of the Empire and the contact with the barbarians; he breaks completely with the civilization of the Empire, and achieves the salvation of his soul ultimately, after witnessing the torture of the Empire by himself. This paper, with the approaches of Ethical Literary Criticism, throws light on the construction of ethical discourse and metaphor in the novel, and analyzes how the old Magistrate falls into the ethical predicament and comes out of it through ethical choices, thus deconstructing the old Magistrate’s psychological cognitive process of civilization and barbarism, and revealing the ethical callings and moral reflections of this work in relation to realistic social problems.

scholarly journals “Picture Brides” and Japanese Women’s American Dream: An Ethical Study on The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka

2018 ◽  
Vol 127 (6B) ◽  
pp. 77
Author(s):  
Dan Anh Nguyen
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Ethical Dilemma ◽  
American History ◽  
American Dream ◽  
Japanese Women ◽  
Dark Part ◽  
Ethical Identity ◽  
The Usa ◽  
The Buddha

<p><em>The Buddha in the Attic </em>is not a religious novel as its name might show, inversely, the author, Julie Otsuka, presentsreaders a vivid picture of the Japanese women who came to America in the early 20<sup>th</sup> century andwished to change their life via marriages. Through a common perspective of “We”, the novelist truthfully describes the tragedy not only of women but also ofJapanese communities in WWII inside the USA as well as a dark part of American history, the matter of race and cultural harmony... This research applied theories of ethical identity and ethical dilemma of ethical literary criticism to study on the identity tragedy within <em>The Buddha in the Attic </em>by Julie Otsuka.</p><p><em>Keywords: American Dream, picture brides, Japan, culture, ethical literary criticism</em></p>

scholarly journals Autobiography and Ethical Literary Criticism

2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 282
Author(s):  
Florence Kuek ◽  
Ling Tek Soon
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Virginia Woolf ◽  
Ethical Dilemmas ◽  
Moral Order ◽  
Life Challenges ◽  
Ethical Choices ◽  
Han Suyin ◽  
Natural Will ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

Autobiographies are traditionally understood as means of selfredemption or self-validation of the respective autobiographers, but they seem to have become tools of self-assertion in the recent times. The writers of this paper noticed that the underlying patterns in major autobiographies of the respective centuries such as those of Augustine, Rousseau, Virginia Woolf, Han Suyin and other male or female autobiographers commonly evolve around one’s ethical choices in response to the vices caused by one’s natural will and when facing ethical dilemmas caused by life challenges. This paper examines the abovementioned autobiographies via the Ethical Literary Criticism (ELC). Developed by Professor Nie Zhenzhao since 2004, ELC is one of the most insightful critiques in expounding the relationship of the self with oneself, self with others, and self with the divine or higher moral order in the context of the literary world.

scholarly journals БИЛВОСИТА НУТҚ — “ЛОЛАЗОР” РОМАНИДА БЕВОСИТА ПСИХОЛОГИЗМ КЎРИНИШЛАРИДАН БИРИ СИФАТИДА

2019 ◽  
pp. 195-203
Author(s):  
Mavlon Bobokhonov
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Inner Speech ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Direct Speech ◽  
Indirect Speech ◽  
Inner World

Мақолада ўзиники бўлмаган кўчирма гапнинг персонаж ички оламини тасвирлашдаги ўрни ўрганилган. Психологизм бевосита кўриниши ҳисобланадиган ички нутқнинг роман қаҳрамонлари руҳиятини очишдаги роли аниқланган. Ўзиники бўлмаган кўчирма гап адабиётшуносликда билвосита муаллиф нутқи сифатида қўлланилишига изоҳ берилиб, соҳа мутахассисларининг бу борадаги фикрларига муносабат билдирилган. Билвосита нутқнинг “Лолазор” романида бевосита психологизм кўринишларидан бири сифатида келиши исботланган. В статье изучается место несобственно-прямой речи в изображении внутреннего мира персонажа. Раскрывается роль этого вида внутренней речи, являющегося разновидностью психологизма. Разъясняется, что несобственно-прямая речь используется в литературоведении как косвенная речь, даётся собственная точка зрения по поводу того, как специалисты отностятся к этому явлению. Утверждается, что косвенная речь является разновидностью прямого психологизма в романе “Край, покрытый тюльпанами”. The article examines the place of indirect speech in the image of the character's inner world. The role of this type of inner speech, which is a kind of psychologism, is revealed. It is explained that improperly direct speech is used in literary criticism as indirect speech, and given own point of view about how specialists relate to this phenomenon. It is argued that indirect speech is a kind of direct psychologism in the novel “The Edge Covered with Tulips”.

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