Abstract：Henrik Johan Ibsen’s Peer Gynt is a moral allegory demonstrating the combination and changes of Sphinx factor. Specifically, the play fully embraces the ethical conflicts among free will, rational will, and irrational will. From the perspective of ethical literary criticism, Peer’s daydream can be seen as the very expression of his animal factor, his “leaving home” as an evasion of his ethical responsibility, his “going home” as an embodiment of human factor. Along three ethical lines of “daydream”, “leaving home” and “going home”, this papers seeks to untie such ethical knots as ethical choice, ethical identity and ethical consciousness so as to pin down the ethical purpose of the implied Ibsen: guided by the moral principles, a man’s rational will is to be strengthened, and his human factor will be embodied and he will become an ethical being accordingly; lack of the ethical consciousness and moral guidance, violating the ethical principles, a man’s irrational will is to take an advantageous position, which will drive the man to commit ethical crimes and cause ethical chaos.
尚必武. 寻找伦理存在的自我——《培尔?金特》中的理性意志与伦理选择[J]. , 2013, 1(1): 23-32.
SHANG Bi wu. The Self as an Ethical Being: On the Rational Will and Ethical Choice in Peer Gynt. , 2013, 1(1): 23-32.
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