Abstract:Rene Girard explores the origin of myths in terms of desire to imitate. In primitive myths, there were universal expansion and distortion of the four patterns of the texts of persecution. In ordinary ...Rene Girard explores the origin of myths in terms of desire to imitate. In primitive myths, there were universal expansion and distortion of the four patterns of the texts of persecution. In ordinary texts of persecution, there was only the first transformation of the victims - the unfortunate transformation. But in myths, there was a second transformation - a blessed and sanctified transformation. These two kinds of transformation constituted the scapegoatism of myths. Because of the influence of Plato's philosophy of reasoning and the ethics of the society, mass violence in myths was gradually diluted and even eliminated later. Finally, the mass persecution in myths was concealed, even embellished. Applying this theory of Rene Girard's to the analysis of A Journey to the West, we can find that scapegoatism also exists as it contains the concealments of mass persecution.Read More
Publication Year: 2004
Publication Date: 2004-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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