Philip roth's creative characteristics

Describing the protagonist's sexual confusion in the conflict between individuals and society is the beginning of Ross's sexual theme creation. Sex here is not the crystallization of love between men and women, but a means and tool to vent their inner anguish. Ross continues to explore the theme through a lot of descriptions, especially the love triangle. Love triangle is an abnormal love relationship from the general social ethics, but it reflects the conflict between individual ideal and social norms to some extent. When the writer brought this contradiction into the whole society, he showed ethical torture. Ross finally finished his thinking on the theme of sex with a descriptive ending, in which the contradiction between ethical norms and instinctive nature and the conflict between natural desires and emotional needs are all involved.

From the confusion of sex to the overflow of sex, and then to the end of sex, it contains the author's meditation on the theme of sex, and also shows the author's torture on the ethical issues brought about by sex. This high attention to reason and emotion, social norms and human instinct is the embodiment of the rich connotation of Ross's novels, and it is also the author's profound reflection on the whole human life, including the Jewish nation.

Rebellion is a reflection and resistance of Jews to tradition. In the Bible, it is the ancestors of the Jews who left God. Now it has become a special figure with universal significance. If the Jewish writers such as Bellow embody more the inheritance and memory of Jewish traditional culture in their novels, then Ross exposes the shortcomings and ugliness of Jewish culture with great courage, which reflects the deviation and rebellion against his own national culture. The rebellious consciousness depicted by Ross is reflected in the complex ethical relations and moral conflicts between individuals and families, self and society, tradition and modernity, parents and younger generations in Jewish society. While other Jewish writers tried their best to maintain the traditional identity consciousness and self-consciousness, Ross stood in another direction to dispel the traditional core problems and moved out the most serious identity problems with a comedy color.

In these novels full of rebellious consciousness, we can find all kinds of ethical conflicts, which represent Ross's reverse cognition and refutation of Jewish tradition. This is why he was criticized by many people in Jewish society.

The rebellious consciousness created by Ross is a kind of cultural rebellion, which shows the contradictions and conflicts in the transformation of Jewish culture. The contradiction between religion, family values and ordinary individuals is reflected in the rebellion and struggle of the younger generation against their parents.

In addition to the ethical torture under the theme of sex and the moral conflict in rebellious consciousness, Ross also thought about the issue of survival and death for a long time, and the reflection on fate under the living situation became another focus of his novel creation. Ross constantly explores the individual survival situation under the multicultural background of contemporary American society, and gradually breaks through and transcends the limitations of the times, expanding his vision to the survival situation of the whole human being, and making unremitting efforts to explore the value of human existence and the meaning of life.

Ross profoundly describes the alienation of human nature and constantly explores the abnormal psychology and behavior of a new generation of Jews, which is essentially a profound reflection on the alienation phenomenon and self-destiny arising from the integration of Jewish culture and heterogeneous culture.

It is precisely because Ross is extremely concerned about ethics that he believes that the task of novel creation is to re-examine this classic literary style and give it a proper position. "The purpose of literature is not to call for action, but to express ideas. ..... Novels should not only deal with moral issues, but also improve readers' sense of social responsibility and moral awareness through a careful examination of the current situation of mankind. "Ross's novel creation has a serious ethical orientation. It breaks through the limitations of race and environment, explains the development and capriciousness of Jewish culture in different cultures, depicts the plight of Jews wandering, wandering, suffering and being trapped in other countries, and explains the ethical environment of the whole society and the living conditions of human beings. Ross's works can be said to be a rich collection of works. The narrative language in his novels is mostly standard American English, Yiddish is used by all kinds of characters at home, American slang is often heard in the noisy streets of big cities, and Hebrew is used in Jewish religious ceremonies. Ross's language is humorous but not obscene, ironic but not mean. Jokes from the streets and Jewish families are completely integrated into the scenes and the actions of the characters. Their dialogue language is short and pithy, which conforms to the age and personality of the characters and constitutes a colorful genre painting of American Jewish people. In Porto's complaint, Porto's repressed sexual needs gushed out. He was lying in the doctor's hospital bed, joking and joking. Improvised words and exaggerated language were mixed with all kinds of presumptuous words. He also gave insulting nicknames to American women who had come into contact with him. Ross's laughing and cursing language shows the diversity and richness of the world and characters' language to the greatest extent, thus reappearing the mixed cultural characteristics of the world in which he lives.

Secondly, Ross uses games to deal with serious themes, thus deconstructing more sensitive and serious themes. In his works, Ross wrote all the topics that the older generation of Jews thought should not go to court or "ugly things" that should not be displayed in front of non-Jews, and gave bold ridicule, such as the deception of Jewish men, the hypocrisy of Jewish religious beliefs, and the Jewish character of being good at gaining benefits, which shows that Jews are also ordinary people. The American Jews described by Ross are completely different from the Jewish citizens in the conventional American society, subverting the excellent social image of Jews in American society and revealing the "things that should not be described" by default.