Abstract
As an individual of spiritual existence, Dorian Gray, in The Picture of Dorian Gray, lacked the ability to love his lovers and friends, lost the normal aesthetic ability, failed to control his gradually increasing evil desires, so his body and soul began to go far away step by step. The imbalance and instability of his spiri-tual factors like love ethic, moral ethic, aesthetic ethic and life ethic led to the completely collapse of Dorian’s spiritual ecological system, even to his suicide. Dorian’s spiritual ecological crisis inspires the modern people a lot. It provides people with a full view of their own life style, stimulates people to pay more attention to their own spiritual ecological system, and spurs modern people on to adjust their spiritual factors in the right orbit of balance and stability. The government and the public media are supposed to play their part in keeping citizens well-informed of the potential benefit of the normal spiritual eco-logical system. Only does a person’s spiritual ecological system runs in order, he can live normally and make contributions to others, to the society.
Highlights
In The Space for Eco-criticism, professor Lu Shuyuan mentions that except for social and natural ecology a person is a kind of spiritual ecology in terms of the living conditions of human beings (Lu, 2006)
The spiritual ecology refers to the balance and stability of the spiritual ecological factors such as love ethic, moral ethic, aesthetic ethic, life ethic, etc
Once the balance and the stability of the spiritual factors are disturbed, the spiritual ecological system of a person will be thrown into disorder
Summary
In The Space for Eco-criticism, professor Lu Shuyuan mentions that except for social and natural ecology a person is a kind of spiritual ecology in terms of the living conditions of human beings (Lu, 2006). The spiritual ecology refers to the balance and stability of the spiritual ecological factors such as love ethic, moral ethic, aesthetic ethic, life ethic, etc. The spiritual ecological crisis of Dorian Gray, the protagonist in The Picture of Dorian Gray, was demonstrated clearly and in detail. Love is as important as the sunshine and air in the natural ecological system. Aesthetic ability is like the mountains and rivers in the spiritual ecological system, so each person is supposed to reclaim, to use and to preserve it reasonably and properly. In The Picture of Dorian Gray, the spiritual ecological crisis of Dorian Gray, as the spiritual existence, is demonstrated in the lack of s love ability, the lost of aesthetic ability and the disability of controlling his evil desires. Dorian Gray’s spiritual ecological system is doomed to collapse
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