「f（money）＝價值？」插畫創作－以重構童話《賣火柴的小女孩》進行金錢與價值觀之探討

Abstract

Due to the depressive economy, high unemployment rate, and other economic problems in recent years in Taiwan, people have deeply experienced the pressures has brought to them. Meanwhile, with the impact of postmodernism, human and moral judgment appear diversified and uncertain. For the sake of Several incredibly horrible social events occurred, such as grab and theft, suicide, murder, and so on, which became the focus of media to report such news exaggeratedly for the ratings and profits, causing more people in unrest. The global financial crisis happened in AD 2008 made the environment get more and more panic. Therefore young people lose confidence in the future. These phenomena are inevitable in the world, we must work together to face these urgent problems. Aiming at the issues mentioned above, and profoundly motivated by a sense of social responsibility, this research is therefore made with an attempt to get closer to real life. With as the variable,The researcher selects accordingly his own familiar illustration pictures for exploration of the outcomes resulted from the values in face of human desires. The researcher analyzed the literature and explored the theory based on creation constructions involving with Maslow's hierarchy of needs, money ethics, effectiveness ethics, and etc. In addition, To make readers in different age groups resonate instantly, the researcher chose the fairy tales familiar to everyone; that is, Hans Christian Andersen’s The Match Girl, as the framework of adaptation. By means of literature analysis and theoretical examination, this study re-depicted a girl who had been deprived of all resources for survival and death. With interference of into the protagonist’s lightening up the fourth matchsticks to solve the problem of existence in front of Death, she then faced a choice in Maslow's high level of need, self-realization and self-beyond. Here, by collecting all relative news events caused by the problem of money, the researcher developed the various types of decisions the little girl made due to different kinds of values. Adopting the function of theme “f (money) = value?”, the researcher accomplished extension of meaning. Namely, it is the Five Creation Series, including “Gold enticement”, “The Life of Bubble that Misuses Man’s Credit”, “The Magic Curse that Man’s Fortune Cannot Last for over Three Generations”, “Wasting Money Extravagantly is a Dangerous Black Game”, and “A Challenge to Challenge and Overcome Oneself”. Then the following results are obtained consequently: 1. By literature and theoretical discussion, it is proved that ethics of money has casual relationship with human experiences, and will generate a permanent impact on man and orientation of life. Additionally, the is the core issue of moral judgment. 2. In recent years, in related news events analysis, the researcher has observed that value judgments and willpower plays an important role in resisting temptation. It can be the foundation of a personality type, produce illumination on the role orientation in illustrator, and reveal deep and precise meanings. 3. By story origin of the scenes and character analysis in fairy tale The Match Girl, we comprehend that for survival on the bottom of social disadvantaged groups, Andersen strongly accused the society of its injustice with sharp storyline, leading us to more in-depth experience and sympathy with Andersen’s achievement and functions of his fairy tales. In regard of Maslow's theory, it corresponds to the matches metaphor in Little Match Girl. In other words, the sequence of hallucinations from which the little girl lightened up the four matches echoes Maslow basic survival needs in the low level repeatedly. 4. From the relevant and social criticism illustrator analysis collected by the researcher, the researcher has obtained various symbols and image classification of shape, color, composition, and vocabulary. Physically, the researcher has applied the classification to illustration creation. Personally, it helps remarkably in his development of creativity, and also affects his personal illustration style immensely. The researcher expects his outcomes can have the readers’ resonation and sympathy. Also, he wishes he can provide relevant research and creation reference for further study in the future.