Proposed Roads to Salvation: Narrative Analysis of <i>The Painted Veil</i>

Yan Jun

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Proposed Roads to Salvation: Narrative Analysis of The Painted Veil

Yan Jun

Published in International Journal of Literature and Arts (Volume 10, Issue 5)

Received: 8 September 2022 Accepted: 4 October 2022 Published: 18 October 2022

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The Painted Veil is a novel written by the famous British writer, William Somerset Maugham. It depicts the love tragedy of the couple, Kitty Garstin and her husband Walter Fane, which shows the themes of love and betrayal, plague and salvation and explores how Kitty struggled on the road to salvation. This paper firstly traced back to the source of her salvation, the human emotional instinct, which led to Kitty’s betrayal of marriage and Walter’s punishment. In order to revenge, Walter took Kitty to Mei-tan-fu, where the people were in the face of the outbreak of a terrible plague, cholera, which naturally resulted in Kitty’s death perception in a foreign land. Under the awful death threat from the plague in a strange place, Kitty was deep in thought. Especially after she worked in the monastery, she constantly reflected on herself and found she had reformed and broken the shackles of her original feelings influenced by her driving force from the the death crisis of the plague and the nuns’ positive attitude and efforts towards the plague. By tracing back to the source of her salvation, death perception and her salvation from the plague, the author carried out narrative analysis of Kitty’s thoughts in exotic locations in the “other” mode of thinking, aiming at criticizing the utilitarianism and worldliness in western modern concepts.

Published in	International Journal of Literature and Arts (Volume 10, Issue 5)
DOI	10.11648/j.ijla.20221005.14
Page(s)	292-297
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Emotional Instinct, Death Perception, Salvation from Plague, Utilitarianism

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Yan Jun

School of Foreign Languages, Yancheng Teachers’ University, Yancheng, China

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