浅析西方吸血鬼文化与东方鬼文化对比分析Word格式文档下载.docx

1、2012年6月GRADUATION THESIS （Grade 2008） COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE CULTURE BETWEEN WESTERN VAMPIRE AND EASTERN GHOST浅析西方“吸血鬼”文化与东方“鬼”文化之对比 摘 要 随着全球化的不断发展，跨文化交际也越来越重要，并且深入到我们生活的各个方面，“鬼”文化作为世界性的文化现象，中国和西方都有着悠久生动的鬼文化。人们对于“鬼”文化的精神追求也不断深入与发展，这是一种精神文化的象征。同时，了解东西方“鬼”文化的异同也能够促进跨文化交际中精神文化的交流。中国的 “鬼”是人死后的灵魂；而西

2、方鬼文化的代表是“吸血鬼”。“鬼”的观念的产生不仅是因为古人对大自然的崇拜和畏惧，还是古人对黑暗的畏惧，对理想精神生活的渴望。“吸血鬼”文化是西方文化中的重要组成部分，“吸血鬼”又称血族，是西方世界中一种有名的可怕生物。由于他们具有永生的特点，因此他们的行踪十分隐蔽。本课题将主要通过对比的手法来比较两者的异同，最后在总结全文的基础上，再次强调鬼与吸血鬼文化的重要性，并探讨东西文化根源与现实功能，以及中西承载的深厚文化内涵。关键词：吸血鬼；鬼；文化；对比COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE CULTURE BETWEEN WESTERN VAMPIRE AND EASTERN

3、GHOST ABSTRACTWith the development of the globalization, the intercultural communication is more and more important. At the same time, it has influence our life deeply. As the global culture phenomenon, the culture of the ghost has the long history both in western and eastern countries. People have

4、the strong aspiration on psychological culture for western vampire and eastern ghost, and this kind of aspiration are deeper and development continuous. It is a symbol of spirit culture. At the same time, it can also promote the communication of spiritual culture in cross-cultural communication by u

5、nderstanding the similarities and differences of western vampire and Chinese culture. The in China is the soul after peoples death, while the is represented in western ghost culture. The production of the Ghost idea is not only the worship for nature of the ancients, but also the fear for darkness a

6、nd the longing for ideal the spiritual life. Vampire culture is an important part in western culture. Vampire, which means bloodthirsty, is the western world famous monster. They live in secret, because they will never die. This paper will focus on the comparison of the two aspects. Whats more, it d

7、iscusses the cultural root and the functions of reality and it inherits the profound cultural connotation between Chinese and western culture.Keywords: vampire; ghosts; culture; comparativeIntroduction Culture is a kind of historical phenomenon. It was produced with the development of human society.

8、 Although China and western countries located in the different area of the world, the social development course is the same roughly. They are both development from the primitive society to modern society. Therefore, they have many similarities in culture. culture, as the common culture of Chinese an

9、d western of vampire culture, also has its similarities. As the worldwide cultural phenomenon, culture has a long history both in China and western countries. Chinese is the soul after death. The production of the idea is not only the worship for nature of the ancients, but also the fear for darknes

10、s and the longing for ideal the spiritual life. The reason of the vampire culture popularity is benefited from the literature and film partly. In the west, there are lots of literature and movies about vampire. From the literature and films, thus we can know much about the vampire, and know the proc

11、ess of vampires image changed from the monster to noble beautiful perfect biological. Both the ghost and vampire film and television works have appeared frequently on the screen, and have got the big success. Owing to the opening-up of China and the rapid development of economic globalization, it pr

12、ovides many opportunities for Chinese and western people but it also brings some problems. As the important part of the Chinese and western culture, Chinese ghost and western vampire culture is the common product of human spirit activities. Knowing the differences and similarities between the Chines

13、e and western culture, we can better to solve the conflict of cross-cultural communication and contradiction. This paper will focus on the comparison of the two parts. The first part of the paper will analysis the root causes, background and development of western and Chinese culture. The second par

14、t will summarize and compare the characteristics of ghost and vampire through the image analysis. The third part will analysis the influence for people society. Finally, based on the summing up the whole paper, this thesis emphasizes the importance of ghost and vampire culture. What1 Comparison of v

15、ampire and ghost 1.1 The background of vampire The legend of Vampire is originated from the fear and worship for blood of western people. The development of understanding the world and human themselves was formed gradually, and the process is very long. The ancient western people feel difficult to u

16、nderstand disease, death and physiology phenomenon, especially for blood. Therefore they imagine many kinds of monsters. The vampire is the typical one. This shows that western human ancestors fear of nature. If there is a complete history of the documentary record, that is the history of the vampir

17、e.-RousseauAs a symbol of the life, the blood has an important status in the Christian and the tide of European civilization. From the beginning, blood act as the symbol of evil and mystery. Therefore, it laid a solid foundation for the appearance of vampire.1.1.1 The early origin of the vampireAcco

18、rding to the Bible, the origin of vampire is Cain. Adam and Eve were drive out of the Eden garden by the God. After that they lived in wild. They gave birth to a lot of children. Cain is their first child, the third people of the world. As Cain killed his own brother and be punished by God. Cain mus

19、t make the living with peoples blood. Although he can live forever with the blood, he only can live in dark place and be cursed after his generation. After that, Cain married with Lilith （Lilith first appeared in Sumerian myth, the first wife of Adam in the old agreement of Judaism, for she dissatis

20、fied with God then left the Garden of Eden）. Lilith taught Cain howto suck the blood from people to gain power. According to this, some one think Lilith is the real one of the original vampire. Actually, all of these are invented by later generations, but these laid the foundation for the literature

21、 of vampire. It is also the most popular statement about the origin of the vampire. 1.1.2 The reality cause Actually, there are many other versions about the origin of vampire. But one of the most convincing and also the most scientific basis statement is about the plague during the dark period of t

22、he middle century. During the middle of the 14 century, at the east Europe range of the east of Prussia, Silesia and Bohemia, these areas spread with disease. In order to avoid infected, people did not distinguish whether the patient is really die or not, and buried those people in a hurry. Few days

23、 later, people open up the grave for some reason, they found that body changed the posture, and even some body still stained with blood. In fact, it was because that the people who buried at that time has not really dead, they were just in a deep coma. And after they waked up, they were struggled in

24、 the grave. However, in the poverty, block and foolish place, the people said that was the vampire. Then, the ghost stories about the vampire were spread quickly. When they cannot rely on the government and themselves, people began to seek the liberation and a relief in spirit. Thus, it caused the l

25、egend of vampire for hundreds years.1.2 The causes of Chinese ghost culture The culture in China is one of the important content which cannot be neglected in Chinese traditional culture. It reflects many aspects of the peoples values. We can not simply consider the ghost culture as superstition. Aft

26、er all, the awareness of ghost culture has rooted in the peoples mind. We should know the rooted cause of the production of ghost culture. Analysis the related materials and customs can help us know better about the ghost culture. According to this, we can know more about the ghost culture, then use

27、 it do some contribution to human-being. In fact, the source of the ghost is multiple, complex and changeable. First, the ghost is linked with the soul, and the soul is related with dreams closely. At that time, the people believed that though people were dead, but the soul is in the world. So, our

28、ancestors draw the conclusion that people is made up by two parts, the body and the soul. The body can die, however, the soul never die. When people died, the soul delivered from the mans body, and then it becomes the ghost. It is just an explanation for the cause of ghost. The ghost culture comes o

29、ut following the idea of ghost. 1.2.1 The fear for natural force The economic basis determines the superstructure. Any production of the social phenomenon has its profound social resource. And all of the productions can be obtained from the basis of social existence, including the culture of China.

30、Because of poor science and technological level of the feudal society people, people can not explain the dreams and sudden death. Therefore they imagine the existence of In order to seek the life material, our ancients battled with nature for a long time, and separated themselves with the surroundin

31、g environment gradually. Then they had a clear sense of themselves, and knew the certain natural phenomenon and process. They found that some natural phenomenon can bring the enjoyment unexpected. However, some natural phenomenon can bring them disaster, even death. When the human at that time could not get rid of the terrorist and fear of the natural force, especially all kinds of natural hazards that they couldnt solve around them, they gradually formed the concept of the ghost and soul. It also re