Reconciliation in a Hug: On Discovery of a Father from Archetypal Approach

DOI

10.2991/isss-18.2018.95How to use a DOI?

Keywords

female Noah; image; reconciliation; archetype.

Abstract

Sherwood Anderson’s Discovery of a Father tells a story of the relationship between father and son which changes from alienation to understanding. Through an elaborate epiphany, the boy releases his hatred and rediscovers his father’s good nature. The exquisite device or usage of images such as mother as female Noah, Oedipus complex, water, darkness, pond, light, etc. in the story will be focused on to demonstrate the rationality and inevitability of the happy ending, and a study of the relationship between father and son is helpful for us to establish a harmonious family in modern time.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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