The Setting Sun is a Japanese novel published in 1947. The author Osamu Dazai is a Rogue faction writer. The novel mainly depicts a story of a declining aristocracy family. It expresses author's discontent for the new Japanese social order after World War II, as well as the complex feelings of a moral crisis in the period of social transition. As a daughter of noble family, the heroine Hezi lived in a luxurious life until she divorced, however, she chose to revolt the old morals by giving birth to a baby with a married man. The paper picked out some resistant examples of Hezi to analyze the fundamental reason why Hezi wanted a moral revolution according to the historical background.%《斜阳》是日本无赖派作家太宰治在1947年发表的长篇小说,小说主要以描绘没落贵族的一家为背景,表达太宰治对二战后日本社会新秩序的不满和对在日本转型期的道德危机怀有的复杂情感.《斜阳》中的女主人公和子作为一名贵族的女儿,从小过着锦衣玉食的生活,在与丈夫离婚之后,选择为一名有妇之夫生子这一违反道德的方式进行对旧道德的反抗.本文是以当时的社会情况为背景,通过以和子反抗旧道德事例为基准,分析和子要进行道德革命的根本原因.
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