An Analysis of the Image of Bird in the Novel “A Personal Matter”

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10.2991/978-2-38476-382-5_44How to use a DOI?

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Kenzaburo Oe; A Personal Matter Image of Bird; View of Futility

Abstract

The image of the protagonist Bird in the novella “A Personal Matter” created by Kenzaburo Oe, a Japanese writer, remains as the focus of many scholars. At the end of the novel, the image of the protagonist Bird changed remarkably from an unconscious plantlike person at the beginning to a person who actively endures life and bravely takes responsibility for others. Based on analyzing the image of Bird in the early period and later period, the author of the paper focuses on the reasons that lead to the change, hoping to better understand Kenzaburo Oe’s overall literary thought.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Qiongyi Zhang
PY  - 2025
DA  - 2025/03/28
TI  - An Analysis of the Image of Bird in the Novel “A Personal Matter”
BT  - Proceedings of the 2024 International Conference on Social Sciences and Educational Development (ICOSSED 2024)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 439
EP  - 444
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-38476-382-5_44
DO  - 10.2991/978-2-38476-382-5_44
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