Two main conflicts leading Martin’s death
The conflicts between idealism and realism
Through the analysis of the bewilderment above, it is obviously demonstrated that Martin Eden
began to live for ideal, for belief. In his eyes, all things seemed to be beautiful, simple and pure. As for
love, he felt Ruth was his Engle, Ruth was a pure, beautiful, woman, different from those women who
always show up around him. He would do all for Ruth, even would die. The belief “God’s lover will die
for a kiss” can prove what Martin considered of real love, but he blindly put the kind of love into
idealism. After the experienced the blow of broken engagement from Ruth, he realized his love was too
feeble, Ruth was also a secular woman, just the same as all the women who make status, money, as
standers before love. The dream to pursue real love shattered. He sank in deep misery. Martin wrote for
love, for beauty, for nature, and that was his aim. But why not those are works published before his
fortune came; however, no literature could deny the value of works, because his works are quite excellent.
Because of his simple thoughts, he did not pay attention to the feature of literature during his period. He
could not supply those readers with favorite works. That is to say, he neglected the realism factors. If one
person writes not for readers, all his works could not be able to be published, however, all the magazines
snatched to publish his works after he was famous. It was such a crucial society, and it was such a real
world. Although Martin realized the evil of this world, he could not calm his heart down. He felt it was a
shame to write excellent works for those humble editors and readers. He had already lost himself and he
did not know what he should do.
What’s more, those so-called noble bourgeois and upper-class were superficial seemingly
integrity and noble. In fact, they were also the secular rats who never scrap evil believes. The society was
not sane and noble as he first thought, so he began to consider going back to nature, where there was his
real world, without evil, without sadness. This was just because he bore lots of pressure in this real
society. He hated of the disgusting society. He also tried to give up the fortune and fame to go back to his
working class, and there he could enjoy himself, but he found himself far away from it. It could prove he
must confront these conflicts between idealism and realism.
He was puzzled there was not a solution to resolve the kind of paradox. The extreme difference
between his ideal word and his real world where he had involved caused him in deep misery:
“From too much love of living,
From hope and fear set free
We thank with brief thanks giving
Whatever gods may be
That no lives forever
That dead men rise up never;
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That evens the weariest river
Winds somewhere safe to sea”
(
Martin Eden:
380).
He found death was the only way to dissolve all these conflicts.
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