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Much of the American anxiety about old age is a flight from the reality of death. One of the striking qualities of the American
Much of the American anxiety about old age is a flight from the reality of death. One of the striking qualities of the American
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2011-02-26
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Much of the American anxiety about old age is a flight from the reality of death. One of the striking qualities of the American character is the unwillingness to face either the fact or meaning of death. In the more somber tradition of American literature - from Hawthorne and Melville and Poe to Faulkner and Hemingway - one finds a tragic depth that belies the surface thinness of the ordinary American death attitudes. By an effort of the imagination, the great writers faced problems which the culture in action is reluctant to face - the fact of death, its mystery, and its place in the back-and- forth shuttling of the eternal recurrence. The unblinking confrontation of death in Greek times, the elaborate theological patterns woven around it in the Middle Ages, tile ritual celebration of it in the rich, peasant cultures of Latin and Slavic Europe and in primitive cultures; these are difficult to find in American life.
Whether through fear of the emotional depths, or because of a drying up of the sluices of religious intensity, the American avoids dwelling on death or even coming to terms with it; he finds it morbid and recoils from it, surrounding it with word avoidance (Americans never die; they "pass away" ) and various taboos of speech and practice.
In some of the primitive cultures, there is difficulty in understanding the causes of death; it seems puzzling and even unintelligible. Living in a scientific culture, Americans have a ready enough explanation of how it comes, yet they show little capacity to come to terms with the fact of death itself and with the grief that accompanies it. "We jubilate over birth and dance at weddings," writes Maragaret Mead, "but more and more hustle the dead off the scene without ceremony, without an opportunity for young and old to realize that death is as much a fact of life as is birth. ’ And, one may add, even in its hurry and brevity, the last stage of an American’s life - the last occasion of his relation to his society -is as standardized as the rest.
Margaret Mead suggests that ______.
选项
A、we should cry at a birth and rejoice at a funeral
B、a wedding should be a solemn affair
C、death should be accepted in the same spirit as marriage and birth
D、funeral parlors should be decorated like banks
答案
C
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