How Does Sartor Resartus Deal With The Spiritual Crisis
How does the protagonist in Carlyle’s Sartor Resartus deal with the spiritual crisis? Summarize briefly how he makes the solution.
Sartor Resartus is a metaphor of clothes, which means the language is a piece clothes of thinking, and the body is a piece of clothes for the spirit. The meaning of Sartor Resartus in Latin is sartor. The sartor uses the old cloth to cut out to a new piece of clothes. That is to say, in religion, human beings lose or forget the former religion, and use the idea of former one to create new beliefs or religions. Human beings can wear whatever clothes we like and change whenever we want; however, we could not live without wearing clothes. That symbolizes human beings should have a religion just like the clothes. In Sartor Resartus, it describes the life of lone German, Diogenes Teufelsdröckh, and his experience from “ The Everlasting No” to “ The Everlasting Yea” via “ The Center of Indifference.” …show more content…
After that, he loses the confidence and self-respect. Everything means nothing to him and the whole world is dark and depressed. That makes him lose the direction of his life and is bound by the melancholy. He feels that he is living alone and abandoned by the world. Then, he starts to doubt everything and trusts nothing. Without trust, he has no religion anymore. Meanwhile, without the religion, he shuts out from the hope. That symbolizes that he deny himself and also the
Sartor Resartus is a metaphor of clothes, which means the language is a piece clothes of thinking, and the body is a piece of clothes for the spirit. The meaning of Sartor Resartus in Latin is sartor. The sartor uses the old cloth to cut out to a new piece of clothes. That is to say, in religion, human beings lose or forget the former religion, and use the idea of former one to create new beliefs or religions. Human beings can wear whatever clothes we like and change whenever we want; however, we could not live without wearing clothes. That symbolizes human beings should have a religion just like the clothes. In Sartor Resartus, it describes the life of lone German, Diogenes Teufelsdröckh, and his experience from “ The Everlasting No” to “ The Everlasting Yea” via “ The Center of Indifference.” …show more content…
After that, he loses the confidence and self-respect. Everything means nothing to him and the whole world is dark and depressed. That makes him lose the direction of his life and is bound by the melancholy. He feels that he is living alone and abandoned by the world. Then, he starts to doubt everything and trusts nothing. Without trust, he has no religion anymore. Meanwhile, without the religion, he shuts out from the hope. That symbolizes that he deny himself and also the