| Summary: | 博士 === 高雄師範大學 === 英語學系 === 97 === This dissertation is an attempt to interpret John Fowles’s major works, The Collector and The Magus, in terms of Maslow’s theories because both of them are humanistic and individual-centered, and both maintain completely prosperous and positive perspectives and attitudes toward human beings.
This dissertation consists of five chapters. Chapter One is an introduction. Chapter Two is a survey and study of Maslow’s theories of the hierarchy of human needs, which will be discussed in terms of his three sorts of motivations, including deficiency motivation, grow motivation, and metamotivation, Maslow’s eight levels of hierarchy of needs (the initial five layers of the pyramid and three higher layers of human needs), the characteristics of self-actualizing people and eight ways of assisting people toward being self-actualizing. Various perspectives and retrospectives on Maslow will be discussed as well. In Chapter Three, Maslow’s theory will be applied to analyze John Fowles’s The Collector, starting with Freud’s theories, such as object relations and attachment, which offer a good foundation for understanding Clegg’s early personal experiences, and which furthermore, can be used to connect with Maslow’s theories in discussing Clegg’s individual development based upon the theory of the hierarchy of needs. In Chapter Four, Maslow’s theories will be used to explore such characters as Conchis and Urfe in John Fowles’s work, The Magus. After this exploration, Chapter Five concludes we can readily find many similarities between Fowles and Maslow in that both of them offer positive and promising perspectives on human beings.
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