摘要

Katai Tayma, a representative writer of Japanese I-Novel, described the protagonist’s ethical anguish of love but not being able to get and the ethical predicament of trying to stop but cannot in Futon. Such ethical anguish in love affairs and ethical predicament were caused by the ethical environment in the late Meiji Period. With violent conflicts between individual desire and social ethics, the common Japanese were under the crisis of emotion and belief covered by the superficial social depression and felt confused on ethical issues during that period. Tokio was suffering, and his transgressive ethical selection had touched the moral bottom line of human being. But finally, his ethical consciousness returned, his rational will triumphed over the irrational will, he was liberated from the ethical identity confusion, fulfilling the protection responsibility that an adult man, a married husband, an elder and a teacher should have for a 19-year-old young unmarried girl.