Abstract: This paper tries to address how Blood Meridian presents the entanglement between violence and ethics to reveal what the world really is, reaching out for the universal meaning hidden behind the violence in the “authentic American apocalyptic novel”. From the perspectives of violence and ethics, it points out that Blood Meridian reveals the image of the universe and a universal fable: the entanglements of biological evolution and human ethics go throughout the entire human community. Compared with the vast universe of “eternal” violence, human ethics are too delicate, brief, and vulnerable，and therefore, the novel is full of postmodern and anti-historical meanings. This paper investigates the important role that McCarthy plays in deconstructing and subverting the rationalism after the Age of Enlightenment, shedding some light on the study of postmodern American literature from the angle of evolution and ethics.

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