古今中外的作品中,圆形(或者循环、圆周状)都是一种重要的、广泛应用的原型意象,常常表示整体性和统一性。《圣经》中传道书说:已有的事,后必再有。已行的事,后必再行。日光之下并无新事。此句说明人生是循环的、周而复始的,在循环中发展,在循环中上升。著名神话原型批评家弗莱认为,“在原 In ancient and modern works, circular (or circular, circumferential) are an important and widely used archetypal image, often representing unity and unity. Biblical Ecclesiastes says that what has been done, there must be more. Things that have already been done must be done afterwards. There is nothing new under the sun. The sentence shows that life is a cycle of things, beginning and ending in the cycle of development, rising in the cycle. The famous myth archetypal critic Frye believes that ”in the original