Relatively Comparing About Lu Xun And Yu Dafu's Novels

Lu Xun and Yu Dafu are both writers on China's modern novel source ,they have a far-reaching impact on development of Modern Chinese Literature. This text analyse and compare the similarities and differences their novels created mainly from four respect: theme connotation, personage's image , aesthetic style , meaning and influence. Lu Xun and Yu Dafu's novels are all closely linked to the ideological trend of social revolution of " the May Fourth Movement " , has reflected the great society question in life. From the point of view of sociology, it is its distinct social theme to be against feudalism; Proceed from human nature angle , to announce love and surviving puzzle of people is the deep theme stored inside their novel. For gentle sincerity , Lu Xun don't ignore happiness pursue and material benefits of individual while paying close attention to the transformation of national spirit, Yu Dafu don't ignore the destiny of the motherland and need when he pays close attention to the individual happiness which is pursued too. In their novels they all advocate individual character liberation, probe into the freedom development of the human nature, deduct the value and meaning of surviving, demonstrating deep experience and review about life and society. Lu Xun and Yu Dafu not only publicized their againsting feudal thoughts but also moulded a group of lifelike personage's images with the depth of personality , through describing gloomy life of them ,announce the groans of petty bourgeoisie intellectual and hard working masses of lower floor under surviving the heavy pressure, excavating the brilliance that are buried on their spirit, and throw down dense history and realistic shade on them. Lu Xun and Yu Dafu, one with grave and stern and rational it analyzes to be but unsurpassed to generation deeplying; One with melancholy and sad revealing lyrical and calling famous literary world directly, they open China modern novel realism and romantic beginning respectively. Suffering consciousness and patriotic affection in China's traditional culture exuberant in Lu Xun and Yu Dafu's novels, we can still experience the national heart sound from their works. Lu Xun and Yu Dafu both study in Japan and accept influence of foreign culture successively,they have accepted the ideological trend of western modernism in various degree. Lu Xun and Yu Dafu's "talk about themselves"novels is a break-through to traditional literature, describe to China modern psychology of novel skill make initiative exploration, have also provided a great deal of tactics and principle drawn lessons for narration of the Chinese novel. Lu Xun and Yu Dafu firstly create modern novels expressing intellectual's repent consciousness and tragic consciousness, " A Madman's Diary "and " Sink into " can be regarded as foundation repent works in modern China. Compared with the situation that Yu Dafu is partial to displaying subjectivly and trully (the sense of reality ), Lu Xun is partial to displaying objectivly and more trully (authenticity). If, Lu Xun's novels go on artistic expression from the whole surviving and development of nationality and the whole transformation of social culture and national spirit, Yu Dafu's novels display social and life setting out from individual ,from pursuing individual happiness of member oneself. In a word, as the most representative writers of " the May Fourth Movement " period, Lu Xun and Yu Dafu not merely offered a series of works of novel with classical significance for Chinese new-vernacular literature, have also offered two unique and great personality images for Chinese literary world. Their novel works become two wonderful works in literary world of " the May Fourth Movement " with strong times flavour , distinct national characters and unique individual character color , they themselves also reflected the two different mind routes of our intellectuals moving from the tradition towards modern country at the same time.