The Deep And Grievous Melody Of Life

In the Chinese modern history of literature, there are several novels that reflected the life of feudal extended family. In these novels, the characters of these novels do not feel happy in their lives though they need not worry about clothing and meal, because they must frequently endure great mental pain. This kind of person are the image of the eldest son that whom the Chinese modern writers depicted in their novels. For example: Gao Juexin ( Ba Jin Family ), Qi Ruixuan ( Lao She Four Generations under One Roof ), Jiang Weizu ( Lu Ling Rich man's Children ) and Wang Wenxuan ( Ba Jin Cold night ) and so on. These images of eldest sons that brough about or lived in different periods had basically formed a series of images of old sons. In the modern family novels, the writers gave the more words to describe the characters. They formed the modal of character in the Chinese modern literature because of figure, and complex connotation of disposition.The specific back ground of time, their own character of disposition, and the shackles of the feudal traditional culture, made the eldest son's destiny catch the strong tragic color. As the eldest son of last generation in feudal family, they become the focus of all kinds of contradictory conflicts in the process of the disintegration of system of patriarchal clan. The long-term inheritance of the eldest son and the traditional culture entrusted them with the cultural character, and made them gingerly fulfill the family duty of the eldest son. They knew it would not be possible but for it: save things that was obviously impossible but did it, and baffles things that was obviously impossible either. They dare not love what they love and hate what they should hate. No matter what is in the individual orientation of value on life, or in the conflict between the family and society they seemingly lived in the contradictory entanglement that can not cast off when they were born, and wander in a dilemma all the lives. This is the tragic situation which of the eldest son in the modern family novel.The article that based on the former research results plans to have comparatively comprehensive and objective comb in the light of the concrete text. Taking the eldest son as a specific cause of formation, tragic connotation, elucidate the significance of the tragic life from the particular perspective of cultural transform by the analysis the type of the eldest sons and the tragic disposition and so on.The article divides there parts:The first part divide the type of the eldest son's image of these family novels such as GaoJuexin, Qi Ruixuan, Jiang Weizu, Wang Wenxuan under the premise of carefully reading text, and summarize their common feature and in list characteristic of disposition.The second part mainly approaches the feature of disposition of the eldest son's image and cause of formation. To some extent, we can say disposition decide the destiny, and the eldest son's complex connotation of disposition is the main reason to create the tragic destiny. The transitional era of the new-old cultural transformation is the historical environment of the cause of formation of eldest son's disposition of and the shackles of feudal culture are the hotbed.The third part analyzes the eldest son's inevitability of the tragedy and characteristic, and elucidates the significance of tragedy.