The Theme Of "Seeking Father" In The New Era Novels

The new era writer is very concerned about his father's image. They treat their father with diverse attitudes, such father and son relationship patterns are in the literature as "trial father", "patricide", "worship of Father", "making fun of father", "without Father", "longing for father" and "seeking father". Therefore, a complex and significant situation of "Father and Son" is formed. The theme of this essay is concerned about "seeking father".This paper firstly analyzed the background generated from the theme of the new era novel about "seeking father". The "seeking father" theme of the new era novels gradually developed on a large scale background of the "Patricide" and "without father" narrative, which was through love and hatred to the admire of father, then took to self-reflection development process.Since the 1980s, the "seeking father" theme began to develop from a potential pattern to apparent one. At that time, to Zhang Wei, Yu Hua, as the representative of a group novelist, they mostly described father in their novels as a spiritual symbol that was closely related to the ideal,strength and faith. Lingering in the ideal and the reality of writers who, for the father's attitude is complex and unintelligible, namely, hatred and resistance combined with the emotion of respect and love. They set foot on the road of "seek father" with the bewilderment and dissatisfaction to the father, their attitudes to their father also gradually turned from hostility toward understanding and recognition.In the 1990s novels, particularly describing native and military life stories, Writers full expressed their reverence feelings for their father. The unique charm was showed through the brilliant history and excellent character of elder in the history of this period context. The writers remodeled the great image of "traditional father" and "heroic father" in the retrospection through recalling the elder's heroic history.At the turn of the century novels, the writers reconfirmed the father identity through examining the father's image, thus to confirm the value and significance of assents. For his father, a writer who no longer had excessive demands and expectations, but had a greater understanding and recognition. Father's extraordinary and noble character was regard as the yardsticks of child's self-examine and reflect. They searched for treasured quality lost from their own body through seeking that unusual father.Text of this paper is divided into five chapters to illustrate.Chapterâ… : Though analysis of the father's cultural symbolism, and the father's imagine of the new era novels, To make theoretical preparation and background analysis for hackling "seek father" them.Chapterâ…¡to chapterâ…£: The three chapters are the focus of the article. The author respectively analyzes the varieties of "seek father" them about the context and type in all the different stages through carding new era "seeking father" theme development grain. In chapterâ…¡, with Zhang Wei and Yu Hua's novels as an example, the author have analyzed the contradictions of "seeking father", This period of "seeking father" narrative was always concomitant with "patricide" and "longing for father". In chapterâ…¢, the author analyzes this period novels that turn to "worship of father" and "seeking father" narrative with the example of the return of "traditional fathers" and appearance of "heroic father". In chapterâ…£, with the turn of the century "seek father" novels as an example, the author analyzes "seeking father" narrative turned to reflection of new development trend.Chapterâ…¤: Epilogue. The author analyzes such common models of the new era "seeking father" novels as "ideal vs reality", "the tradition vs modern" and "seeking father vs seeking own". Finally, the author point out that the literature "seeking father" theme will continue to evolve and develop.