Yu Dafu And Jindong Ren Comparison Of The Short Story

During the last thousands of years' history, China and South Korea have a veryclose relation, and so both countries are affected with each other deeply, especiallyin culture. When the two countries stepped into the Modern History period, theenlightening trend nourished with the penetration of foreign apitalism. it wasbrought to a climax by "5.4 Movement" of China in 1949 and "3.1 Movement" ofKorea. In such kind of historical changes, novels show amazing similarity in theposition and social responsibility. In recent years, many experts and scholars havewritten books on culture exchanges and literature influences, the period of whichare most before modern literature. Moreover, the research methods lean to influencesresearch. But can we examine the modern literature between the two countries withparallel research method besides influences research methods, and get some newrealization? Therefore, it is very significative to have a comparative researchfor the modern literature, especially the research for Yu Dafu and Jin Dongren, twoinfluential persons in modern literature.Based on such understanding, I will have a comparative research for shortstories of the two representative writers in order to reveal the commonness anddifference between them.Yu Dafu and Jin Dongren are both the headstream writers for modern literature.They both have a far-reaching influence in modern literature, especially in shortstories. One is well known for melancholy and lyricism, the other is famous forhaughty and profundity, starting the romanticism and lyricism for Chinese modernnovels and naturalism for Korean modern novels separately. The two writers, Yu Dafuand Jin Dongren show the commonness and differences no matter in social background,living background, culture background, the theme of works and the character building.They are both influenced by Japanese Dazheng culture and western trends, so theirworks reflect eventful social life problems and human natures. In human nature, theconfusion about affection and love, living difficulty and tragedy death ending arethe connotative theme of their works. It is the trueness in personal characters andarticles that makes Jin Dongren asks the true meaning of morality when he revealsthe source of criminal. And it also makes Ya Dafu disregards the fate and needs ofhomeland when he pays attention to individual happiness. They both blazon forthpersonal liberty and pursuit the free development of human development, asking thevalue and meaning of life showing profound experiences and thinking to socialityand life. Yu Dafu and Jin Dongren also built many deep characters with flesh andblood, and revealed the hard life of the petty-bourgeois intellectuals, the toilingmasses of workers and peasants under the living stress, as the same time they excavated the true resource for their spirits and the deep shadow that history andreality cast on them.This article has a comparative research for the short stories of Yu Dafu andJin Dongren in social living culture background, connotative theme, personalcharacters. By comparison, we can know the height that they have reached, thebroad-mind that they have had, the commonness and differences in their view. I hopethe comparative research of Yu Dafu and Jin Dongren can give some help to the readersin Chinese-Korean modern literature.