Sense Of The Tragedy Of The Ancient Chinese Novel

Gu Hua is a native novelist in the southern part of Hunan Province. Many of his works are created in a strong tragic tone. When reading his works, we will be moved by his sympathy, show great concern for the people living in this period, and then have a better understanding of the special experience in the Great Cultural Revolution of China. The homestead of rapid change established by Gu Hua from his unique perspective reveals all the ways of the world in one's life profoundly, and conveys his tragic concept when he lives in such a turbulent society, which becomes a vivid period of the 1980s in the literature history.The thesis analyzes the formation, manifestation and characteristics of tragic consciousness in Gu Hua's novels with The Lotus Town as an example. This novel published after China's reforming and opening to the outside world gives a vivid and detailed description of the whole historical process of the Great Cultural Revolution of China when mistakes made by the governor led to the turbulence in society. Thus at that time, people was injured mentally in a cruel manner and the normal order of the society was subverted, which was such a startler that people couldn't express their own wills normally and then were deprived of their basic need as a human being. The whole society was occupied by an unnamable tragedy caused by the lag of social development and people's unstable life. Gu Hua gives a bitter account about this period with strongly tragic scenarios and reveals people's desire and expectation for a good society.The thesis is written from the angle of tragic consciousness which is different from the former studies in hopes of developing a new area of studying Gu Hua's novels.