The Pursuit Of Freedom In Sutong’s Novels

The topic of my paper is the pursuit of freedom in Sutong’s novel. It’s also one of themost important values of his novels. In this paper, I solved four problems: How does thispursuit come from? What’s the content of freedom? What drivesSutong struggle for freedom?How to lead to real free?Sutong create a special but black fictional world. In his novel, the southern town andcountry is either too wet or too hot. The people are not friendly with each other. The gossip isfilled up with every corner, and there is no place for love. People’s daily life has no vitalityand passion. The worse thing is people can’t control their own lives. That why freedom is soimportant for the characters in his novels.The connotation of freedom is spiritual free. That means free love, free choice and freeexpression. He also value people’s liberty right. We can’t ignore that freedom is flawed. Itcontains strong individualism and lack of restraint and justice. So sometimes when peoplepursuit his own freedom, he may bring hurt to others. How to balance the freedom and justiceis a problem Sutong should solve in future.Passion is the motivation that keeps this kind of pursuit move on. Sutong’s novel is fullof imaginations and keeps a certain distance from reality. The ordinary citizen spirit is thestrongest enemy of passion. It stands for selfness, conservation and pragmatism. Sutong thinkif you want to live a passionate and colorful life, the first thing is getting rid of these qualities.From his recent works, the passion calms down and turns to some gentle and deepemotion,but it never fade away.His novels also show us some special ways to get freedom. The characters in his novelstry to escape the public, or against the social system to find the way out. Most of them can’tfind the paradise but hell. But they never give up, so it’s impressive that some people stillhave the courage to pursuit freedom in such depressive condition.