Research On The Image Of Officials In Mo Yan’s Novels

Mo Yan’s distinctiveness lies in his courage and imagination.Mo Yan is based on reality and dares to face reality.He is good at drawing fresh materials from reality and implanting them into his literary world,making reality and fiction merge,and writing historical changes and human goodness,evil,beauty and ugliness with realistic and magical style.As a series of images in Mo Yan’s novels,official images together with other images support Mo Yan’s magical Gaomi.Mo Yan’s purpose in shaping such images is not simply to state the various actions of officials,but to restore the authenticity of officials as human beings and to reveal their hidden beauty and ugliness.However,researchers have not paid enough attention to the image of officials in Mo Yan’s novels,and there are still some contents that need to be explored urgently.Therefore,this paper takes the image of officials as the research object and power as the entry point,focusing on the analysis of the unique characteristics and causes of officials in Mo Yan’s novels,and explores the aesthetic significance and unique value of the image of officials.The first chapter introduces the background,purpose and significance of the topic,as well as the research ideas.Secondly,it analyses the research status of Mo Yan at home and abroad.Finally,it defines the related concepts involved in the paper.The second chapter summarizes the image of many officials in Mo Yan’s novels and divides them into two categories: the officials with beauty in ugliness and the officials with ugliness in beauty.At the same time,the text analyses the beauty and ugliness of officials and the complexity of officials as human beings from the angle of seeking power and using power.The third chapter explains the formation of the unique official image in Mo Yan’s novels from two aspects: the combination of the survival situation of officials and self-selection,and the projection of the writer’s creative consciousness.This paper holds that the survival situation of officials has established the nature of beauty or ugliness of officials,while the self-selection of officials induced by many factors in the survival situation has created the complexity of coexistence of beauty and ugliness of officials.In addition,Mo Yan’s creative consciousness also plays an important role in the formation of the unique image of officials.Standing on the position of the masses represented by peasants,Mo Yan interpreted the power to dispel the nobility of officials,and from the perspective of self-criticism,changed his position,faced up to the life desire of officials,restored officials to human beings,highlighted the complex nature of the coexistence of good and evil officials.The fourth chapter explores the unique aesthetic charm of Mo Yan interpreted by the official image on the basis of analyzing and demonstrating the unique image of officials in Mo Yan’s novels.For example,Mo Yan pursues the forgotten beauty in exposing ugliness and restores the truth of beauty in the process of viewing beauty.In addition,the image of officials in Mo Yan’s novels also has the value of enlightening the current officialdom and revealing the human weaknesses of officials and the masses.The concluding part summarizes the full text and points out the unique charm of the official image in Mo Yan’s novels.