On Tragic Color In Shi Tuo's Early Stage Novels

Tragic color is an evidence characteristic of Shituo's early stage novels. As an influential writer, study of his works isn't plenty in the contemporary academe. This article tries to connect the different period novels from the "tragic color" which most researchers rarely involve, so as to reflect the style and features of his works in six main facet through unscramble the "tragic color" which contains in his novel. Moreover, this article also tries to seek the cause of his novel's "tragic color" through card his mentality's development.The whole thesis consists of five parts.The first part: explanations. The introduction describe simple the creative career of Shituo, and explain the three notions: tragedy, tragic,tragic consciousness. This part also provides readers with the reason that enact Shituo's early period works as the discussion object, and the reason that comprehend the tragic color as characteristic of his novels.The second part: love and cycle-----orthodox tragic and tragic tradition. Love tragedy ,especially the tragedy of female is one of the substantial of daily tragedy in old China. The depiction of female's love tragedy by Shituo open out the tragic plight in female's life. The love experience of Malan immediate incarnate a couple of furthest elementary mode in orthodox love tragedy-----"Jiangzhongzi's mode" and "Jianjia's mode", and this indicate the status which the orthodox tragic in his novel. The classical culture of China has a fixed mode-----"circular mode" which is the explanation of the nature. Shituo's Record of an Orchard Town show a circular time mode and the writer's thought of the metabolic man and the fixed universe through the town's quiescence and man's variation. We can find the traditional odour of tragic color in hisworks through analyse it.The third part: scenery and alcohol-----tragic color's elimination and buildup. As a lyric writer, Shituo setting a lot of scenery depiction in his novel, and the scenery is one of noticeable feature of his works. The scenery make his novel has some color of Henan province and has peaceful scene, and eliminate tragic color of his writing in a certain extent too. But the graceful scenery make man's ugly more evident at the same time and increase the tragic power at last. Just like that is the alcohol in Shituo's novel. The character in his writings selected alcohol as disengagement from tribulation and one of "self-deceiving" life, but the select make their life get into a deeper plight at the same time when they selected the elimination. The fourth part: death and absurdity----tragic color's summit and modernity. As the most and furthest possibility of human, death always is one of the basic topic of literature. Narration of death in Shituo's novel devided into three types: writer use suicide that often connected with female to indicate his attention of female's tragic; homicide mostly are revolutionary, but the death of Huqu'e whose is the dramatis personae of marriage manifest author's moral judgement; nature death is the most affecting affair, and take in ultimacy and negativity in a glance. As a neoteric, the tragic color of Shituo's novel has modernity too. The most peculiarity of Modernism especially Existentialism exist in it's unlogos , it regard the world is an absurdly existence. This idea was indicate in evidence in The Story of a Wuwang village's richer . Chen's fateful happenstance refract puzzle of the world, and his magic dissipate of his life just the logic result of absurdity. The fifth part: dilemmatic living-----tragic color of Shituo's life. This part will discuss Shituo's mentality and his tragic consciousness in brief. Shituo look at the world with pessimism sight because of his origin and his experience. The elementaryeducation of Shituo and inheriting of "Shuoshu" style becomes the source of tradition and classic beauty in his novel. The first novel volume GU tell three writing ways of Shituo: revolutionary, lyric, sarcastic. The great aesthetics gulf especially between r...