The Polyphonic Quality Of Lu Xun's Novels

We can't really comprehend the complex contents of Lu Xun' s novels and will obliterate their plentiful meanings by the way seeking the dialectical development of his spirt. Lu Xun has a split soul in which all kinds of contradictory elements contend with each other. He faces up to the above-mentioned facts, expresses them by the art of his novels and forms the polyphonic quality of thinking.The conclusion that his novels formed the polyphonic quality of thinking is not made by summing up all kinds of contradictory ideas of his novels. It shows that different kinds of ideas having sufficient value respectively coexist together at the same time, contend with each other and function mutually. They specifically consist of "Being and Nihility", "Hope and Despair" and "Social Anxiety and Individual Anxiety".Lu Xun respects the split of his soul and endeavours to let different kinds of ideas having sufficient value respectively form their own pictures, and so he forms the polyphonic quality of literary composition. One idea tries hard to be the artistic principle through which the author surreys and describes the world, but this is called into question by the other idea; one idea makes great efforts to make a firm conclusion, but simultaneously the other idea suggests that the meaning of the text is uncertain; one idea tries his best to make the charcters be in a line with the author' s will, but the other idea let the characters speak at their own sweet will. So, the greatest initiative of the author' s will is in the fact that it let both of contradictory ideas have debates about the same object at the same time which is the motive power of the narration. This is a new kind of narrative tactic which suggests that a new sort of artistic criterion is established. Although Lu Xun does notmake sense of it consciously, he to some extent breaks through the paramount authority of the author' s will of the traditional fictions and gives birth to the innovation of the literary composition. And this is the reason why Lu Xun' s novels are full of modern fashion.