The Choice Between Freedom And Oppression

This is a general trend of taking interests in spontaneous emotion at the turning point of Chinese modern literature . And it developed to the peak by the writing of the love novels of May Fourth Movement period. The imagination of free love in literature is the manifestation of the revolution of social ideology. It makes the oppressive elements in traditional civilization are set free by the means of writing and stimulates the life force and creative power. Novels on the motif of revolution and love which propagated the belief of undertaking epochal tasks and giving free rein to one's personality. The novels inherited the individualism of the love novels of May Fourth Movement period, on the other hand, personality was inclined to be oppressed in the novels because of the writers' patriotism. So the subject of the novels showed the writers impulse which the writers tried to make the uncertain personality to be subjected to the certainty of the proletarian revolution.If the awaking of the personality in the love novels of May Fourth Movement period manifests the rethinking to the civilized oppression, as a sort of early phase before the current literature which was dominated by the main ideology maturate, the novels on the motif revolution and love express that the process from the freedom of emotion and personality to the oppression. The choice between freedom and oppression is not only the mankind's ponder about existence but also is concerned with the problem of activity and rigidity of literature imagination.The dissertation is divided into five parts:Foreword: Interpret the relationship between the love novels of .May Fourth Movement period and the novels on the motif of revolution and love and the value when we regard them as a continuous process.Section one: Mainly explain the transformation from the love novels of May Fourth Movement period to the novels on the motif of revolution and love: The transformation form the emotional thing-in-itself to the moral thing-in-itself in the two types of novels; The change of the meaning of "revolution"; The relationship between the narrate of "revolution" and "love" form communality to conflict.Section two: The inclination of individualism and returning to tradition in the love novels of May Fourth Movement period ; The tragedy was come form the existent division in Yu dafu's love novels; The critiques on the national character and attempt to construct modern character in Lu xun's novels were based on the relationship between male and female, the intention of returning to tradition in Feng yuanjun, Lu yin and Xu dishan's novels.Section three: The high-spirited personality and the restrain of epochal sense of responsibility in the novels on the motif of revolution and love: The splendour was created by the writing of Jiang guangci and Hong lingfei; "modern women" in Mao dun's novels and primitive vitalities were controlled by reason; The revolt to the certainty in 《lisha's sad》 expressed the faith of individualism.Epilogue: The summary of the freedom and oppression of literature in the literature history.