Struggle And Redemption In Impasse

How to represent the Motif of revenge, is an old and hot topic in Literature. The significance of the topic had gradually been bound into a singular form of ethics, under restraint of the feudal traditions. As time goes by, with cowertion of discourse background and setting up of new aesthetic standards, the representation of the Motif is on the way to be enriched, widened, multiplied and deepened.This essay, which consists of three parts, tries to work out an entire comparison on the Motif of revenge among modern literary works. The first part is a brief back-dating on the Motif. The second one focuses on decoding Lu Xun's unique creation about it. His advocating of revenge was a destruction to the conventional slavery moral-"hatred", with his strong will and rebelling spirit. Wei Lianshu's revenge in the book The Lonely Man, is a kind of suicide out of despair. This aroused the enlightenments to have a clear look on solitude and despair, and then take the responsibility of them. The black man's revenge in Sword Forging, is struggles of paradox in a way of "trouble-making against darkness", between sense and sensibility, value estimating and art creation, men's coil and the reality, when, the third part analyses Wei Jinzhi's Retaliation, aiming at disclosing the diverged situation brought to the hero after the moral setting of revenge. Wang Zengqi's Revenge and Feng Zhi's Wu Zixu have not only destruct the traditional view on revenge, but also endowed them with existentialism's idea upon value of life. They have greatly enriched its aesthetic meaning. Thefourth part looks into documents about national liberation and social class conflicts, and shows that, during the period of national liberation, the turning of people's attitude from deep sorrow to optimism results from both the strong confidence on victory plus a optimist culture and, more likely, a misleading out of hatred. Therefore, people had estimated the value of their enemy and that of themselves with too simple ways in illusions of value boosting on their side. Those were false solutions. During the social class revenge, fighting against the landlords was, to some extent, a judicial trial to gain political effect, however, the ordinary people dial not establish their reason about "social class" in real sense. The inner logic of its strong power lies in mutual borrowing and provoking between politics morals. Meanwhile, the revenge of social class is something people used to wipe out evil in the world and shadow in their mind Closely followed to the above parts, the last section discuss about that it is the historical turns for a "good ness based " view and a pursuit after perfect personality to wipe out evils and shadow. And the abuse of the lawfulness of the pursuit has brought about potential danger of the mental structure of the literature after the foundation of the people's Republic of China or even to that of culture for the whole epoch.