The Populace Consciousness In Lao She's Novels

Lao She's novels have been researched for a long time, and have acquired a lot of achievements. But reviewers often neglect Lao She's emotion of common customs and culture self-identity under critical sights, some have talked it about but they are not abundant enough. This thesis tries to study Lao She's novels from the sights of the populace on the base of formers.This thesis divides into three parts.Chapter I mainly discusses the origin of Lao She's populace consciousness. It talks about survival experience, individual temperament and culture atmosphere. Firstly, Lao She was bora from a poor Qi people family. The poor life makes him realize the poverty of life and accepts the practical theory easily. This life surrounding makes him affectionate to the common civilian. The secondly, Lao She got widely in touch with the civilian literature and popular literature when he was young. He was influenced deeply by the common literature, so his character acquired a habit of the common people's interest. In his novels, he gives expression to a interest of practical personality continually. He looks on writing as a work of mankind which shows his populace consciousness. Finally, Lao She was effected by social thoughts of May Fourth movement and western literature deeply. Lao She didn't take part in May Fourth new culture movement, but he was effected from thoughts and language and so on. Later he came to England where he was influenced by western literature especially Digens who presented English critical realism literature, then he began to write novels which concerned about little figure and fate of the poor.Chapter II discusses the specific appearance of populace consciousness. This chapter will talk it about from four directions. To begin with, Lao She emphasizes the sad life of common people from their material desires. At the same time, Lao She appears his mock and criticism to the men who worship money. The secondly, Lao She emphasizes figures' plain emotion and their miss to family when he talks about love and marriage. The populaces look on good wives and mothers as their idealcompanions. Lao She put emphasis on the responsibility of people who have been married. In addition, Lao She criticizes the figure and culture in his novels intellectually, but he shows his miss in his subconsciousness. The figures in his novels appear an opposed mode of beauty and ugliness. Besides, his novels emerge morality tendency when he portrays his figures. Finally, the descriptions of festival, etiquette and daily life in his novels become another present of plebification tendency.Chapter III mainly analyses the position of Lao She's populace consciousness in popular thoughts. In the history of modern literature, the populace movement had already been an important literary phenomenon. Since the May Fourth movement, the colloquialism movement makes literature near to the masses. Because of the blind acceptance of the foreign literature views and writing skills, some writings appear europeanization tendency in language. Left Flank League literatures improve it a little, but it is short of true feeling and many writings appear the tendency of formula and concept. Lao She does it well between literature and ideology, which makes special contribution to modern literature.