A Study Of General View On The History Of Society In Novels Of The Seventeen Years

General view on the history of society is the core of Modernity. It changes people's concept of human history, in which people now regard human self as decisive factor in the making of history rather than Heavens or God — once regarded as the decisive factor, which shows profound trust in human reasoning. Thus human behaviors will legally be included in the making of history. From the historical perspective, based on the-eight-novel textual analysis, this paper makes detailed inquires into novels of the seventeen years to recover something hidden in the history. The four inquiries can be specified as follows.The first is an inquiry into how to describe the view on history in novels of the seventeen years. It can be abstracted from the texts of the sample novels from the perspective of 1) the revolutionary view on history, which regards class struggle as the driving force of history; 2) the progressive view on history that takes communism for the ultimate goal of society; 3) ethical view on history, which considers Populism to be theoretical foundation; and 4) the deterministic view on history, that believes cause-and-effect to be the decisive factor in the making of history. The class struggle to be driving foundation,the communism to be ideal foundation,the populism to be ethical foundation,the cause-and-effect to be scientific foundation make up the general view on the history in the novels of seventeen years and four foundation base on the modernity view of historical progress.The class struggle to be driving foundation is the chief valuein the four foundation. This is the logical Unking throughout the paper.The second, which is closely related to the first, is an inquiry into the deep structure of the view on history embodied in novels of the Seventeen Years and how it came into being. The paper addresses this inquiry with discussion of 1) the wounded situation of the Chinese nation when encountering the modernity, which needs a view on history to rebuild the community, so as to alleviate the national anxiety over the past 100 years; 2) the establishment of the new government, which needs a view on history to lay a legal foundation; 3) searching for driving force after giving up selfish desire — an "invisible hand ". We can find the general view on the history in the novels of seventeen years imply duplicate contrast by analyzing the novels' context:understanding in time is space contrast and understanding in space is time contrast the contrast is absolute.The third inquiry is into the "history progression" — basic values in the view on history embodied in novels of the seventeen years. After analysis and synthesis of the historical linguistic context, which produced and forced the view on history reflected in novels of Seventeen Years, the researcher developed sympathy for the situation. However, sympathy cannot stop further reflection on the issue, which is embodied in the third inquiry. It is addressed to textual contradictions, and trace of the erased intertwisted, to analyze the three propositions "truth and progress", "radicalism and progress", and "morality and progress", so as to show that the view on history reflected in novels of the Seventeen Years can be proved wrong.lt suction out the history when it becomes a absolute view.Influence of a view can only be destroyed by another influential view. Only a novel idea can disintegrate and deconstruct the old one. The fourth is the inquiry into the view on history literature needs and the paper points to two directions of thinking: one is harmonious but varied view on history, the other is humanistic view on history.