Gain Insight Into Father

Autocratic father is the type of father images, which were depicted mostly in the Chinese modern literature history. The type of father images contains the most meanings endued by the traditional culture, and implies the authors' macroscopical thinking about Chinese polity, history and culture. Based on the time features and thought tendency dominating in each stage in the development of modern literature in China, the article focuses on the autocratic father images in systematical and complete way, including the historical value and social significance.The type of the autocratic father images was conceptually shaped in the age of May, fourth. In 1930s, the autocratic feature in the type of father images was depicted more distinctly. Then, the writers consciously put up the father love in the Autocratic fathers in 1940s. The changing in the shaping of the autocratic father is a lively reflection of the times thoughts and the process of enlightening. Through the changing, we also expressly know the transition of the writers' attitude to the traditional Chinese culture.There are some flaws in the shaping of autocratic father, such as conceptually, symbolically, politically, lack of aesthetic value. The mission of times, the writers' choice in culture and complicated emotion are the main reasons that result in the flaws.In spite of the flaws, we can clearly know that the writers who are willing to take on the mission of times in Modern literature history made great efforts in mending the flaws through the changing in shaping the Autocratic father. With the ages changing , the inditing experience accumulating , the writer' attitude to traditional culture changing, the writers did not only depict the autocratic feature in the autocratic father images any longer, so the feature of autocratic father images become various. The fact that from the writers having made the elementary schema of cultural significance of this article, which has achieved the target of criticism on thought, to presenting the complex humanity of autocratic Father has indicated their continuous groping effort on sculpturing this imagery and the pursuit of aesthetic value.