The Awareness Of The Common People In Lao She's Creative Activities

The awareness of the common people in Lao She's creative activities has long attracted much interest from the academic world. In Lao She, the"writer of the people" , we can easily perceive views and tastes that are homogeneous to the common people. The phrase "common people "in the" awareness of the common people" is, however, not confined to referring to the real social status of identity, but more importantly designates the principles in the writer's value judgments and his moral standpoints when he is observing or describing the world around him. The "awareness of the common people" , as a demonstration of the love for humanity, differs from showering sympathetic rains on the love for humanity, differs from showering sympathetic rains on the small and the weak from above, in that it demands that the writer to do with the"literature of the common people" upheld by the "New Cultural Movement", and can be seen as a subjective embodiment of this literature in a wirter. Be seen as a subjective embodiment of this literature in a writer. Examining the whole contour of his life and literary creation, it would be safe for us to say that, Lao She, the "writer of the people" , is always well demonstrating the "awareness of the people" in his is always well demonstrating the "awareness of the common people" in his observations and judgments, and the caring for the common people that derives from this awareness. This thesis tries tries to first make clear the conception and the theoretical background of the "awareness of the common people" by defining it;then it makes analyses from perspectives of subject matter, of composing techniques, of value judgments, and of style, so as to point out the "awareness of the common people" that is embodied in his words;and after that, it sets out to make a succinct summary of the "awareness of the common people" through three perspectives: the theoretical background of and the realistic foundationfor the formation of this awareness, the developing contour of this awareness, and the special status of this awareness. In a word, this thesis is aimed to demonstrate the "awareness of the common people" in the literary creation of Lao She as "writer of the people" , to bring out the spirit of caring for the common people which is embedded in this awareness, and to point out the close relations between the "common-people" spiritual makeup of the writer and the common people he depicts.