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Exploring The Thoughts Of Cao Yu's Drama

Posted on:2007-03-05Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:H L ZhongFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360185458659Subject:Chinese Modern and Contemporary Literature
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This article attempts to excavate the practical significance of Cao Yu dramatic works, through the play character's behavioral analysis achieved to the reader that the works become audience's thought guidance, and draw out a universal life guide: Namely the correct dealing with relation of the ideal and the reality, seek the effective way from the reality to the ideal. Breaking through from difficult position reasonably, one can achieves the ideal happy condition gradually. Avoids destroying and defeat, treasures the life, and causes the life's significance expansion. When character's Bacchus spirit surges upward, the person displays the original desire human nature, his or her treachery and the non- rationality occupy the dominant position. When character's Apollo spirit surges upward, he or she displays pursuing the beautiful outward appearance and the illusion .Cao Yu molds the most successful images, whose character individuality are all raising high of these two kinds of spirits. In the play the character firmly walk to the republic of Plato so eagerly, that sometimes he has harassed his rational judgment. If he chooses the correct way, the character has obtained the success, but if choosing the wrong way the character encounter the deconstruction actually. The Cao Yu's dramatic works become the textbook which direct the people's behavior, awaken people's homey consciousness, is alert that people must choose the correct way through which they can breaks away from the difficult position.Solitude is the human survival eternal condition. The unfamiliar and the misunderstanding are universal condition, and the communication and the understanding only are suddenly the spark. Pursuing the eternal and chasing the change are two-pole of human's natural disposition. Human always wants to change the environment, but at the same time he or she looks for the invariable ideal homeland, and this creates the contradictions such as saving or abandoning, stopping or leaving, initiates the different heart directive force joining battle, causes consequence which cannot be forecast. In Cao Yu preliminary dramatic works the contradictions between the character and the other character, the character and own can't be dispelled and these impel the plot development. Each people are in the lonely condition, longs for others can carry them out from "the slender cage", but he or she has made struggling in vain only. Misunderstanding and indifference between the relations of the husbands and wives, the fathers and sons, between the relations of the sweetheart's, the different ranks...
Keywords/Search Tags:Cao Yu's drama, solitude, chasing, happiness
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