Reality And Ideal: Flying Wing To Wing Or Flying Apart

"Realism and Ideality" as a implicit subject in CaoYu's writings, and they were expressed getting a dualistic framework: realistic people and unearthly people. CaoYu had tried for creating a ideal character, the character should be a hope that the realistic people who could be rescued and China in 20 century. However, his attempt was defeated, this end did some errors on character figure, scenario and structure in CaoYu's four famous works which include lighting storm, sunrise, weald and Beijing's people. We had to find mournfully, unearthly people were still stayed in writer's conception, and cannot walk into realism and make influence on unearthly people. Because unearthly people did nothing, so, in spite of character figure about unearthly people had reached a very high height, the drama also decreased inconsistency and conflict, and missed a chance that deepened drama. This fact implied a tragedy belonging to modern writers: they indulge into depiction about distressful world, but lose an ability that construct ideal earth in the sky. CaoYu's ideas and spirits caused his failure: Lack of imagination, scorn for ideality and belief, short of deity. The contemporary era's literature did this awful dream again, it put its eyes on body and appetency, and did not concentrate on ideality and belief, after Utopia ideality had crashed. How to develop contemporary Chinese literature? We must go back to CaoYu, and his questions, especially those problems he could not solve. Maybe, we have to create imagination over again, get back ideality and belief, and make our nation more easily beyond this-life.