Comparisons About Novel Satire Art: Between Lu Xun And Natsume Soseki

In 20th century both Lu Xun and Natsume Soseki are the most renowned writers in Asia, regardless of to their country's literature and the world's literature, both of them had contributions. This paper has carried on the comparison from the satire angle to their novels.First, basic understanding to satire. The satire origins from the humanity to the social custom or the social present situation disaffection, people cannot express their own directly disaffection, so they uses the language which avoids mentioning, points out of the truth from the side, the goal is to cause people's awake. A.Melville Clark once had made the detailed classification to the satire expression: "In the literary work satire relies on useing each kind of different expression, for instance wit, ridicule, ironty, sarcasm, cynicism, the sardonic as well as invective and so on, the goal to express this kind of effect, is similar to the lizard." Booth thought that, "Gives scolding" and so on the expression also should be regarded as the satire. On this point,Booth's viewpoint and Lu Xun's viewpoint are dissimilar. In order to conveniently analyzes, this paper also regards the expression as a satire technique.Second, content comparison to satire.1,Common viewpoint: To social malpractice criticism. In the satire content, Lu Xun's and the Natsume Soseki's works has many the same places both in their novels to powerful official's satire, they both have carried on the satire to the morally degenerate scholar, these scholars lack intellectual's personality, do not have humanities spirit which the intellectual should have originally. They hire oneself the powerful official, willingly is the rich person the servant one side, displays human nature is ugly; To the knowledge did not have value, Lu Xun and Natsume Soseki both had carried on the satire; They also both satirized the false intellectual.