Try To Talk About The White Deer Plain's Narrative Feature

The white deer plain has attracted extensive criticism after it was published. But some important aspects still are not extensively dealt with. For example: there is rich research of its culture and thought, but there is little research of the structure which the thought adheres to; there is rich research of historical features of this fiction, but this ignores the research of narrative time which is related to the arrangement of the concrete knots; there is rich research of personality, while lacking research into the narrative perspective which is important to shape the persons' personality. All these spacious fields are waiting to be examined.This text will make use of classical narratology to classify The white deer plain in three aspects----the narrative structure, the narrative time, and the narrative perspective. This shows the narrative feature of this fiction and fills in the blank of research about The white deer plain.The character structure of The white deer plain embodies the balance of power both in a horizontal and a vertical direction. Features of its plot structure include two threads which sometimes collide, sometimes parallel each other, while the sub-plots are in opposition. The intensity of the narrative alternates between strong and weak plots, and the transitions become the impetus of the fiction. We can see that Latin fictions influenced the character structure. We can also discover the shadow of Chinese ancient fictions from the plot structure. The historical ideas that appear in the whole structure are influenced by the environment of 1980's. The differentiation between this fiction and other historical fictions not only lies in the historical ideas, but also lies in the structure which the ideas adhere to.The time order of this fiction often obeys positive cycle time, sometimes obeys negative cycle time. The majority of negative cycle time in this fiction is "inside type". In comparison with Chinese classical fiction, its proportion of negative cycle time is greater, but not significantly. So we can say that it is still a Chinese classical type. It normally moves at speed, seldom slowly. The omissions in the fiction often are obvious, not secret. This way is very traditional. The feature of its narrative speed stays in the frame of Chinese classical fictions.