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Tragedy Connotation In Shen Congwen's Composition

Posted on:2008-10-02Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:X L LiFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360215456383Subject:Chinese Modern and Contemporary Literature
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In the long history of Chinese literature, which is filled up with complicated literary styles and long-lasting cultural inheritance, Shen Congwen's works are definitely considered to be a radiant peal. Those works, with their strong traditional culture inside story, the elegantly poetic sentiment breath, the kind and honorable characters, the affable smooth styles and the poetic sentiment, all read so harmonious, serene and beautiful.However, all scene excessive serene and beautiful, can cause the person to be instead sad from this scene. Behind the exquisite simple and elegant writing, hides the writer's sighing with sadness and sorrow. This paper, which starts with analyzing Shen Congwen's unique tragedy idea and its causes, has thoroughly analyzed the tragedy connotation, tragedy poetic writing and the tragedy value Shen Congwen's composition contains. Shen uses a kind of superficially sweet madrigal tone in Western Hunan to express some profound tragedy concept.The paper elaborates tragedy concept of Shen Congwen's composition from three aspects: Life tragedy, human nature tragedy and destiny tragedy. The life tragedy mainly manifests for the metropolis people's distortion life as well as the countryman although strong actually ignorant life; The human nature tragedy mainly manifests for these kind-hearted character which represents virtuous human nature to sink in the tragedy destiny as well as the simple pure human nature corraded by the modern civilization to disappear gradually; The destiny tragedy mainly manifests for the variable death and the helpless destiny. Everything looks accidental fortunate, but everything results in a fateful necessit. Human's destiny is covering with one kind of unknown fear.Shen Congwen took all pains to try to play sweet harmonious countryside madrigal for his homeland, but only to find the forever deconstruction of healthy life, the gradually disappearance of kind human nature and the irretrievable collapse of the national ideal built inside him. The vicissitudes of life, frail helpless of living and the painful misery of history are all incisively reflected in the mortals and minor matters created in his works.
Keywords/Search Tags:Shen Congwen, life tragedy, human nature tragedy, destiny tragedy, madrigal tone
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