The Study Of Intellectuals' Image In Dai Houying's Works

Dai Hou-ying was a legendary and disputed figure.Her literary works exerted some influence in the literature of new period.Her literary achievements were closely connected with her life experiences and feelings.For various reasons,Dai Houyin and her works were hardly noticed by literary and art circles after she became famous. People pay less and less attention to her works.Naturally few people study her works, and especially research on the images of intellectuals in her works is still a blank.Through detailed recounting and analysis on the characters in Dai's five representative novels which are about intellectuals,the paper studies the images of intellectuals,such as excellent,introspectionist,despicable,surplus,reveals Dai's unique view towards intellectuals' spiritual world,reflects the intellectuals' mental experiences from loss to self-questioning,then to resistance,and finally back to loss in the real life,and delineates the spiritual crises of Dai Hou-ying and her intellectuals and their seek for ways of life before crises.The effort to remolding intellectuals' independent personality is also described.The images of intellectuals portrayed by Dai Hou-ying told us that the change of intellectuals is not only because of the change of the external world but also their character.Her works reveal some foresight of the day because there are some meditations in her works.