Attempt To Expound The Stereotype Of Chi Li's Novels

Chi Li is one of the most significant representatives of the writers of"New Realistic Novels"; her literary achievements cover various areas such as literature, movie or television adaption, works translation. During the composition career for more than twenty years, the large quantities of her creating works, movie or television adaption as well as the works translation are amazing even in the contemporary literature history in China, thus, the"Chi Li Phenomenon"arouses more and more attention in the republic of letters.From the end of 1980s till now, the research and discussion or argument about Chi Li has not ceased in the academic world, not only that, it develops gradually day by day; meanwhile, lots of valuable research achievements are springing up.The existing research results mainly focus on the affirming and negating of whether the Chi Li's novels are still the"New Realistic Novels"and neglect the research for the era background of the composition of the"New Realistic Novels"in the end of 1980s, in addition, it neglects the analysis and research for the composition mode of Chi Li's works in each phase which is taking the time as a clue.Based on the discussion for the research history and current situation of Chi Li's novels as well as the composition background of the New Realistic Novels, this essay plans to analyze and research the stereotyped composition mode of Chi Li's works in the twenty years and it has already formed the stereotyped literary character image, theme and the narration means which are taking the representative works in different phase as the research object and taking the stereotyped composition of Chi Li's works as the researching subject with the method of literature comprehension during the period from Trials and Tribulations to Therefore. Chapter I. The Stereotype of Character Image-BuildingSince the works Troubled Life, Chi Li creates a series of male images with the characteristic of mediocre, incompetent and ugly, along with the criticizing for the male, the author has shown lots of female images with the characteristic of intellectual, realistic and wonderful, moreover, the female consciousness runs through each periods of the Chi Li's works.Section I. The exposedness and Criticism to malesA perfect positive male image never occurs in the most of Chi Li's works. It can be seen that Chi Li has considered men with the point of view of disclosing and criticizing as well as revealing the characteristics such as incompetent and ugly of the males without mercy.For instance, Yin Jiahou, who has matured in the troubles of life; Zhuang Jianfei, who has compromised in the puzzles of marriage; Zhao Shengtian, who has grown up in the problems of generation; Bian Rongda, who has become silent under the suppression of life et al, they all belong to the images with the characteristics of incompetent and mediocre.The character images of bad men built by Chi Li have various shortages. For example, Jinxiang, who is"bad"from he was born in Cloud breaks a places; Xiaoqiu, who is"bad"by fair means or foul with the purpose of his own benefits in Focus One's Eyes upon (Ning Mou); Kang Yewei and Wang Zili, who are"bad"once becoming rich in Comings and Goings and Good Morning, Lady; in addition, Hualin, who is"bad"even not becoming rich in Therefore.Section II. The Female Consciousness Runs through the Entire WorksIn fact, the female consciousness runs through Chi Li's works from the beginning, however, it has been covered by the glory of"New Realistic"and"Civilian Consciousness"; thus, it has not been paid more attention by the people. From the representation and reflection of the maternity consciousness to the positioning for the feeling consciousness of love and marriage, the female consciousness in Chi Li's works has gone through the process of gradual maturing and completing or perfecting. Chapter II. Stereotype of ThemeTheme is the most representative characteristics of"New Realistic"in the Chi Li's works as well as proves it is non-controversial that she is the"New Realistic"writer. Each of her works is the overthrow to theme of the traditional literatures, she takes a clear-cut stand in all her works and meanwhile she does not mention love, refuse romantic love or even expose the unreal love without any concealment.Section I. Overthrow to the Traditional Theme: No Talking of LoveChi Li's works has broken up the traditional love legend in people's mind; she has build up and described the love in real life according to her own experiences and unique points of view, i.e. people will live happily if they do not talk of love in the daily life, on the contrary, people will never gain the so-called love if they are seeking it consistently, even worse, the simple life will be full of troubles.Section II. From"No Talking of Love"to"Exposing the Unreal Love"Chi Li has concluded the"first love"as the exploration and desire to the sex for the two young guys; she does not deny the existence of love really and thoroughly. It is only because that love is too pathetic and fragile in front of the reality, moreover, it can not defeat the cruel real life and love will be defeated in front of the reality actually.Chapter III. Stereotype of NarratingAlmost every Chi Li's works has run over with the subjective feeling of the narrator whether in the 80s or the end of 90s even in the beginning of this century. Section I. Stereotype of Discuss languageThe narrating method of Subjective Intervention has been adopted and kept by Chi Li as a preference till now even with the trend of strengthening from the works of Trials and Tribulations to the Therefore. She has adopted the subjective comment intervention method of the works of each phase; th narrator has always expressed her own point of view directly from the text.Section II. Stereotype of Circumstance StructureThe entire works of Chi Li have the stereotyped plots, i.e. the stories about how to live in the love and marriage families for the males and females. The obvious subjective consciousness, opinions and feelings are blended in the works of Chi Li from the preliminary period of her composition; the author prefers to arrange the happens and the develops and the results of incident according to her own opinions.