A Study On The Supernumerary In Modernization Process

The object of this article are the theatrical figures who lived from Sino-Japanese War time to the 50s, neither of them are the helmsman in their time nor the target of the revolution. But some people who have the advanced thought at that time thought the theatrical figures are fallen behind should be educated and persuaded. These theatrical figures always felt fear , trepidation and made many ridicululous mistakes when they confronted the transformation of times. They played a role of the supernumerary in the modernization process and became the main target of the national construction. In the novles, the strategies what the writers used to reform the figures was comedic aesthetic, the writers want to dispel the untimely characteristic on the theatical figures, this method was one of the expression of modernization. However, it is strange that the theatrical figures had peculiar fascination, they are amiable, respectable and lovely. Compared with these theatical figures, the people who have the advanced thought seemed monotonous and boring. In this paper I will use the method of construction and deconstruction try to analyse the role of these theatrical figures by intensive reading in order to discover new things on this subject.