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Trial Argument On The Description Of Humanity In Tiening's Novel "the Stupid Flower"

Posted on:2011-11-25Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:W SuFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360305956996Subject:Chinese Modern and Contemporary Literature
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In almost thirty years of her writing career, Tie Ning as one of the most famous contemporary Chinese writer never stops working. With her delicate emotions, rich imagination, a profound understanding of life, she has created a series of master pieces with completely different styles, including, "Oh, The Sweet Snow", " The Rose door," "Opposite", "Bathing Woman", "Stacks of Wheat Straw", "Cotton Pile". Throughout her work, you will find that the changing of her writing style is relative, behind her varied writing styles, there is always a heart that cherishes life, loving and caring for the humanity, she has always committed to the deep excavation of human nature, and to examine the complexity of it.In 2005, after six years of silence, Tie finally revealed another full-length masterpiece - "The stupid flower". Setting her stage in Jizhong plain, using the people that live in a village called"The stupid flower"as blueprint, Tie used realistic method showed nearly fifty years of historical changes from the early twentieth century to the China's victory against Japanese aggression. The author successfully twist her consideration of history and individual person into a country genre painting, the whole work has both the heavy feeling of history and the secular beauty of everyday life. Currently the academic researches on "The stupid flower" mainly focus on the comparison study with "Cotton Pile", narrative style of the country story telling and the image of women. It should be noted, apart from the general concerns, there is also another key content in "The stupid flower" - to explore the rationality of the human spirit with unremitting attention. Based on the previous achievements, this essay will use analysis of the description of human nature as a starting point, begin to explore how Tie's thinking toward humanity and life has a certain kind of continuity. Thesis contains three parts; it analyzed Tie's description of human nature step by step. The first part studied her pursue for the passionate youth, loving mother and good father, focuses on addressing her profound thinking of the beautiful humanity.Because Tie has showed her loving concerns of women in her previous works, so in this essay, the second part learned the similarities and differences between the female characters in "The stupid flower" and in her previous works, it mainly talks about women's self-limitation on female survival restrictions. The third part discusses the description of daily life that expressed the beauty of people and life. By carefully study of the description of human nature in"The stupid flower", we can find in the seemingly loose daily stories, it constantly runs through the caring for individual and profound thinking on the national spirit, it displays the most beautiful side of Chinese human nature and at the same time by further thinking of national spirit she completed excavation on human nature which expressed her everlasting love and caring for human beings and lifeIn this modern fast-paced society and life, what kind of moral order we should have in our hearts? Through the in-depth research and analysis of"The stupid flower", we see the most beautiful display of human nature, in the simple narrative, it gave us a strong power to look back to history and the soul of our Chinese nation, awaken the spirit of our nation, culture identity and self-identity, it helped us see the most precious thing of our nation - the moral order and inner wisdom, it gave us a direction that make sure we will not get lost while we are speeding in the 21st century.
Keywords/Search Tags:Beautiful Humanity, Female Survival, Secular Life
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