Ancient Culture Of Personality And Literary Character

The imposing manner of Mencius1 prose is generally acknowledged by past dynasties scholars. To the discussion of its origin cause of formation of imposing manner, forefathers have already done some work, there are such reason discussions of top layer as the skill, artistic , social background of language,etc.We think the real reason lies in Mencius' inherent personality spirit . To put it briefly, the essence of Mencius personality is the tragic personality of a kind of division. Role duty impels him to pay close attention to social historical reality, design reasonable social development scheme and norm, and his social value realizes only through setting up such a social norm and mode , but the social structure and mode wanted is the system of monarch. In this kind of social structure mode, he puts himself in the governing and arranging of monarch. His self- life plan has never exceeded the line of "emperor's teacher".In this way, the realization of individual value is as the condition with giving up to individual value, moving towards the free pursuit to the normal pursuit finally , and to free denying. This is a tragic paradox that can't be solved . This is a tragic dual character of Mencius' cultural personality .There are two main reasons to cause the cultural tragic dual character of personality , the other is the enormous contrast of their role location to political culture and ecnomic status.The dual character cultural personality does not only lies in Mencious . Taking a broad view of the whole Chinese classic literature history , we can say no matter what time, what schools,what orientations of life, their inherent personality is having a kind of division and making a variation from the point of view of root.Though they demonstrate many forms of life overallly, the fight caused uneasiness , turbulence , agony on their heart is the same .