Societies Pattern And The Complex Morphology Of The May Fourth Literature

The appearance of various societies is an important social phenomenon around the May 4^th period, symbolizing the independence and maturity of the New Literature. As a spontaneous form of organization, the literature society is deep in its social background and takes a historical opportunity.The dramatic change in social environment results in contemporary intellectuals' disseminating their cultural and literary values through the formation of societies. Students returned from the West and Japan provided necessary cultural resources, while literature societies spring up in universities. On the other hand, to become known to the public and takes a unique position in literature, writers have to make use of societies. All this makes societies an indispensable form of organization for the development of literature.Based on knowledge authority, these societies have distinctive modern characteristics and are able to freely express themselves and realize their own political and cultural values. Literature values are determined by the writer's cultural ones. A study based on societies will more clearly reveal the state of literature and that of culture at the time. As the societies develop, they rely heavily on borrowing from foreign cultures for the establishment of the order of China's modern literature. The difference in interpreting foreign culture results in the coexistence of different schools of literature. Cultural values rely upon societies who express multicultural values, creating a socio-cultural system in confrontation and co-existence.Driven by different cultural values, many societies develop their own literature values. Grouped into different societies, the society members converge in their literature values, thus creating societal characteristics and promoting a society-based multidimensional development of trends of literature thought. Romanticism, modernism and symbolism all achieve break-through. As an effective form, writers run societies to maintain their uniqueness and say. By joining societies, writers must have both rights and obligations. In bringing their own values in line with those of their society, writers must compromise. There is also much jostling between society members and between societies.The May 4^th Period is the time when old and new ideas and foreign and Chinese cultures converge. Different ideas result in the co-existence of literature societies and comprehensive societies. The different ways in which societies are run lead to the clashes between differing cultural values and literature views, promoting the development of cultural and literature towards multidimensions and complexity. This results in the complex outlook of the May 4^th literature and promotes the growth and flourishing of modern literature.