Decadence In Between The Individual And History

The 17 year literature period refers in particular to the years 1949 to 1966 occurring in China. The overall theme found in these 17 years of literature presents both the spirit of revolution and the spirit of optimism, firm beliefs in communism as well as a universal collectivist faith. The following are important components of the 17 years of literature: the novel is usually regarded as bringing honor to the revolutionary cause, the revolutionary main melody serves as the political text, and the novels all contain the revolutionary, positive, and upward fervor.An early discovery in this thesis found that in one of these red novels villains are those who are displaying "decadence", the thesis then discovered the existence of the "end of the world complex", and these established authors of contemporary literature are expressing their personal experiences with decadence and end of the world complexes in these novels, therefore these villains "will be decadent" and develop an "end of the world complex." These two concepts are introduced in the 17 year literature novel's analysis. The introductory remarks have partially analyzed "decadence" and "the decadence principle" by focusing on the concept and the occurrence, by its existence in modern literature, and pointed out the possibility that it exists in other 17 year literature novels, as well as analyzing the significance of "decadence" in the 17 year literature novels.The first chapter started with the inspections of "decadence ", "end of the world complex" and "hell" and others. Then it moved on to cover the glossary in the tradition of Christianity and Marxism, modernism, the Chinese Confucian sayings and Daoist philosophy and their traditional meanings, the heaven and hell dividing line actually is precisely the collective and the individual, progress and decadence, the normal and the abnormal state, the gentleman and the villain and several other contradictory categories.Building on this foundation, the second chapter has analyzed in the red novel the villain body's" decadence" and tendencies, this kind of "decadence" originates when "the final judgment" is approaching, these persons opposed the new people's regime and the reactionary clique will receive trial by the people. Simultaneously are this kind of "decadence" and the performance for each appearance of it, these features of modern literatures' leading character have the relation of being neither friendly nor aloof, another characteristic of modernism is to present the opposite sides significance, it enables us to have reason to reconsider the unreasonable factors hidden in modernism. These counter-revolutionaries, the bourgeoisie, and the petty bourgeoisie's certain behavior ways and these psychological characteristics in western persons, one feels "all firm things have vanished into thin air" to form a common modern experience.But the person who already leaves behind their own name in the modern history of literature said regarding these that, the hell experience, in other words the free thought already became part of their deep unconsciousness. As the country progressed there was no time to place their free thoughts, so they expressed through their own writings about the decadent time and that kind of "end of the world complex". These are the third chapter.In the fourth chapter, the author discussed two methods to get rid of the decadent way, one kind was surmounting decadence, another kind was removing oneself from decadence. The two ways use the backgrounds of Confucian thought and Taoist thought, in this thesis is the essential critique of the foundations of these novels, it also advocates one to face up to the world's miseries using the method of survival.