The purpose of the thesis is to describe the development process of the vernacular Chinese fictions from the Mid-late Ming Dynasties to 1940s by analyzing the evolution of the mental exploration,which is one of the four aspects of characterization in fictions.Based on the relationship among the mental exploration and the characterization and the integral structure of the novel in the vernacular Chinese fiction,the thesis is divided into four chapters,and each chapter consists of two aspects,character internal monologue and character internal analysis. |