History Alone,

A person, as an individual, cannot exist independently. Every person, as a member of society, influences society through their behavior, meanwhile, every society's norms and policies influence every person's behavior in turn. Throughout a person's life, society brings change, both big and small. The process of society's vicissitudes is known as "history", while history is mankind's recording of societal change. Society gradually transforms in to distinct social stratums, commonly separated into: the ruling class, and the ruled class. However, class conflict occasionally arises, leading to social upheaval.Every society gives priority to the will of the ruling class. In addition to this dominant power, there is the ruled class, known as "the common people". When conflict between "the common people" and the ruling powers arises, "the common people" are divided into two types: the first, as the resistance, stands opposed to the political powers; the other adopts a "laissez-faire" and obedient posture.Lu Xun and Yin Dong Zhu are representative figures amongst Chinese and Korean writers, they shed light on society and "the common people"; their works reveal "the common people's" suffering and isolation, while manifesting their personal feelings and thoughts.Confronted by a dark and grim social reality, confronted by the enlightener's sorrowful plight, Lu Xun didn't flinch or evade; on the contrary, he adopted a positive outlook on life, "persist at what one knows is impossible", embodying the true value of life when resisting despair.Yin Dong Zhu who also found himself serving as a poet of the resistance in a painfully dark age, chose to keep up an unrelenting struggle, too. The pair, Lu Xun and Yin Dong Zhu, faced relatively dark societies; although they both wanted to do their upmost to free themselves from this dark age, it followed them like a shadow. As valiant warriors, the pair essentially took the initiative to seek out battle, but throughout their relentless struggle, neither found a comrade-in-arms. The youth of the time were completely unaware that the society they found themselves in was dark as they were innocent and naive, completely unaware of the cruelty of societal struggle. So the two writers were weary of acting alone, finding it necessary to stop and ponder the possibility of quitting the cause; as a result they became dark history's loners. However, as cultural warriors feeling isolation and failure, they were trapped in a spiritual crisis; at these junctures, an alternative self often appeared; in this way, a fierce struggle between an obedient self and a valiant warrior self occurred, thus giving rise to a split-self state. In Ye Cao Lu Xun rediscovered the self, making the requisite adjustments to the self, but he became aware of the insignificance, weakness and powerlessness of the self's strength. Yin Dong Zhu's Heaven, Wind, Stars and Poetry manifested the splitting of self, thus leaving impressions of mutual contradiction and conflict.Although Lu Xun and Yin Dong Zhu found themselves in different countries, the pair belonged to identical social circumstances and Zeitgeist. Furiously resisting their two countries' dark periods, as Lu Xun and Yin Dong Zhu were unable to conform, they separated themselves from their countries' dark ages. During those dark periods of society, the pair incessantly called themselves into account, interrogated themselves, even at times losing their sense of self, tending towards a split-self state. Yet they never gave up, relentlessly soul-searching and seeking the true self.