Xu Xiaobin Exploration Of The Tragedy Of Individual Life

The cognition and exploration of human's life is an enduring subject. The individuals at different times have different experience and understanding of life. The writer needs to find a reasonable and effective point of penetration to dialysis the inner context and texture of life in the writing. Xu Xiaobin takes the change of love as the breakthrough point to review the complex life sight. Then we can understand the initial"division"and the positive posture during the individual's growth thoroughly. That the characters always have ineluctable miserable ending whatever they do underlines Xu Xiaobin's deep sense of individual life tragedy. To Xu Xiaobin, it is an exploration process that not only includes the conscious cognition of life but the suspicion and confusion.The thesis is divided into the following three chapters.The first chapter is about the division and combination of life. It elaborates the birth and growth of life is a process in which one realizes division gradually and tries to combine."Love"is just the combination way that Xu Xiaobin looks for and sticks to. Here comes to the source that the separate individuals persistently even bigotedly look for the combination of"love". Xu Xiaobin affirms the significance of"love"to man and its positive meaning in the life"divison". She also unfolds the fragmentation, decay and unreachableness of"love"and its fatal destruction power. The thesis embodies the hegemony and cruelty of maternal love, misplacement and damage of love, and the fragility and betrayal of friendship. It brings about the retardarce and break of combination road of life and inevitably results in the psychic trauma and spiritual unbalance of individual.The second chapter is about the multi-orientation of self-balance. In order to subside the anxiety of frustration, the individual takes a series of measures to take the wounded unbalanced ego back to the balance state. It mainly finds expression in the several ways of directing outside or receding inward, including retaliating to others, escaping to the different time and places, inner burden of sympathy. However, the invalidation of these ways intensifies the life tragedy that one is lost in dilemma and can never escape. What is more, she also pays attention to the other pattern of life -- the easeful life without the heavy spiritual burden -- in opposition to the above-mentioned"life of heavy burden", and further expands her consideration dimensions of individual's life problems.The third chapter is about the cognition and transcendence of life tragedy. It begins with the relations between the individual life and society, the others, and self to reveal the"whirlpool"of the individual existence. It mainly embodies the destruction of individual's ideal and pursuit in the trend of the society, the difficulty and decay of"love"among the human beings, conflict of self inner force and split of personality. Xu Xiaobin spares on effort to exhibit the yearning, struggling and helplessness of the individual during the existence"whirlpool"and expresses her tragic understanding and cognition of life. However, she endows the characters with the spirits of daring to choose, assuming actively and persisting and provides the life with heavy"existence sense". As Xu Xiaobin faces the human nature weakness squarely, she also exhibits the high spirits and magnificence of life. Transcendence of life's self-limitedness is actualized from another level.Xu Xiaobin, utters the inevitable tragedy of individual life with a defiant posture. She sees failure and melancholy soberly, but still endows the characters with the ardor to pursue and encouragement to resist. During the hustle and bustle of the time, the sobriety and optimism to life appears especially valuable. That is also the reason why I choose the thesis topic.