Research On The Characteristic And Evolvement Of Characters In Modern Chinese Military Novels

The military novels of an period is the concrete embodiment of military culture at that time, and is the embodiment of military culture conception specialized by a country and a nation. Military novels cannot exist without military cultures. In the four stages of PRC military culture's development, the shape and evolution of characters in military novels also implies this point.In the revolution heroism novels of the "former seventeen years", the "perfect"serviceman figure is the example of the time, while the human nature, after purified and sublimed of times, only left its internal attribution of some class. Articles of that time often intentionally give prominence to the heroes' bravery at wartime and loyalty at peacetime, but seldom mention the topic that how the heroes are made, lacking depiction of the development of their changes from an ordinary to a hero. Military novels at new era starts to return to the original condition, in which they explore the "human"figure of heroes, discuss the human nature covered by heroism crown, pays attention to their shape, failures, intimate and love, and triviality, return them to the original. Military novels after "south front war", deepening the patriotism and heroism, put stress on the servicemen themselves and explore the relationship between war and human nature, which break the old invention mode and exploit a new aspects of character shape. Meanwhile, during the transformation, there are some authors who go too far to the extreme of anti-heroism. "Anti-heroism" once prevail, which leads to the lose and evanescence of the military novles' spirit. Until the new century, things change. The military novels give more depiction on human nature, besides the heroism of servicemen, adding more flesh and blood and spirit. If it can be said that military novels of 1980's and 1990's make the "pefect"servicemen figure walk down from their "altar" , then the military novels of new century make them transmit into the ordinary figure of human nature. There is no doubt that the invention of military novels at new era not only inherit the legacy of that of the "former seventeen years" but also make further progress the shape of character. The research take character image in military novels at the contemporary era as the main subject, analyses military novels of each time, concludes the character shape characteristic an their evolution, further analyses the development of character shape in military novels, gropes the time's influence on the articles and the total characteristic, explores the deep reason and relation under the surface.