The Analysis Of Symbols In Man With Many Wives By Su Tong Of Relating To Rhetoric

This article is to keep a foothold in generalized rhetoric. It borrows symbols' theory by french semiologist Roland·Barthes and mirroring theory by french psychoanalyst Lacam. I select the symbol about novel's title, the symbols of images and the characters' symbols to explicate the symbols in Man with Many Wives by Su Tong of relating to rhetoric.Firstly, taking the symbol about novel's title as a breakthrough point to expound itself playing a big role in organizing the novel.Secondly, in the process of explaining images in the novel, I think that the images of seasons are metaphors about survive, the images of courtyard are symbols about enclosure space of horror and the images of objects stand for the savage treatment. Finally, I try to analyze the mirroring relationship between the five main female characters each other in the novel. Among the five people, Songlian, Meishan, Zhuoyun, Yuru and Yan, as a center Songlian is, the other four women all have both negative and approbatory mirror relationship with Songlian. It highlights the mirror rhetoric means to cast characters of the novel. I hope this article could provide a useful reference in explicating Man with Many Wives of relating to generalized rhetoric.