The Rebellious Generation——a Comparative Research On The Image Of The Beat Generation And Troubleshooter

The Beat Generation was a literary group which emerged in American Literature in the1950s. The so-called Beatniks created a host of rebellious youth images in their works. These youth abuse alcohol, drugs and advocate homosexuality. They pursue unconstrained lifestyle by revolting against the reality, so that people called them Beat Generation.30years later, in the1980s’China, a batch of rebellious images, Troubleshooters, created by Chinese writer Wang Shuo, arose in Chinese literature. They adopt playing through life as their life creed, which can be seen from their attitude towards life, love and sex. Moreover, they criticize politics and culture sarcastically and ironically. However, this kind of image was greatly welcomed by Chinese readers. The two kinds of above-mentioned image have shown a particular characteristic in common:rebelliousness, which is also the breakthrough point of this research. Moreover, results about the comparative research on the image of BG and Troubleshooter are not sufficient and systematic, so it gives this paper the research space and significance.This article makes parallel study and influence study on the two typical images. Firstly, this paper discusses the social background, historical factor of their formation and mutual influence, then it analyses their characteristics and summarizes their similarities and differences at last.In practice, this paper is consisted by several chapters as follow:First chapter, Introduction, introduces the significance and status of this research. The second chapter analyzes the causes of their formation and development. The Beat Generation was influenced by American traditional culture, literature, writer and society. The Troubleshooters was also influenced by the Cultural Revolution and social transition in the1980s, but the writer’s own experience was involved. Meanwhile, the writer Wang Shuo was influenced by the Beat Generation. The third chapter distinguishes the different types of the two kinds of image and analyzes their characteristics reflected by their behavior and thoughts. The fourth chapter is the comparative study of these two images based on the analysis in the third chapter. The paper summarizes their similarities at first, then analyzes their differences in the degree and pursuit,and strives to discover the reason for these differences.