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Comparative Study Of "Tough Guy" Image In The Works Of Hemingway And Yu Hua

Posted on:2014-05-22Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:J ChenFull Text:PDF
GTID:2255330401461598Subject:Comparative Literature and World Literature
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Hemingway as the famous American novelist of the20th century, with its "toughguy" image of surf in the literary world, man admired and sigh. Hemingway’s life can bedescribed as extraordinary life, even full of courage and legendary life. He had alwaysfond of hunting, boxing, fishing, filled with danger and excitement of the sport;experience the baptism and temper of the World War I and World War II, witnessed thebrutality of war and bloodshed, experience the smoke of war and the blanket of darkness;Passions even indulge in the Spanish bullfight crazy and charm; he had hunted wildanimals on the grasslands of Africa, immersive experience share of surprise andexcitement; he had two crash miraculously survived...... all all gave Hemingway markedby the stigma of "tough guy" profound shock. As readers we are lucky, becauseHemingway legendary experience forthrightly and naturally works in disguise flowingout numerous vivid characters so11was born, they seem to Hemingway the shadow,along with the the Hemingway growth continue to grow, gradually from immature tomature, from lost to enrich and defects to plump, so complete, improve and ultimatelyperfect. These tough guy in the "cultivation" of Hemingway pen next little grown up, andeventually became a well-deserved hero,"a person not born to give defeated, you canmake him destroyed, can not beat him even become a famous aphorism of Hemingwayiconic, with a branch pencil, he tirelessly in the literary world, farming life, struggling tofind their longing and hoping the heroic image, and try to practice in person.Looking at a series of Hemingway’s characters, they are all flowing with the spiritand blood of Hemingway, Ernest Hemingway’s growth path, they go hand in hand withhis, this mentality journey together and support each other, encourage each other. This ishis most valuable asset left to the reader. Hemingway works of different periods, we cansee that the changes in the character of its characters, tough guy figures because of thetrauma of the war in the1920s masterpiece, filled with emptiness, confusion anddisillusionment;1930s short masterpiece in show violence, gore, death pessimistic color;1940s, he once again experienced a war, in his works, his attitude gradually fromnothingness to social and humanitarian spirit;1950s works, we feel the share of Hemingway character crisp and clear, the state of mind in the share of the firm andstrength. All of these factors made me think of Another writer-Yu Hua.Yu Hua, a Chinese writer Hemingway nearly half a century apart, as a representativeof the pioneering writers of the1980s, in his pioneer work "18-year-old on a longjourney" over the declaration of their rebellious and maverick because he completelybreak the routine, the reader into a confusing and difficult to understand, haverevolutionized the world. In the in Yu Hua1980s works in the background of theirrational world, the whole world is full of emptiness and disillusionment, figures showinstinct violent impulses and real experience of death and bloody, and both shock thesenses of the reader, challenging the reader’s psychological limits. Character of the pen isalso permeated with Yu Hua’s own imprint, grew up in a lonely ocean big bubble Yu Hua,his fear of the dark is so clear and realistic, one of the world personality developmentapathy and determination, forging strong heart and fearless thinking; coupled born in afamily of doctors, death and blood as the order of the day for him already, became themost powerful weapon in Yu Hua indifference stroke and almost cruel vent. Yu Hua inthe1990s towards a moderate and substantial changes in his work is permeated with theslightest warmth, is no longer the1980s cruel Road and nothingness confused,’scharacters become honed into an unyielding on the fate of the "tough guy".The same show the nothingness of the world, the same description of the behaviorof the violence, presents the same unyielding "tough guy" attitude toward death, the samecast, Hemingway and Yu Hua, these two different eras, different countries writer has a lotof similarities and similarities demonstrated by their respective strange. These fouraspects of the article from the analysis and exploration of its series of work of the people,so with the divergent, different, look for the same.
Keywords/Search Tags:Tough guys, Nothingness, Violence, Death
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