The Depiction Of Penalty In Chinese New Era’s Fictions

The new era’s writers in China never stopped writing the death and violence,and they endue them even more meanings.Penalty is a special form of violence and death,the difference between them is that violence is everywhere and at all times.But penalty belongs to a particular history,particular environment and the specific populations,and it has much richer contents.The penalty is a punishment,which has characteristics of the ages.The authors in new era take full advantages of this feature,they ponder and investigate philosophy, society, history and humanity from it.Public penalty ritual seems like a wingding party.The purpose of penalty ritual is punishment,but it meets the people’s desire for novelty and ornamental pleasure,it showed such strong fun for people that the disciplinary function of penalty is diluted and turned into a universal carnival ceremony.Writers in the new era consider that each role in the penalty ritual is meaningful,including emperors,dignitaries,officials,the executioners, the victims and spectators;and each class has a strong imprint of the ages and life, reflecting the differences but similar fun and life pursuits.New era’s writers express a wide range of topics by penalty writing,There are two main themes: reflections on power and history,and exploration of humanity.Power is everywhere and omnipotent in our life.Everyone is under the control of power.People with power fight with each other.The loss of power is clamped everywhere.The function of penalty means that those with power against people who dare to offend them.The history of mankind is the history of fight,and the result of fight is the penalty.It can be said that human history is a history of punishment.The description of penalty point to the brutal nature of human.Penalties put people’s physical and mental in an extreme condition,and make people’s cruelty and boring nature exposed.The new era’s writers in china demonstrate their understanding of human nature with the help of penalty description,and shows the whole dark side of human nature to readers. Penalty description also plays a special role in the novel’s narrative structure.Mo Yan’s The penalty of Sandalwood connects the text clues by the conflict of five penalty,and organizes the structure of text by penalty ritual. The structure of Yu Hua’s1986and Past and Penalty is very complex.This two novels reflect writer’s particular concept of time.The spatial structure in penalty description is execution ground,which integrates many comical phenomenons, characters and emotions------which seems to be a simple place but has a powerful accommodate capacity.Despite some writers like to write about penalty such as Mo Yan,Yu Hua,A Lai,Wang Xiaobo,they all have their own distinct personality and linguistic characteristics of writing.In Chapter3,1will analyzes in details Mo Yan, Yu Hua, Wang Xiaobo and other writers’penalty description language style.