Evolution Of The Plight Of Individual Concepts - Creation Of Shi Tiesheng

Shi Tiesheng’s paralysis left people with the impression that he became adisabled person who had lost his value. Therefore, he suffered intentional orunintentional discrimination now and then. Shi Tiesheng fell into the possible crisis ofthe loss of self-worth due to his inability to cope with the subversive changes inindividual life. When changing from individual suffering to social life, Shi Tieshengfound that the failure of the practice carried out after liberation to realize communismrapidly left people at a loss, not knowing where their ultimate value lied, thus fallinginto ridiculousness and nothingness. Faced with the dilemma caused by the fracture ofvalue, Shi Tiesheng had to rebuild the values which can support him to live on.In order to re-establish his self-worth, Shi Tiesheng constantly salvaged somewonderful feelings from his childhood and the years when he worked in thecountryside as one of the educated youths. In the process of exploring how to achieveself-worth, Shi Tiesheng recounted his past experiences which demonstrated suchemotional factors as family, friends and love and his desire of an ideal world, whichsignificantly eased his sense of crisis. In his pondering about how to deal with plight,Shi Tiesheng realized the aesthetic significance of the process of the pursuit of a betterlife, and he sublimated the philosophy which lays great stress on the “process” ratherthan the purpose. However, when applied to real experience, his romanticphilosophical reflection was in marked contrast with the painful and frustrating reality,which made Shi Tiesheng realize that causes of this situation are the inherent concepts,which should be broken to raise the significance of life and understand the truth of life.In reconciling the tension between experience and thinking, Shi Tiesheng found life isincomplete. The miserable reality coexisted with the wonderful ideals. They wereopposite and complementary. Only when guided by love and in the ideal process ofpursuing freedom and equality, can the individual value be highlighted. Summing uphis perception of half a life, Shi Tiesheng, via both emotional meditation and logicalreasoning, formed the ideal which attached to religious connotation, thus solving the problem of how to realize the value of life..Shi Tiesheng wrote both “I” and “my writing” in his works. At first, what “I”experienced in the novel interacted with and at the same time contradicted what “I”pondered in the prose, but later they gradually integrated with each other. This featurebecame another significant dimension to research the transmutation of Shi Tiesheng’sconcept.