On Mao Dun 1930s And Purple Leaves Left Wing Construction Ideal Farmers

The Left-wing literature created by Mao Dun and Ye Zi in the1930s showspeasants’inner passion and aspiration detailly and vividly. In their novels, idealspeasants dreaming of, which is mixed with authors’thingking, views and attitudes, isclosely linked to specific times and writers’ own construction.Thus they arecomplicated, multi-layered and unique. Meanwhile,ideals that they created haveextremely similar vein of development, for they all depict the disillusionment offarmers’ dream,rising up of their revolutionary aims and promotion of their socialideals. Although Mao Dun and Ye Zi had their own different reasons and forms toconstruct peasants’ passions and aspirations：Mao Dun’s is more rational and mixedwith author’s ideology of politics, economy and culture. Ye Zi’s is more emotionaland infiltrated with the life experience of himself.The ideals they created run intosame destination.Their thinking on farmers’ ideal represents two kinds ofcircumstances in left-wing novels, so study of the construction of the farmer idealhas a certain significance for writing and shaping universality and tendency offarmers in left-wing literature. Based on this, this essay discusses and analyses theconstruction of farmers’ ideal of Mao Dun and Ye Zi’s creation in1930s.Chapter1: Construction for life ideal. This chapter discusses the construction ofpeasant ideals which come from the accumulation of farmers’ images from differentsources and present the form and disillusion of peasant’s life goal through descriptionof their ideal of life. Accumulation on the images of the older generation of farmersfor Mao Dun is a rational thought process. The collection, accumulation andutilization of material mutually interlace with the rural economy and the writer’sindividual economic, cultural awareness, making farmers’ life ideal in the novelpresent abundant meaning connotation. However, the accumulation of Ye Zi’s on theimage of the older generation of farmers is full of emotional sympathy and classidentity. The life goal he demonstrated based on his true story and experience, is filledwith self emotional domination and class bias, showing farmers ideal life with a richkind of emotional connotations. Chapter2: Construction for revolutionary ideal of peasants. This section exploresthe relationship of writer’s psychological revolution, the revolutionary concept of thenovel and revolutionary attitudes with the peasants’revolution ideal manifested intheir novels around the start of farmers’revolution aim which derived from differentstarting point. Dominated by political consciousness and literary concept,revolutionary ideals of peasants in Mao Dun’s creation reveals the politicaltendencies and intentional communication and unconscious pouring ofthoughts,making the revolutionary ideals of farmers show a certain politicalsignificance; Ye Zi’ s imagination of revolutionary ideals comes completely out ofthe passion under the mechanical activity of brain.Personal revenge complex impulsecontrol weakened rational thinking, revolutionary ideals prevail over the individualcharacters, so the novel ignited peasant revolutionary ideals and development is alsointense promotion. The construction and imagination of revolutionary ideals in MaoDun and Ye Zi’s novels aim at satisfying their own desire. Mao Dun implies writer’sattitude toward the solution of the problem through the imagination of revolutionary;while in the creative passion through imaging the revolutionary aspirations of therevolution Ye Zi gets the pleasure to meet with the hope of sustenance.Chapter3: Construction for social ideal of peasants. In this chapter, the authorsublimate the ideals of farmers so as to analyze the meaning and effect in Mao Dunand Ye Zi’s creation。Both Mao Dun and Ye Zi sublimated the revolutionary ideal intosocial ideal of collective revolution.Mao Dun promote farmers to the idea of socialpolitics, economy, and the pursuit of ideal of social significance to present farmersthrough propelling the process of revolution process。And Ye Zi made the individualrevolution become general ideals of common peasants. However, the significance andeffect of this kind of promotion is not as good as expected, thus leading to the failureof common aspiration.In conclusion, the ideals of famers created by Mao Dun and Ye Zi are closelyrelated to authorsthemselves. Writers show abundant details and special charm byusing work created by different personalized experience and feeling. However, thesimilarity between result and content which show the dream of farmers in novel shows tendency about how left-wing novel describe farmers in the thirties.