Theory Of The Tragedy Consciousness Of Xu Yigua’s Novel

Xu Yigua, a representative among the female writers in the contemporary literary world,serves the special identity both as a reporter and a lawyer, which makes her have a high degree ofsocial responsibility and adhere to the seriousness of literature. Therefore, she analyses thesociety using various scenes of human tragedy as the key with a sharp and practiced stylerevealing a closed look at the survival predicament of the characters.This paper regards the "tragedy consciousness" in Xu Yigua’s novel as its research object,shows its formation step by step and further summarizes its connotation, manifestation as well asuniqueness through the analysis of her main works. The structure of the paper will be shown asfollowings:The introduction part is the research status about Xu Yigua. The research from critics aboutXu Yigua so far mainly concentrates on the theme, figure and narrative art, which lacks theresearch about the connotation of its sentimental value. The uniqueness of the tragedyconsciousness in Xu Yigua’s novel is selected as the breakthrough point, which also reveals thesignificance of the topic of the paper.The first part mainly discusses the origin of the tragedy consciousness in Xu Yigua’s novel.Firstly, the unique work and life experience of serving as a reporter mainly focusing on theaffairs of the public security organs has a direct influence on the field and process of her creation,which forms her own distinctive features. Secondly, it is necessary to explicitly explore theorigin of the tragedy consciousness in Xu Yigua’s novel. Contacting with too many crimes,lawsuits and hideous affairs makes her have a clear image of the inevitable tragedy of life.Therefore, Xu Yigua chooses specific case stories as the entry into people’s hearts unfolding thetragic ending caused by the weakness of human beings.The second part deals with the specific description of the connotation and manifestation of thetragedy consciousness in Xu Yigua’s novel. The concrete connotation is demonstrated in fouraspects ranging from morality, ideal, love and life through the analysis of the text, which alsoshows the sympathy for human morality from the perspective of the relationship between emotion and moral principles. Meanwhile, the study of the cruel nature of life in the city andthe sharp analysis of the urbanite both make people realize the sorriness of the ideal. Having aclose look at the female images who have suffered torture both mentally and physically losingthemselves in the life predicament make people feel the sorrow of the love and hatred. Finally,the dismal ending of the fate of death and the life elegy of “being-towards-death” commonlyconstitute the pathos of life.The third part involves the uniqueness of tragedy consciousness in Xu Yigua’s novel. Firstly,the tragic image that is lonely and crazy and derives from the fracture of social values of modernpeople is the universal living condition of characters in Xu Yigua’s novel. Craziness, as a kind ofextreme behavior, becomes an aesthetic strategy to explore the truth human nature. Thecombination of loneliness and craziness forms the typical tragic images. Secondly, the adoptionof symbolism and allegory in the narration process and the metaphor that carries the symbolicmeaning and the fable jointly enhance performance and apply colors to the mysteriousatmosphere of tragedy. Thirdly, the spicy and poetic writing of the tragedy uses the contrastbetween two different emotions. One is the "neutral standpoint" like narrating news which makesthe readers feel a sense of suffocation from the tragedy; other is the lyrical language carrying themusic elements which creates a sorrow that is both romantic and poetic. The contrast provides aclear-eyed perspective into the tragedy of the struggle of the souls. Fourthly, the spirit of tragedycontains both absurd and resistance. The absurd stories in Xu Yigua’s novel make the readersdirectly face the gap between the reality and the ideal. She focuses the core of the tragedy on thequestions and thoughts of human nature revealing Xu Yigua’s ultimate concern and compassionfeelings towards human being.The Conclusion part summaries the views this paper, clearly stating the connotation andaesthetic implication of tragedy consciousness of Xu Yigua’s novel, simply generalizing theweakness of her creation and further exploring the pursuit of sentimental value. The tragedy inXu Yigua’s creation aims at enlightening the readers about discovering the introspectiveness ofhuman nature and redemption of the soul which are hiding beyond the misery rather than simplydemonstrating the hopelessness and absurd of life and making people feel heart-broken.Therefore, the study of the tragedy consciousness and tragic narrative has a very strong realisticmeaning and aesthetic value.