Study On Grey Characters In The May Fourth Short Stories

The May Fourth period is the special period of Chinese society,Social nature is semi-colonial and semi-feudal society, political warlords, ideology and culture of foolish old is the traditional dictatorship to modern liberal democracy.And all this on the Chinese intellectuals and the citizens of China life produced extensive and profound influence, writers of the May Fourth Movement period intellectuals are contradictions, hesitant, they can clearly see the darkness of the society, see the gray character under the gray society living in gray, the group of "gray" doesn’t even have a choice. Of course their "gray life" is not only the result of society, also is the human nature.We first discuss "gray" the original meaning of, and then from the angle of color science and literature, the meaning of "gray" by extension, and interprets the"grey men" and "gray life".Then from the "gray men" character, living condition and life attitude angle, it can be divided into three types:the spirit of the ideal lost"awakening",anguish wanders drift of "superfluous man," and cowardice never selfish "compromise".They are the products of May Fourth this particular era, is the important component part of the gallery. May Fourth is a transitional process, is the "grey", is a kind of intermediate state, between old and new, people, especially intellectuals, are more likely to produce gray mood, with hope in helplessness and desperation.Finally discusses the image of "gray men" value, "gray men" is a tragic figure, because their writer who is in a tragedy of the society, this makes the writers in creating these figures "gray men" itself is a kind of tragedy and tragedy consciousness.From the historical point of view, the "gray men" criticism and must be, under the theme of "national salvation", because of the times need is positive of revolutionaries, and for the purpose of striving for instead of this kind of self-pityselfishness "gray men". However, in humanitarian point of view or in our today’s values to judge, "gray men" is the most common ordinary people actually the most natural response."Gray men" image rich spectrum of May Fourth literature character and true representation of the may fourth period intellectuals living condition and mental state, also to contemporary writers describe the contemporary "gray men" produced extensive and far-reaching influence.