Research On Body Discourse Of Lu Xun’s Novel

Human’s body is the basic of human beings and the beginning of self-recognition. Our country has been in social transitions since late Qing dynasty. The weakness of Chinese bodies has been criticized as the primary cause of the poor and weak China by torchbearers, such as Lu Xun. In their eyes, literature took responsibilities to cure Chinese and this is why Lu Xun viewed the body with strong nationalism.Firstly, this article talks about the narration of illness in Lu Xun’s novels. His father’s sick and death as well as his own sick feelings made up the source of his novels’topic, the illness. He took sick bodies from political perspective and tried to change the situation that morbidly social compression and individuals’unconsciousness, in order to realize the efficacy and enlightenment of literature. However in his novels, illness existed all the time and the lack of medicine revealed his ambivalence on illness and cure. He also created several roles suffering some typical diseases, such as persecution of manic, depression and lung diseases, to criticize national cultural psychologies in that sick society. In the next, the author discusses the metaphor of the body and policy in Lu Xun’s novels. His works often described the plots of "publicly expose" to reveal the indifference of crowds and to criticize cruelty of implementers. He also realized that one person didn’t have the power to change others’fate when they were suffering physical cruelty. Bodies of average people also suffered restrictions of policies and powers. This article uses Lu Xun’s representing image, "hair" to analyze the content of policy and culture. At last, this article analyzes the female’s bodies in Lu Xun’s works. He described female’s mental and physical damage to reveal that the value of female’s bodies always could be realized under males’gaze. Female liberation movement was also led by male and these liberative female’s bodies often became the tools to fulfill male’s political ambitions.This article reflects the feelings of bodies, self-reorganization and self-imagination in the modern Chinese society and how these are talked about in Lu Xun’s novels and are marked strong political meanings, based on body theories of Foucault, Susan Sontag and Wang Minan by using discourse analysis method to analyze narration of sickness, metaphor of body policy and female’s body.