Comparision With Lu Xun And Lao She’s Novels On The Theme Of National Character

Lu Xun is a master of Chinese modern literature history on the subject of national character. Lu Xun stood in the bidirectional reflection on traditional and western culture, he grasp the national criticism as the core theme of national character Lu Xun is well aware that the national crisis lies in the cultural crisis,and the cultural crisis lies in the "heart", which refers to the China national spiritual crisis. In his novels, with the rural township life as background, Lu Xun depicted the ancient Chinese people slavish and despicable spiritual world, and the author deeply criticism the feudal system. Compared with future generations, Lu Xun’s thought of national character is difficult to match. When Lao She came back to China, the passionate literary movement is over. Lao She was affected from Lu Xun’s thought of national character. But he focused on the theme of national character on the perspective of culture and he exposed the national character. By contrast, Lu Xun’s national character criticism is based on the “man”, in order to deeply criticism the feudal system in several thousand years, to lash the deep-rooted bad habits, to achieve cure attention. Lao She’s national character criticism is to get a culture perspective on national deep-rooted bad habits, while retaining approval attitude on traditional culture. To some extent, Lao She’s criticism is not completely.The article is mainly compared this thesis in ideological theory, mainly content and artistic characteristics aspects, which is expected to find the similarities and differences between the two authors. The comparison has a positive signification on the elite intellectual and the mass to make a profound reflection under the current market economic system as well as to appeal to the contemporary intellectuals to bear the social responsibility, the reconstruction of national spirit.This paper is divided into five chapters altogether. In the first chapter, I make a specific interpretation of the concept of "national character", and make a discussion on the expression of national character theory in literature. In the second chapter, I compare Lu Xun and Lao She’s theoretical propositions about the theme of national character, the construction of modern national consciousness. I find that Lu Xun and Lao She have many similarities aspects in this place. Comparatively speaking, Lu Xun stood in a economic, political, and social macro structure to build the “man” idea, to insight and criticize the deep-rooted national character flaws, thus causing coring attention. Lao She is in the perspective of humanistic thought, at the cultural level, make the nation as a starting point, to criticize the negative factors of traditional culture. At the same time, his critical process also is retained the feeling of nostalgia and praise. In the third chapter, the author mainly compares the ideological content of Lu Xun and Lao She, specifically compare the similarities and differences in the character image, personality and psychological characteristics. In the fourth chapter, the author mainly compares with the artistry between Lu Xun and Lao She’s novels, including the language, style, structure and perspective. In the fifth chapter, the signification of the research on the theme of nation character is mentioned. In the modern time, the theme of national character is still alive. Also, the comparative signification between Lu Xun and Lao She’s national character theme in literature is mutual complementation.