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The Paranoid Character In Yang Zhengguang's Writings

Posted on:2017-11-04Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:X Y HuangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2355330512967449Subject:Chinese Modern and Contemporary Literature
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Yang Zhengguang is a maverick writer of the end of the 20th century in the literary world, which reflected in his selection point of novel. As a writer, Shaanxi Yang Zhengguang is different from Liu Qing, Lu Yao, Chen Zhongshi, writers who focus on the historical significance of Shaanxi, but concentrate on the shape of the nobody. Not under the traditional moral standards and wandering the edge with a paranoid personality characters are the reasons why they are called nobody. Yang Zhengguang make full use of on the use of the paranoid characters'extreme behavior to complain how is the difficult to survival and boring, and how is unworthiness of life, in order to rethink the survival of human nature, reveal the living predicament of human. This article adopts intensive reading of the text and text comparison to explore the definition of paranoid person, classify them, contacts the writer's personal experiences, as a breakthrough to explore the author shaping the deeper meaning behind the paranoid characters.What is a paranoid? Paranoia is addicted to a certain ideas, cannot be extricated themselves, then make some extreme behavior. In his works, most people do some extreme things which the other people are difficult to understand because of a certain action failure. The paranoid characters include peasants and intellectuals. Peasants are divided into four types, who are crazy for storage of food, discantent the wealth inequality, sexual perversion and be insane for carrying on the family line. While intellectuals are divided into paranoid "shi" culture and paranoid "dragon" culture.Paranoid characters are caused by the following two aspects. In the first place in the barren material environment, they are suffering from poverty, and asexual life. If their body suffer from poverty, sex make them broke down. Secondly, the Chinese traditional ethics culture suppresses individual life. Under the control of Confucianism culture, the person's life can only be attached to the patriarchal clan community, lose the independence of the survival. Under the circumstances, people are easy to be extreme irritable and Paranoid. In this great survival pressure, character behavior more bizarre and more violent. They rebel against the fate of injustice, and constraint by the traditional culture. Yang Zhengguang reveals the theme of the resistance by shaping of the Paranoid characters. Against the natural environment and social environment oppress characters' survival and life. Absolutely, Resistance is not only confined to characters of his works, but also Yang Zhengguang wants to show to readers. Experienced China's Cultural Revolution, Yang Zhengguang are afraid of being deceived by the reality, so he try to build a truth through fiction, to reveal the reality, disguised by all kind of culture. Only this can wake up wake up their sleeping soul to realize the value of individual lite.In addition, the one reason to choose the theme about paranoid characters is the appreciation of the ugliness prevails again in the end of the 20th century. Another reason is about his personality. This article explores paranoid character on the basis of the two aspects and how to be useful to creating these characters.In a word, Understanding of the paranoid characters can help readers catch Yang Zhengguang's creative thinking. Yang Zhengguang always focus on the value of individual life. By telling individual life under the harsh environment extrusion to be paranoid and do resolute resistance, Yang Zhengguang expresses dissatisfaction with individual life bounded and proposes to respect the independence of individual life.
Keywords/Search Tags:paranoid character, resist, appreciation ugliness, his own personality
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