The Shaping Of Assassin Image In Historical And Biographical Literature

As a product of special historical and cultural background,assassins played an important role in the political struggle of the Pre-Qin Dynasty as a tool of assassination,and had animportant impact on the political situation at that time.As a result,assassins appeared in Zuozhuan and Zhanguo Ce.Sima Qian sorted out the assassins' travels in Zuozhuan and in Zhanguo Ce in Shi Ji and wrote The Biography of Assassins.This paper probes into the outline of the assassin,the image-building of the assassin in Zuozhuan and Zhanguo Ce,the unique image-building of the assassin in Shi Ji and the cultural value and influence of the image-building of the assassin in Shi Ji.The main body of this paper is divided into four chapters.The first chapter mainly analyses the concept of Assassin and distinguishes it from the concept of knight-errant.It introduces the factors of the time that the assassin came into being in the pre-Qin period.During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period,the war of annexation grew worse and worse.In the fierce struggle,the monarchs and ministers of various powers began to dispatch assassins to remove political enemies,and the assassins became active.Explore the general characteristics of assassins' assassination activities,such as undercover,selecting appropriate locations,using portable weapons and so on.The second chapter analyses the image of assassin in Zuozhuan and Zhanguo Ce,studies the typical assassins in Zuozhuan and Zhanguo Ce,explores the characteristics of the image of assassin in Zuozhuan and Zhanguo Ce,and compares the difference between the image of assassin in Zuozhuan and Zhanguo Ce.Due to the limitation of style,Zuozhuan focuses on narration and is bound by the shaping of the image of assassins.Zhanguo Ce has made progress in the writing of human beings,focusing more on the writing of human beings,and the basic shaping of the image of assassins.The third chapter discusses the unique characteristics of the image of assassin in The Shi Ji of Assassins.Under the influence of the advanced historical view,Sima Qian integrated his personal thoughts,feelings and experiences into the material of assassins in Zuo Zhuan and Zhanguo Ce,and remodeled the image of assassins.Sima Qian increased the presentation of the background,thought,behavior and spirit of assassins in the process of remodeling,and also adopted detailed descriptions to shape the image and put the character of the assassins at the spear.Shield shows the artistic techniques of personality,psychological description,contrast,personalized language and so on.The fourth chapter mainly analyses the cultural value of the assassin's portrayal in Shi Ji and its influence on the literature of later generations.The cultural value is shown in the aspects of the image of the assassin showing the spiritual connotation of faith,righteousness,courage and loyalty,revenge culture and the value of tragic image,the portrayal of the assassin's image,the story plot of the assassin's assassination activities and the spirit of the assassin's portrayal to the later generations' novels and novels Poetry and drama had an impact.