A Comparative Study Of The History Of Scholars And The Official Record Of Officialdom

The History of the Scholars and The Official Record of the Officialdom are two excellent works in Chinese satirical novels,which represent the highest peaks that ancient and modern satirical art can achieve.Through the comparative study of the writer's basic profile,character group image,narrative art and satirical art,the article builds a comprehensive and objective comparison system.In the systematic comparison,it reveals the characteristics and creation of the two novels,and strives for a wide range of In-depth explanation of these characteristics,the underlying reasons behind the gains and losses.The different life styles,family history,and life experiences of the two writers have created their unique souls and thoughts,and different personalities,qualities,creative backgrounds and themes have caused the difference in the irony of the novel.Under the influence of the times and the author's own factors,the two books have formed a different ironic style,so there are also differences in character classification and character setting.In terms of character,the character of Scholars has the characteristics of variability and complexity.The same type of characters also pay attention to the difference;while the character of Official Official Records is characterized by stability and unity.Types of people pay attention to commonality.In addition,the two books also have similarities and differences in portrait description,psychological description,action description,language description and character naming.In terms of narrative art,Official Forms follows the collective structureof The Scholars,but the two show a clear difference between loose and thin and coherent.In terms of narrative mode,both books use the third person narrative.The Outside the Confucian Scholars mainly adopts objective narrative,while the Official Official Records mainly adopts subjective narratives,but the two books often narrate through the observational perspective of the characters in the book,which greatly enhances The objectivity of narrative;both books are mainly omniscient narratives,but the use of limited narratives in large pages is also a breakthrough in omniscience narrative.The two books mainly show excellent artistic effects through the three scenes of the scenes,dramatic transitions and discordant words and deeds.The ironic tone of the two books is divided into distortions and scorns.The language has the difference between the words and the words and the words.There are similarities and differences between the satirical contents of the two books.The Outside of the Confucian Scholars is intention to Shilin,while the Official Official Records intention to the officialdom,but also criticizes the social situation.The two books show superb ironic skills through exaggeration,contrast,white drawing and rendering of satirical techniques.On the whole,the achievements of Official Official Records are still slightly inferior to The Scholars.The attitude of the public heart and the enthusiasm of the world,the painstaking efforts of a decade of hard work,created the brilliant achievements of The History of the Scholars.Although Li Boyuan inherited the critical spirit of The History of Confucian Scholars,he hoped to achieve the goal of improving the status quo of society by means of acupuncture and shortcomings,and revealing ugliness.No matter the selection of content,the shaping of characters,the tempering of language,etc.,all of them show relatively rough features.In addition to the turbulence of the times,personal temperament and other reasons,it is also closely related to the way of writing serialized by the newspapers and the positioning of ideal readers and the rush of creation time.It is an overall excellent and eloquent answer to the classic satirical art that is close to the challenge of modernization.