The Uncertainty Of Lin Shiren's Fairy Tales

Lin Shiren was one of the representative figures in the creation of Taiwan's fairy tales in the 1990 s.His fairy tales have won the attention and praise of the two sides of the strait in a unique style.Throughout Lin Shiren's works,his fairy tales have a more obvious and varied style.Lin Shiren's fairy tales are selected as the research object,and the analysis and interpretation of the uncertainty characteristics used in it can provide the possibility for the continuation of children's literature content and the broadening of the research field.Lin Shiren's conception of fairy tales is based on “childlikeism” and “four biases”.“childlikeism” has broadened the readership of fairy tales and created new presuppositions for their hidden readers.The construction and flow of his thinking in the “four biases” makes the people and objects images,narrative structures,and implication ideas have emerged in various directions,and have become the internal driving force that constitutes the “ uncertainty ” of their fairy tales.In the characters of fairy tales,Lin Shiren deconstructed the unique characteristics of the characters in a single story,showing the diversity of people and things different from modern fairy tales.In the shaping of the image of people and objects represented by "Little Red Riding Hood",Lin Shiren reflects the multi-faceted nature of characters through the deconstruction of characters and relationship.For the more abstract images such as "dream" and "four seasons",Lin Shiren makes contact and transformation according to more similar characteristics,making the original image change appearance,give the reader a sense of uncertainty.Chinese characters are the images with distinct characteristics in Lin Shiren's fairy tales.Lin Shiren uses his own characteristics of sound,meaning and shape as the center of divergence to carry out various interpretations,forming an alternative interpretation in fairy tales.In the narrative form,through the vertical presupposition of language,the narrative technique of traditional fairy tales is broken,thus forming a number of different stories formed by taking a certain thing as the core,making the style of fairy tales more interesting.Secondly,the way of meta-narrative makes the works difficult to distinguish,showing a vague situation,and broadening the scope of the fairy tale,full of uncertain meaning."Childlikeism" and "four biases" creation concept make the concealed readers of Lin Shiren's fairy tales changed from children to children and adults,especially the harmony of his fairy tales with adults and children.On the one hand,he uses his child's naive perspective to express his thoughts on society,and on the other hand he questions and warns adults about utilitarianism and ruthlessness through positional replacement and absurd statements.It can be concluded from the above aspects that Lin Shiren's fairy tales have the characteristics of "uncertainty" and can be regarded as an attempt to create fairy tales.The uncertainty is not only left on the surface of the text of the work,but also on the basis of different implicit readers and integrated perspectives of adults and children.By studying the uncertainty of Lin Shiren's works,we can inspire the creation of contemporary fairy tales.