Violent Writing In Ian McEwan's Novels

Ian McEwan is one of today's highly acclaimed writers in the British literary world.He started with writing on violence,thriller and transgression,shocked the literary world and won the title of "Ian MacAbre",then he seriously paid attention to social hot issues and national historical themes so that had become recognized as "British national writers".A considerable number of creative practices and diverse and innovative work styles have kept he alive for more than 40 years in literary world,the research on McEwan's novels has also been explored from multiple angles,using ethics,narratology,psychology,ecologicalism,feminism and other subject resources to study the themes and implications of his works,and have relatively rich results.This paper attempts to take the violent writing which throughout McEwan's novels as a breakthrough point,and explores the different types of violence in the family space,urban social space and national historical space according to the writer's creative trajectory,which is reflected in the writing process,and the writer's reflection and anxiety on many aspects such as moral ethics,social order,national system,history and culture.McEwan's violent writing in the family space focused on the violent infatuation of teenagers and the conflict between the sexes,and also involves the power struggle between brothers and friends.Writing about the breakdown of intimate relationships in family emotional units reflects the writer's longing for healthy interpersonal ethics.Afterwards,McEwan changed his creative style and paid more attention to the space politics in urban society,as well as the loss of subjectivity caused by the prevailing commercial consumer culture and scientific culture in the process of disciplining the subject,and reflecting on the more implicit patterns of violence in postmodernist society.In the violent writing of the national space,McEwan firstly ridiculed the violence of the state machine under capitalism,and pointed out that the authoritative guidance for the growth and development of children in the political system is a new form of domination on the body;Secondly,the mass media are often used by capitalist ruling groups,reduced to political loudspeakers and disregarded the interests of the public,and there has been a situation of public space intervening in the private field;In addition,the mastery of national historical writing and historical truth is the manifestation of the abstract features of the capitalist state space,and the deconstruction of the single narrative discourse of the grand narrative reflects the McEwan's intense realism spirit.McEwan always pays attention to the issues of individual development and social reality,vividly depicts the individual's incompetence in different spaces and the violence bred thereby,how the subject resists being denied,disciplined,and alienated in different spaces becomes the focus of his violent writing,and the novel combines the potential violent desire in human nature with the various types of violence encountered in the post-modern living space,demonstrating the author's profound understanding and thinking about the problem of violence.