Ethical Narrative Research Of Zhang Xin’s Novels

Zhang Xin’s novels take urban time and space as the background,take modern urban people and life as the material,and show the changes of urban material landscape and urban people’s ethics.Her novels are largely based on the context in which the growth of cities,in the midst of a market economy and consumerism,changes the way people live and interact,as well as the ethics that sustain their relationships.Based on this change and importance,this paper chooses ethical narrative as the key word of novel research.The construction of ethical narrative theme is one of the obvious characteristics of Zhang Xin’s urban novels.In family ethics,Zhang Xin discusses how natural ethics can be equivalent to consanguineous ethics in modern civilized society,and why morality is difficult to practice in an economically developed society.In marriage ethics and sexual ethics,with the development of the city,on the one hand,people’s moral concepts and living principles are facing the test of realism and utilitarianism,which impacts the traditional views of love and marriage,and people measure marriage with an unprecedented material perspective and utilitarian calculation.On the other hand,the concept of sex and love has been liberated once again.The concept of sexual love is different between men and women.In the aspect of men,it can be easily replaced by a state of separation,while in the aspect of women,it reflects the awakening of female consciousness and their own use of themselves.In terms of multi-dimensional ethics,the city has created a huge amount of material wealth,provided a variety of jobs and careers and opportunities to get rich,and correspondingly weakened the binding force of morality and order.Some are overwhelmed by the monster of the city and busy with survival,while others are struggling for their ideals in the dark,adhering to justice.This is an essential feature of Zhang Xin’s urban novel creation.Of course,Zhang Xin’s novels are also full of urban consciousness,exposing the existing circumstances and desires of all classes in the city,criticizing the ethical and moral connotations of men and women,calling on women to exist independently and refusing to take themselves as tools and means.In the aspect of urban ethics and spiritual core,she regards freedom and independence,justice and bottom line as universal urban ethics,and guides urban people to pursue spiritual life and attach importance to the meaning of existence.In terms of artistic features,Zhang Xin uses objective narration to express multi-level and multifaceted ethical conflicts,so that readers can think and choose and judge on their own.In her novels,she often uses a narrative structure with two main lines in parallel,so as to show the fate of the characters and achieve unity in opposition.Behind her equal and tolerant narrative attitude and popular aesthetic taste lies her understanding of urban human nature and tolerance of secular desires.In any case,she hopes readers to make their own choices and judgments.Zhang Xin is a realist writer.Faced with the situation that people in the urban background are at a loss and their souls have no place to put,she constructs the universal and practical connotation of urban ethics in her novels,hoping to accommodate the diversity of thoughts and different values.Through her perspective on the spiritual world of different classes,we can experience the humanistic spirit care behind Zhang Xin’s works and the good wish to stick to humanity,and enter her colorful art world.