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On Exploration of Human Nature in Wang Anyi’s Novel

Author: ChenNingLai
Tutor: BaiYang
School: Jilin University
Course: Contemporary Chinese Literature
Keywords: Human Nature Wang Anyi Fictional creation
CLC: I207.42
Type: Master's thesis
Year: 2009
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Abstract


Wang Anyi is an outstanding female writer in contemporary Chinese literary. In her three decades of creative practice, attention to people and exploration of human nature is the same purpose of her novels. In this article from the point of Wang Anyi’s writing practice for many years, faithful to my own inner feelings and experiences of reading, quote the theory that is closely related to the novel creation and explore the human connotation. Writers who has reached the depth of human stain to the theme of human nature for the creation in contemporary literary scene in China from beginning to end are not uncommon, and her unique writing and analysis of human nature make her quite different from other writers. She is unique for her analysis of individual life as objects, for the analysis of a natural perspective, day-to-day digestion methods for the analysis, and reached true understanding of human nature. Demonstrate the complexity of the human world: The real beauty of humanity, kindness, integrity, simplicity, the truth, the tenacity tenacious, vital force; The realization of the natural attributes such as inherent appetite, sexual desire, human narrow-minded, selfish, conservative, hypocritical, material pursuits, such as to meet the physiological function of the distortions and variability of human nature. In her literary world concerns to the fate of human being and questioning the value of human existence make her works full of cohesiveness and profound expression.Human being is the entity of natural attributes and social attributes, These two properties are interrelated and interact to form a common structure of human nature. To explore human nature in Wang Anyi’s novel can not be separated from the two main directions generally. In this article question will be discussed on the research of sex from the point of the daily life, love the world, traditional culture and market economy.First, the light of human nature in the daily lives.The light of human nature in daily life.The glorification of the beautiful nature of humanity in Wang Anyi’s daily life novels. On one hand, the characters in her novels pursue kindness and beauty perseverely, convey her love of life and sympathy; On the other hand, praised the toughness of the daily life, indomitable vitality, which insists on the moral and dignity of human nature actively to explore the profound mysteries of humanity. The beauty of humanity shown in her works the outcome of a dialectical unity of natural attributes and social attributes, the two are connected together to create a healthy human individual under certain circumstances. At the same time, kindness and beauty, stubborn tenacity are the best interpretation of the ultimate quest by the author and the characters in her works. The glorification of civilians’ spirit in daily life also implies the existentialism philosophy, she believes that reality has a certain degree of rationality, she acknowledged that all reality is reasonable.Second, human publicity and conflict in the love world. In this part love subject writings will be analysed from the perspective of the natural attributes of human nature. On one hand, the novel "Three Love" and " Century on the Post" and other works, got an insight into tremendous power of desire that social attributes cover human instinct, and affirm sex in the human original meaning, to restore the "sex" itself in the literary content performance and connotation human nature. Publicity sexual instinct of the human desire, especially female desire, sex emerged in beauty. The nature for seeking innovation and difference and loneliness in deep heart. It needs more understanding and tolerance to achieve self-worth, and it reflected Wang Anyi’s deep thinking to the human nature, less evaluation of the value of writers, more an objective concern for humanity.On the other hand, the fate of the heroine also reflects the natural social responsibility, moral conflict, highlights the full complexity of human nature and society, represents Wang ’s research to the issues of human nature that obsessed modern Chinese literature a hundred years . Chinese traditional culture has been saturated with the concept of false imprisonment and sexual hatred awareness, always regard non-marital sexual relations as treason and heresy and unpardonable sin, and those who dare to deviate and have the sexual relationships with others fall into the abyss of evil, and ruin, beyond redemption. It is not difficult to interpret such a conclusion: the clash of personal desire and civilization is the root cause of the tragedy of fate of the three heroines. How to resolve this conflict and contradiction is a proposition for centuries, literature has also not given the answer, the author can only take "on hold" approach.The distortion and variation of the human nature in traditional culture and the market economy . And it will be studied from the level of social attributes. Writing reality, in the glorification of human nature at the same time, also found that the repression of social properties over natural attributes , resulting in distortions and variability of human nature. The repression and distortion of traditional culture to human nature will be discussed in her works "Xiaobao Village", "Daliu Village" and "The Marriage of Fairy Princess", "virtue" as the core philosophy and moral values in the traditional culture in the works written by Wang Anyi, indeed to maintain and regulate the interpersonal relationships in the village, But the "virtue" has a double meaning, and in contrast with the Lazha’s, "Xiaobao Village’s virtue" reflects the the nature of itself. It can be said that Xiaobao Village’s "virtue" is the results of alienation of traditional Confucian culture in the isolated villages for thousand years, although it has inherited some of the fine traditions in the Confucian culture, but more the narrowness, selfishness, conservative and backwardness of the farmers , the hypocrisy behind "virtue" can be detected through the eyes of oursiders . Distortions and variability of human nature are also reflected in the nineties under the conditions of market economy in a large number of her works, such as "A Song of Everlasting Sorrow", "HongKong’s Love and affection ", "I love Bill," " Miaomiao" etc. After difficult and painful exploration to the traditional culture , face to the people’s lives under the tide of market economy , face to the split of secular desire and spiritual ideals in the nineties , face to the depravity of human nature, Wang maintained her sober and rational under the market tide, maintained skepticism to "modern civilization" driven by material desire and money, and made a more subtle criticism to moral bankruptcy, lack of spirits, and the alienation of human nature.

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