.1950's Korean War Theme In The Novel Study

In the 1950s, the korean peninsula has experienced unprecedent ed disaster. The Korean War, erupted in June 25 in 1950, and decla red truce in July 27 in 1953, which lasted three years of bloody m ilitancy, have caused tremendous material losses and casualties. Kor ea is the eruption place of Korea War. From the beginning of the war, a lot of novels related to the Korea War occurred, especially i n the 1950s that has experienced war and the smoke of the war ha s not completely dispered, when can be said as the most productive period for the literature related to the Korean war.This thesis takes the Novel of the Korean War In 1950s as th e research subject.This thesis includes 6 parts.The first chapter, foreword, introduces the purpose and signific ance of the subject of the novel about the Korean War In 1950s, summarizes the result of present research, and gives simple introduc tion about the method of the research and innovation.The Second Chapter, starts preliminary investigation of the bac kground of the novel about the Korean War In 1950s and related i ssues. It includes the different title for this war from other countrie s, the understanding of the Korean people for this war, the social s tatus in 1950s, and literary and artistic policy at that time, etc. The se external factors directly affect the creation of the author, as well as the themes and contents of the novel.The Chapter Three, mainly analyzes the characteristics of the t heme of the novel about the Korean War In 1950s. To praise of th e heros, who are full of the patriotism spirit, is the principle of the novel about the Korean War In 1950s. During the war, by describin g the people's brave heros in the battle, the literature, which becam e the "weapon" in the call of Worker's Party of Korea, encouraged a lot of people to study the heros.After the war, Korea went into the recovery and construction p eriod, Korea need to setup the Pary's figure in People's heart, inspi re the people closely around the Worker's Party of Korea, and unit e the people to do recovery work. Influenced by the literature and art policy at that time, the literature continues to act as the'weapo n", to praise the correct leadership of Worker's Part of Korea, and excellent quality of Part members. It becomes one of the popular th eme then."Anti-US" is one of the important theme for the novel about t he Korean War In 1950s. The US-led United Army bought great di saster to the Korean people. The novels of the Korean War recount ed the cruel of the war with the pain, via describing the misery of the war, and kinds of offense of enemy, and emphasized Anti-US c onsciousness.The Chapter Four, manily analyze the Characters of the people in the novel about the Korean War In 1950sIn this chapter, we will take 3 kinds of people in the novel as the investigation, positive character type, villain character type and particular character type. The positive character type includes Korea n Army, workers, peasants and women in the war, etc. These peopl e are depicted to be a perfect, brave, strong, and having the noble quality. The villain character type includes American army, South Korea army, South korea's security and police. They appeared as in complete image. They acted the sin in Korea's heart, so they are w rote to be extreme ugly and cruel. It gave the sharp contrast betwe en positive character and villain charater. There are also some differ ent particular characters, including laggard of soldier, negative peopl e, having chameleon-like steganography people. Although those pers ons do not have much portions, and appears as the secondary chara cters, their different character make the story interesting, and also r eflect the social complex well.The Chapter Five, introduce the novel's narrative features and s trategic for the novel about the Korean War In 1950s. There are similar narrative features in the novel about the Kor ean War In 1950s. The heros's growth model are basically the sam e, and the tragic of the heros is excluded in the novel. It was relat ed to the Korea Literature's pursuit of revolutionary romanticism. M any novels also emphasize the succession of involutionary tradition of positive character, including family tradition and national traditio n.Description of Love in the Korean War novels can be said to belong to the revolution, in the novel the young men and women p ut the revolutionary career as the first place, and their class stand a re clear when they choose the lover. Sometime, love description act s as a "tool" role in the novel.In order to highlight the positive character, the writer set a var iety of conflicts, such as the protagonist's psychological conflicts, th e conflicts in the people or the army. Meanwhile, in order to give the confidence of the win to the Korea people, the novel also set t he narrative structure from the bad scene to the good scene, the ha ppy ending etc. The writers put a lot of Korean happy living scene s before the war in the novel, indirectly praised the correctness and advance of the Korea Government, inspires people to follow the c orrect leadership of the Korean government, and fight bravely in ba ttle, until to win the victory. The Chapter Six, conclusion part, is the conclusion and extensi on of the novel about the Korean War In 1950s.