Research On The Image Of Little People In New Century Novels

The character is the soul of the novel.Character image is not only the core and key in the process of novel art creation,but also the spiritual sculpture with the most national implication and cultural connotation of the era.At the time when the social transformation was the most exciting period,the shaping of the characters was inextricably intertwined with the various symptoms of the social structure,so the small characters became the most representative figures of this era.They walked in the smog of the times,lived in the corners where the lights were not shining,and lived hard and hard,and fell to the ubiquitous survival gap,and could not find any way out.But it is through them that they see through the sorrows of the times,write out the spiritual dilemmas of people,and then insight into the value of life,with great social and literary significance.The image of a small person has a deep literary foundation.In 1830,the Russian writer Pushkin published the "Berkin" novels under the pseudonym Ivan Petrovich Bierkin,and opened up a precedent for describing the image of small people in the history of Russian literature.Russian writers are generally concerned with small bureaucrats and small staff members who have no status at the bottom of the society.They have attacked the dark social reality at that time by writing their tragic fate.This has occupied an important place in the 19 th century Russian critical realism literature.The small characters in the history of Chinese literature can be traced back to the mid-late Tang Dynasty.Unlike the scholar-officials in the traditional poetry,the literature in this period tends to depict the secular life of ordinary people.This literary interest shifts to later literature.History has a very significant meaning.Especially after entering the new century,the wave of market-oriented globalization has swept through.These little people who have never been named and are lightly ignorant are now the ones who can best understand the pulse of the times.It is true that although the image of a small person has grown up in a rich literary soil,after thousands of years of circulation,the connotation and meaning of the small person has been continuously advanced,and the types of small people have become more complicated in the new century.What kind of faces do they present in the new social context? What are the historical causes and aesthetic implications? This is what we are eager to know.What is a "little person" ? This is a literary concept that must first be clarified.The author believes that the so-called small person refers to those who are inferior and poor in the society who are unable to grasp the status quo or destiny.Economically,they occupies relatively little means of production,are at a lower level of social development,and have a low income just enough to feed their food.In politics,they have no social status,and they are in the gray area at the margin of society as opposed to social dignitaries and ruling classes.In spirit,they are devastated and lose the right to speak in society.They are the weak and vulnerable groups in the social class,such as farmers working in cities,small business hawkers in cities,small intellectuals,and so on.Therefore,the "small" of a small person is not only due to its material aspects of food,lack of money,and low status.These are just external signs of small people.The "small" of the small person lies in the oppression of the spiritual world,the distortion of the personality and the soul,and the low-lying living conditions and humble spiritual feelings that have been under the double squeeze of this material and spiritual.This is the inner meaning of the small person.substance.Under the complex social background of the new century,the image of the little person also shows some mixedness.It is no longer limited to the “exploited class” in people’s stereotypes or the “bottom image” full of blood and suffering.Therefore,the author considers many factors,the identity characteristics of the integrated characters,the background of the times,the fate of personality and other factors to divide the small characters in the novels of the new century into three categories: the first category is the drifters in the amphibious life under the urbanization process.They are migratory birds that migrate between the city and the countryside.They are the "others" who have no place for the body and the soul.The second category is the marginalists in the pattern of difference,such as the "main force of socialist construction." "Aura,now a worker who has become a "worker bee",or a small intellectual who once set off the banner of the New China Salvation,but now lives as an "ant";the third is aphasic under strong weight.It refers to those who are humble in the face of the powerful oppression of social power or money,have no discourse power,and are powerless to dominate the self-destination.The image of the small figures in the new century has a unique aesthetic connotation.First of all,embodied in the tragic nature of the novel,all the novels that write the image of the little characters are filled with the feeling of tragedy and desolation.Although the plot of each story is not the same,it has the tragic direction of the same goal.Secondly,it is reflected in In the people’s nature of the novel,the image of the small figures in the new century highlights the author’s writing position with the people as the main body,the humanistic care that always listens to the people’s voices,and the spirit of the times that always walks with the people.Finally,it is embodied in the non-fictional nature of the novel.Representing the living conditions of small people and enhancing the narrative power of the novel is the digger’s bottom-level perspective,as well as the natural return of contemporary writers’ sense of responsibility and moral conscience.It has profound aesthetic connotation and aesthetic implication.The image of the small figures in the new century also has significant social and practical significance,literary significance and ethical significance.It has established a new way of dialogue between literature and reality.Through the text,the author has let everyone know the true living conditions of these small people and reproduce the concern of "people" during the May Fourth period.The small characters also enriched the character image gallery and reversed the literary value system that was overly obsessed with Western literary theory and technical methods in the 1980 s.However,the creation of the image of the small figures in the new century also has many flaws,which are concentrated in the type of novel creation,the flattening of characters,the over-representation of misery,and the misunderstanding of the “pan-moralization” of writing perspective.It is true that there may still be many flaws in the creation of the image of a small person,but at least let the world hear their voices,see their existence,and bring us the shock of the soul of the paper back.