Character Construction In Lu Xuns' Retrospective Essays

The creation of Lu Xun's retrospective essays is reappearing what he has experienced in the specific period. The artistic expression of this retrospection is relevant to two key factors:one is the particularity of the past events and characters; the other is subjective factors while creating, such as the author's emotional experience, the outlook about values and so on. In a sense, the creation of the style is to express the author's certain spectific feelings at that very moment by retrospect. Begin with the proposition of character construction in his retrospective essays, the paper explores how Lu Xun constructs characters. Following aspects are covered:dual expression of first person narration and its aesthetic value, the relationship between true characters and poetic characters, the choice of character assessment, the relationship between characters and self, the disticntion between character construction in essys and that in other styles, and exploring character description and artistic features in essays.