Indivisible Family Emotional Knot

Family novel was one of the most inclusive Chinese literary works with the strongest expressive force in the. 20th century. The family novel in the new time comes up to a new high level no matter in the concern towards human beings as well as the sense of culture and history injected or in the narrative arts and techniques. It is noticeable that families in the novels share the same decadent, declining and dying end, although the fictionists : differ with each other as to the personal viewpoints and narrative postures on the fain 11 v. Rut at the same time, most of the fictionists can' t hide their love and hope towards the family, and emotionally the family has become what they identify with and convert to. There is a profound contradiction concealed in the different family novel styles in the new time. That is to say, on the one hand, the fictionists in this time can realize the weakness of the family structure as well as the necessity of its disintegration; on the other hand, they can not attack and bid farewell to it freely and easily. This emotional contradiction is interweaved together to form a family emotional knot, which is the base of how this paper can go on.The thesis is composed the following three parts:Part One briefly introduces the family novel' s changing course in the 20th century, from which a comparison is done between it and the previous novels and it leads to the indivisible family emotional knot in the family novels in the new time.Part Two discusses the three types of family novels. They are novels about social history, novels about individual existence and novels about feminine destiny, when analyzing those three, types, the thesis explains detailedly the narrations about the family cultures in different types and howthey come to the same indivisible family emotional knot.Part Three lays the emphasis on how and why the indivisible family emotional knot comes into being and unfolds the significance of its existence. There are two reasons form this kind of emotional knot. Firstly, it originated from Chinese traditional culture and psychology. Secondly, the search for the family is the search for the spiritual home. The family emotional knot enables the family to participate in the restoration of the native ideology as a part of tradition and to become the manner against the pressure from western culture and establishing its own cultural value. That is where the s i gn i ficance 1 i es.Finally the thesis considers that the existence of the family emotional knot indicates the standpoint of cultural structure and aesthetic criticism. The progressive spirit of human beings should be depicted more strongly in the future novels with the theme of family and the concern to the family showed by the fictionists.