Struggle And Torture Under The Smashing Sky

Lunacy is the reflection of one's mental disorders or even mental diseases, which culturally means the departure from rationality and these characters in the modern literature do not necessarily have the real sense of being social beings which directly results in odd behaviors in their daily life. As special being forms of the human society, lunatic images have drawn many psychologists' attention and they are also imagined or described by a number of litterateurs in the literature field. In modern times, people shaped a lot of lunatic images with unique characters and they altogether make a lunatic group with Chinese characteristics which gradually becomes a wonderful view in the modern Chinese literature. To analyze these images is very meaningful in both aesthetics and culture areas. This article is based on the following three aspects:I. Probe the background of the lunatic images in the literature of the modern times. The modern lunatic images arose at the very time of changing in the social political, economic and cultural areas, especially at the time when the trend of ugly-scaning was rising, which fundamentally makes it possible to shape the lunatic images and also makes the modern lunatic images connected with the modern literature in the aspects of lunatic types, culture enlightenment and the probe of the "beauty" and "ugly" inside the deeper human nature. But they have their unique features which also show the achievements and shortcomings of the modern literature development.II. Analyze the meaning implied in the "lunatic images" in the modern Chinese literature. The modern Chinese "lunatic images" have very successfully played their roles in conveying their unique aesthetics value and culture value with their richness in connotation transmission due to their diversity and complexity, with "Hard as Water", "Gold House" and "Rose Door" as representative works describing these typical images. To probe and analyze the meaning of these "lunatic images" shown in the political, economic and cultural fields will help demonstrate its special value and make us penetrate into our life deeper, which is very meaningful both practically and culturally.III. Observe the speciality of the modern "lunatic images". The authors of the modern times do very well in grasping the psychology of these "lunatic images", and in their works these "images" are both narcissistic and self-renunciative, have exaggerating and insolent daily behaviors and live in a distortional and illusional world of fragment. All the above characteristics make the "lunatic images" very special in connotation transmission and different from other literature images.