The Birds Broken Wings, The Candles, The Thorn Birds

At first I define intellectual in my thesis, and put forward my own viewpoints to the Chinese intellectuals placed in" edge" or" center". I try to analyze a series of intellectuals' images in the New ages' novels, the authors and critics in the realistic life from 1950's, by using three ideas of the Birds Broken Wings", "the Candles" and "the Thorn Birds" to make parables about the different types of intellectuals, explore their lost excellent qualities when they floundered" between center and edges" with the development of the ages, which result in the consequences, influence during reconstructing the intellectual' personality.During the analysis of the Birds Broken Wings ", I select several generations of intellectuals as models and carefully analyze why they lost own excellent qualities gradually in order to found the center and chase the age's steps, become "the birds broken wings " unwillingly in particular age, investigate the social history and political reason, traditional culture mental, the imperfection of personal personality and spirit about their change. Their destiny is filled with the tragic color.Two extreme development of the Birds Broken Wings "constituted two different kinds of Candles" - the candles in the sun and in the personal little worlds. By the concrete characters I carefully inquire into the social causes and their mental tracks about two types of intellectuals' different performance in the different ages, think the more important reason is thatthey already lost personal corpus, which caused the formers swore allegiance under the political leaders, and lost the individual spirit existence, the latters only paid attention to the personal sadness and merriment for their nihilism and extreme individualism .The problem " Candle combusts for whom on earth" still perplexs us today.The basic characteristics of the Thorn Birds "is" the Martyr's Spirit" and" the Critical Consciousness". I emphasize their mental factors in the deep layer why they own complete different life chooses in contrary to the formers, why he/she can prop...