Consideration Of Modern Life Predicament

Zhang Ailing and Qian Zhongshu were the authors who different from the literary mainstream in 1940s. They became the life's contemplators with their own experiment at the era. This thesis tried to reinterpret the deep meanings in their articles through the visual angle of"life predicament". Meanwhile, it wanted to find out the way of the expression on"life predicament"and the modernism exploration.Since Zhang Ailing and Qian Zhongshu paid attention to the life and considered deeply of the predicament of it, their articles are still popular and exceed the published period. Their cognition of life deepened gradually in three aspects, that is: the cognition of the dark status quo, the comprehension of lonely personal place in human relationship and the metaphysical consideration of the destiny.Their articles reflected the great social change in the early twenty century. The frequent chaos by wars and western colonized oppression caused Chinese society in a mess. People couldn't adapt the situation or find the solution between feudalism tradition and west culture.The normal relationship was distorted by the dark messy social environment. There were only stoniness and confliction among strangers. Human emotion was catabolized and family lost its self-giving heart, both of which were caused by the desire of wealth and strength beyond others. For the myth of love disappear, marriage couldn't achieve comprehending each other at last. As a result, people could only face the endless loneness,In the procession of the social status quo and human relationship exploration, the two authors sublimed their thinking into metaphysical consideration of the destiny. They found people's future was uncertain in this condition and they couldn't master their destiny. The life was full of desolate keynote, so people could only live in situation like a besieged city.The two authors continued to ponder the predicament of life and find the life essence. Their action propelled the modernization of Chinese literature. It also made their articles exceed the time and gain the irreplaceable value in the literature history.