The Contemplating For "Death"

Bai Xianyong is a tragedy novelist who specializes in the description of "death". In his world of perplexed and clinging"tragedy"which is full of pain and sufferings and appetence, the "death" became a necessary part In his novel. Mr. White dose not regard"death"as the adjunct of tragedy purely or the necessity of configuration design of tragedy. On the contrary, here, the "death" becomes the origin of the whole shoot about thinking, and becomes the reason and the foundation that he sets up the world of"tragedy". The contemplation of "death" in Mr. White's novel is a fulcrum that he closes to the existent deep end of humankind.In his novels Bai Xianyong persists in expressing and thinking toward "death" which is not irrelevant in his life experience. His growth experience is also the process of precipitation about the consciousness of"death"in his mind. Since birth, he has been feeling the oppression of death. The ancient and gray big rooms, the fearful ghost story told by his fetishistic aunt, and the bricklayer who is bombed into crush near the fish pond side, which like a seed of"death"embedded in Bai Xianyong's young and small mind. The experience of sickness in Chongqing made the young have more impressible cognition of death. After that, though several times of desertion and migration, Bai Xianyong also discerned the great changes of Chinese society, saw much more separation in life or deaths, experienced the separation of close relatives and the ruin of family, a series of life change, and felt the impermanence of life together with huge strength of death. However, in his early novels, concerning the thinking of "death", which depositing in his mind towards the consciousness of"death"was shown naturally and unconsciously, also can't guide him to the answer that he has been being investigating all the time. The death of his mother urged him to think more seriously and self-consciously about death. His mother's death made him think deeply and recognize more thoroughly on death and survive. Bai Xianyong realized the thing that death is inevitable and common destiny of humankind. And it is the same way of home to human. The idea that"death is the essence characteristic of human existence" which he investigates perseveringly in his thought, emerged gradually and clearly in his mind, and is the subject which expressed insistently in his literature creations.Since Bai Xianyong engaged in literature creations,he cann't help choosing to write tragedy and"death".In the novels which were written in the early stage ,"death"became the major object to write.After two years of keeping silent,in《The Death Of Chicago》written in 1964,Bai Xianyong'thinking and expressing about"death"became more mature and profound.After this Bai Xianyong wtote 22 short stories and unique river novel《Crystal Boys》also inherited the thinking and searching of the"death".Making a comprehensive view of 22 short stories and unique river novel《Crystal Boys》which had been telling of"death","death"impenetrated varied crowd'lives,had become a necessary part of existence of human being . The"death"is the finale of the tragic dramatis personaes;or a inducement that would bring about"alive"people to pain ; or a witness of huge change of the world and times; or a window to oversee the politics status of the china ; even a"background"to the living of human being . In the other 12 short stories , although there are not the depiction of"death", there are many"death" wording ,or entire chapter flowed the current liking the death . The"death"in these 12 short stories ,mostly are the death of the sensibilities and idealities when human being are living perplexedly and clingingly. In the meantime,Bai Xianyong is also a sensitive and meticulous relater of the"death". In the novels, he not only describes a great deal of scenes of the death directly, but also uses many imagoes of symbol of the death to complete his thinking about"death". First, Bai Xianyong molds many person images which have the symbol meaning of the "death". These person images are the incarnations of the death , or the lure that Azrael intercalates in the world , allure the persons to plunge into the traps of the death . Second , he uses colors to symbolize the death . Bai Xianyong likes to use"red"and"white"to symbolize the death ."Red"represents bleeding and death ,but Bai Xianyong most emphasizes particularly on"contrast"'s using of the"red"symbolizing happiness and gladness to represent the inescapability of the death and impermanence of the life . The"white"is the color which symbolizes"death"in traditional culture in China.. In the novels of Bai Xianyong ,"white"not only appears in the"death"Scenes , but also indicates the coming of the death .Besides, he also uses"rain"and"snow"belong to the spectrum of the"white". The using of the symbolic imagoes like direct describing is serving for the thinking and expressing for"Death is essential character of the living of human being".Bai Xianyong, in the description of"death", with regard to the thinking of death and the persistent expression of"the death is the essence characteristic of mankind", coming from the repeating thought and consideration to the existing circumstances of humankind. The understanding of"the death is the essence characteristic of human existence", which urge his drawing to extend through the"existence essence"of humankind's themselves -"the puzzlement and depression of human existence". Two aspects are reflected. First of all, it is the existent state of mankind who are exiled. The mankind have right to"living"and also own the essence characteristic of"deanth". The death would send people's natural life in exile. At the same time mankind is suffering the exile of human themselves. The banishment of mankind result from the banishment of natural life which lead to another form of humankind's exile that is inevitable. The oppression of"death"urges mankind to express persistence of"living". In the process of searching for something"exist"that is eternal, those criterions and prescriptions made by human themselves extruded the existence of human, also restricted the development of human, threw mankind into a kind of more delusive banishment. The mankind's self-imposed exile in essence is because of the inroad on human made by culture leading to banishment. Therefore, in the novels of Bai Xianyong, Chinese lived abroad and people yearned for home of china who flee from a calamity of mainland to Taiwan, are suffering the dual banishment,"domestic country"and"foreign country", in the embarrassed civilization. Prostitute and homosexuality hesitate on the edge of society in the extrusion of mainstream society. Just as death is the essence characteristic that the mankind exist, the natural life evolved from death and mankind's self banishment are also an essence characteristics of mankind. Imperceptibly and inexorably a supernatural strength, usually called it"destiny"habitually, dominates the mankind, making the mankind sink into larger"banishment"between"exile"and get away from the"banishment". Secondly, it is the mankind's affective widespread predicament. In Bai Xiayong's novel the exhibition of the widespread predicament of mankind emotion is to inherit the consideration and the attention to the essence existence --banishment of human's life. The essence and original reason of the corner in mankind's emotion is death -- the banishment of the natural life. In the meantime, the mankind's self-imposed exile also caused the alienation of mankind's emotion. Interpersonal alienation and diaphragm caused the mankind sink into a widespread predicament on the emotion. The prevalent emotion predicament of humankind in Bai Xianyong's novel is mainly divided into two kinds of forms: trample of mankind's fine emotion and the self oppression of mankind. They depend on each other, the trample of mankind's fine emotion is the direct cause of the self oppression of mankind. In the novel of Bai Xianyong, not only the trample of mankind's emotion but also the self oppression of mankind's emotion, they all represent the same characteristic about the widespread predicament of the mankind's emotion. The destiny of the"banishment"of mankind for generations and the predicament of mankind's emotion caused by it, cause the whole mankind's existence manifest a kind of infatuation and depression.Bai Xianyong looks over the plight of human existence in his novels through the rigid"Death"describes and meditation。On one hand, His"death"especially shows the emptiness of human existence, on the other hand, he makes efforts to regain the meaning of life in the"death". He has placed the hope of rebirth in the"death":The spirit of the kernel - the rebirth feelings and ideals rebirth in the physical death.