A Comparison On Death Theme Between Bi Shumin's And Yuhua's Novels

Death is one of the eternal subjects of literature. In Chinese contemporary literary circles, Bi Shumin and Yuhua are representative writers insisting on expressing the theme of death. From the angle of the theme of death, the thesis has a comparative analysis of the novels of the two writers, and discusses different styles presented by their novels as well as the causes.Bi Shumin and Yuhua both abandoned medical study for the pursuit of literature. The same medical knowledge background has led to their common feelings about death, but it has not produced two literary versions on death with the same style. There are more similarities than differences of death consciousness in Bi Shumin's and Yuhua's novels. They both face death in a direct and realistic way, and study life from the angle of death. However, on the basis of human's dignity of life, Bi Shumin tends to express death by the objective reality and realizes the surmounting and sublimation of life significance. Yuhua puts an emphasis on the weakness and vanishment of man's main consciousness. At the same time, the two writers faithfully pursue "the death to be real". But while Bi Shumin is apt to display death objectively which has the characteristic of personal experience, Yuhua stresses on death subjectively which is like a fable full of imagination. Their differences in the narration of death also form the specific aspects of emotion key, the scene description and the human nature. Bi Shumin always holds the grief mood to the life, dealing with death in a vague prospect but paying great attention to the human nature of sincerity, goodness and beauty, but Yuhua has often watches critically the life withering, concentrating on the human nature of fakery, evilness and ugliness. Bi Shumin and Yu Hua's individual differences in their novels on the theme of death adapted from their different life experience and cultural edification. Of course, their creation has success and failure, but they can't hinder them from taking people into the area of comprehending and writing of death in modern significance.