New Century Network Novel Consumer Traits

The consumptive peculiavity of network novelIn this essay several net novels have been culled in order to make relevant contextual analysis and comment.By focusing on how net works being influenced by consumption-oriented way of writing and reading,the essay is aimed to study the reasons why the current net works is subject to the tendency of getting empty, mechanized,degenerating,etc.and furthermore,theoretical conclusions are intended to be drawn.Besides,by searching for the interior value of net novels,the essay is trying to reveal the direction it is going。The current net literature mainly takes the form of novel whose theme is centered on three aspects---romantic love,magnificent fantasies,and cruel urban life.Being aesthetical,the love stories are abundant with romantic plots as well as melancholy yet beautiful endings,which easily strikes a sympathetic chord in adolescent readers who have palpable yearnings and longings for love.It is just understandable that these young readers are eager to experience romance.However,such novels exceptionally all fail to be applied into reality,which is in accordance with the psychological characteristics of the youth--- shirking responsibility while longing for romance.The fantasy novels attract many adolescence as well.The reasons are various. Young people,right at the stage of life full of dreams and energy,have the cosmic yield for the individual achievements.However,the individual development in reality is often being restrained by varied factors such as social and economical conditions, region,family,and personal weakness.Consequently,in the particular era,individual development must subject to the society.Everyone must face with the pressure from study,job,responsibility,moral,etc.It is just inevitable that people may feel frustrated when they cannot have their needs met.However,by reading net fantasy work the need of self-fulfillment which cannot be met in reality is whereas able to be satisfied in illusion.That could be a way one can have himself relieved out of the anxiety over the realistic achievement.The urban novels mainly display the cruelty in reality and the twist of humanity. Normally the readers could be the young people who have just started their work career and are somewhat disillusioned at the face of reality and frustrated for not being able to get rid of the dirty aspects permitted silently by the society after having the knowledge of it.When their ambitions ebb away and feel extremely anxious,what they are faced with is the rich variety of commodities.The desperate desire for money torments them,which inevitably results in the struggle of their souls and great puzzlement over the society.Owing to the similarity with their own experience,the young readers universally approve with the description over typical puzzlement and frustration of the youth and are no less sympathized with the personal struggle and destruction of the heroes.The consumption-oriented quality of net novels is reflected in the content,artistic form,artistic creation and reception.Its consoling and amusing function is effective in balancing and adjusting the psychological structure,and plays a harmonious role in the founding and maintenance of social discipline.The consumption-oriented quality of net literature results in drawbacks of mainly three aspects.Firstly it is the false satisfaction that it provides to the public culture.By keeping the subject in the pleasant sensation acquired through performing themselves as part of the fantasy,the novels are criticized for neglecting the significance and existence of life.Secondly,its non-reality often misleads the learning process of people at the real world,and results in the disability of judgment and practice in reality.What we could find and see is nothing but the images of the world,with the "world itself" absent.Thirdly,the criticism goes about the duplicate and fast-food way of its production and its elimination over the aesthetic ideal.The duplication results in the absolute absence of individuality,creativity,critic enthusiasm and realistic spirit. The consumption-oriented net works have the profound influence from the post-modern entertainment and consumption culture.Though flawed by many points including its low taste and aesthetic degree,guided by entertainment,and aimed at business profits,such novels do have promoted the common people's literature and the transfer of verbal rights,and objectively helps the multiculturalism in literature.