On Archetypal Images Of Life In Mo Yan’s Novel

Mo Yan’s novel is life narration. The life is the main image of his novels. And the awes ofall lives are the melody in his novel. What life narration concern are the person’s body and soul,specially the current life state, and the difficulty and dissimilation of life. This paper carries onthe archetype image of life in Mo Yan’s novel, in order to seek the profound meaning of thenovel behind——seeking roots of life, finding the home of body and soul under the limited andinfinite of body, the suppressed and resisting of spirit.The thesis is divided into four parts. The foreword make a necessary outline to the presentresearch of Mo Yan’s novel, in addition includes the development of imagism theory in china andwest, the theory of archetype image evolution and generative mechanism. Chapter1put pen topaper from the body’s birth to death. The analyzing of twin prototype and death prototypediscovered that birth and death is a pair of contradiction which is difficult to reconcile, and a partof life in a body. To human birth and death, young and old, any of which exists in a same body.The essence meaning of person’s life lies in life cycle. When affirms death promotes the drivingforce of life. Chapter2expound the theme beyond the death in consciousness from two sides theimmortal soul and samaras work archetype image. The theme which implicates mankind to thedeath of resist and evade, is the not-rational cognition and the reflection of unyielding life’s willto death. Chapter3focus on the theme beyond the death in fact, specifically discussed at twolevels from the worship of the dominant maternal reproductive and the hidden maternalreproductive, then detect the implicit significance of seeking the roots of life is to seek motherwho may be the origin of the all life in the world. Because "get its mother just know its son,know its son but reply to guard it mother", so as to hold vital essential point.Finally point out the life prototype image in Mo Yan’s novel contains what theroot-exploring discovered is to live and to question, looking for the way to live and the psychicdwelling in the thinking and querying.