Research On Cao Yu’s Dramas In The Chinese And Western Culture

Cao Yu is a master of modern Chinese drama, his major drama are"Thunderstorm""Sunrise""Wilderness" and so on. Not much of his life writing, buthis drama is to win with quality. Cao Yu’s success is the result of his exploring ofhumanity, on the life assurance, but also more from his profound cultural background.An excellent dramatist must be inherit their own traditional culture and absorbforeign culture, it must be good at from the perspective of human nature, understandand integrate the culture, he is a cultural explorer, is also the creator of a new culture.Due to a good family, Cao Yu can touch the earliest books of traditional Chineseculture and new culture progress books in early time, he also can receive schooleducation, to receive the western advanced culture, so that make his drama have amore open vision, Cao Yu’s dramas have absorbed the essence of China traditionalculture, study the western dramas’creation skills, overcome the earlydramas’weakness, make the the Chinese drama mature.Cao Yu’s dramas showed the rich and profound cultural meaning to us. Cao Yucreated a series of rich and unique characters in his masterpiece "Thunderstorm""Sunrise""Wilderness""Peking Man" and so on. Cao Yu’s early dramas explore thehumam nature from a cultural perspective, showing the conflict of human life andethical moral principles, aspire to the original life, pursuit the spirit freedom, at thesame time, in the face of the unfortunate fate, demonstrate the author’s redemption,compassion, love and other religious culture. However, after the liberation, becauseof the cultural environment changes and also the lack of independent personality ofthe intellectuals, Cao Yu’s aesthetic changed obviously. Cao Yu’s later dramas’aesthetic taste totally different compared with the previous, the revolutionary cultureoccupies the dominant position, the later dramas with a distinctive politicalinclination and class nature, the creation of humanity is closely linked into thecurrent political,the art world began to tilt.The first part, introduction.The introduction combed for Cao Yu’s research.The second part, multi cultural origins of Cao Yu’s dramatic creation. Themain source of cultural factors including Chinese traditional culture, western culture,and campus culture.The third part through the works of text reading, analyzes the dramas’ culturalcharacterization from different cultural perspective.The fourth part,because of the cultural environment changes and the lack ofindependent personality of the intellectuals, Cao Yu’s aesthetic changed obviously. Finally,as aconclusion.The key to the success of Cao Yu is that he can be agood fusion of Chinese and Western cultures.