The Study On The Characters Image And Cultural Implication Of Crossroads Light

In the 1980 s,the study on Crossroads Light reach the top and many scholars began to excavate its value.Scholars pay more attention to the value of the book and its significance to society,but the character study on Crossroads Light is not comprehensive.From the macro point of view, the characters in Crossroads Light are not only variety but also individual.Every character has its distinctive features,so it must be have a certain research significance. And throughing the study on the characters shaping,we will also be able to find the cultural significance of Crossroads Light which the characters image given more deeply,this is also this paper’s research value.This paper can be divided into five chapters:The first chapter:This part is mainly to study the cultural background of Crossroads Light and the author’s creation mentality to reproduce the heavy social contradictions under the Qian Long prosperity.Crossroads Light was marked deeply of the era,and it also with the author’s hope of reforming social ethos.Li Lvyuan use this novel to enlightenment the world people, he want to warn the landlord class students learning by heart and walking the right direction through the spread of Crossroads Light.The second chapter:Discuss the main characters of Crossroads Light.Crossroads Light the protagonist of novel is appeared in “black sheep” image firstly.Li Lvyuan made the main characters highly personalized.For example,Tan Shaowen who has a “red face” and go astray,Sheng Xiqiao who made his family decline,Xia Fengruo who taked profits by bad means and alternative merchant’s children Wang Longji etc.Through shaping the numerous “son”,the author hoped these people could find the right way.The third chapter:In addition to the image of “son”.the other characters in Crossroads Light are also rich and varied.This part is mainly summarize four types of characters:female image,professional image,official image and idled children image. Analysising each of the personality traits of the characters,we can explore the meaning of culture and values and interpret for each type of character image.The fourth chapter:Discuss the cultual connotation of the characters. Crossroads Light has a heavily Taoism meaning,sing the song of some Pedantic thoughts of Confucian culture,but at the same time, the author puts forward some views for that moment still has its significant value,such as “agricultural is base”.So,the study on Crossroads Light still has the value of the contemporary culture.The fifth chapter:This part is emphatically analyze the character image’s shaping arts,mainly from the perspective of the shape of typical characters in typical environment to analysis the relationship between the casinos and “sons”,the means of creat characters are three-dimensional and contrasted.