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The Research On The Ethical Writing In Mo Yan's Novels

Posted on:2017-06-05Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:L Y GaoFull Text:PDF
GTID:2335330503980964Subject:Chinese Modern and Contemporary Literature
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Mo Yan's novels describe the suffering of history, call for the care of human nature, criticize the ugliness of human nature, and rethink the desire, the relationship between individuals and families and country. At present, there is little research on ethical narration in Mo Yan's novels. Therefore, it is meaningful to think about the ethical narration in Mo Yan's novels.The family ethics in Mo Yan's novels is no longer the expression of harmonious family. The family structure in Mo Yan's novels is deformed; the father in the text often absent or stigma, mother became the embodiment of desire; the relationship between brothers and sisters is also a competition. By weakening the father and using Children's perspective, Mo Yan deconstructs the hegemony discourse, so that the children in the edge of the status can tell their story. After deconstruct the hegemony discourse, Mo Yan tries to construct a new hegemony discourse by finding the cultural roots; but because of the lack of real subjectivity in both the seeker and the hero, this finding is failed.The love ethics of Mo Yan's novels reflects the new thinking direction. Sexual maturity is the starting point of the love. In the relationship of love, the relationship between husband and wife has no emotional bond; the wife is a tool for "career"; while the lover symbolizes the freedom of sexual desire and exceptional vitality. Mo Yan's novels take the desire as a weapon, give full play to the destructive effect of desire, breaking the shackles of traditional ethics and morals; but at the same time, Mo Yan also in awe of the traditional ethics, attempts to carry out a compromise between wife and lover. This contradiction has experienced four stages in the process of Mo Yan's creation. In addition, Mo Yan did not escape the trap of patriarchy; these women who are attractive are still slaves of man, after stripping the veil of humanity.Mo Yan reconsiders the practice of national ethics, just like the socialist movement, new socialist man and national history. He finds that the national ethics caused the disaster in the countryside, the failure of the Folk Ethics, the collapse of the family relationship, the distortion of human nature, and so on. But Mo Yan's reflection of national ethics is conducted in the context of the new enlightenment, and consciously or unconsciously cater to the West centralism, which makes his reflection is obviously biased.
Keywords/Search Tags:Mo Yan's novels, ethical narrative, family ethics, love ethics, national ethics
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