The Animal Images In Mo Yan's Novel

Mo Yan is a writer who likes to write "animals" in his works.There are various of animal images in his novels and about 20 novels named after animals directly.In addition,"Animals" are also can be found in each of the other works.They outline a colorful animal world and play a very important role in Mo Yan's literary kingdom.In the beginning,the animals in Mo Yan's novels exist as suggestive clues,they symbolize the fate and the end of the characters.After that,the animal appeared as the main character and they inspected the human world with their own unique perspectives,which was also the author's view of the real world through the eyes of animals.In the end,the animals in the novel's intertwined with human,animals are humanized while humans are passive,the boundary between human nature and bestiality is blur,they fused together.The entanglement between people and animals became the main characteristics of the animal images in Mo Yan's novels.In the process of Mo Yan's creation,animal image has been widely used as the carrier of the author ‘s meaning.On the one hand,animal image reflects the author's reflection on modern humanity.Today's society,human beings are deep in the quagmire of desire and even wear hypocritical masks for human nature.In such a social environment,some people are driven to the path of betrayal and revenge.On the other hand,in the process of urbanization,mankind has destroyed the beautiful rural homeland for their own needs.What's worse,they killed countless animals,all of these result in a serious imbalance between human and nature.Most importantly,Mo Yan has expressed the misgivings about the "degradation" of humans and call for the original vitality through animal images.Mo Yan's works combine folk tales,history and contemporary society through magic realism.The writing of animal image was influenced by the cultural immersion and the author's unique childhood experiences in North-eastern Gaomi county.In addition,the author draws on the creation of animal images from Chinese and foreign writers,integrating them into and innovating on the basis of his own literary creation,forming a unique style of creation ultimately.We can draw the conclusion through the analysis of Mo Yan's novel animal images : "Animal" is one of the keys of reading Mo Yan's complex and mysterious literary world.There is a human world latent behind "animal world".Interpretation of animal images can not only make readers know more about the works of this contemporary Chinese literature master,what's more,we can appreciate Mo Yan's spirit culture world and his profound thinking and attention about human.On the basis of new understanding of his literary creation,we can think the change and development of the contemporary literature.