The Analysis Of Criminal Image In Xu Yigua’s Novels

Xu Yigua is a famous authoress of new generation since the beginning of this century.Looking through all her works,the plots are mostly about criminal cases,and both criminals and victims are unique characters under her pen.Criminals,as the destroyer of people’s life and property and as the resister of social order,have been paid special attention to by many litterateurs.This kind of image is more specifically valuable and charming with Xu Yigua.In her novel,criminals are more than a scum image hated by audiences:there are always miserable process about humanity and choice going on behind them.Many criminals would experience contradictory human struggle and glary self redemption when they commit or finish their crime.Through building the criminal image,analyzing criminal psychology,Xu Yigua revealed the true nature of life,society and morality.Her expression skills are undoubtedly diversified:realistic technique of expression,multiple viewpoints of narrative,deep engagement of media discourse,apply of special image have all helped to add literary wings for her criminal characters.This paper begins with the analysis of the criminal image,explains the features of it,and exploits the double meaning of Xu Yigua’s image-building.This paper consists of the following parts:The introduction part mainly explains relative concepts,research status home and aboard,and the thinking and methods of this paper.In the first part,this paper sets forth the background of Xu Yigua’s criminal image,including her writing status,criminal image in new-century literature and the mental motivation of her creating the image.The second part mainly analyse the type of criminal image and the cause of crime.This paper divides the criminal image of Xu Yigua into two kinds,the traditional criminal who break the law,and spiritual criminal who are unethical.Then explain the reason why they commit crimes from two aspects:the psychological motivation themselves,and social factors.The third part mainly explains the features of criminal image,including personality alienation and spiritual dilemma of city loners,complicated humanity and self redemption in dark life,as well as female criminal’s extreme breakout of mind cage.The forth part parses the artistic expressions of Xu Yigua’s building of criminal image.These expressions include the use of special image,narrative subject,complex narrative time,the narrative consisting of unique perspective and media context’s influence on shaping the criminal image.The fifth part discusses the dual valuation of Xu Yigua’s building of criminal image,including the inheritance and development of Chinese new-century literature,caring for individual life,sympathy for human tragedy,criticism of social reality and thinking on moral standard.