The Dreams Of Utopia Have Not Come True

As the only novel in Lin Yutang’s life that is filled with sci-fi themes,The Unexpected Island has the dual meaning of lyricism and caution.It not only reflects the author’s personal ideals in the Utopia world,but also becomes the model of the author’s subjective imagination to construct a perfect world.The purpose of this paper is to interpret the narrative form,Utopian imagination and female writing of The Unexpected Island by means of text perusal,so as to better understand Lin Yutang’s spiritual world.The first chapter of the thesis makes a detailed analysis of the narrative form of The Unexpected Island.It combs the creative background of the novel from the perspectives of society and individual,and explores the narrative style of the novel from three aspects: geography,time and culture.The second chapter focuses on the deconstruction of Utopia imagination of The Unexpected Island.The combing and introduction of Utopia concept provides theoretical support for exploring the construction form and content of the island’s society,and enriches the meaning of Utopia construction in this society.The third chapter carefully combs and summarizes the female writing in The Unexpected Island.From the "New World" on the island,the female image of the three groups of colonists and aborigines,it pays attention to the female group image and characteristics in the novel.From the mainstream consciousness,the male aesthetic vision and the female self-cognition,it reflects the living conditions of the female as the aesthetic object in the island’s society,and calls on people to realize the return and remodeling of female value through objective self-cognition.In a sense,the Utopian image depicted by The Unexpected Island fulfills its critique of social reality with humorous narrative brushstrokes and free writing style.The female writing of the novel shows the author’s aesthetic bias in the male perspective and constitutes part of this male aesthetic utopia.Putting the novel The Unexpected Island in the context of the times,then the future era it envisions may not have arrived.However,in any case,the novel itself provides another cultural imagination for the development of human society.