The Torrent Of The Times And The Boat Of Humanity

People living in the social environment are unable to avoid being involved in the turbulent era.The unique life experience is helpful for Yan Geling to uphold the exploration and analysis the themes of "existence" and "humanity",no matter what kind of time background and historical events it is.This article mainly extracts two similar typical historical periods,"Anti-Japanese War" and "The Great Cultural Revolution",which with the extreme environments: trouvlous,stressful,lack of security,anomalous and dramatic situation,to reveal the complicated and changeable humanity.This thesis is divided into two parts.The first part mainly analyzes the political,economic and socio-cultural environment in these two historical periods,and combined with plots and characters in Yan Geling’s works,to explore and in-depthly analyze the human nature variation which hidden behind the details.And study the relationship between the surrounding environment and truth or variation human nature.At the same time,revealing the dark side of human nature,which has been alienated,into brutal and out-of-control.The second part mainly focuses on the people,who still adhere to good humanity in the hardships during regime change,with plot descriptions,highlights the truth,goodness and beauty of humanity which respect for life and carries beautiful and glorious light.This article uses Yan Geling’s works to display the goodness and evilness of humanity one by one,thereby searching for salvable places in human nature,calling for the sublimation and return of human nature,and giving hope to people who are desperate and helpless in despair,and encouraged readers to more thinking and resonance.In addition to the previous works of Yan Geling,this article also added deep analysis of character and the hidden humanity on her new novel in 2017,"Fanghua".