Between Revolution And Family

"Song of Youth" is Yang Mo’s autobiographical novel,the growth of Lin Daojing is the author Yang Mo’s self-portrait.In this novel,with the help and guidance of the excellent Communists,Lin Daojing,a small bourgeois intellectual,has been making progress.She not only successfully joined the glorious Communist Party of China and completed the class transformation,but also successfully led the revolution and achieved her career success.It is important to note that neither family trivia nor misunderstandings in friendship have stopped Lin Daojing’s pursuit of her career.In this process,traces of the revolutionary movement were left on Lin Daojing’s body,which also symbolized her growth.By shaping the image of Lin Daojing,Yang Mo has completed the imagination and construction of self-identity in the fictional writing.In real life,Yang Mo concerned about her party membership very much.During "Cultural Evolution",she was once treated as a fake party member and lost her party membership.Such consciousness influenced her positioning of her career and her choices in daily life.Yang Mo believed that writing was the task entrusted by the Party,and educating children is to train communist successors for the country.As a result,she often used class theory and class methods to analyze and deal with the differences and contradictions between her and her family.Whether it is personal talent or the education,Yang Mo herself did not have the advantage of becoming a writer.In order to make achievement in writing,she constantly shied away from her family responsibilities.However,Yang Mo never gave up participating in social activities to obtain external glory.Yang Mo’s identity construction in real life is quite similar to Lin Daojing’s identity construction.Whether it is Lin Daojing,a fictional character,or Yang Mo herself,they all show their desire for the status of "Communist Party" and their enthusiasm for personal careers,as well as avoidance of family life and personal feelings.The divergence and contradiction between them are due to the gap between the author Yang Mo’s pursuit of revolutionary ideals and his personal emotional experience.Specifically,there is such a deviation because,on the one hand,the author actively responds to the new requirements of the times for writing,on the other hand,it is difficult to get rid of the desire to describe private experience and construct self-identity.When realizing her humble situation and hoping to actively respond to the ever-changing external environment,Yang Mo solved the predicament by reshaping the story of her youth.Reinterpreting the "Song of Youth" with the method of new historicist criticism and practice,combining the history in "Song of Youth" and the "Song of Youth" in history,this research believes that whether in creation or in real life,Yang Mo explored the boundaries of freedom and found the way to achieve freedom at that time.