The Study Of The Heroic Writing Of Liu Cixin Science Fiction

Liu Cixin is regarded as a representative figure of Chinese science fiction.Liu Cixin’s science fiction’s precise description of technical details,grand scientific artistic conception,and optimistic scientific attitude make his works stand out from many science fiction novels,and have research value that cannot be ignored.This thesis takes the heroic writing in Liu Cixin’s science fiction as the entry point.On the basis of careful reading of the text,combining the characteristics of heroic writing in Chinese literature and the creative background of Liu Cixin’s science fiction,this thesis discusses the heroic characters in Liu Cixin’s science fiction.The type,the construction method of hero image and the cultural connotation behind hero writing are discussed in depth.This thesis is divided into three parts: introduction,main body and conclusion.The introduction part mainly defines the concept of hero on the basis of combing the evolution process of the concept of hero.It also sorts out the current academic research results of Liu Cixin’s science fiction,and then puts forward the research significance and research methods of this paper.The main body consists of three chapters:The first chapter is to sort out and explore the types of hero images in Liu Cixin’s science fiction.According to the difference of the purpose of heroic action,this paper divides the heroic images in Liu Cixin’s science fiction into four categories: The first category is the "paving" hero who explores technology.Such heroes in Liu Cixin’s science fiction are all scientific workers.They are conscientious in the field of scientific exploration,and selflessly dedicate all they have,including their lives,in order to transform the results of scientific exploration into technological applications for the benefit of mankind.The second category is the martyred hero who seeks the truth.Liu Cixin believes that the symbol of advanced civilization should be the pursuit of truth.In his science fiction,Liu Cixin has created a group of martyred heroes who pursued the truth.This group of martyred heroes who pursued the truth pursued the truth with no utilitarian heart,and never regretted their death.The third category is the saviour hero who saves the earth.Liu Cixin has written many doomsday disasters in his science fiction novels.When the earth’s civilization is in danger of extinction,the heroes who save the earth are bravely responsible for saving the world.And because the heroes who save the earth in Liu Cixin’s science fiction are faced with the extreme situation of the total extinction of human beings,while inheriting the traditional revolutionary hero’s spirit of sacrifice,they also show the cruel characteristics of properly abandoning human nature.The fourth category is the national hero who defends the family and the country.Liu Cixin’s science fiction has created some national heroes who resisted hegemony and fought for the country.The second chapter is to analyze the construction method of hero image in Liu Cixin’s science fiction.Compared with the construction of heroic images in traditional literature,the construction of heroic images in Liu Cixin’s science fiction has both similarities and uniqueness.The first is to replace the dualistic mode of good and evil in traditional literature with rational and irrational dualistic thinking mode.The heroes in Liu Cixin’s science fiction often seek for the happiness of the collective.The behavior of heroes who can lead their actions with rational thinking is not fully understood by the group.The attitude of the group led by irrational thinking to the hero is capricious and ungrateful,and the hero is sent to the altar and the altar by the group in an instant.Faced with such absurd fate,the heroes in Liu Cixin’s works not only did not feel sorry for themselves,nor did they blame the impermanence of the group,but still worked hard for the happiness of the group.Second,Liu Cixin enhanced the hero’s divinity with super technology.With an optimistic attitude towards technology,Liu Cixin enhances the hero’s abilities with various super-technologies.Again,the performance is the ordinary of writing heroes.The heroes of Liu Cixin’s science fiction are not perfect gods,they also have an ordinary side.Liu Cixin puts the heroes in daily situations,shows the ordinaryness of the heroes,writes about the hesitation and panic of the heroes in the face of major missions,and expresses the personal desires of the heroes,making the heroes in his works more real and palpable.Finally,Liu Cixin focused on reconstructing the sublime sense of heroes torn apart in this era.Liu Cixin’s heroic writing still presents a sublime aesthetic with a classical temperament.The heroes in his works are particularly small against the backdrop of the grand space and time,but they still show the greatness of the individual life force.Liu Cixin expresses the loftiness of the heroes in his works by way of heroic fighting the weak against the strong and offering sacrifices.The third chapter is to sort out and discuss the connotation of hero writing in Liu Cixin’s science fiction.First of all,the heroism in Liu Cixin’s science fiction is not the individual heroism of Hollywood movies,but the heroism with the spirit of collectivism as the core.Secondly,under the leadership of the idea of a community with a shared future for the universe,Liu Cixin’s heroic writing in science fiction breaks through the limitations of traditional literary heroic writing.The heroes in his works can be cross-ethnic,cross-species and even cross-planet,and truly represent the overall interests of the universe.hero.Thirdly,the heroes in Liu Cixin’s science fiction novels are always in a kind of survival-moral predicament.Taking survival as the first criterion and properly abandoning the love of human nature is particularly cruel.Behind this seemingly cruel heroic image is Liu Cixin’s reflection on traditional morality,that is,the question of whether the existing human moral standards are applicable in the unknown universe.Liu Cixin boldly established the dark forest law for the universe.Under the operation of this law,survival is the first priority,so the heroes under this law may need to make choices that sacrifice humanity.Finally,the heroic writing in Liu Cixin’s science fiction is also a reflection of his brutal struggle for survival.The conclusion part is based on the full text,and further evaluates and summarizes the heroic writing in Liu Cixin’s science fiction,and sorts out Liu Cixin’s concept of heroes.