Cao Yu's Research On Small Figures

Cao Yu is a very important dramatist in the history of Chinese modern and contemporary literature.He has created a number of vivid characters in his masterpieces such as "Thunderstorm","Sunrise",and "The Wilderness".At the same time,Cao Yu is also a writer who pays much attention to "little people" in modern and contemporary Chinese literature.His care for small people and his emotions for small people are particularly evident in his masterpieces "Thunderstorm" and "Sunrise".Lu Gui,Li Shiqing,Cuixi and other characters in his works are all typical small characters.This article mainly takes "Thunderstorm" and "Sunrise" as examples to analyze the "little people" described by Cao Yu.In the drama.Cao Yu not only shows the miserable living conditions of the little people,but also exposes their repressed inner world.In the world described by Cao Yu,there is a game between "little people" and "big people",which is mainly manifested in the game between Lu Shiping and Zhou Puyuan,the game between Li Shiqing and Pan Yueting,and the game between Sifeng and Fanyi.Cao Yu's life experience enabled him to focus on the little people in life and pay attention to their living conditions.Cao Yu's years of literary accumulation deepened his understanding of the fate of the little people,all of which had a direct impact on Cao Yu's image of the little people.Cao Yu's concern for people and his thinking about people's destiny led him to form a dramatic view of "writing plays is for writing people".Although the little people are "small",they carry important social and literary values.On the one hand,the image of the petty person provides the author with new writing materials;on the other hand,the image of the petty person also arouses the reader's thinking and the awakening of the petty group.It is from these humble little people in society that we can see the era from certain small angles and sides;The writing of little people not only enriches the image of little people in literary history,but also provides a new dimension for the construction of the value system of literary history.Cao Yu's writing of small characters reveals that feudal ideology has harmed the minds of small characters.It also criticizes small characters to varying degrees,and it is a call for the beauty of humanity and human nature.