The Study On The Ethical Narrative Of Gu Hua’s Novels

Gu Hua won the first Mao Dun Literature Award for her novel " A Small Town Called Hibiscus",becoming a local writer that cannot be ignored in the literary world of the new era.For a long time,identifying Gu Hua as vernacular literature and introspection literature writers has almost become the definitive review of literary history.Most studies of Gu Hua also tend to focus on "A Small Town Called Hibiscus",which won the Mao Dun Literature Award,and the exploration of other works and other perspectives is far from enough.Gu Hua is a dedicated singer of the mountain people in the southern Hunan mountainous region.His thirty years of rural life experience and love for the rugged,hardworking,and unique style of the mountain people have made his writing focus on describing the hardships,joys,sorrows,and joys of the mountain people,focusing on the most authentic living conditions of people in rural society during a specific historical period,and describing their physical and spiritual difficulties with compassion.Gu Hua rigorously and deeply analyzes the hidden world and cruel and absurd social life deep in the soul of the characters,writes scenes of life tragedies,and profoundly criticizes unreasonable history and culture through the fate of the characters.In his novels,there are many rural ethical relationships in the entanglement of the fate of the characters,presenting a fierce conflict between traditional ethics and modern civilization during the period of ethical change."Ethical narration" is one of the hidden cores in his writing.This article takes the novels of Gu Hua in the new era as the research object,and attempts to introduce theories such as narratology,ethics,and feminist criticism.On the basis of careful reading of the text,it makes a systematic analysis of the ethical narrative in Gu Hua’s novels,with a view to exploring the ethical narrative landscape in Gu Hua’s novels and the ethical value orientation embodied in Gu Hua’s novels.This article is divided into three parts: introduction,text,and conclusion.The first part is an introduction,which mainly introduces the creation of ancient Chinese novels,the origin of research,the status quo of research at home and abroad,and the definition of the core concepts of this article.The second part is the three chapters of the text,which discusses the ethical narrative in Gu Hua’s novels from three dimensions: female ethical narrative,family ethical narrative,and survival ethical narrative.The first chapter discusses the narrative of female ethics in Gu Hua’s novels.Through a series of life experiences of rural women described by Gu Hua,this article analyzes the ethical conflicts they face,and examines the changes in rural women’s ethical concepts.This chapter highlights Gu Hua’s deep concern for the fate of rural women from two aspects: female bioethical narration and female caring ethical narration,explores women’s struggle and self redemption in ethical dilemmas,and demonstrates rural women’s spiritual changes from tradition to modernity,as well as their ethical aspirations to pursue gender equality and women’s liberation.The second chapter analyzes the narrative of family ethics in Gu Hua’s novels.Gu Hua’s local novels deeply express the conflict between traditional family ethics and modern spiritual civilization during the period of ethical change,and show the beginning of disorder of family ethics.Through an examination of the changes in the father–child relationship and marriage relationship in Gu Hua’s novels about family ethics,this chapter deeply analyzes the family that has been shrouded in the extreme "left" trend of thought and feudal residual forces for nearly three decades.In the face of human nature and the wave of reform,this chapter explores Gu Hua’s thoughts on traditional family ethics,and then observes the development and changes of the times.The third chapter studies the narrative of survival ethics in Gu Hua’s novels.Gu Hua pays attention to the most authentic living conditions of people in rural society,describes their physical and spiritual dilemmas in special times,as well as the alienation of human nature,and writes about the struggle and resistance of human nature in suffering,thereby more forcefully deconstructing abnormal political ethics,excavating Gu Hua’s profound social,historical,and cultural critical spirit,as well as the ethical value orientation of rebuilding a beautiful human nature.The third part is the conclusion,which takes a holistic view of the ethical narrative in Gu Hua’s novels and explores the value and limitations of ethical narrative in Gu Hua’s novels.