巴金筆下的“死亡”——以『家』為例

초록

Ba Jin's masterpiece “The Family” describes the changing characteristics in the Chinese family culture in the modern transitional period through the process of the Gao family’s decline, a large family building of the Gentlemen, as reflecting the modern Chinese intellectuals’ traditions from the family’s window. The spirit of reflection and criticism of the ethical conception reveal the irrationality of the patriarchal feudal clan system, the inevitable fate of the collapse, and disintegration of such a system. Its conspicuous characteristics are shown in the “family novel”. The death of the main character is an important narrative strategy adopted by the author to highlight the theme of the work. According to the identity of the characters and the relevance to the theme of the works, “The Family” can be divided into “parent's death” and “female character's death”. The two groups of people have different causes and methods to the death, and the author’s emotional tendency shows in the narrative process of the groups’ death events as forming a sharp contrast. The parents in the family, Gao Laoye, clearly demonstrated the personality characteristics of the patriarchal feudal family. He died in a furious manner. This way of death highlights the dictatorial and tyrant's general character. “The Family” also describes the death of three female characters. Their deaths are much more tragic than the deaths of male characters, all of which are typical abnormal deaths. The character of forbearance and obedience is an important reason for pushing them to death. Ba Jin has a deep and sad feeling for the death of these female characters, which is in sharp contrast with the emotional tendency reflected in the description of the parents' death, which more vividly reflects the purpose of this work to criticize the traditional family culture.

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