As Yu Dafu's masterpiece, the spirit of sinking embodied in the protagonist of Sinking embodies the deep anxiety of a generation of intellectuals about poor and weak countries after the May 4th Movement and the bold exposure of their complaints against cruel reality.
It can be said that the spirit of sinking embodied in the protagonist of Sinking is not only the performance of an individual youth, but also a mental state of the whole nation under the domestic crisis at that time. This view is obtained through the analysis of the heroic image created by Yu Dafu in the text.
The author himself once said: My depression is also for the country and society. Therefore, it is reasonable to regard the sinking spirit in this article as a description of the mental state of the whole nation at that time.
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For the meaning of the protagonist's sinking spirit, we can analyze it from many angles:
1. Judging from the hero's image and personality, the hero in Sink is undoubtedly in the stage of character building. The protagonist has spent more than ten years in a small study in the traditional cultural pattern of China, which determines the basis of his character building. The self-cultivation concept and moral constraints of Confucian traditional culture make his individual consciousness tend to weaken.
This made him afraid to disclose his emotional and social habits in front of the opposite sex he admired, and adopted the traditional empathy mode of using emotional landscape to avoid dispelling instinct.
Our nation has always accepted heroic culture. Under the influence of Confucian culture, we were overwhelmed by the sudden changes after opening the country. On the one hand, we seem to be persistently resisting the temptation of decadent ideas from outside with our own orthodox culture for thousands of years, but on the other hand, our physical and psychological instincts want to accept and learn.
We can see that everything we have treated foreign countries since modern times, including objects and concepts, is also manifested by our nation in this special historical period. We have been constantly resisting and turned into a helpless struggle after failure.
2. Secondly, in the process of shaping the protagonist, Yu Dafu intentionally highlights the awakening of the protagonist's subject consciousness and produces a sense of crisis about life consciousness.
Sinking arouses people's attention to the awakened self and re-examines the life ontology on which it depends. At the same time, the painful and tragic ending experienced by the protagonist in the process of trying to shape and perfect his personality also prompted the young intellectuals at that time to have a great sense of crisis in the process of trying to affirm and publicize their self-awareness.
In the face of increasingly intensified social contradictions and complex political turmoil, young intellectuals can't find a way out, can't see the direction clearly, get lost in progress, fall into depression in resistance, and are depressed, sentimental, melancholy and decadent in thought. In fact, this was a common social problem at that time, and it was a common thought and emotion of intellectuals.
This depression is a depression of the times, and this decadence has also left a deep imprint of the times. Finally, the author's description of the protagonist expresses the double sadness and disappointment of the author and the protagonist. Comparing the protagonist with Yu Dafu himself, we will find that they have many similarities.
Baidu Encyclopedia-"Sinking"