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SHS Web Conf.
Volume 199, 2024
2024 International Conference on Language Research and Communication (ICLRC 2024)
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Article Number | 04022 | |
Number of page(s) | 7 | |
Section | Literature and Culture | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/shsconf/202419904022 | |
Published online | 23 October 2024 |
Similarities and Differences in Revenge - A Comparison between Lu Xun's Forging the Swords and Wang Zengqi's Revenge
Literature Department, Shanghai Theatre Academy, Shanghai, 200040, China
* Corresponding author: hanwen@ldy.edu.rs
In the history of Chinese new literature, the theme of revenge has rich artistic expression. In Lu Xun's “Cast Sword”, the revenge between the ruler between the eyebrows and the “black man” Yan Zhiao shows the glory of the avenger's humanity, and also expresses the doubt about the meaning of the act of “revenge” itself. Wang Zengqi's Revenge, on the other hand, reveals the struggle and relief in the psychology of revenge by constructing a symbolic revenge scene. This study takes Lu Xun's Forging the Swords and Wang Zengqi's Revenge as examples to compare the difference of the action of “revenge” in the two works. Lu Xun's Forging the Swords and Wang Zengqi's Revenge are two revenge-themed novels, which are based on the same revenge story, but show different forms in characterisation and story ending. Both of them also show the characters' revenge and resistance to revenge, and the incompleteness of revenge, so as to deconstruct the revenge. This difference and similarity is caused by the writers' personal experience, social and period background, and is a reflection of the influence of a specific period on the aesthetic value orientation.
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