Going on Without Hope—Lu Xun’s Perception and Struggle to Nihility in Wild Grass
- DOI
- 10.2991/assehr.k.210519.002How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Lu Xun, Wild Grass, nihility, life
- Abstract
Wild Grass was born in the period of political turmoil and Lu Xun’s family misfortune. The recurring word “nihility” in the book makes people speculate about its deep meaning. In fact, through the “nihility”, mental state of Lu Xun can also be glimpsed. Based on the background of the birth of Wild Grass, this paper makes a deep analysis through the text, Lu Xun’s revolutionary ideals and practical experience to discover his active pursuit of the meaning of life. Even though he perceived nihility, he still put the national spiritual state and the revolutionary ideal above himself. Even though he had given up the pursuit of hope, he had never stopped moving towards the future that no one knew whether it would be dark or bright. It can be concluded that going on without hope could be Lu Xun’s most obstinate way of struggling to nihility.
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- © 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Yuxuan Liu PY - 2021 DA - 2021/05/20 TI - Going on Without Hope—Lu Xun’s Perception and Struggle to Nihility in Wild Grass BT - Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Humanities and Social Science Research (ICHSSR 2021) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 6 EP - 9 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210519.002 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.210519.002 ID - Liu2021 ER -