A Carefully Woven Rough Garland: On the Ring Structure of the Novel “Loading Taiwan”
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- 10.2991/assehr.k.211120.118How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- “Loading Taiwan”; Ring structure; Fate
- Abstract
The main plot, setting of scenes, layout of articles and relationship of characters in the novel “Loading Taiwan” all show a form of repetition, echo and symmetry, forming an open ring structure. The life track of the main characters in the novel is almost a ring, and they return to the origin of life after experiencing vicissitudes. A very obvious point is that the ants appearing constantly in novels have almost become the metaphor of the fate of “Taiwanese”, and their fate and their helpless outlook on life are constantly recurring with the linear disappearance of time. “Theater”, “home” and “hospital” have become the most important living spaces for Taiwanese, they represent three different life scenes, but they are all led by the line of “bottom”, so that they can only cycle in the time and space of life, but cannot surpass it. On the overall layout, the prose part and the drama part of the novel form an intertextuality relationship, which is not only a semantic symmetrical structure, but also a relationship of mutual explanation, supplement and overflow. For the main characters in the novel, Shunzi, Chrysanthemum, Han Mei and Cai Sufen, especially Shunzi, they have repeatedly made the same mistakes in their lives. In this way, the family can’t deal with their complicated family relations all the time, and finally they have to go back to another “starting point” of their own life to start over. In this kind of involuntary reappearance, the “Taiwanese” in the novel “Taiwanese” almost regards life as his own belief, repeating and reincarnation, but does not question or deny its rationality, Therefore, the narrative of the novel suffering can still be found to be full of freshness and bright colors of life. To some extent, the life of “Taiwanese” itself is a flowing “ring structure”.
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- © 2021 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.
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- This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license.
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Yan Mengjing PY - 2021 DA - 2021/11/29 TI - A Carefully Woven Rough Garland: On the Ring Structure of the Novel “Loading Taiwan” BT - Proceedings of the 2021 3rd International Conference on Literature, Art and Human Development (ICLAHD 2021) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 638 EP - 641 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.211120.118 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.211120.118 ID - Mengjing2021 ER -