TITLE:
Corrosion and Struggle of the Soul in the Den of Monsters —Image of Zhao Huiming in the Novel Corrosion
AUTHORS:
Wenjing Lu
KEYWORDS:
Corrosion, Struggle of Soul, Tragedy of Dilemma, Head for Hope
JOURNAL NAME:
Advances in Literary Study,
Vol.6 No.4,
September
3,
2018
ABSTRACT: The novel Corrosion,
masterpiece of Mao Dun, accused the dark side of the society at that time. Zhao
Huiming, the leading role in the novel Corrosion,
was a young woman who was misguided first to be a spy and then hoped to break
away from the spy organization—“den of monsters”. The
novel revealed the corrosion of dark society to the youth by the record of the
inner struggle and the life of Zhao Huiming. The author tried to arouse the
sympathy and concern of people for the youth by the tragedy of the youth in
that era. The novel was tried to show that how the bad and repressive social
environment affects the growth of youth. The first and the most important thing
for the young people is to distinguish and choose the right road of growth.
Even if one is misguided to deviate the right road, he/she can still return to
the right direction by struggle and fight to the bad environment and evil
forces.