On Mao Dun's Thought and Artistic Features of Midnight.

The ideological connotation of Midnight is that Wu Sunfu, a national capitalist, painstakingly managed the industry, but was finally reluctantly annexed by Zhao, who represented the comprador class, which strongly refuted the fallacy that China was in a capitalist society at that time and had an independent capitalist production relationship.

Artistic feature

1. The social life summarized in the theme of "Midnight" is complicated, and events are like waves, one after another; Scenes are like chains, crossing each other; Characters are like stars, flickering and fleeting, but the overall situation of the characters is unfolding in an orderly way without confusion. The cobweb-like dense structure of Midnight shows the complex content of social changes. This huge structure shows a variety of ways to organize people and things and a variety of narrative angles, which is enough to prove Mao Dun's rich creative experience and ability to control materials.

As can be seen from Mao Dun's works, he paid full attention to the complexity of life, especially the complexity of people and their relationships. He made repeated investigations and studies in the process of conceiving and collecting Midnight, so he knew the situation of industry and finance like the back of his hand. Therefore, "Midnight" can truly and meticulously reproduce life with vivid images, ranking first among similar works.

2. Plot structure Mao Dun handled the plot structure of Midnight quite successfully. All the clues go hand in hand, the center is prominent, and they are relatively independent and intertwined, so that the life content and many people and things are organically combined into an artistic whole, like a criss-crossing and seamless building complex.

3. The characterization in Midnight is mainly the characterization of "typical characters" in "typical environment". In the characterization, Mao Dun paid attention not to the characters' personality, fate and mental state, but to the characteristics of the times they embodied, the branding of the characters by the times, class and political and ideological struggles, and the social ideology they lived in. The characters in his works are "representatives of certain classes and tendencies, so they are also representatives of some thoughts of their time." This strong color of the times and distinct ideology are the fundamental principles of Mao Dun's characterization.

Midnight caused a sensation as soon as it was published, because it successfully portrayed Wu Sunfu, a typical national capitalist who had never been portrayed in the history of China literature, and centered on him, it illuminated the whole social life of Shanghai in the 1930s, and illuminated the thoughts, personalities, psychology and destiny of all social classes and people living here, as well as their entanglements with history.

The characters created by Mao Dun are not only the representatives of the times, classes and certain ideological tendencies, but also some individuals. Zhao, Jing and other figures in his works are immortal artistic models. In them, they have a strong and heavy flavor of the times and their own distinctive personality, forming an independent and complete art world.

4. Truth standard Mao Dun is obsessed with real life and devoted to the truth of art. In his literary works, "truth" is always his standard. He strongly advocated and advocated naturalism, and held sincere enthusiasm for defending realism close to it. He tried his best to avoid the common fault of the left-leaning mechanism in the literary world at that time. What Mao Dun is most concerned about is his true feelings about life. In his view, a full life is more important than correct concepts and skilled technology.

5. China's epic novels have been deeply influenced and infiltrated by the tradition of "historical biography" and "poetic coquettish". Mao Dun's Midnight is still in the framework of the interaction between these two traditions. On the one hand, Mao Dun provided a vivid historical picture for the ideological view of history, profoundly explained the reality of domestic economic struggle and class struggle in the 1930s, and reached a historical conclusion in line with proletarian ideology. On the other hand, Mao Dun has not forgotten the role of "poetry". He weaves personal and emotional historical experience into the shaping of specific characters, and puts humanistic reflection and humanitarian criticism in his works. Epic realism creation has a larger scale and momentum, reflecting a broader and more complex social outlook in a historical period, and thus can better express the essential characteristics of this era.