What are the narrative features of the novel?

The value essence of the novel takes time as the sequence and one or several characters as the main line, which reflects the process of the emergence, development and disappearance of the value relations (political relations, economic relations and cultural relations) of various roles in social life in a very detailed and comprehensive way. Show the interaction of various value relationships in a very detailed and comprehensive way.

capacity

Compared with other literary styles, the novel has a large capacity, which can show the characters' character and destiny in detail, show the intricate contradictions and conflicts, and describe the social life environment in which the characters live. The advantage is that it can provide a complete and broad social life.

plot

The novel mainly shows the character and performance center through stories. The story comes from life, but after sorting, refining and arranging, it is more concentrated, complete and representative than the real cases in real life.

Environmental nature

The description of the environment and the characterization of the novel have an extremely important relationship with the central idea. In the description of environment, social environment is the key point, which reveals all kinds of complex social relations, such as identity, status, historical background of growth and so on. The natural environment includes the place, time, season, climate, scenery and scenes of people's activities, which are used to express the identity and status of people. The description of natural environment plays an important role in expressing characters' emotions and rendering the environmental atmosphere.

expansibility

Novels develop with the development of the times: in the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, literati note novels were the embryonic form of China's ancient novels; The emergence of Tang legends, especially the three love legends, marks the formal formation of classical novels; During the Song and Yuan Dynasties, with the development of commodity economy and market culture, vernacular novels appeared, which laid a solid foundation for the maturity of novels. Novels in Ming and Qing Dynasties are the pinnacle of the development of China's ancient novels. No one surpassed them at that time, and the four classical novels all originated from this.

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