Abstract
The "world of Lu Town" in Lu Xun's"New Year Sacrifice"is a caricature of early twentieth-century Chinese society. It is a stable social structure centering on the charisma of Master Lu the Fourth, a member of the gentry in Lu Town. The narrator "I" and Sister Xianglin are marginal people, or "superfluous individuals" in the mainstream society. The encounter of the two discloses a serious dilemma. Sister Xianglin's doubts about the existence of soul and Hell are serious mental tortures that reflect the inner anxiety of the narrator "I" as a modern intellectual. Sister Xianglin and "I" are mirrors of each other, highlighting the confusion and powerlessness of modern intellectual rationality on the issue of soul.
First Page
46
Last Page
55
Recommended Citation
Zhang, Hong. 2019. ""Sister Xianglin's Doubts": The Situation and Dilemma of Soul in Luxun's Short Story "New Year Sacrifice"." Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art 39, (6): pp.46-55. https://tsla.researchcommons.org/journal/vol39/iss6/1
