Mihail Sholokhov's Writing Characteristics

Sholokhov's narrative language is full of various dialect words. Whether it is the language of his main characters or his own narrative language, he often quotes representative words or proverbs popular among Cossacks: "Scud gallops away", "trench with seven twists and turns", "loose black land in the Pentagon" and "across the road"-such expressions always appear in novels. Sholokhov also created his own analogy and metaphor in this way. For example, "when a knife goes down, the cut branch falls to one side, but the branch does not move." The sharp tip of the Cossack saber poked into the sandbag next to the wheat orange and was pulled out. Simigra Zuo Fu, a handsome man who looks a bit like a Carmaker, was stabbed in this way. He put his hands on his cut chest, fell off the whip and fell under the upright horse. "

He introduced a large number of historical documents into his novels and made military and historical comments on events, which constituted the new characteristics of Chinese in his works. Because of the different languages of the main characters, the narrative language of the author is also very vivid, and the language of the works becomes rich and colorful. Sometimes the author's language and the main characters' language interweave into colorful pictures. Sometimes, there is another wonderful lyric; Sometimes, the bold use of literary language completely constitutes the complexity and diversity of narrative language. This is consistent with the complexity and diversity of the materials provided by the novel and its profound ideological content.

The essential feature of sholokhov's creation is "harsh truth". All the creative activities of a writer, in his own words, are "talking frankly with readers and telling people that sometimes it is severe, but it is always brave and true". The difference between sholokhov and other writers lies in his "literal truth", as Fei Ding said: "sholokhov's great achievements are manifested in his courage in his works. No matter what era he reflects, he does not shy away from the inherent contradictions in life. His book gives a comprehensive description of the struggle between the past and rule. This reminds me of lev tolstoy's promise to himself when he was young: not only not to lie directly, but also not to lie passively by avoiding conversation. Sholokhov never shy away from talking about it. He wrote down the whole truth. He never turned tragedy into drama, nor did he regard writing drama as a fascinating pastime. He doesn't hide the tragic scene in a comforting bunch of wild flowers, but the real power is so powerful that no matter how terrible the pain of life is, it will be overwhelmed and conquered by the strong will to be happy, the desire to get happiness and the joy after winning happiness. " The life of Cossack farmers along the Don River is the source of sholokhov's creation. Choosing rural themes and describing farmers' lives is a major feature of sholokhov's creation. The writer takes the Don grassland as the background and Cossack farmers as the description object, showing their fiery passion under the cover of rough appearance and shaping a group of "strong personalities". For the first time, he really pushed the peasants to the center of the historical stage. Cossack farmers in his works are not only active creators of history, but also transform themselves in the process of creating history. Sholokhov was not the first writer to introduce farmers into literature, and had already formed the tradition of farmers' theme before him. From the 1930s to the early 20th century, the theme of peasants occupied a large proportion in Russian literature. Turgenev expressed the wisdom and spiritual beauty of Russian farmers with sincere and poetic brushwork. Tolstoy had a special interest in peasant themes and peasant life. He pinned his ideal of male-dominated social life on the description of farmers. In 1970s, a group of populist writers made a unique contribution to the development of Russian literature, which was prominently reflected in the description of farmers' life. They went deep into the countryside, but due to ideological limitations, they could not describe farmers comprehensively and fairly. They think that farmers are a special kind of people. Farmers are described as "out-and-out drunkards", "stubborn people" and "saints" whose mission is to save the world.

He is good at depicting characters profoundly and in many ways, describing dialogues vividly and describing the magnificent natural scenery of the Don River basin in detail. These characteristics are also perfectly expressed in the novel The Silent Don.

Sholokhov never followed the formula of positive and negative characters when writing characters, and never used a single color to describe characters. When he showed the merits and noble qualities of some outstanding elements in the new society, he did not obliterate their shortcomings, mistakes and many weaknesses as human beings. For example, he described Ponsuke's weakness in the face of the cruelty of class struggle; Cosette's timidity in Fight to the Death; Peter Tyrkov's cruelty in killing prisoners of war; Davydov's vulgarity in love; Razmi push rove emotionally unable to get rid of this lingering. He never portrayed party member and revolutionaries as perfect people who are always right and omnipotent, but presented them to readers as living souls of real people. When describing class enemies, sholokhov did not ignore the facts. He not only showed the moral degeneration of the reactionary forces and the process of their elimination, but also showed some temporary successes in their sabotage activities, such as Rukic, Novo of Ostroff, Rovtsev and others who provoked the relationship between the Party and Cossacks and undermined the success of the agricultural cooperative movement. Sholokhov objected to using cartoon techniques to describe the enemy. He does not rule out that some of them also have natural behaviors, feelings and attachments, but he shows readers the abnormal and cruel feelings and moral depravity of enemies who transcend natural humanity. When talking about how Soviet literature should express the enemy, sholokhov said: "Literature must tell our friends and enemies without concealment." He believes: "We always describe the enemy in a slogan and simplified way, which can only disarm the readers." Therefore, in sholokhov's works, the characters in the hostile camp have their own unique characteristics in opposing the revolution and the people, which is consistent with his social status and cultural upbringing. Sholokhov has a special preference for tragic themes. He wrote the tragedy of the socialist era with great courage and boldness. His whole creation focuses on discovering and conveying the tragic content of the times and society, and few of his characters are not tragic endings. It can be said that he pursued the truth in the form of tragedy. Realism requires writers to describe life truly. Authenticity is a characteristic of realistic writers, but even in the aspect of reflecting reality truly, different writers have different characteristics. As a realistic writer, sholokhov's "writing the truth" has his own personality, that is, putting the truth in tragedy and summarizing the truth in the form of tragedy. In Silent Tang, the writer combines the harshness of life with the tragedy of the characters, and reveals the power of "strong personality" through Gregory's tragic fate. Gregory's tragedy is neither a tragedy of character nor a tragedy of fate, but a fierce conflict between social change and personality. Gregory, as a writer's favorite hero, is endowed with excellent qualities such as hard work and integrity. His charm is that no matter how cruel his life is, how tortuous his road is, and how bumpy his fate is, he has maintained a complete personality from beginning to end and has been wandering in the whirlpool of social struggle, actively seeking his own ideals. The pursuit of Cossack's truth is a prominent feature of his character. What he pursues is an upright life and the right to live.

Sholokhov described the civil war brilliantly through vivid stories, and made a clear distinction between the enemy and the enemy like plough marks. The child killed his father (melon farmer and food Commissioner), and the father killed his beloved son (birthmark and married man), and a new life was born in a bloody and cruel battle. In the severe struggle, sholokhov saw people's good character and showed party member who aroused people's good character. His novels are full of confidence in people and show their lofty spirit in a difficult environment. These works show the author's insight and ability to choose typical features, but they also have some naturalistic colors and abuse of dialects.

Sholokhov is a strict realistic writer. Starting from life, he respects the truth of life and opposes violating the truth of life. The historical events represented in his works and the geographical environment and historical atmosphere in which these events unfolded have strict basis. When writing Quiet Don River, he traveled all over the villages and towns along the Don River, collecting folk songs and legends, and consulting materials in major libraries. He visited the battlefield on the spot. He respected the truth of history and bravely exposed the truth of historical events. He explained the causes of the Don River riots in 19 19 from an artistic point of view, pointing out that it was caused by the "Left" inclination of the Soviet regime and the violation of law and discipline by some people in the Red Army. Because of this, the publication of the third novel was blocked, and some leaders of Lapp accused the writer of defending the riots, even saying that he was counter-revolutionary. However, the writer did not give in, but insisted on his own position and showed a serious attitude of respecting historical truth. Sholokhov pursues the perfect unity of life truth and artistic truth, which is also reflected in characterization. For example, it is an acknowledged fact that Gregory's return to his native land is a clever stroke for the writer to follow the principle of realism. Another example is Leah's suicide, which does not mean that the character's personality development is interrupted. On the contrary, it is the culmination of personality development. Her confession is the recovery of human nature. In her confession, we saw the humanity of this unrestrained poisonous woman, and the confession before Shen Jiang also showed the complexity of this character.