Analysis of the Life Consciousness in Mo Yan's Frog

Abstract

Throughout Mo Yan's works most of his creations have not left two basic points: the first is the homeland complex rooted in his spiritual home, and the second is the reflection on life rooted in the depth of his soul. Frog continues Mo Yan's stylized background and theme, this work takes his literary homeland, the northeastern countryside of Gaomi, as the entry point, selects family planning, a far-reaching and controversial fertility system in China, to ask questions about life. Fertility and procreation, how solemn and how secular, how serious and how absurd? In this picture of national fertility, in which the great and the trivial coexist, the sublime and the humble coexist; the life consciousness expressed is equally thought-provoking. This paper will analyze the life consciousness in the work from four aspects: life worship under the folk position, life paradox under the political command, life alienation in the materialistic society, and life redemption under Self-repentance.