A study of the protagonists in Ai Wei's novel An Everlasting Life

Abstract

This paper takes Xia Sheng, a male character in the novel " An Everlasting Life ", as the main body, and searches and analyzes relevant literature on websites such as CNKI and Wanfang. After combining the existing theoretical basis, it returns to the original text of the novel. It explores Xia Sheng's weak image formed by family difficulties, and further analyzes his character traits of forbearance and restraint. Based on this, combined with Xia Sheng's character. It further reveals the emotional and ethical entanglements of men in the real society and the marginalization of men in the family and society. In addition, the article also takes Teacher Qi, the mother, as the main female image, and conducts a detailed analysis of her selfish image in the novel. It also combines Teacher Qi's character as the basis, and through further analysis, it reveals the struggles faced by female characters in real society between their vocation and self-pursuit, as well as the complex situation of female characters under traditional social gender expectations, which also reflects the constraints of the current social gender structure on women's development.