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The Sinking of Sex, or the Sinking of the Nation?--Textual Analysis of The Sinking
Min Zhao
International Journal of Mathematics and Systems Science 2023, 6(4); https://doi.org/10.24294/ijmss.v6i4.3063
Submitted:20 Oct 2023
Accepted:20 Oct 2023
Published:10 Nov 2023
Abstract

Yu Dafu's The Sinking of the Nation tells the story of a young man whose sexual desire is unsatisfied, and the process of sinking until his death, which aptly expresses the uncertainty and helplessness of the youth of the May Fourth Movement, and highlights the individual's subjective consciousness. The article analyzes and explains from the background of the creation era, the creator and the text to show that the unsatisfied sexual desire is the key to lead the protagonist "he" to sink step by step, and then explains that the expression of the individual consciousness in "Sinking" is higher than the will of the state, and tries to restore the author's original intention to make a pluralistic supplement to the interpretation of "Sinking".

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