Abstract: This article explores, analyzes, interprets, and evaluates the content of thinking and writing art when constructing shapeless characters of Nam Cao. These characters are based on the author’s concept of human art in the context of the rural lives of Vietnam during the period of half-colonial and half-feudalism before 1945. Each shapeless character in the writer’s frame represents the Vietnamese farmers who struggled to live in their villages, the places full of injustice and perverseness. Their formal deformities, especially the difficult, dirt-poor life of characters such as Chi Pheo, Thi No, Trach Van Doanh, Truong Ru, Lang Ran… are all originated from social causes, not from their characteristics. To clarify the problem, the paper uses systematic methods, character analysis, historical researches, literature type comparisons. From the research results, the article affirms the value of the characters lies in the sincerity, originality as well as in the author's criticism, social denunciation in the spirit of humanity, for human beings.
Keywords: article explores, shapeless characters, character analysis, historical researches.
Title: THE IMAGE OF SHAPELESS CHARACTERS IN THE SHORT STORIES OF NAM CAO DURING THE PERIOD FROM 1940 – 1945
Author: Le Thi Thanh Dam
International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research
ISSN 2348-3156 (Print), ISSN 2348-3164 (online)
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