On the Identity Confusion and Role Identification of Lu Xun

Lu Xun is both master of learning and an intellectual characterized respectively by serenity and passion.The diverse states of mind—solemnity in scholarism and passion in criticism—are virtually revelatory of the conflict between profession and undertaking in Lu Xun.As for Lu Xun,it is hard choice to make between scholarism and literary criticism,quite similar to the case of a man taking two roads of opposite directions.Despite his hesitations and indecisions,Lu Xun has finally opted to take up criticism,thereby participating in social affairs and picturing society by his pen.