The Concept of “Screaming” in Lu Xun’s novels were derived from the origins of revolutionary spirit, female autonomy, and native belief. The external revolution had been deepened into the internal one, which carried out the spirit of the Enlightenment into female autonomy, and eventually found strength of purity and stability in the native belief. In Call to Arms (Na han) and Wandering (Pang huang), we can see that the category of “Moro Poet” had taken Lu Xun as its creative prototype, that is, the imperfect intellectuals, the roles of women endeavouring to survive, and some seemingly ordinary nobodies, etc. From the struggling hardships they encountered and from the real inner voices of the characters, we see that the concept of “screaming” can be interpreted as “to compromise between ideal and reality,” “to find truth of life in irony and sarcasm,” “to self-identify and explore the significance of being,” “to affirm human desires and awake to self-discipline,” and “to redeem beauty and confess to strive,” etc.
The characters in Call to Arms (Na han) and Wandering (Pang huang) often have sharp and distinct personalities which can be perceived from the descriptions of the relations between group and individual in the ongoing situations in the novels. These characters possess the poetic and vigorous styles of Wei and Jin dynasties, and they reveal unintentionally some rebellious complexes. All these happen to be the characteristics of Western expressionists. The plot and the lives of characters, arranged under the negative and tragic struggle and selection, seemed to point to an internal revolution in Lu’s mind, which had to be rooted in the land of truth and being, and be activated by the strength of inner stability or the combination of love and wisdom. After the individual enlightenment, one recognizes that happiness does not come in mere imagination. One has to seek a balance between ideal and reality, and he has to establish a bridge to communicate between and groups and the autistic self. The internal revolution has to be coordinated and synchronized with that of the external. This is the real and progressive purpose of life illustrated in the idea of “establishing oneself and helping others in establishment” in Lu Xun’s thoughts.