The theme of the Thunderstorm written by Cao Yu is human being s perplexity and struggle under the living circumstances, which is related with the writer s creating motivation and also the product of the writer s depression and frustration.

Desire,Struggle,Suffering an Explanation of Hardy s Novels;

Katherine Mansfield s short story The Fly and Virginia Woolf s essay The Death of the Moth both through the writer s self-symbol interpret the meaning of life and expound philo- sophically the relationship between life and death:that is,the essence of life lies exactly in the struggle and resis- tance against the strong destructive force.

This paper,through analyses of the characters and interpretation of the script,aims at exhibiting their struggles between illusion and reality as well as revealing their recognition of them,which reflect the nature of their personalities.