The relationship between the revenge motif and the affection in the
Jinyong's novels can fall into four categories. First,
because affection is rejected, the
subjective turns to abnormal revenge. Second, the subjective gets his revenge by taking the advantage of the affection. Third, the affection reduces the revenge. Fourth, the subjective takes his revenge for the affection. The abnormal revenge when the love is rejected shows the effect of environment on the character.Taking the advantage of affection for revenge, reducing the revenge by the affection and revenging for the affection respectively embody the relationship between the affection and the human nature.The interplay between the revenge and the affection shows the experience of the individual being,that is,Jinyong's knight-errant literacy aesthetic idea of describing human and describing human nature which is always stressed by Jinyong. In the course of conformity, Jinyong's breakthrough in the pattern of the traditional knight-errant novels lies in that
Jinyong's novels have made a modernized trans formation of knight-errant novels through anti-knight-errant spirit,in this way looking for the human enlightening significance and cultural reflective value implied in the novels.