Content overview
The novel collection "scream" contains 14 novels, including "Madman's diary", "Kong
Yiji", "medicine", "the true story of Ah Q" and "Hometown", reflecting the face of
ancient rural areas and towns in China from around the revolution of 1911 to the
"May 4th" period; It describes the social reality of China from around the revolution
of 1911 to the "May 4th" period, summarizes the historical experience and lessons of
the revolution of 1911, profoundly exposes the cannibalism and hypocrisy of the
feudal patriarchal system and feudal ethics, painfully dissects the soul of China's
silent people, and criticizes the inferiority of the people.
⑴ the diary of a madman tells the story of a "madman" in the first person. He is
afraid of everyone's eyes and always feels that people want to harm him and eat him.
The doctor treated him and told him to "rest". He thought it was to make him fat and
eat more meat. He remembered that his eldest brother had told him about "eating
for a change of son" and "eating meat for sleeping". Then he remembered that when
his "sister" died, his eldest brother advised his mother not to cry, and he thought
that her sister had been eaten by his eldest brother. The more the "madman"
resisted "cannibalism", the more he was regarded as a "madman". When he was
completely disappointed in transforming his surrounding environment, he also
"recovered" and went to some place to become an alternate official. The "madman"
in the novel is actually an awakened intellectual image. He is surrounded by people
whose souls have been eroded by feudal ethics, and what he fears and resists is the
practice of eating people in feudal tradition.
(2) "Kong Yiji" tells the tragic experience of a scholar who was not admitted to the
scholar. Kong Yiji, the protagonist, is a kind-hearted man, but under the poison of
the imperial examination system, he has nothing to do except "too much", and is
down and out, which has become a source of ridicule for people. Forced by life, he
occasionally did some petty theft. Finally, he was broken his leg and died silently
under the torture of life. Through the vivid description of the characters' characters
and experiences, the novel exposes the corruption of the feudal imperial examination
system and castigates the damage of feudal education to the minds of intellectuals.
(3) medicine represents a major and thought-provoking theme in modern history.
The work describes the story that Hua laoshuan used the blood of revolutionary Xia
Yu killed by the ruler to dip it into "human blood steamed bread" to treat his son. A
revolutionary sacrificed generously for the liberation of the people, but his blood was
used by the people as a panacea for curing diseases. This strong contrast effectively
reveals the serious gap between the old democratic revolution and the people, and
exposes the numbness and ignorance caused by the long-term feudal rule to the
people. (4) in tomorrow, sister-in-law Shan Si's son bao'er got sick, and sister-in-law
Shan Si sought medical treatment for him everywhere, hoping that "tomorrow"
bao'er's illness would recover. But "tomorrow" came, and the disease ruthlessly took
bao'er's life. What tomorrow is, hope or despair, Mrs. Shan Si doesn't know, but the
loneliness and pain after losing bao'er are real. (5) "I", the protagonist of "a little
thing", is an intellectual with progressive tendency during the May 4th movement.
Although he cannot be judged as a revolutionary, he does have many characteristics
that reflect the ideological emotions of revolutionary democrats: he cares about the
future of the motherland and the fate of the nation, hates the reactionary rule of the
northern warlords, and especially hates the rotten way of Confucius and Mencius.
But he also has some weaknesses, and he still lacks a deep understanding and
correct judgment of the working people. However, what the coachman did shocked
him greatly. "I" found "I" as the "small" of intellectuals in self-examination, selfexamination and self soul torture. (6) "the story of hair" tells a series of experiences
after the protagonist Mr. n cuts off his pigtails. Mr. n is a man with consciousness
and ideals. He cut off his pigtails because he felt inconvenient, but was despised and
disgusted by people around him. Therefore, he felt deeply that China is conservative
and stubborn - "when the whip of creation does not reach the backbone of China,
China will always be such a China, and he will never change a hair by himself." (7)
"disturbance" describes the disturbance of the thought of the village people caused
by the change of the emperor in the imperial court. It reveals that the rural people,
that is, the Chinese people who were devastated by feudal thought, were content
with the status quo, did not care about the world, did not have the idea of saving
their own destiny, and did not have the understanding of human value. (8)
hometown describes what Lu Xun saw and heard when he returned to his hometown
where he had been away for seven or eight years despite the severe cold, which
deeply exposes the damage caused by the feudal hierarchy to people's hearts. The
daily bankruptcy of rural China in the 1920s was vividly reflected in this initial
impression. But what impresses "me" most is the "separation" between people, the
alienation of soul and the destruction of soul generated in this life background. (9)
the true story of Ah Q, Ah Q, whose name and place of origin are unknown, lives on
a day job. Ah Q has self-esteem and low self-esteem. He doesn't worship Lord Zhao
and Lord Qian, who are respected by residents. He either wants to be "rich before"
or "his son will be much richer". He can always win mentally. He was beaten by
Wang Hu and beaten by "fake foreign devils". He forgot when he thought of "his son
beating Lao Tzu"; Flirting with the little nun will eliminate all bad luck. But this
aroused his desire. Although he strictly adhered to the "great defense between men
and women", he couldn't suppress his natural instinct. He shouted to Wu Ma, "I'm
sleepy with you", and was beaten by the scholar's big bamboo bar. Ah Q's love
dream was broken, and then his livelihood became a problem, so he decided to go to
the city. When he came back, he was in awe of the villagers for a while, but after
people inquired about the details, he was "at a respectful distance". Knowing that
the revolutionary party came to the village was originally "abhorrent", but seeing
that Ju Ren and the villagers were afraid of them, they were fascinated. However, ah
q never understood the revolution until he was arrested and killed. The regret before
death is that the circle of the painting is not round. The novel profoundly shows the
inferiority of the Chinese people formed under the suffocation of feudal culture, and
Ah Q is the concentrated expression of this weakness of national character. "Spiritual
victory method" is the main feature of ah Q. (10) Fang xuanchuo, the protagonist of
the Dragon Boat Festival, is a small official and concurrently a teacher. He also woke
up in his early years, but then he became depressed. He is more strict than blaming
others and more lenient than blaming himself. His thought has seriously declined,
and he likes the "spiritual victory method" of "almost speaking". (11) "white light" is
a novel about declining old-fashioned intellectuals. Chen Shicheng, the protagonist,
took the imperial examination for 16 times, but failed to get a scholar. Finally, he
became insane, and finally threw himself into the lake and ended his life. Lu Xun
exposed the essence of feudal imperial examination system and feudal education
through the description of this character, and completely denied the character itself.
(12) "rabbit and cat" describes a housewife, the third wife, who bought a pair of
white rabbits for her children in the summer. The novel unfolds a tortuous plot
around the emergence and disappearance of rabbits, expressing the author's
sympathy for the weak and hatred for those who bully the weak at will. ⒀ the
comedy of the duck is based on the life of Lu Xun when he lived with the Russian
blind poet eloxianke, showing the deep friendship between the two, which is also the
lyric of love. (14) three times of "I" watching the play described in "social drama". At
the beginning, "I" watched Beijing Opera twice in Beijing with nearly one-third of the
space, and then "I" went to Zhaozhuang to watch a social drama in my hometown
when I was a child with more than two-thirds of the space. Watching Beijing Opera
twice is full of money and bad mood, but watching social drama is interesting and
unforgettable forever. The three scenes take place in two places: urban and rural. It
is meaningful that the three plays are boring, and I didn't see anything in the three
plays. The "I" who watched the play quit halfway three times, but the author's mood
is quite the opposite. The narration of the two dramas in Beijing revealed a heavy
sense of depression. The emotional tone of the whole novel is the opposition
between the city and the countryside, which shows the author's sincere longing for
rural life and deep feelings for farmers.