In the original work of "Human World", Zhou Rong gave people the overall feeling that she was not as selfish as in the TV series, but a woman with considerable talent, courage and strategy.
To say that she is selfish is probably these points:
1, regardless of the parents' feelings of running away from home.
2, throw your daughter to your mother's family and ignore it.
3. Let Zheng Juan become Zhou Nan and Feng Yue.
In fact, from the original work, we can see that the real Zhou Rong is not like this.
1. To parents and brothers:
From the memories of Zhou's father, the daughter is the most sensible, helping the family to do things from a young age, in a difficult period, lying that she is full, taking advantage of the family's lack of attention, to eat ice cubes, falling to the root of stomach disease.
In the Zhou family heirloom jade bracelet, she did not covet it, claiming that it was good to leave it to her brother and brother.
When she was in Guizhou, she worked hard, and when she had an income, she no longer let her family send her money.
During her brother's imprisonment, she and Zhou Bingyi have been burdening the lives of their brother's family.
She once thought that adding glory to her family was equivalent to filial piety to her parents. But then she realized that she was very wrong, but it was too late.
2. To the daughter:
The neglect of her daughter is also due to history and her professional growth.
The daughter was born in the cave, but she also tried her best to take care of it, and later she was able to return to the city, and she and Feng Huacheng were imprisoned because of the situation at that time, and the daughter had to be taken care of by her mother.
It was hard to survive that period of time, the college entrance examination was restored, that was her dream, she was admitted to Peking University, and later entered the graduate school, and when she continued to study for graduate school, she also hesitated to let her daughter take care of her mother is not filial piety, it is her brother who supports her to continue her studies.
After the relationship between the husband and wife had problems, she gave up her job and hukou in Beijing and returned to her hometown.
Later, she married Cai Xiaoguang, but by this time her daughter had already entered high school and fell in love with Zhou Nan, so she ran to France, and Zhou Rong stayed in France for her daughter for 12 years, during which she corrected her relationship with her daughter.
The estrangement from her daughter has a lot to do with that era, plus Zhou Rong's own strength, busy with her studies and career, and has not fully fulfilled her mother's responsibilities.
As for Zhou Rong's request in the play that Zheng Juan approves of her daughter's relationship with Zhou Nan, there is no such detail in the book. It is only to say that she has a new understanding of their relationship because of the influence of French culture and seeing the growth of her daughter and Zhou Nan.
From the above relationship between her and her family, it can be seen that she is not selfish, she is just too assertive and idealistic, which comes from the fact that she has read a lot of books since she was a child and has her own ideals very early.
So how did Zhou Rong's personality develop?
Zhou Zhigang is upright and kind, and will not teach selfish children. Zhou Bingyi and Zhou Rong were exposed to cultural literature earlier and richer, and they shaped their own values and ideals very early.
Zhou Bingyi has been fighting for this ideal all his life, but he knows the hidden edge. Zhou Rong, on the other hand, has a stronger sense of autonomy, is more assertive, analyzes problems thoroughly and wants to express them.
They don't look at problems from a personal point of view, or from a child's perspective, but more from a broader perspective. It is inevitable that when it comes to family and personal issues, they will act selfish. In the end, it is because of that special era.
Zhou Rong is talented and proud, and she has known since she was a child that she is different. As she herself said, "Who am I?" I am the goddess of the light character film, not the "goddess" in the movie "The Song girl of the end of the world", the goddess of Greek mythology, and your sister came to the world on a mission of salvation. I'm a god's whim game– Esmeralda's heartlessness and lungs are a little bit in me, Carmen's willfulness is a little bit in me, and Mathilde's rebellion is still a little bit on me. I also have Natasha's innocence, Qingwen's fierceness, Daiyu's solitary self-congratulatory melancholy, Baochao's yuantong... Oops, it's hard to say a word, in short, your sister is too complicated, then what to do, it is a disaster that you want to provoke! ”
She said she wanted to be a Chinese woman's Belinsky or Chernyshevsky.
Zhou Rong is rebellious from the bone, and if an era makes her feel depressed, her performance will never be gradually adapted. A short period of obedience she can do, and as time goes on, she begins to show a strong rebellious character. If the repression and blows she suffers are callous, then she will fight stoically to the end.
Her yearning for freedom is like a bee and a butterfly born looking for nectar and pollen. She was infected with the idea of "not being free, rather than dying" from books.
She said: "It's not something I want to do, it's just not right to force me." ”
Zhou Rong was particularly disgusted by the attitude towards women in Chinese novels. She once said to Hao Dongmei: "In the pen of Chinese men, women are nothing more than special things, playthings, and evil things. ”
It is precisely because of the books she has read and the culture she has immersed herself in that she has formed such a strong character.
She wanted to do something about that era, so she ignored her obligations and responsibilities as a child and mother.
Her love is a white suzhen-style rebellion.
She regards Feng Huacheng, who fell in love with the criminal at the time, as a rebellion and a faith of her own.
Feng Huacheng was in that environment at that time, Zhou Rong's upward light, she regarded him as a Chinese Lermontov. She had to follow, so that life would have meaning, so she gave up her parents, gave up everything, and she felt that this would be the only way to do it.
Selfish people must be selfish, and they will not live in caves for love for so many years. Her love is a martyrdom, and she transforms dissatisfaction with society into love. Feng Huacheng was a poet and a fighter at that time, a form of virtual rebellion that Zhou Rong aspired to at that time.
Zhou Rong's journey to Feng Huacheng was also planned, and as a criminal at the time, Zhou Rong certainly knew that this was an adventure. After making detailed planning in advance, she arrived in Guizhou through her father's identity as a third-line worker, and only then did she get closer to Feng Huacheng step by step, she worked as a teacher in the local area, and slowly had an income, no longer needing the support of her family.
She followed Feng Huacheng, not because of the weak little woman for love, but to be shoulder to shoulder with him, and even to support him, which is the love of a revolutionary fighter.
This is also why the poet Guo Cheng at that time said that Zhou Rong was a woman like Bai Suzhen, who knew that she could not do anything, and knew that she could not love and love, because for her, it was a kind of resistance and a struggle.
This is also why Feng Huacheng later returned to Beijing, revealed his true nature, sold his reputation, and did whatever it took to benefit him. She was so disappointed, her faith had degenerated, not so much disappointment in Feng Huacheng as frustration at the fall of her former ideals.
Zhou Rong gradually became pragmatic in the later period, and also accepted Cai Xiaoguang, ordinary and powerful life, she is the kind of person who must make every stage of life meaningful, so she published books in her later years and did her best to help others, and her vision was higher and farther.
The growth of Zhou Rong's life is related to her a lot of reading and speculation in her youth, and there is always a bright light in her heart, so that her life has been moving upwards.