Is it true that everyone has a character flaw? The answer is basically yes. In reality, we will see that almost all people have their own shortcomings or even flaws, either grumpy, weak personality, or all kinds of paranoia. We're all improving our personalities in a variety of ways, but there's very little that can really change. A lot of contradictions and conflicts occur because of character defects. Jin Yong described many people with flawed personalities in "The Legend of the Eagle Shooter".
01 The temper of the six monsters is very flawed
Guo Jing followed Ma Yu to practice Golden Goose Gong at the top of the mountain for two years, and his internal skills improved significantly. After this progress made the six monsters perceive it, they wondered if there was any conspiracy behind it, so they secretly followed Guo Jing to check it out. As a result, Mei Chaofeng was seen posing nine skulls at the top of the cliff.
This can make the six weird gas bad. They took it for granted that Mei Chaofeng had been teaching Guo Jing to practice internal skills, and on the basis of this wrong judgment, they further determined that Mei Chaofeng must have some conspiracy and trickery, and Guo Jing was ungrateful. Therefore, Ke Zhen evil made a frightening decision, in order to avoid Guo Jing's subsequent rebellion, it was better to kill him now while he was not good at martial arts. Han Xiaoying could not bear to kill the apprentice who had been teaching for twelve years and asked the eldest brother to think about it again, but in the end he did not convince them, but tearfully agreed to the decision.
The later result was that Guo Jing was almost killed, and if it were not for Professor Ma Yu's internal strength, coupled with Han Xiaoying's protection in the last moments, Guo Jing would almost die in Huangquan. What happened to the truth?
Guo Jing confessed the truth to the six monsters and introduced them to Ma Yudao, who was waiting outside the yurt. When the six monsters saw that things were like this, they didn't blame Guo Jing for being ungrateful. Although the result did not cause tragedy, the process showed that it was too rash for the six monsters to decide to kill their apprentice who had been teaching for twelve years before they could figure out the facts. The six monsters are short-tempered, and their spleen is very flawed.
The six monsters have flawed tempers, and Qiu Chuji's temper is even worse. It was not wrong for him to hunt down and kill the traitorous minister Wang Daoqian, but when he saw Yang Tiexin invite him into the house for two drinks, he began to wonder if the people were secret piles of the imperial court, which seemed more unreliable. Not only was he suspicious, but he also exported hurt people, and Yang Tiexin, who was kind, came up to him and gave him a fight. Although he said that he did not fight and did not know each other later, and formed a patriotic heroic friend, in the end, he still seemed to be too impatient.
His impatience doesn't stop there. After Qiu Chuji discovered that Yang Tiexin and Guo Xiaotian had been killed, he went to duan Tiande to kill him to avenge the heroes. Since you are going to take revenge, you should first calm down, inquire where Duan Tiande works, what he looks like, and then pretend to send money for him, which is not easy to find him?
He fell well, directly roared up, and lest Duan Tiande not know, shouted loudly to see Duan Tiande, and finally was lied by Duan Tiande and directly deceived. You see, such an impatient personality as Qiu Chuji, or bad things.
When he went to hunt down duan Tiande, he encountered the dead wood monk, and before he could figure out the situation, he asserted how the people were doing, frightening them and quickly introducing his nephew to Master Jiaomu in Jiaxing. At this time, Qiu Chuji still did not accept the lesson and continued to show the energy of his grumpy personality. He and the Seven Monsters of Jiangnan started fighting as they talked, each of them was able to do their own thing, and finally they lost both, and almost died together.
At this time, Qiu's irritable personality transformed into a strong competitive spirit. He calculated the seven monsters of Jiangnan and asked the seven monsters to look for Guo Jing's mother and son for him. Fortunately, the seven monsters who were stuck to the chivalrous network were deceived, and they went to track down Guo Jing's mother and son out of righteousness, and finally lost eighteen years of beautiful youth.
Speaking of which, we must talk about the good character of the Seven Monsters of Jiangnan. If they weren't so competitive, they wouldn't have fought with Qiu Zhiji and almost died in the moment; if they weren't so frivolous, they wouldn't have been easily calculated by Qiu Chuji, paying the price of their lives and eighteen years of beautiful youth for the completely strange Guo Jing's mother and son. Of course, if it were not for their irritable personality, they would not have the stupid behavior of wronging Guo Jing and killing Guo Jing to prevent future troubles as described at the beginning of the article.
In short, the Seven Monsters of Jiangnan are still a relatively stupid combination of chivalrous people, not only have limited intelligence, lack of logical deduction ability, but also have a grumpy personality that constantly provokes disasters and disasters. Of course, when it comes to character flaws, there is one character that cannot be bypassed. She is Bao Xi weak, the initiating character of this whole book story.
Bao Xiweak was a good old man, and he treated the enemy like the warmth of the spring breeze. This unprincipled warmth of the petty bourgeoisie not only ruined her family, but also affected Guo Xiaotian's family, causing Li Ping to give birth to Guo Jing in the Mongolian desert and weep night after night away from her homeland.
People are suffering because she is suffering, she is good, turned her face into the arms of the Prince of Jinguo, not only disregarding the hatred of the family and the country, but also the virginity of the woman. In order to make herself psychologically calm, she asked Wang Ye to move all the broken houses and belongings in Niujia Village to Yanjing in Jinguo, so as to remember the old love with her ex-husband in the reappearance of the old scene.
If it were not for Bao Xiweak's personality tragedy, it would not have led to the destruction of Guo Yang's two families, nor would there have been the tragic experience of the two women later. Of course, it is precisely because of her character flaws that the story of the whole book is launched.
02 Why write so many character flaws
Jin Yong wrote about the character flaws of so many characters in the first volume. Why do you write that?
First, express social reality. Characters have character defects, which is a normal social phenomenon. People's character is more or less flawed, either with such deficiencies or with such defects. It is precisely because there are many defects that there will be many contradictions and conflicts, there will be many misunderstandings, there will be many people being used, and there will be many love and hatred that can be avoided.
No matter what form the novel is presented, it must reflect social reality, otherwise it will not resonate with the reader. This requires the novel to be able to express the character flaws of the characters, and to use this character flaws to describe the plot to the maximum.
Second, stimulate the plot chain. Although it is said that the fundamental driving force of the plot is still the gain and loss of interests, if there is a lack of character defects, then this kind of interest gain and loss will not appear violent and moving.
Defects will cause defective reactions, which will express the benefits and losses that already exist in a more intense way. It is conceivable that if there are no these character defects, everyone has a mature and rational personality, and basically will not do things that are qualified, such as the violent feeling of Qiu Zhiji, then is this world still the world? Is there still so much more to the story?
The charm of the novel's story lies in a large part that there are many accidents. Then, how the accident is caused, basically caused by the personality accident. Many idiot men and women complain, in fact, not some misunderstandings, or because of the obstruction of external factors such as parents, in short, they are caused by defects. Because of this, there is a lot of unexpected pain, a lot of love that can't be done, and there are many lifetimes to wait for.
Because of his personality defects, Qiu Chuji brought family destruction to Yang Tiexin and Guo Xiaotian's families, and as a result, because of his personality defects, he and the Seven Monsters of Jiangnan were both defeated. However, because of the character defect, the plot of the novel can be advanced and show a charming story.
Speaking of this, Jin Yong smiled: Temper is not strange, where is the story? Yes, what we saw before the chapter "Cliff Top Doubt" is only a small part of the character flaw. In the back, such as Huang Rong, Huang Laoevil, Hong Qigong, Ouyang Feng and other important figures, their character defects are called severe. It can be said that their appearance can really be called a big party of character defects. And the whole jianghu can also be called a big gathering of weirdos.
03 How to write about character flaws
Since character flaws have so many uses, how do you write them well?
First, character flaws can advance the plot. What kind of character flaws the plot needs, write what kind of character defects. If a sane character is needed to present the character who reasons the case, the character must have a mature and rational character, but basically lacks emotion. If the novel needs a person with a violent personality to stimulate contradictions, it must write a person with such a personality, just let him complete the task of stimulating contradictions.
If yang Tiexin and Guo Xiaotian's family were to be destroyed, it was necessary to kill them after Yan Honglie. How to harm them, you need to finish Yan Honglie has sufficient motivation, no doubt like Bao Xi weak is this motivation. And if he wants to make him like Bao Xi weak, he needs her to save Yan Honglie, and he needs her to have a sad and compassionate personality but does not ask right and wrong.
Second, character flaws need to be logical. The personality is logical and is the detailed performance of the character to advance the plot. A person's character flaws must have a real and credible source. For example, the personality of his parents should be similar and hereditary. Or the formation of his character defects is a natural reflection of his environment.
In the novel, a character has a strong two-sided personality, because he is in a complex and cold environment, so he has to become two-sided, flexible at any time to face different characters, say different things, and so on.
Although they are twin brothers, because the environment is completely different, their personalities are very different, a hippie smiley face with evil spirit, and a cold and calm but internal combustion. It can be seen that human character is a catalytic product of the living environment. It is logical to describe it in this way.
Third, character flaws meet the needs of the characters themselves. If the author wants to set what kind of character the character is in the novel, the character should have its own personality and its flaws.
If the author wants to write a flawed heroine, she should have a relatively strong personality and a fairly high level of martial arts. For this reason, her personality may be more grumpy, or less calm, which is okay. However, if you let her have such a character as Bao Xi weak, this is probably not the need of the character itself.
Huang Rong, who will appear later in "The Legend of the Archery Hero", cannot be such a character as Bao Xi weak, not only can not be such a character, Huang Rong is more "evil", and sometimes it needs to be fierce. This also reflects why the character defect should meet the needs of the character itself.
In this way, character defects are one of the basic characteristics of the characters in the novel, which can stimulate the plot and promote the growth of the characters. Therefore, its depiction is an important part of novel writing. How to write about character flaws is an unavoidable basic skill for fiction writers. If you want to write a good character flaw, you must make it meet the needs of the plot, meet the logical requirements, and meet the needs of the characters. On the basis of these basic principles, let the description of character defects just be able to promote the plot, not more and no less.
[This article is the last of the 22 interpretation articles of "Cliff Top Doubt".] Because this chapter has many gold points, it is more detailed. From the next chapter onwards, the speed of interpretation will be accelerated.