In 1879, "Doll's House" came out.
What the writer Ibsen did not expect was that 35 years later, in distant China, this drama actually set off an uproar.
The heroine Nala's sentence "First of all, I am a person, a person like you", has aroused countless women's thinking.
They can't wait to break through the confinement of their families and find their own value in society.
At that time, many progressive intellectuals shouted for the bravery and determination of the Chinese "nalas".
Only one person was watching coldly.
He is Mr. Lu Xun.
"Cold eyes" are not because of contempt, but because of thoroughness.
Mr. Lu Xun has seen a lot of problems that Chinese women have accumulated for a long time, and they cannot be solved as soon as they leave.
What really imprisons women is not the feudal family, but the feudal ideas of thousands of years.
Sir even said directly in his "What Happens After Nala Left":
"Nala or Nala really has only two paths: either to fall or to come back."
The novel "Wounded Death" is the best interpretation of this sentence.
"To seek women's freedom, we must first advocate the freedom of love; when love is truly free, women's problems are truly solved."
This was a view that was widely shared at the time.
Is it really that simple?
After reading Mr. Lu Xun's "Wounded Death", we may have a new understanding of women's issues.
"Wounded Death" tells the story of a female Zijun in the new era, and Juan sheng fell in love.
However, this relationship was fiercely opposed by the family.
Her uncle, her father, even blackmailed her by disassociation.
Zijun was not moved, bravely ran away, and lived with Juansheng.
The two of them had a few happy days.
Juan Sheng went to work, and Zijun took care of housework at home.
However, there are also shadows of happy days: in the memories of Chuansheng, it is not difficult to find that Zijun is almost speechless.
The whole time it was Juan Sheng talking, and Zijun listened silently with adoring eyes.
As Juan Sheng lost his job, the contradiction between the two gradually sharpened.
Juan Sheng was willing to hide alone, rather than go home and stay with Zijun.
Finally, one day, Juan Sheng plucked up the courage to confess to Zijun that he no longer loved her.
The next day, after Juansheng went out, he was taken home by his father.
Nothing was left, not even a few handwriting.
Zijun disappeared like this, as if it had never existed.
A few months later, Juan Sheng learned of Zijun's death from an acquaintance.
"I am alive, I always have to step out towards the path of life in my heart, and the first step ,—— but I just write down my regrets and sorrows, for the son, for myself." 」
"Wounded Death" is Mr. Lu Xun's only novel about the love between the sexes.
Zijun represents the image of women in the new era, changing the image of traditional women in Mr. Ichigo's previous novels.
Unlike Xiang lin and Shan Si' sister-in-law, she passively entrusts her fate to the gods or dreams.
In the face of the pressure of patriarchy, Zijun will haughtily hold his head high and stubbornly confess to Juansheng:
"I am my own, and none of them interferes with my rights!"
It was this sentence that completely conquered Trickle.
He saw from Zijun the unique temperament that other women did not have.
"In the near future, we will see a glorious dawn."
Unfortunately, Zijun dared to rebel against the patriarchal power, but was willing to be enslaved to the male power.
Therefore, before living together, the dawn that Juan Sheng saw in Zijun was eclipsed after cohabitation, and even obscured by clouds.
"Her soul, but for three weeks, I seemed to know her better, revealing many of the things that I had previously thought I knew but now were diaphragms, the so-called real diaphragms."
What is the truth that Trickleton knows?
The tragedy of Zijun, from the perspective of a man, is to degenerate from a brave and independent "female giant" to a "dwarf" who is attached to men and has no opinion.
The most fundamental reason is that although Zijun accepted the influence of the new ideas, he was still the same as the old feudal society in his bones.
The reason why Mr. Lu Xun holds a negative attitude toward women's liberation is because he sees through the essence:
Thousands of years of feudal thinking are too stubborn, not a few shouts, a few "Nala" can break through.
In Juansheng's memories, we can find that Zijun has no words.
She didn't seem to have anything of value to remember except that one bold remark.
On the other hand, Zijun remembered every word and deed of Juansheng and remembered every move firmly.
In their daily lives, the most satisfying thing for Zijun is to wait for Juan sheng to come home from work every day, and she has to carefully torture and recall the details of their interactions.
Zijun asked, and Juan sheng answered.
Whenever Juan Sheng made a mistake in his answer, Zijun always gently corrected it.
Juan sheng is "like a Ding student." ”
Zijun is living in beautiful memories, while Juansheng is constantly moving forward.
Over time, the rift became a chasm.
The tragedy of this exodus has a lot to do with Zijun's ideological imprisonment.
A long time ago, we would all feel sorry for the indisputable son of the king.
Her guts eventually became a joke.
Her exodus turned out to be a pale gesture, worthless.
Now read this novel, taste it carefully, and find that in The story of Juan Sheng, everywhere reveals the thin feelings of a man.
Juan sheng loves Zijun, and loves only the "new" in her.
His relationship with Zijun has always been unequal.
Juan Sheng was a young man who accepted new ideas before Zijun.
Zijun was one of his followers.
Juan Sheng is Zijun's lover and her enlightenment teacher.
Juan Sheng enjoyed Zijun's admiration for himself.
When Zijun said, "I am my own," Juan sheng knew that his enlightenment was successful.
He enjoyed his achievements.
Zijun is an excellent finished product of his own.
Under the impulse, he made a Western-style marriage proposal to Zijun:
"I held her hand in tears and knelt down on one leg."
This action became an old lesson that Zijun often studied, and in Juansheng's place, it became a ridiculous and contemptible memory.
The huge contrast between the two illuminates the imbalance between the feelings of the two sexes.
Living together unmarried, at the time, seemed to be an act of bad manners.
Therefore, in the face of the finger-pointing of others, Chuan sheng is shrinking, but Zijun is "fearless".
In the face of love, the son is noble.
When the struggle is successful, the two live in the love hut, Jizhao Hutong, and the situation is reversed.
Zijun wholeheartedly took care of Chuansheng's food, clothing, and living.
Originally, Juan Sheng was still very satisfied, but later, his dislike of Zijun increased day by day.
Zijun actually became fat, and his face was red; unfortunately, he was busy. After taking care of the housework, I didn't even have the time to talk about the day, let alone read and walk. ”
"The daily flow of endless meals, the deeds of Zijun, seem to be completely established in this meal. She seemed to have forgotten everything she had known before. ”
So, three weeks later, after reading her body and soul, Juan Sheng gradually lost interest in Zijun.
In Trickle's story, it is not difficult for us to find that Trickle-alive has traces of beautifying himself.
He pushed the responsibility for his own thin feelings and unsatisfactory life to Zijun: it was because Zijun had changed.
"Only Zijun is very decadent, and seems to often feel miserable and bored, as for not being willing to open his mouth." I think, how easy it is for people to change! ”
When it comes to Zijun's hard work, Juan Sheng is not blind.
He said two words, which are worth playing.
One is, "We always have to hire a female worker." ”
The second is, "I don't eat, but I must not work like this." ”
Zijun's reaction to hearing these two sentences was "miserable".
She heard trickle-down indifference.
Juan Sheng did not take the initiative to help share, and subconsciously, he still felt that this was what women should do.
After Juan Sheng lost his job, he had no source of income for a long time.
The embarrassing life of stretching has exacerbated the rupture of this relationship.
In fact, when we read about the life after the two lived together, Zijun had no voice.
Her spirit is actually manipulated by Trickle.
Zijun was still the old Zijun, and her fleeting newness disappointed Juansheng.
"Her honed thoughts and open-minded and fearless remarks are still an emptiness."
Juan Sheng seduces Zijun with new ideas, but takes her into a new family cage.
The son who worked for the house every day became a sinner who did not think of making progress.
Eventually, he was disgusted by Trickle.
Zijun also came to an end in the loveless world.
Mr. Lu Xun once said:
"Although men seduce women, they are irresponsible------ and since men are irresponsible and cannot reflect on themselves, they are naturally assured of temptation."
Juan Sheng seduced Zijun with new ideas and a new life, but when faced with the difficulties of life, he abandoned Zijun with no longer love.
Even, when he expected that this kind of abandonment would lead Zijun to a dead end, he still cruelly said, "Because I don't love you anymore!" But it's much better for you, because you can do things without any worries------."
Zijun left Juansheng and lost the meaning of life.
Her death also hints at the fate of many women in China.
Freed from the shackles of the old family, it is still impossible to eradicate the worship and attachment to men from the depths of the heart.
Although so many years have passed since the women's revolution, how much better has the living conditions of women been?
Nowadays, many professional women not only have to be busy with their careers and reflect their own values; they also have to take care of housework and take care of food, clothing and living.
I was terrified and exhausted all the time.
In the past, women were more than "motherly" and insufficient "wife".
Now women have "motherhood" and "wifehood", and another "male" must be added.
What men can do, women have to do.
Otherwise, it is not independent, and it is natural to be abandoned by the husband.
Whether it is Nala or Zijun, the spiritual growth of women is still an age-old problem.