When watching "Armageddon", Chiang Kai-shek once said to the people around him that Du Yuming and Chen Bray, who are one article and one weapon, are his right and left arms. As we all know, Chen Bray was Chiang Kai-shek's "literary boldness" and helped him draft many important manuscripts, such as the declaration made at the beginning of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression that year: "If the war is over, there will be no distinction between the north and the south, no one will be divided into old or young, and no matter who is responsible for defending the territory and resisting the war, and other documents are from Chen Bray's hand. It was widely recited for 40,000,000 compatriots in China, inspiring the determination of the military and the people of the whole country to fight together and unite to resist the war. At the same time, during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Chen Bray also had many articles that were universally praised and had a great influence at home and abroad. However, in the period of civil war, according to what Chen Brei himself said in the play, as a newspaperman, he should tell the truth and insist on his own opinions, but he was overly embellished for Chiang Kai-shek and preached false peace, and felt great pressure. It can be said that Chen Bray's personality split, coupled with physical illness, eventually felt desperate and chose to commit suicide. Specifics, and see the following details.
First of all, Chiang Kai-shek's kindness made him unable to extricate himself for the rest of his life. Chiang Kai-shek, who has always been grumpy and dissatisfied with people and things, often insulted the other party as "Niang Xipi", but chen Brei has always been a courtesy corporal with great respect. At the same time, Chen Bray, a man who believed in Confucianism, was clean and self-sufficient, and did not participate in party and factional struggles, so he was deeply trusted and relied on by Chiang Kai-shek, and many important manuscripts came from his hands, known as the Kuomintang's "leader's literary guts," "the president's think tank," and "the kuomintang's first pen." Therefore, this trust made Chen Bray under great pressure and his body and mind were seriously distorted, so the pen in his hand could only say a lot of words against his heart, and his soul was tormented.
Secondly, the serious decline of the national situation has made its ideals empty. Originally, Chen Bray was engaged in politics and held a high position, not because he coveted glory and wealth, but more because he was a literati serving the country, full of idealism, like Li Bai and Du Fu, "to the jun Yao Shun, and then to make the customs pure." After entering the civil war, the people in the area under national unity were not happy, and the front-line war was hopeless, and watching the National Government, which he had served all his life, gradually disintegrate, was very disappointed in his heart and very remorseful. After all, the ancients emphasized "wen death advice, martial death battle", which made Chen Brei feel a lot of self-blame and pressure in his heart. At this time, Chen Bray was already more than fifty years old, and he had already passed the age of "knowing the destiny of heaven", and he also felt helpless and disappointed in what he had done in this life. His ideals were shattered, and he finally chose to commit suicide, so as not to destroy the country and his family in the future, and be despised by others.
Of course, working for the government for a long time, coupled with the overall decline of the national government, the internal pressure is also huge. At the same time, at this time, Chen Bray was plagued by overwork and various diseases, which also made him overwhelmed and discouraged. At the same time, the most fundamental reason is the perverse behavior of the National Government, and his accomplice, against his conscience, is also the last straw that crushed him. Therefore, in the end, Chen Bray chose to commit suicide to end his pain.