"Camel Xiangzi" is a very influential work in modern literature, and its protagonist Xiangzi is an ordinary character.
Even his background is even smaller than that of ordinary characters, and in the book Shoko is the identity of a rickshaw driver, and he is also a young man from a bankrupt rural area.
The description of Shoko in the original book is "Growing up in the countryside, losing his parents and a few acres of thin land, he ran to the city at the age of 18." From this brief description, it can be summarized that Shoko's character image has the following characteristics:
1. Shoko is a peasant who has lost the land on which he depends for his survival under the exploitation of feudal forces;
2. A lonely person who lost his parents at a young age;
3. A poor boy who comes to the city alone to seek a way to survive.
From these points of character setting, it is not difficult to see that Shoko is a universal public image and a representative of the characters of the times.
It can also see the direction of Xiangzi's tragic life from his identity, so that the development of the tragic fate of Xiangzi's small characters is reasonable.
Exploring the tragic fate of Shoko, it is not difficult to find that it is not only due to the character of Shoko, but also the promotion and promotion of social reality.
The combination of objective social causes and subjective reasons of the characters eventually formed Shoko's irreversible tragic fate.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="3" > first, the analysis of the causes of the tragic fate of small people</h1>
The analysis of Xiangzi's tragic life can be analyzed through three aspects, one is the objective reasons of the real society, one is the subjective influence of thought, and the other is the promotion of the internal and external personality of The Xiangzi character.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="5" >1, objective social reality causes lead to the tragic fate of small people</h1>
Objective social reasons naturally involve the cruelty of society at that time, according to the development direction of the entire story of "Camel Xiangzi", the social objective reasons for completing the tragedy of Xiangzi are mainly manifested in:
The first point: the persecution of human nature in the old society, Shoko is actually a very simple character. His wish is to buy his own rickshaw and not have to rent someone else's car to make money.
In Shoko's view, renting someone's car has always been unable to make a lot of money, and she has always been just desperately working for others.
But having your own car is different, having your own car is to work for yourself, which belongs to the individual economy.
Shoko's wish is actually very simple, just like the peasants are eager to own their own land, it is the most simple and unpretentious wish.
However, such a wish was like a luxury in the old society, and even if Shoko tried her best, it would be difficult to realize this wish, and this reality was realized by Shoko after suffering several ups and downs.
Originally, Shoko was a hopeful little person who worked hard for her own wishes, but she was hit by social reality one after another to lose the pursuit of her dreams.
Therefore, in the old society full of evil and pathology, a small person like Shoko has absolutely no power to fight against fate.
As Mr. Lu Xun said, this is a society that eats people, and small people like Xiangzi are the first to be eaten.
The second reason is the deception of the tiger girl, the tragic life of Shoko and the tiger girl are inseparable, in "Camel Xiangzi" The role played by the tiger girl is actually capitalism, and the tiger girl's desire for xiangzi is like the capitalist desire for capital.
The completely different pursuit of life between Tiger Girl and Xiangzi is the direct driving force that causes the tragedy of Xiangzi, that is, Xiangzi chooses to yield under the oppression of capital.
However, the result of giving in was not a successful ending, but a deeper point of collapse.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="7" >2, subjective ideological reasons lead to the tragic fate of the little people</h1>
The subjective reason for thought is actually the idea of the small producer represented by Shoko, and the biggest mistake of this small producer in the old society lies in its narrow ideological concept.
He always thought that only through hard work could he change his destiny, but such an idea did not apply to Shoko's time.
Therefore, the innate small-scale peasant consciousness of small producers makes them lose the ability to truly understand society, and it is more difficult to find the right opportunity and way to change their destiny.
In the old society, it was difficult for individuals to get out of the predicament, and this was the crux of the contradiction between the social reality in which Shoko lived and the idea of small peasants.
Combined with Shoko's deeds, Shoko has been praying that one day she can achieve her dreams through her hands and feet, which is the narrow small peasant consciousness, and she has encountered the cruelty of the old society and wrestled fiercely.
At the end of Shoko the Camel, it is written that "decent, strong, dreamy... Buried in this depraved, selfish, unfortunate, socially sick womb, the end of individualism!"
What we are talking about here is actually the thinking of small producers like Shoko after experiencing countless social beatings, and it is the summary of the old society by small producers.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="9" >3, Shoko's character has caused the tragic fate of the little man Shoko</h1>
The above are all the reasons for the direction of the general direction and the direction of the characters in the large group, if it falls on the specific character of Shoko, then there will be more of the character characteristics of Shoko herself and promote the tragic life of Shoko.
First of all, in Shoko, there is the simplicity and kindness of a small person, and Shoko is upright and kind when she just faces society, and has a very beautiful spiritual world.
This can be seen from the above-mentioned Shoko's life pursuit is to buy a car of his own.
What Shoko carried in the original was the good character of the working people, which was a quality that Was appreciated by Shoko.
Moreover, Shoko is also a representative of independence, he can endure any grievances for his own goals, and he can also overcome all difficulties.
It's just that shoko also has a selfish and depraved side in him, which is given to him by the times and imposed on him by the times.
First of all, Xiangzi has a villager temperament that is difficult to get rid of, typical rural habits and peasant consciousness, and Xiangzi at this time is still a positive character.
Therefore, from a comprehensive point of view, the final tragic fate of Xiangzi is actually the process of moving from beauty to degeneration, which is also the only beautiful manifestation of society destroying, so the tragedy of "Camel Xiangzi" is actually the degenerate road of upright rural youth to urban scoundrels.
The last Shoko can no longer find the good qualities in the original body, and the pure and beautiful qualities of the laborers have disappeared, which is the corrosion of human nature by the old society and the distortion of human nature by capital.
Breaking up beautiful things to show people is the tragedy of society, the tragedy of human nature, and the tragedy of the times.
It is also the tragedy of the small people represented by Shoko, who are powerless to compete with society, and finally can only be transformed by society into a person who has lost his soul and becomes a victim of society.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="11" > Second, a brief analysis of the social reality of the existence of the tragic fate of small people</h1>
"Camel Xiangzi" is a tragic story, and according to the general psychology of Chinese like happy endings, "Camel Xiangzi" is not such a mainstream aesthetic.
But the reason why "Camel Xiangzi" is so popular is because it brings people a lot of thinking, brings a lot of inspiration, and also lies in the practical significance reflected in "Camel Xiangzi".
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="13" >1, exposing and indicting the old system through the tragic fate of the little people</h1>
The first thought given to people in "Camel Shoko" is that the corrosion of small people in the old society is not only physical, but also spiritual.
The reason why Lao She wrote "Camel Xiangzi" is also to make an accusation against China's semi-feudal and semi-colonial old society through Xiangzi's tragic life.
In Lao She's pen, Xiangzi is a traditional Chinese beautiful image, and every character Xiangzi meets is a puppet of capitalism and a figure of feudal superstition.
At first, Shoko was persecuted by the landlord class of the old feudal forces and lost her qualifications as a simple peasant, and could only come to the city alone and become a helpless wanderer.
But this was not the most tragic, and Shoko met Liu Si, the representative of capitalism, who exploited the working class without limits.
It can be said that it has reached the point of sucking the marrow of the bone, and the Yang couple they met later are also the same exploiters, only thinking of squeezing out all the value of Xiangzi.
The encounter with tiger girl deepened the persecution of Xiangzi in the old society, and under the endless attack and exploitation, Xiangzi exhausted all the beautiful fantasies little by little, and finally became a city scoundrel, and perhaps he would also become a ruthless exploiter.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="15" >2, through the tragic fate of small people to evoke people's thinking about fate</h1>
The reason why Lao She let people see this bloody reality is actually the biggest purpose is to evoke the beauty that people have hidden, but also to rebel against the evil forces and the old society.
The reason why all literary works exist is that it can arouse people's thinking, after all, whether it is creating works or reading works, there will inevitably be a strong emotional output, and in this process Chinese the infection of people's thoughts is reflected.
And Lao She also has a layer of identity that is, a revolutionary, as a revolutionary, his revolutionary way is to arouse people's spirits, "destroy the valuable things of life to show people" is Lao She's original intention of creating "Camel Xiangzi".
Using the disappearance of beauty to give people a kind of mental damage, so that people can think about pain and then have a kind of thinking about themselves.
There is a kind of thinking about society, which is the power of literature, the power of "Camel Xiangzi", and the growth of people's thoughts brought by Xiangzi.
The small people are weak in the face of the times, but the excellent qualities of the small people are the last beauty of the times.
These beauties are very fragile, it is easy to be exploited and squeezed by the times and disappeared, how to maintain this beauty, how to make this beauty the backbone of the times is a problem worth exploring.
Shoko's tragedy, the tragedy of the little man, aims to make people think this way.
< h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="17" > resources:</h1>
[1] "Camel Xiangzi", Lao She People's Literature Publishing House
[2] Selected Literary Papers, Gorky People's Literature Publishing House
[3] The Complete Works of Lu Xun, Lu Xun People's Literature Publishing House
[4] Classical Script Theory Translation Series, Shelley People's Literature Publishing House