However, on their wedding night, Xi, his wife, ran out of the house and into the dormitory of South China University, crying to people that Roger was an animal. The students were boiling, and the rumor spread everywhere at once.
It turned out that this delicate mother isolated her daughters from sexual knowledge in order to keep their "pure thoughts", which made her mistakenly think that her husband with physiological needs was a pervert.
The same thing happened to Li Radisson, a delicate sister. After that, Xixi was taken home. Although Xixi forgave her husband on the surface, Roger also looked forward to a new beginning, and planned to travel abroad and carry out "love education" for his wife.
However, the rumor has spread to the school. The private life of Roger and the couple became a topic of discussion in an instant. Through repeated communication, Roger has become a pervert in everyone's eyes.
Roger has been fired, and his chances of finding another job are slim. After learning of Li Lisheng's husband's death, Roger understood his only possible choice. Finally, one night, he closed the kitchen door and ended his life with gas.
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Through the love and marriage tragedies of Roger Amden and Qiu Er, The Smell of Aquilaria reveals the sorrow of abnormal marriage and criticizes the misunderstanding of sex by women in 1930s and 1940s.
The novel parodies and dispels the national narrative of the May 4th Movement from the theme, presents the readers with the same spiritual dilemma as that of the West and China, and provides a new direction for the further development of self-consciousness on the basis of stripping the authoritative color of the West.
The basic theme of the "May 4th" national narrative is to expose and criticize the national inferiority, and the reason why Ah Q people show inferiority is that there is always the other in the west as a discourse resource besides their own reasons.
However, the fragments of incense and agarwood in the second furnace plunged English gentleman Roger Baden and lady Qiu Er into the quagmire of ignorance, self-deception and estrangement.
Roger, the hero, is just an ordinary person, while Xiao Xi, his wife, is deeply influenced by asceticism. She regards her husband's normal desires as abnormal behaviors and runs away in a hurry on their wedding night, thus causing an uproar.
The extreme emphasis on women's chastity once led to the tragedy of Xianglinsao, and now this tragedy is repeated in western men and women.
From the middle of19th century, China intellectuals eager for national rebirth criticized the spirit of traditional China, and at the same time established the assumption that the west was open, progressive and advanced compared with the conservative, feudal and ignorant old China.
However, Roger's tragedy makes readers see the fallacy in this universal truth. It turns out that the so-called progress and openness of the other side is just a transcendental feature of China. The other is actually burdened with a mental burden that is difficult to eradicate, and the other may also become a concrete manifestation of ignorance and feudalism.
Roger's tragedy, in addition to embarrassing naivety, also includes boring spectators and the invisible murder public opinion they created.
Reference source: Baidu Encyclopedia _ agarwood tablets and two stoves incense