Thunderstorm shows a great tragedy of life and is a cruel trick of fate on people in an unequal society. Zhou Puyuan's tyranny, cruelty and hypocrisy; Zhou Chong's enthusiasm and simplicity; And Fan Yi's deep and even slightly abnormal persistence in love; Zhou Ping, a weak man who repents his sins but doesn't know it, and the secret of his life broke out on a thunderstorm night.

Finally, the wrong, guilty, innocent and innocent people go to destruction together. It tells the complicated tragic stories of the Zhou family of the bourgeoisie and the Lu family of the urban common people.

First, the life tragedy of the bourgeois family with strong feudal color represented by Zhou Puyuan; Second, the tragic situation that the urban civilians, represented by Ma Lu, can't control their own destiny and are manipulated by others.

However, the complicated blood relationship between Zhou and Lu families highlights and vividly reflects the contradiction between two different class families. It exposed all kinds of dark phenomena of the old family in old China and the tyranny, cruelty and hypocrisy of the landlord and bourgeoisie, reflected the social reality that a great change was brewing in China in the 1920s and 1930s, and gave deep sympathy to the oppressed.

Creation background

1930 In September, Cao Yu was admitted to the Foreign Languages Department of Tsinghua University from Tianjin Nankai University, and enrolled in the second year. He loved drama since he was a child, and actively participated in the performances of Peking Opera "The Fisherman Killed a Family" and Ibsen's "A Doll's House". His passion for drama made him have a strong desire to write drama, and he began to conceive the drama Thunderstorm based on his personal experience and knowledge for many years.

193 1 year, when the September 18th Incident broke out, Tsinghua University students organized an anti-Japanese propaganda team, with Cao Yu as the propaganda team leader. He and his classmates from the propaganda team went to Baoding by train to publicize.

On the train, I met a burly man named Zhao, a worker at Changxindian Iron Works. Cao Yu sincerely admired the worker's patriotic spirit. He remembered the drama Thunderstorm that he was conceiving, and he had the character image of Lu Dahai in Thunderstorm.

After pondering and writing for half a year, Cao Yu finally finished the originality of Thunderstorm. 1 In July, 934, Thunderstorm was first published in the third issue of Literature Quarterly, the first1volume.