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Some people think that Sister Xianglin's death is due to Master Lu's ruthlessness and the cruelty of people around him. That's true, but this is only a superficial phenomenon. The real internal essence is the bondage of feudal ethics in old China to the whole people's thoughts. It doesn't matter if only a small group of people are bound. What is important is that the whole nation's thoughts are bound. This has formed a deformed public opinion, and Sister Xianglin is also a member of that kind of bondage. She fought back, too But I just want to reintegrate myself into that deformed society. Sister Xianglin is just a social figure at the bottom, with a sense of small farmers, unable to see the direction of social development and distinguish the right and wrong nature of things. So she can only die silently in that deformed society. Sister Xianglin can't survive in that deformed society. What she needs is not "everyone is drunk and I wake up alone", nor is it a change in the consciousness of people around her. What she needs is the liberation and development of the whole national consciousness. As an "inferior", she can't do this. I don't want to be a cliche, but it is the correct leadership of the * * * production party that has completely reborn the whole Chinese nation. If Sister Xianglin can bear the humiliation and live to the founding of New China, she will have a new life.
Mr. Lu Xun once said in the article "On the Third Person": Born in a class society, if you want to be a super-class person, such a person does not exist at all ... just like a person pulling his hair and leaving the earth. Born in feudal society, it is impossible for Sister Xianglin to jump out of the garden of feudal society. She was strangled by the four ropes of feudal society-political power, clan power, husband power and theocracy.
Sister Xianglin experienced three major blows in her life. Her husband, ten years younger than her, died for the first time; After the death of the second husband, the child Amao was eaten by the wolf; After passing the donation threshold, I still can't get the forgiveness and understanding of Master Lu and his wife. When she calmly went to get the glass and chopsticks, Aunt Lu hurriedly said loudly, "Sister Xianglin, please stay!" This time gave her a fatal blow. Sister Xianglin is a hardworking, simple and strong-willed working woman. Under the heavy bondage of feudal four powers, she was exploited economically, oppressed politically and devastated spiritually until she finally became a beggar and died of hunger and cold. Through three most expressive blows, the work shaped her tragic character.
Sister Xianglin doesn't have her own surname and first name. She has nothing economically, no power or influence politically, and lost the minimum personal freedom. She married a husband ten years younger than her, just like the misery of thousands of working women in Qian Qian in the old society. Sister Xianglin will definitely not be satisfied with this marriage, but it is impossible to get rid of that unfortunate experience. Soon after, the death of my little husband made Sister Xianglin's life suffer setbacks. She originally wanted to be a widow honestly according to feudal ethics, but later she heard that her mother-in-law was going to sell her to a remote mountain valley before she ran out to work at Master Lu's house. In Master Lu's home, she silently endured cruel exploitation. "No matter what food it is, I will not let go of my strength." She no longer endured heavy physical labor, but felt satisfied. "There was a smile on her face, and her face became white and fat." What Sister Xianglin hopes and feels satisfied is originally the minimum living condition for a person, which is a very unfair life, so this kind of hope and satisfaction is tragic in itself.
Master Lu's family is a stubborn feudal fortress, and it is certainly impossible to save Sister Xianglin. After discovering Xianglinsao, her mother-in-law and uncle, relying on the majesty of clan power, openly robbed Xianglinsao in broad daylight and sold it to others as a commodity. This is the first major blow from the feudal four powers in the history of Xianglinsao's fate. It can be seen that in feudal society, the fate of women, like livestock and commodities, was miserable.
Xianglinsao was forced to remarry, which was once considered "lucky". "Men have the strength to work, the house is their own ... both mother and son are fat ..." In Xianglinsao's miserable life, this unforgettable happy life is short-lived, but disasters and misfortunes always threaten and persecute her like shadows. After He Laoliu was destroyed by typhoid fever, her son Amao was eaten by a wolf, which made Xianglinsao suffer another setback, because the "three obedience" stipulated by feudal ethics was actually "three dependence", relying on parents at home, husbands and sons for marriage and death. Sister Xianglin died, and so did her son. No one followed her, no one was reliable, and she floated on the water like duckweed, with nowhere to return. Later, my uncle took the opportunity to take over the house and fired her, so she drifted back to Luzhen and had to go back to Master Lu's house to work. This is the second time that Sister Xianglin has been hit harder by the four feudal forces.
Sister Xianglin, married twice, her husband died, and the situation is even worse. When she returned to Master Lu's house again, she was beyond recognition. Not only is she old and slow, but her work is not as good as before. She also told people the story that Amao was eaten by a wolf. For Sister Xianglin, the death of her husband is, after all, an irresistible "fate" of human beings. Her son was eaten by a wolf because of her negligence and "guilt", so Amao's death became an incurable wound in her heart, which she could not forget for a long time. She tried to gain sympathy and comfort from others by telling endless stories, so as to reduce the pain of missing herself. As a result, the more she talks, the more she thinks and the more she talks. You know, this is not an ordinary memory, but her own painful repeated chewing, which has been tormenting her.
What makes Sister Xianglin more miserable is that he not only has to accept the pain imposed on her by feudal ethics in real life, but also bears the spiritual abuse of her by theocracy. This kind of mental cruelty made her bear a heavy mental burden until her death, which made her feel that death was not the end of a miserable life, but the beginning of greater terror. Sister Xianglin planned to be widowed, but she was persecuted, so that she was considered guilty of "immoral behavior" and had to donate a threshold for forgiveness. Sister Xianglin is so kind, quiet, lonely and pathetic. Where is her sin? But in feudal society, just because two husbands and one son died, she became a sinner. The more unfortunate she is, the more guilty she is. Sister Xianglin has been tortured by thousands of people, but she has to donate another threshold for thousands of people to step on. How miserable this should be! Here, it not only deepens the tragedy of Xianglinsao, but also clearly shows the class nature of feudal superstition oppressing working women.
Sister Xianglin is constantly struggling for her own destiny. In order to donate the threshold, she silently endured, donated all the money she had accumulated with blood and sweat, and suffered so much trampling. It makes sense to let her die with peace of mind. But in the society at that time, this was just an illusion. When she thought she had atoned for her sin and calmly went to get the glass and chopsticks, the fourth aunt shouted "Stop it, Sister Xianglin", which completely broke her fantasy. At this time, "she shrank back as if she had been burned, and her face turned gray-black", "she stood in absentia", "this time she has changed a lot" and "her eyes are sunken, and even her spirit is worse", which is a fatal blow to her by the four feudal forces. When Sister Xianglin finally realized that the threshold of sperm donation was only a fool, and the idea of forgiveness that she longed for day and night was just a dream, she had doubts about the so-called "soul". However, when she took the first step from fatalism to atheism, she came to the end of her life. The fact that Sister Xianglin was finally killed by the whip of class, family and religion fully proves that Sister Xianglin is the representative of working women in China who were hanged by these four ropes.