Mo Yan used a variety of styles flexibly in this novel, integrating letters, novels and plays. The first four parts of Frog evoke the memory of the writer Tadpole, and the last part jumps out of the narrative and ends with a nine-act drama. In the play, the author writes a heavy social problem-surrogacy with a relaxed style. The author creates beauty with this alienated labor as the center.
Marx pointed out one of the four "regulations" of alienated labor: the laborer works hard, and his products are taken away by others and occupied by others. In this society full of money and desire, Chen Mei and other girls in the factory who choose surrogacy under the pressure of life are undoubtedly engaged in alienated labor, but the "products" they produce are live babies, who are not only exploited by money holders, but also condemned by infinite morality and ethics.
In addition, in the eighth act of the play, in the plot of imitating Bao Gong's sentence, Gao Mengwan's "disposal" of Chen Mei, Chen Mei's crying and Chen Bei's scolding, and Li Shou's so-called "compensation" also reflect Mo Yan's artistic grasp of the world through literature, as well as his irony and criticism of some dark realities in society.
At the same time, the creation of the novel Frog embodies the realistic principle of Marx's Shakespeare. In this work, Mo Yan describes people's life during the family planning period in Gaomi Northeast Township, and reflects the social life in China during this period.
Mo Yan created a typical environment of "Northeast Rural Area in the Family Planning Period", and at the same time created a typical image of "My Aunt Wanxin" who resolutely carried out state orders and resolutely safeguarded the family planning policy. This is a rural doctor who has changed from the "goddess who sends children" in people's minds to a "murderer". This character image "touched the experience and soul of rural female obstetricians and gynecologists in China in 1950s and 1960s for the first time, which caused readers to buzz deeply".
The description of all beings and the relationship between relatives and friends in Gaomi Northeast Township reflects the author's true description of the relationship between reality and the relationship between characters and reality. The contradiction between family planning and anti-family planning, the contradiction between human nature and system, and the contradiction between some people's backward thoughts and the needs of real social progress are all concentrated in the fierce conflict between Wan Xin and Wang Jiao, Xiao Upper Lip, Wang Dan and Wang.
Wan Xin, a typical figure, often sees the illusion of "frog without arms and claws" and the change of his own mentality, which deeply reflects Mo Yan's reflection on various problems and their causes in the family planning policy and the writer's grasp of the social phenomenon of "family planning". This may be the original intention of Mo Yan's creation of this novel.