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The theme of Fortress Besieged has three aspects, namely:
First of all, from the perspective of life description, it reveals the decadence of education during the Anti-Japanese War and criticizes the emptiness and anguish of intellectuals who stand outside the trend of the times. This part is mainly reflected in the first chapter to the fourth chapter. In the first chapter and the fourth chapter, the author not only wrote the love entanglements of Fang Hong-chien, but also wrote various figures in the social life of Shili Foreign Firm, such as the comprador Zhang of Huaqi Foreign Firm opened by Americans, who likes to be called JIMMMY, Dong Xiechuan, who is fashionable and conservative in appearance, and Zhu, a young philosopher who has the most research on gender issues. He is full of dishonesty and calls himself a classic of sex. They all show their true nature in the author's works, whether it is feasting or receiving guests, talking about poems or papers, or all kinds of entertainment, they all show their inner emptiness and vulgarity.
Secondly, in terms of cultural reflection, I flew to the traditional culture of China by writing a new Scholars. The sixth chapter takes San Lv University as the stage, and makes all kinds of figures in famous schools appear in black and pink in turn, and staged a farce of sweeping the floor, including the president, dean and department head. Down to students and their parents. They are all involved in a dazzling personnel dispute. Some of these people are academic liars, bureaucrats and unscrupulous people, and some are full of arbitrary morality like Li. A shameless literati who is full of thieves and prostitutes, only officials are businessmen, only money is relatives. There is also a foreign doctor with a heart, forging academic qualifications. A decent man like Gao Songnian, a crafty old scoundrel, keeps saying that he defends the dignity of education, but he is actually a prodigal son. There is a lady like Mrs. Wang who follows institutions of higher learning, but she is just using her means to win beauty in love ... In short, all kinds of people are active in this "Confucian forest". Although I no longer use stereotyped writing as a stepping stone. But they all held up a self-righteous banner to cover up their true colors and tried their best to get a new job.
Three: Philosophical aspects. Thinking about life and the fate of modern people. In Fortress Besieged, I wrote about a group of typical people who are outside the world and are intrigued by their careers and marriages. Although there is no smoke, there is love. This is also a war. Although there were no casualties, there was a gray life that ate people. . This is not the fault of people, but the fault of society. The fault lies in the "birdcage" and "castle" that can trap people everywhere. But where is the way out for these knowledge points that have not exhausted their vitality? This should be a serious question put forward by the novel to readers. Moreover, the deeper significance of the novel is that the author vividly shows the social environment that caused the fate of these characters through the description of their fate, thus announcing to people that to change people's fate, it is necessary to change the environment.