Mr. Cao Yu's drama Thunderstorm created eight characters from two families. A clear understanding of the relationship between these eight characters is helpful to better understand and grasp the profound connotation of the works, the rich implication of the characters and the inevitability of contradictions and conflicts. First, the actual family relationship and actual blood relationship. In reality, Zhou Puyuan, his wife Fan Yi, his sons Zhou Ping and Zhou Chong form a family, which is at the top of society, while Gui Lu, Ma Lu, Lu Sifeng and Lu Dahai form another family, which is at the bottom of society. However, judging from the actual blood relationship, Lu Dahai and Zhou Ping were born to Zhou Puyuan and Mei Shiping (that is, Lu Siping in Ma Lu). In other words, Lu Dahai of Lujia is actually his own son, and Zhou's is his own son. Mei Shiping has a mother-child relationship with Zhou Ping, Lu Dahai and Lu Sifeng, and Lu Sifeng has a half-brother relationship with Zhou Ping and Lu Dahai. Zhou Puyuan has a father-son relationship with his drought-striken fields, Lu Dahai and Zhou Chong, while Zhou Chong has a half-brother relationship with his drought-striken fields and Lu Dahai.

The two families represent two different social classes, different status and situation, and the feud between them is actually the epitome of the society of that era. The author focuses on these two families, which shows the author's superb writing skills.

Second, the relationship between equality and free marriage and the relationship between * * and unconscionability. By combing the emotional entanglements between Zhou Puyuan and Mei Shiping, Zhou Puyuan and Fan Yi, Zhou Ping and Fan Yi, Zhou Ping and Lu Sifeng, and Zhou Chong and Lu Sifeng, we can easily find that in the process of pursuing free and happy love and marriage, it is difficult for everyone to find their own place. Of course, this is related to that era, and it is more of an embarrassing situation of being loveless, abandoned or even * *.

Zhou Puyuan was originally a person who deeply loved Shi Ping. Although he finally kicked Shi Ping's mother and son out of the house on New Year's Eve because he wanted to climb a higher branch, we have reason to believe that the love between Zhou Puyuan and Shi Meiping should be true and heartfelt.

When Zhou Puyuan was young, he should be an intellectual young man full of vigor and fantasy about love, but he finally had to give in to reality. If he wants to develop his career, he must climb higher. Sacrifice love for career development.

The love tragedy of Zhou Ping and Lu Sifeng, Zhou Chong and Lu Sifeng in the play is just a repeat of their parents' tragedy. The love tragedy between father and son is only different in the process of plot, but not in essence.

Zhou Chong is still in an era full of fantasy, and his love for Sifeng is just a kind of unrequited love. Before his love began, it ended in tragedy, along with his life. His drought-striken fields were trapped by the love between mother and son, and then got into the love cover of master and servant like his father. Little did he know that this was a sibling love that no one expected. On the surface, Zhou Chong and Zhou Ping are full of yearning and pursuit for free and equal love, but who can guarantee that they will not give up because of the needs of career development and family pressure like their father?

Third, the relationship between father and son, mother and daughter is divided, and the life cycle relationship is closed. If we regard Zhou Chong, Zhou Ping and Zhou Puyuan as a person's youth, middle age and old age respectively, it will constitute a relatively complete development track of a person's life. Throughout the life of Zhou and his son, we can find that they are still in a yearning period. He is full of illusions about love and Lu Sifeng. He is full of sympathy for Lu Dahai, full of the idea of equality and fraternity, and the ideological ambition to transform society. However, under the coercion of his father's feudal patriarchal system, he saw clearly the despicable face of his father's sinister and vicious mother, especially finding that there was a line between him and Lu Dahai. Reflection? By himself, gradually? Sober? Get up, so he began to change to his drought-striken fields.

Look at his drought-striken fields again. He tried to get rid of his stepmother's entanglement, which is similar to how his father swept his mother out of the house! That is to abandon chaos. The love between him and Lu Sifeng is a replica of the love between his parents. And he intends to live in the mine, on the one hand, in order to get rid of the entanglement of his stepmother, on the other hand, he wants to do something. Isn't this his father's life track?

Zhou Puyuan worked hard all his life and won? Model husband, model parents, philanthropist? Waiting for a series of praises, but he is still chasing the lost true love and living in the shadow of repentance. When his first love really appeared in front of him, he immediately changed his face and wanted to settle everything with money. On the one hand, he wants his drought-striken fields to recognize his mother; on the other hand, what does he want? Longing for family? , expel Lu Dahai. The image of a hypocritical, cold, sinister and vicious capitalist with strong feudal thoughts is vividly on the paper.

Similarly, if Lu Sifeng, Fan Yi and Mei Shiping are regarded as a person's youth, middle age and old age, it constitutes a relatively complete life of a bullied lower class woman.

Li Xiaoe, a teacher, now lives in Sanya, Hainan.