Author: Zhou Puyuan, the main character Cao Yu, the chairman of a coal mine company, 55-year-old wife Zhou, 35-year-old wife Zhou, 28-year-old, 65,438+07-year-old wife Park Yuan-yuan, a school maid, and 47-year-old servant Zhou Zhai. Lv Dahai, son of Park Won soon and Shi Ping, coal miner, 27[ Editor's paragraph] [Main content] One summer in the 1920s, the climate was sultry and depressing, there was no sunshine outside, the sky was dark, and a storm was coming. The owner of Zhoufu has been busy with official business because of dealing with the miners' strike, and has not seen his wife after returning home. Sifeng, the maid in the living room, is filtering medicine. Her father Gui Lu even drank and gambled yesterday and owed money to others. He had the cheek to ask his daughter for money. "If you don't give it, I'll make your affair with that gentleman public." Sifeng had no choice but to give him money to send him away. Gui Lu was so happy that he told Sifengjun Zhou Ping that he had an incestuous relationship with his stepmother Fan Yi. Just then, Fan Yi walked into the living room and asked Sifeng about Mr. Zhou Ping. When the wife asked, she became more nervous. The wife invited her mother again, wondering what she was worried about. At this moment, Fan Yi's son Zhou Chong came skipping. He told his mother that he wanted to give Sifeng half the tuition and let her go to school because he was madly in love with Sifeng. Just then, his drought-striken fields walked into the living room. He said that he would leave home tomorrow and go to the mine to talk to his father. His drought-striken fields are the children of Zhou Puyuan and a maid of his family. At that time, he was a gentleman of a feudal bureaucratic family and fell in love with Mei Shiping, the daughter of his servant Ma Mei. Shi Ping gave birth to two sons for him. Because Zhou's father didn't agree with this marriage, he was kicked out of the house on the third day after giving birth to his second child. She braved the snowstorm with her child in her arms and jumped into the river. Hou Zhou's family moved several times. Yi Fan is Zhou Puyuan's second wife. She is only seven years older than Zhou Ping. She is pale, with beautiful facial contour and melancholy eyes. She was neurotic and couldn't get any warmth, so she fell in love with the weak Zhou Ping. Fan Yi asked Sifeng's mother Ma Lu to let her take Sifeng away and get his drought-striken fields back. After lunch, the weather became more gloomy. His drought-striken fields went into the living room and made a sign. Sifeng ran in from the outside. They agreed to meet Sifeng at night 1 1. Fan Yi hopes that his drought-striken fields can be with him. She accused Zhou Ping of seducing her, so that her mother was not like her mother and her mistress was not like her mistress. Zhou Ping said coldly, "If you think you are not my father's wife, I will admit that I am my father's son." "I hope this conversation will be our last." She said to his drought-striken fields, "You can't just abandon me. I can't be bullied by the Zhou family for two generations. I want you to taste the power of a woman when she is injured. " Ma Lu, accompanied by Sifeng, went to the living room. She is Mei Shiping who threw herself into the river. She was not dead, but saved. Later, she was married twice, both of which were inferior. She never imagined that thirty years ago, she served master Zhou, and thirty years later, her daughter served master Zhou again. Zhou Puyuan walked into the living room, and Shi Ping's Wuxi accent caught his attention. After questioning, he recognized Shi Ping. Before that, he missed Shi Ping very much. Everything in the room was arranged according to Shi Ping's existence, but when Shi Ping stood in front of him, he snapped, "What are you doing here?" "Who sent you?" Shi Ping replied angrily: "Life, unfair life sent me here." Zhou Puyuan decided to settle their differences with money. Shi Ping tore a check for 5000 yuan in person, saying that she just wanted to meet his Pinger. Then the strike representative Lu Dahai broke in. He is the second son of Shi Ping and Zhou Puyuan. Zhou Puyuan took out the contract and prepared to return to work. It turned out that he used money to buy off several other strike representatives and prepared to expel Lu Dahai. Lu Dahai revealed angrily that when he was building the Harbin River Bridge, he deliberately let the levee go out of danger, drowned more than 3,000 workers and made a fortune. His drought-striken fields slapped Lu Dahai, and Shi Ping saw the fatal tragedy of his father and son. In the evening, there was lightning and thunder, and it was stormy. Zhou Chong's mother ordered her to send 100 yuan to Shi Ping. Sifeng refused to accept it, but Gui Lu had the cheek to accept it. Lu Dahai knew about it, returned the money to Zhou Chong with Gui Lu, and drove Zhou Chong out of the house. His drought-striken fields also came to lujia in the rain, and his drought-striken fields jumped into Sifeng's room from the window. Fan Yi, who followed him, closed the window and went into the room to get things. The sea found his drought-striken fields, and Sifeng fled in shame. Shi Ping and Lu Dahai came to Zhou Mansion to find Sifeng. Shi Ping wants to take Sifeng home. Sifeng had to tell Shi Ping the truth. It was like a bolt from the blue that she was pregnant with Zhou Ping's child. They are half brothers. At the pleading of Sifeng, she promised to let his drought-striken fields take Sifeng away and never see them again. Fan Yi took Zhou Chong to stop his drought-striken fields from taking away the four phoenixes, and Zhou Puyuan also heard the sound. He thought Shi Ping had come to recognize his son and asked his drought-striken fields to kneel down and recognize his birth mother. The harsh reality made Sifeng unbearable. She rushed to the garden and died when she touched a leaking wire. Zhou Chong was electrocuted to save her. His drought-striken fields shot himself, and two women went crazy. [Edit this paragraph] [Creation background] Thunderstorm was created on 1933. Two years ago, the September 18th Incident of Japanese invasion of China just broke out. The whole country set off an anti-Japanese upsurge. Cao Yu also actively participated in anti-Japanese propaganda. Lu Dahai in Thunderstorm is the shadow of a thoughtful and intelligent young worker Cao Yu met in Baoding. At that time, many excellent plays by Ibsen, a famous Norwegian writer, which exposed social darkness and pursued the liberation of human nature and women, had been introduced to China. Ibsen's thought had a great influence on Cao Yu. His graduation thesis in Tsinghua University was on Ibsen written in English. In addition, the plays of Shakespeare and ancient Greece also had a far-reaching influence on Cao Yu.