1. Kong Yiji's image-building background.
The novel Kong Yiji is one of the representative works of Lu Xun's vernacular novels. The theme of the novel was chosen in the late Qing Dynasty, and the image of Kong Yiji was shaped in the Xianheng Hotel in Luzhen. By describing what happened in Kong Yiji's life and the people around him, Kong Yiji's tragic life is used to reflect the destruction and poison of feudal thoughts on people's spirit under the feudal decadent system. Kong Yiji, as the protagonist of the novel, described the life state of this character, and described the clothing, language and manners of the character in detail, which made the character vivid and vivid, and then used Kong Yiji's tragic life to allude to a kind of life state with weak human feelings and decadent thoughts under the feudal system.
2. Appreciation of Kong Yiji's characters
In this vernacular novel, the author Lu Xun describes the character's character mainly through the description of Kong Yiji's dress, language, portrait and mode of action, and the description of Kong Yiji's dress highlights the overall character characteristics of the character, that is, sloppy and lazy; In the description of portraits and expressions, the personality characteristics of the protagonist Kong Yiji can be vividly displayed, and the callousness and stubbornness of the bone marrow can truly reflect people's mental state at that time. The specific personality analysis is as follows:
Since Kong Yiji's appearance, the author has set up a stage for Kong Yiji's appearance-Xianheng Hotel in Luzhen, which shows the whole picture of Kong Yiji. It is written in the novel that Kong Yiji is the only one standing and drinking in a gown, which reflects Kong Yiji's social status in the social background at that time. Drinking standing up is because he has no social status and is poor. He belongs to the "short coat gang", but he wears a long coat. Judging from his love of putting on airs as a scholar, it shows that he has infinite yearning for the upper class and is also very proud.
From the description of Kong Yiji's appearance, we can see that Kong Yiji is a tall man. However, his face was pale, scarred, his beard was gray and his robe was worn out. In my eyes, it seems that he hasn't washed or mended it for more than ten years. In this sloppy image, we can see Kong Yiji's lazy character. Judging from Kong Yiji's usual tone of voice, he always procrastinates, but when he is caught stealing books, he argues that he is stealing instead of stealing. How can a scholar like him be stealing? From what he said, it is not difficult to see that Kong Yiji is a self-deceiving person, and his thoughts are too pedantic. But after Kong Yiji's leg was broken, when he came to this "stage", facing the ridicule of others, he still focused on maintaining his face and insisted that his leg was "broken", which reflected Kong Yiji's insensitive character. There is also a description in the novel: Kong Yiji opened his eyes and said, "How can you defile the innocence of others out of thin air?" This kind of language and expression also reflects Kong Yiji's pride, extreme fear of being laughed at by others and arguing for his dignity, which indirectly shows that Kong Yiji needs to be respected. At this time, his heart was extremely painful, but his personality made Kong Yiji unable to succeed in this meaningless struggle to some extent.
However, Kong Yiji also has a good side, and he also keeps his word. In the novel, he said that he taught his children to read and then gave them fennel beans, and he didn't default on drinks. If not, write it on the chalk board for the time being and return it within one month. This shows that there is a kind and trustworthy side in Kong Yiji's character. The article describes that when Kong Yiji gave fennel beans to the children, everyone gave one. When he asked for another one, Kong Yiji panicked and immediately covered the plate. The flustered modal movements are vividly described by the author, which reflects that although Kong Yiji is kind, he still can't get rid of pedantic character.
From a description of Kong Yiji's sudden change of face in the novel, it is described that when someone asks Kong Yiji, "Why can't even take out half a scholar?" Kong Yiji's face changed obviously, from depression to anxiety to a layer of gray on his face. When Kong Yiji was laughed at for stealing, he was arguing with others, but this time Kong Yiji's face suddenly changed, and there was no intention to save it in a few words. The reason is that being teased for stealing is just a physical scar, but the scholar's statement directly hurts Kong Yiji's self-esteem and is a sore spot in Kong Yiji's heart. Once the mental scars were uncovered, his depression, sadness and disappointment vanished. Thus, Kong Yiji's thought was deeply bound by the feudal education system, which led to his pedantic and rigid mind as a "scholar". This weakness is deeply rooted in Kong Yiji's bones, and he never had an epiphany before his death.
Kong Yiji, written by Lu Xun, is a man who lives at the bottom of feudal society and represents the spiritual outlook of working people written by Kong Yiji. This tragic figure has the weakness of poverty, pedantry, laziness and pride, and his spirit is too numb. But from Kong Yiji's life, speech and conversation, we can see that he still has a kind and upright side. But after all, living in a feudal society, influenced by feudal thoughts and education, he still can't escape the shackles of callousness, rigidity and pedantry. Spiritual weakness has become the shackles of his life, which has created his miserable life, alluding to the survival dilemma of the working people at the bottom of the feudal society, and indirectly proving to the world that the most difficult thing in life is not to eat enough, but to lack spirituality.