2. Source: Natsume Soseki's "I am a cat"
3. To express the loneliness and helplessness of life, you can only face the ups and downs of life alone.
Extended data
Creation background
In modern Japanese society, money rules everything, and Master Jintian is the "uncrowned king" of society. He has the ability to tell people that "people are born to be human and die to be human". "Cat" hit the nail on the head and said, "I understand now that it is really money that makes everything move. Except for capitalists, no one else can fully understand the function of money and exert its power flexibly. " Show the author's deep hatred for money, power and capitalists.
In the early Meiji period, Japan opened to the outside world and tried to absorb western civilization. People learn from the west with great enthusiasm, but this kind of learning is even more blind. As long as it is good, it will be copied, completely losing judgment and selectivity.
For example, in the past, although Japanese people also paid attention to health preservation and had requirements for diet and living environment, for most Japanese who lived by the sea since childhood, bathing in the sea was a very normal exercise. However, when a large number of western ideas spread to Japan, the Japanese began to re-examine it and regard it as a fashionable sport because of the westerners' admiration for this sport.
After the Russo-Japanese War, Japanese capitalism developed rapidly, the exploitation of the working class by capitalism became more and more serious, the class division became more and more serious, people's values also changed greatly, money became the object of people's competing pursuit, moral standards declined, and money worship became more and more serious.
I'm a Cat is a novel written by Natsume Soseki to vent his years of anguish and anger. It vividly reflects the thoughts and life of the middle and small bourgeoisie in Japan at the beginning of the 20th century and sharply exposes and criticizes the "civilized" capitalist society in Meiji period.
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