Diary of a Madman broke through the traditional techniques, boldly adopted the creative method of combining realism with symbolism, and formed a unique artistic effect. The combination of realism and symbolism is realized through the special artistic image of a madman in madness. A madman is first of all a real living madman, and this image is shaped by realistic methods. In "Crazy", the writer's description of madman's morbid psychology, "incoherent and absurd" thinking characteristics and language characteristics is accurate, true and vivid. Zuo Lu wrote all the details of this madman, without exception, all the symptoms of this "persecutor" patient. In his morbid thinking process, external things, from association and exaggeration to distorted reasoning, finally became absurd delusions. The work accurately describes the psychopathy of a madman, and can even stand the test of mental patients.
However, although the madman here is very realistic and a "real living madman", the real living madman here is only the author's borrowing the identity of "madman" and his "nonsense" to express the ideological theme of the novel. The madman here is symbolic, and its importance is only reflected in its symbolic meaning ("pioneer of enlightenment with distinctive personality") rather than "real madman" in the real sense.
Madness has successfully created a rich, complex and profound artistic image of a madman. Madman is a unique artistic image, which is both realistic and symbolic. The artistic image of a madman has rich practical significance, not because he is really a patient with "persecution delusion" who is vividly written, but because his works focus on describing the compulsive concept he has always shown in his persecution delusion, so that people can deduce how an intellectual with anti-traditional ideas (that is, a vivid and vivid enlightenment pioneer) is crazy because of the persecution of traditional forces through diseases. The reason why a madman becomes a madman is itself a feudal patriarchal clan system and etiquette.
The symbolic significance of madman's artistic image lies in the truth and justice contained in madman's advertisement, which is suggestive and stimulates people's association. Playing tricks on people's "abnormal" understanding of his environment gives people a magical hint and guides readers to see the true image of patriarchal clan system and ethical codes eating people for thousands of years in old China. The disguise of traditional forces covers up the evil of the old system and old ethics, and disguises deformity as the normal state of nature. Only the madman unscrupulously removed this disguise. The madman is regarded as a "pervert" by tradition, which sharply exposes the true face of history. Although the madman himself is not a strong and fearless warrior, his behavior can hint people to look at the growth of anti-traditional innovation forces in reality. In a deformed society dominated by traditional forces, the pioneers who tell the historical truth first are often regarded as deformed, and even wrongly labeled as crazy or crazy. This is the symbolic function of the madman image.
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