Can you talk about the artistic achievements of Lu Xun's Scream and Hesitation?
Scream and Wandering are two works with different concepts. Some people talk about the work literally, thinking that Wandering shows the author's pessimistic thoughts, while others quote the sentence of Lisao from the beginning of Wandering, thinking that this represents the starting point of the author's ideological change, so "I want to search up and down". In my opinion, both views are problematic. I don't think the world outlook expressed by the author in Scream and Hesitation is consistent, but the angle taken by the author when observing reality is obviously different. On the one hand, the author thinks that the proposition of the "new culture movement" at that time was not "thorough", but on the other hand, he thinks that anti-feudalism should be supported. It is at this point that he issued his "Scream", so "Scream" mainly shows how people oppressed and anesthetized by feudal forces live in pain and paralysis, and they are very anxious. What runs through their painful and paralyzed lives like a red line is their persistence in life, their exuberance and strength in life! They are "sons of the earth" coming out of the soil, bound in the soil and inseparable from the soil for life. In such people, the author sees the revolutionary power, but has not seen the revolutionary figures; This revolutionary force needs to be awakened, but after being awakened, it needs to be given "weapons" to fight. The author didn't see such a weapon among the "new culture activists" at that time, so he once said that it was doubly painful to be banned in a dark room after being awakened. However, the author finally issued a magnificent "cry". \x0d Wandering lies in the fact that the author witnessed the "split" of the "leaders" of the "New Culture Movement". On the one hand, it reveals compromise, on the other hand, it is also "changing", and social forces need someone to lead! But what about the young intellectuals awakened by the "New Culture Movement"? -under such questioning, "wandering" came into being. In this respect, it mainly shows those who wake up from the darkness, are full of grievances and resentment, but their hearts are empty, feeding their souls only by grievances and grievances, but at the same time they are burdened with the burdens of the old times, prejudice, ignorance, stubbornness, nihilism, adventurism, shortsightedness and cowardice. Such people are also revolutionary forces? Of course it is! They will become workers and organizers of the revolution. There are many enthusiastic and cheerful characters in Wandering, but these characters also have many defects. I dream of living a "trickling life" in the jungle of osawa in the deep mountains. In the past, there was also a man with deep defects, and so was the hero who changed from a hot pole to a cold pole. However, when the hero is angry and amuses himself, he still has "enthusiasm"-that is, he cherishes naive children, and modern people cannot be without defects, because modern people are descendants of the previous generation and those who have been oppressed for a long time, surrounded by unreasonable social system, prejudice and ignorance. However, the author does not think that this defect is "doomed", it is always like this; Because he doesn't believe this will never happen, he will mercilessly expose the causes and roots of these defects; Because he didn't believe it, he wrote his desire with "nothing". The sentence in Li Sao-"The road is long, Xiu Yuan is Xi, Xiu Yuan is Xi, and I will go up and down" is the hint of his desire. \x0d\ If we think the above explanation has some truth, then vagrancy should be regarded as the development of Scream and a more active exploration; It seems superficial to say that this is the culmination of the author's "pessimistic thoughts" and indicates a "change". \x0d\ So, the so-called "color of pessimistic thoughts" does not exist in Wandering and Scream? If not, then, what the author himself said in the preface of "Scream" and the author's comments on "medicine" elsewhere are completely negative? The answer is: no. Guy is not pessimistic that the people of China will finally be liberated. This is obvious after reading through Lu Xun's works, if we don't separate his works from everything in that era. \x0d\ But don't think that the ideological contents of Scream and Wandering are neatly divided into two sides like being cut by a knife. River water and well water are incompatible, and there are complicated places in the middle, even in an article. But the main tone, I think, is nothing more than the above. The characteristic of an artist's masterpiece is that the content is not pure, so it can't be strictly classified, which is a stupid thing. A person's ideological development is by no means like turning over a book, methodical and never repetitive. The image of an artist is regarded as You Ran's, so it is often dangerous to talk about it rigidly, that is, what class does it belong to, such as "Ah Q"? Or farmers, or rogue proletariat. However, I don't think it can be that simple. Ah Q is typical and has a strong sense of "settling down". It is naturally inappropriate to say that he is a typical farmer, but "settling down" does not mean the so-called rogue proletariat, and there are some characters that Ah Q does not have. Ah Q is not a snob, but he is not a knight either. Ah Q often resists, but forgets. Things have changed, and his sense of resistance has dissipated. The so-called "spiritual victory law" is a magic weapon. On the one hand, it can be regarded as a symbol of the unyielding spirit of the oppressed after their resistance failed. However, it is not "slave philosophy" that paralyzes the sense of struggle. In The True Story of Ah Q, this so-called "spiritual victory method" is satirized as "slave philosophy". In other places, Lu Xun has repeatedly opposed this so-called "spiritual victory law." Ah Q is an immortal model because it is not simple, but it is so complicated. X0d on Mao Dun in Lu Xun's Scream and Hesitation