Lu Xun Short Stories

After reading Lu Xun Short Stories

I have chosen Lu Xun's "The dairy of a madman" to think and talk about. This article showed readers an obvious resist emotion. From a normal people and a small environment, I can see the real background and most people like at that time. The article can be said that it was a critical essay, it exposed many problems of the feudal system and moral codes. Through a small potato, the author told the story to us by the first person and showed very crazy thoughts and behaviour of this person in order to demonstrate the innate character of feudal problem. 

In the article, the most important problem is showing the strong spirit of rebellion and change under the control of feudal system and oppression. Face to the problem of traditional thoughts that have been continued and kept for over thousands years, there existed an query--whether it is true. This kind of voice implied the people's progress of thoughts and resist. As a crazy men ,he could think of many crazy thoughts and have many mad behavior, but actually he stood at the front of everyone. He was a really beginner of against feudalism and the feudal family system. He doubted, he judged, he feared, and  he rejected. "Eat" is a symbol, it also can be treated as a evidence of feudal problem. "Maybe there are still some infants that have not yet eaten men. Save, save the infants..." This sentence existed at the end in the article, and it demonstrated the crazy man's wish to the future and his planning to the following society. He hoped that there won't be "eaten" more. The men in reality, the men in culture, they are all guilty but only infants, they are pure, they have not contaminated by the "eating men", there's only one future and in order to have a good future, the only way is to save children, to protect children.

I think the article implied another problem--how to save the children. But there is no doubt that the answer is obvious and direct. To save children, to have a good future, it needs to take off the coat of feudal system, to change people's traditional wrong thoughts. That's what the reading raised that I want to talk further. At that time, the society was under control of traditional feudalism and too many ignorant people still believe in the old and traditional ethnical rules like Confucian ideology, just a little people understood that the most important thing was to overthrow the traditional feudalism and also were willing to stood up to support  change and improve country dark and feudal situation. Before children were not controlled and influenced by feudal ideology, teach them the newest thoughts and knowledge.