Chapter 44 Reading Notes Art Revenge

Revenge of Art--Reading Lu Xun Some literary works of Mr. Lu Xun ( For example)'s breakthrough, and this article, has reached the pinnacle of this creation. The theme of the novel is revenge, but there are clearly two kinds of revenge in the text, reminiscent of Borges' "The Garden of Forking Paths".One is the revenge of the superficial structure, and this kind of revenge is the revenge of family affection and morality.That is, the king killed Meijianchi's father, and Meijianchi was determined to avenge his father. After going through twists and turns, with the help of the black man, he finally got his wish.Beneath this vengeance lies another unfathomable, essential vengeance.That is to say, the only way out for people to take revenge is to take revenge on themselves.The world is full of scars and hatred is everywhere. The sins committed by the human body against the soul are extremely serious. Man has been crushed by these sins, and the cause of man's sins is precisely man's desire, that is, life itself. Therefore, it is impossible for a person who cannot move to take revenge on the outside.To take revenge on oneself is to mobilize the primordial power, split the soul into several irreconcilable parts, let them start a bloody fight with each other, experience the impossible love in this fight, and finally let them become you There is me in me, and you in me, to achieve that kind of dialectical unity.This second kind of revenge is the real core of the story, the artistic spirit that we have neglected.In order to carry out this spiritual revenge, the soul is divided into three, so that the thrilling story takes place among the three (the black man, the eyebrow, and the king).

As soon as Mei Jianchi came to this world, the pattern of revenge in his previous life was already set up for him: his father was killed by the king, and he must take revenge; but the king is absolutely unattainable, because he is suspicious by nature, Old and cunning, and under heavy protection, revenge became impossible.When the protagonist walks into this unsolvable contradiction and sharp conflicts arise, black people appear as guides.He pointed out to Mei Jianchi a completely different, even opposite road of revenge. He raised Mei Jianchi's realm to a higher level, and made Mei Jianchi abandon his body and embark on the journey of no return with him.In this way, the youth and blood condensed into the severed head, which was extremely light, brave and fearless, and moved forward to the depths of the gloom.

Because Meijianchi was born in a fatal contradiction, his own character is born with a fatal "flaw", that is, compassion or love, which is the nature of human beings.In order to realize his love for his father, he must suppress his sympathy and become a hard-hearted and ruthless killer, but with his nature, he definitely cannot become a killer, so his revenge plan failed completely at the very beginning .The story turns here, and the tear in Mei Jianchi's heart begins, and a pattern of love and hate permanently confronting each other in the soul is formed.The black man told Mei Jianchi that if he wanted to truly avenge the king, he had to regard his own body as the king, restart the whole plan with self-inflicted suicide, and carry out that kind of "head-for-head" copulation to achieve the true unity of love and hatred .As he sang in his song:

He uses a hundred heads, a thousand heads, ten thousand heads! I have nothing to do with one head. This is the essential difference between old-fashioned vengeance and black man's vengeance. Obviously, Mei Jianchi is an individual with rational understanding in reality, his situation is desperate, and his way out is to constantly understand through the passionate, love and hate impulses in his body.The black man is the vague but pure ideal self.The black man came from "Wenwen Township" (void), and he wanted to realize himself with the love, blood and hatred of Mei Jianchi, and staged a good show of revenge.Meijianchi needs to use black people to elevate itself from the filth to a "different place", so that the worldly love and hate can be sublimated into a "blue light" that will never disappear in the universe.What is difficult for readers to understand is the image of Wang. Seeing those external descriptions of "evil", it is easy for ordinary people to associate him with a certain social identity. However, such novels have other intentions.Seriously reflect on the "evil" elements in the king-greed, selfish love, tyrannical cruelty, etc., aren't they the common nature of human beings? Mr. Lu Xun endowed individuals in society with such a terrible image , It can be seen that he is cruel and decisive to himself, and deeply desperate for the human situation (of course, the situation of the Chinese people first).Therefore, the image of the king is the self in the old human nature that lacks self-awareness. He is full of passion for love (love green sword), but also cruel and sinister, showing murderous intent everywhere.He kills for love, and once he falls in love with something (person or thing), he must be accompanied by killing.The image of Meijianchi is the embodiment of the awakened new humanity, the kind of self with sharp contradictions and continuous development.In the early days, he also planned to kill people out of love (love for his father), but soon changed from blind impulse to conscious understanding, thus changing the nature of revenge.As for the image of the black man, it is the potential possibility in human nature, the embodiment of the human spirit, and the self on the artistic level.He is the essence of Mei Jianchi's soul, and also the ghost that haunts Wang's heart and was killed by him long ago.Driven by fate, these three people finally meet in the boiling water of the Golden Cauldron, and a life-and-death bite reveals the image of the inner war in the soul.Before this glorious picture appeared, it was the awakened spirit singing loudly:

Wang Ze is flowing and eloquent, Overcome the enemy, the enemy is overcome, he is strong, The universe is endless and life is boundless. Fortunately, I am also green! Qing Qi Guang Xi will never forget each other. Different places, different places, majestic! Majestic, royal, oh, oh, oh, Come and come back, come and accompany Lai Xi Qing Qiguang! The horn of battle sounded, and the flesh of Mei Jianchi, who had been reduced to a head by the black people, wanted to achieve that deadly pleasure by killing himself in the battle.He will cooperate with the black people, fight with the king in the boiling water, kill the king, and completely confuse their own flesh with the king, and finally completely destroy the flesh and rise to the realm of pure spirit.Fighting is terrible, pain is pleasure, hatred is love, gnawing is becoming one, the king is me, I am the king, and annihilation is rebirth.The connotation of the soul is extremely rich, and no one can exhaust it.Such a spectacular unity, a terrifying reunion, is the realm of art.Only an artist of incomparable courage dares to stage this hellish vengeance on fire and in boiling water, and in a country full of honest men, such things are really difficult to conceive.The obscene ditty "Ai Ai yo" in the song is Mei Jianchi's groan before he wants to have sex with the king. The king is not only the object he wants to surpass, but also the foundation of his existence. To bite the king is to bite himself, the interweaving of hate and love Exciting him to the extreme, the flying of the creative spirit and the ugly struggle of life will happen at the same time.Without the obscenity of "ai ai yo", there will be no magnificence and magnificence of "magnificence". The broad soul can accommodate everything in human nature.The "return" here is by no means the "root-seeking" return of the Chinese people, but to accompany "Qingguang" to sublimate the spirit to "a different place" when reuniting with the king.

The secret of this vengeance was revealed by a passage from the black man: "I have known your father as I have always known you. But I want revenge, but not for this. Tell you, wise boy. Don't you know how good I am at revenge. Yours is mine and he is I. I have so many wounds in my soul that I have inflicted, that I loathe myself!" Mei Jianchi didn't fully understand the meaning of the black man's words, but in the deepest part of the boy's heart, something must have shaken him, because the black man had spoken out his instinct (the instinct to live), and before him There is only one dead end.So he resolutely obeyed his instinct and set out to create something he had never created before.Black people are cold on the outside, but they have true love and fraternity in their hearts.He has an insight into the nature of human beings, and knows that when people are alive, there will be hatred and harm. He regards this as a living situation, and has long since forgiven everything in his heart.But forgiving everything does not mean that he no longer cares about it. He puts every grievance on his own account, and is determined to take on the mission of revenge.There is a qualitative difference between black people's love and Meijianchi's love (even more, Dawang's love).It can be imagined that when Mei Jianchi experienced the setbacks of narrow revenge, he was anxious, depressed, and dissatisfied with himself. If the black man did not appear, he would linger outside the palace for a long time, and he would have a deep disgust for all of this. It is the logic of his character development.The black man appeared in time, and a new hope appeared in Mei Jianchi's desperate situation. The black man told him the true meaning of love and hatred, and from then on, the blind impulse turned into a conscious pursuit.

The contradiction faced by Meijianchi and the contradiction faced by Wang are actually two stages of the same thing.Mei Jianchi loves his parents and sympathizes with mice. His love is manifested as kindness, but this kind of kindness cannot last in life alone (unless a person stays in the infant stage). To become a real person, the soul must be split.The premise of Meijianchi's father being killed is the fate that people face, that is, revenge makes human love (goodness) impossible, but without love and compassion, people are no longer human.The only thing Mei Jianchi can do in the iron circle of fate is to let his soul collide violently, because he cannot lack love and sympathy, nor can he lack hatred and evil, and both sides of the contradiction are equally powerful.It is entirely conceivable that he, who had sympathized with the evil mouse, still felt that kind of pain when he bit the king's head, and this pain was his pleasure.Besides the king himself, he was hated because of his love.Because he loved Qingjian too deeply and killed someone, and if he was hated by others, he hated too deeply.Wang's love appears in an evil and exclusive form. This kind of stupid love without self-awareness can't last in life. He is surrounded by hatred, and what he faces is the destruction of his own body, because he has no soul. split.These two people embody not only the level of the human soul but also the stages of human development in time.The black man is the embodiment of the highest level of human nature. Although he looks similar to the ideal, it does not eliminate the internal contradictions. His contradictions are more acute than Meijianchi.He looks black and thin and sharp, his eyes are like two points of phosphorous fire, and the dead fire burning in his chest for thousands of years, he has a kind of hunger for revenge.Why revenge? Just because love is too deep, too obsessed, just because this love cannot be achieved alone.To achieve love requires revenge, and he is a veteran at it, and he also knows that thin, loveless hatred (such as Mei Jianchi's hatred for the king) will not solve the problem, and Mei Jianchi relies on him to elevate him.His shrill singing voice enlightens people: True love is a matter of losing one's head, love and blood are inseparable, and gloomy, cold-blooded killing scenes will reveal the melody of love.After he conveyed this spirit to the head of Dingdi Meijianchi, he aroused the passion of the head, and a new humanity was born in the raging fire and boiling water.The vocation of black people is by no means to quell conflicts, but to provoke sinister wars.He enjoyed the great pleasure in suicide, sang reunion songs in killing, he promoted the ancient revenge to a pure art, and gave new meaning to the eternal theme of revenge.His realm is the realm of art and humanity.

The process of Meijianchi's character development is the process of internal contradictions unfolding.The incident between him and the rat at the beginning of the story is really an exercise in his relationship with people.Meijianchi is naturally careful, sensitive, and sympathetic. When this temperament deals with the conflict with the mouse, his own conflict also unfolds.The mouse is abominable from the inside to the outside, but it is also a life like him, and it will have the same survival instinct as him when it encounters a catastrophe. Nature.But this kind of sympathy is a big taboo. As long as the mouse lives, it will continue to do evil to him, so he kills the mouse and commits an unforgivable crime to his soul.Blood flowed from the corner of his mouth, a life died under his brutal feet, Mei Jianchi's sorrow was indescribable, and he couldn't find a solution to his inner conflict.Then his mother told him the terrible past, hoping that he would change his gentle temperament and avenge his father.On the spur of the moment, Mei Jianchi also blurted out "I have changed my Yourou's disposition, and I want to use this sword to take revenge!" Such words.But "the country is easy to change, but the nature is difficult to change", the softness of Mei Jianchi is his nature.With such a temperament, he is destined to be unable to deal with the relationship with people, because this relationship is much more difficult than the relationship with mice, and he himself, "evil" (revenge) and "good" (sympathy) in his The heart is always ebb and flow, evenly matched.So after he made a promise to his mother, he still couldn't fall asleep. It didn't look like he had changed Yourou's temperament at all, and his mother's disappointment was inevitable.Born with the personality of an artist, how can he take revenge in the secular world? Then he saw the enemy, his heart burned, and he was about to rush forward immediately.Fate did not let him succeed, but instead he was entangled by those troublemakers and couldn't escape.With his temperament, he was afraid of accidentally injuring someone with a sword on his back, so how could he go to violence against the unscrupulous people? So he saw a chance of revenge come to nothing.In vain was moved, and the kindness in my heart prevailed again. Thinking of my mother, the tip of my nose became sore, and my appearance looked even more unsuitable for a killer.The Negro came and told him that vengeance was impossible and that his own life was in question because the king was coming for him.Mei Jianchi fell into sadness again, it seems that this revenge is no longer for himself, but mostly for his mother.How does the black man shape Mei Jianchi? The black man does not want Mei Jianchi to be a ruthless killer, nor does he want him to be a moaning sentimentalist, he wants his head.With this head, he can push Mei Jianchi's inner conflict to the extreme, that is, love to the extreme and hate to the extreme.He had long seen that Meijianchi was just that kind of material—a material for experimenting with his own body.It should be said that black people are Mei Jianchi's predestined development model. If Mei Jianchi develops according to his model, he will not only retain all the original character, but will not perish spiritually.Meijianchi, whose body was removed and only the head was left, really changed, the obstacles disappeared, and the light head became daring to love and hate, neither cold nor sentimental.Because in front of the highest judgment seat, everyone is equal and the same, biting is also copulation at the same time, people experience the pain of the bones, the pleasure of dizziness, but no longer have the fear before committing evil and the sadness after committing evil, worldly. Hatred and love have thus been transformed in this extreme form.The weight on the eyebrows was relieved, the emotions were released, and he smiled and closed his eyes.This time, he didn't have to worry about the king's death anymore, because his head had merged with him, and the king became himself.

Chinese people who are nourished by the culture of "harmony between man and nature" are most afraid of this splitting of the soul. Therefore, Mr. Lu Xun's side as a pure artist has been covered up and distorted by some intentions for a long time. The model of fixed explanation has not been broken for a long time.What I feel ashamed of my husband is that I let his lonely soul wander in the desert for a long time, and never met the same kind.I hope this short article will promote new exploration and research on Lu Xun's literature.