Drama "Thunderstorm" (2)

(4) The implicit beauty of lines can tolerate people's stupidity.

In Thunderstorm, subtext is everywhere, such as: "Are you ready?" Does this mean you are ready to run? Or are you going to get beat up? Another example is the scene where Zhou Puyuan and Shi Ping meet in the second act of Thunderstorm. When Zhou Puyuan didn't know that Shi Ping was standing in front of him, he showed a feeling of mourning and repentance. When he recognized Shi Ping, he exposed the truth of bourgeois hypocrite. He asked sternly, "What are you doing here?" "Who sent you?" These two sentences come from the subconscious, which have internal language and subtext. What are you doing here? The subtext has two meanings: first, you don't have to come here; The second is the threat. Are you trying to blackmail me? The last sentence is "Who told you to come?" The subtext is: It wasn't you, but Gui Lu must have ordered you to blackmail me. He is very afraid that his affair with Shi Ping will be discovered by his servant Gui Lu, which is a serious threat to his reputation and social status. The subtext of these two sentences plays an important role in expressing Zhou Puyuan's hypocritical character. Expressed the potential meaning through implicit language.

5. Exciting sense of stage

For example, in the first act of Thunderstorm, when Fan Yi appeared on the stage, she said, "At first sight, I knew she was a brave and feminine woman. Her face is pale, only her lips are reddish, and her big black eyes and high nose make people feel a little scared. ..........., her eyes will be filled with the pain and resentment of a young woman after disappointment. " "She is an old-fashioned woman in China. There are her weaknesses, her sadness, her ... her love for poetry, but she also has a more primitive wildness. " "She will love you like a hungry dog biting its favorite bone for three days. She will hate you like a vicious dog. No, she will eat you silently. However, her appearance is quiet and worried. She will fall gently beside you, like leaves on an autumn night. She feels that her summer has passed and the sunset in the western sky has dimmed. " Look at this stage trick. This has played a very good role in grasping Fan Yi's personality characteristics.

[6] profound poetry and lyricism.

Cao Yucha used the lyricism of language to build a mansion of his plays and poems. It can also be said that it is precisely because of the comprehensive application of some poetic language skills such as metaphor, symbol and implication that his dramatic language is lyrical. In Thunderstorm, Cao Yu likes to describe the appearance, personality and life experience of the characters he depicts, and explains and describes the scenes of the characters' lives in detail. This language, like narrative poetry, has a strong lyricism. Poetic language is lyrical, profound, thought-provoking and intriguing, and achieves the artistic effect of blending scenes. Cao Yu is by no means writing characters' lines in isolation and stillness, but letting the characters speak on the spot, closely linking the depiction of the characters' inner activities with the scene effect and the description of the scenery, which has a strong dramatic effect. Cao goes deep into the soul world of characters and is good at uncovering the mysteries of characters' hearts with artistic language. The lyricism of his drama language is manifested in the infiltration of characters' meticulous thoughts and feelings and tortuous emotional will in their psychological language and lyrical loneliness.

The characters in the play Thunderstorm introduced Zhou Puyuan.

The owner of Zhou Mansion, who came from a feudal family and studied in Germany, was a so-called "educated" person at that time. Thirty years ago, when he was a playboy. He gave birth to two sons with Shi Ping, a servant girl at home. Later, she abandoned the maid Ping and became more and more cunning and secular. When he was building a river bridge in Harbin, he deliberately let the levee burst and drowned 2200 coolies. He earned 300 yuan from every dead coolie. As Lu Dahai angrily condemned, he created "the ambiguous wealth of childlessness". Now, he colluded with the mine police and shot and killed thirty workers. He wears gold-rimmed glasses and leather shoes, just like the chairman of a coal mine company, but he drinks Pu 'er tea, eats vegetarian food and recites scriptures, which fully shows his hypocrisy. In family life, he behaves like a despot everywhere, and no one can disobey him. The scene of forcing Fan Yi to take medicine exposed his extremely cold and absolutely bossy face. But he regards these as his "care" and "love" for his wife and children. Because of this, he forbade his wife and children to have too much dissatisfaction with him. He is the culprit of all the tragedies in the family. Zhou Puyuan's bossy, selfish, cold and hypocritical personality and his conflicts with Fan Yi, Shi Ping and Hai vividly reflect the darkness and evil of the old family in old China, the complex class contradictions in semi-colonial and semi-feudal society and the feudal characteristics of the bourgeoisie in China. Zhou Puyuan's failure heralded the collapse and demise of the old system.

Fan Yi

Zhou Puyuan's wife, a beautiful but eccentric young woman. Fan Yi has become the plaything and vase of an imperious and selfish hypocrite. She can't get love, let alone happiness, and even lose her dignity as a human being. Fan Yi's eyes reveal melancholy. Sometimes the smoldering fire in my heart. Can burn her disappointed eyes full of pain and resentment. After Zhou Ping broke into her life, she no longer silently endured loneliness. She dedicated her love, reputation and even life to Zhou Ping. Regardless of "promiscuous relatives", she is madly in love with Zhou Ping. Her wild desires. Showing a primitive wildness. But not long after, her beloved Zhou Ping went to Sifeng to seek satisfaction. She was only "saved" temporarily, and now she is in the abyss of pain and misfortune. She can't stand the bullying and insults of her father and son. She wants revenge. When she fell to the point where "mother is not like mother, mistress is not like mistress", a thunderstorm-like character broke out. Finally, she dared to face Zhou Puyuan, exposing Zhou Ping's cheating and irresponsible behavior, and fighting the "trapped beast". Fan Yi's extreme character formation reflects the evil of feudal forces and exposes the destruction and distortion of human nature by feudal families under autocratic rule. Fan Yi lost everything in his desperate resistance and struggle for freedom of love, but it effectively tore and destroyed the "perfect" family order deliberately established by Zhou Puyuan, which impacted and promoted the collapse of the feudal kingdom.

Ma Lu (Lu Shiping)

Gui Lu's wife and Sifeng's mother. Thirty years ago, when she was only as big as four winds, she was cruelly abandoned by the husband of Zhou Mansion. She was forced to throw herself into the river with her youngest son who had just given birth for three days. After being rescued, she married Gui Lu and gave birth to her daughter Sifeng. In endless bitterness, it lasted for 30 years. In her old age, she has to face more cruel blows and disasters that she can't bear. Shi Ping found her daughter repeating her own mistakes in Zhou Mansion. She tried to avoid meeting Zhou Puyuan. But I can't avoid this kind of meeting, and I am even weak after meeting. Until Zhou Puyuan showed his cruel face. She woke up again, rekindled her hatred for Zhou Puyuan, and tore up a check for $5,000 drawn by Zhou Puyuan without hesitation. What makes Shi Ping more miserable is that she is eager to see her newborn son Zhou Ping, who has left her for thirty years. Unexpectedly, in front of her, she severely beat her younger brother, another son she took away, Lu Dahai. She wanted to take Sifeng out of Zhoufu, only to find that four winds was pregnant with another generation of gentleman in Zhoufu, and this person was four winds's half-brother. After suffering a series of unbearable blows, she couldn't help it anymore. She became stupid. Shi Ping's tragedy reflects the suffering and fate of humiliated, oppressed and lonely women in old China, and effectively accuses the dark and sinful reality of old China.

Ping Zhou

The eldest son, Zhou Junzi, was once a stepmother's lover. His spirit is humble, his will is weak, and he lacks the good character that ordinary people have. He once expressed his dissatisfaction with his father Zhou Puyuan's bossy behavior and disrespect for women. When Fan Yi called Sifeng an "inferior woman", he also showed his anger. SiFeng and Zhou Chong also sincerely praised him. Among Zhou Puyuan's three sons, he may all inherit his father's mantle. This gentleman from Zhoufu. She not only had an improper sexual relationship with her stepmother Fan Yi, but also made Sifeng, the servant girl, pregnant with his child. He is afraid of his father and public opinion. He is selfish and only cares about personal interests. He even neglected his responsibility to Fan Yi. He shot himself when he knew that it was his sister he cheated and raped.