An analysis of Lin Daiyu's fate

A Dream of Red Mansions is a tragic work, which mainly describes many women with unusual knowledge. Among them, The Fate of Twelve Women is the most profound, refined, detailed and detailed tragedy. The heroic and spacious Xiangyun finally died in Chu, and the exploration of literary talent in spring is inevitable. For example, the wonderful jade of the blue beauty is stuck in the mud, and the charming and beautiful Baochai can't escape the gold. So, how did Lin Daiyu's tragic fate come into being?

What kind of situation a person's life will present is determined by her own personality, the times she lives in, the development and changes of her emotions, the pursuit of ideals and the environment she lives in. This paper attempts to analyze Lin Daiyu's tragic fate from her growing process.

First, her unique personality laid her tragic fate.

Erickson, a psychologist, believes that if a child is not raised by loving parents, he will be ignored, abandoned and even hostile, thus causing psychological conflicts. When he grows up, he will distrust others and the surrounding environment, especially himself, and feel constant anxiety. Therefore, whether the child's mind is traumatized or not, the most important thing is whether the child has been carefully cared for and nurtured, and has not been neglected and abandoned. [1](P 134) Lin Daiyu's lonely life experience and living environment caused her deep anxiety, and the elimination of this emotion led to her uniqueness.

Although Lin Daiyu's family came down, when she was young, her parents regarded her as the apple of her eye and took care of her. But after she was six years old, her life changed a lot. Her parents died one after another and she was forced to live under the fence. The grief of losing her loved ones, the change of living area from south to north, and the strange environment gave her a feeling of uneasiness and instability. In the new environment, she has vaguely felt the changes in the environment and the attitudes of others towards her. At this time, no one around her can communicate with her, or as her reliance, Sister Wang and Xue Yan Dou she brought can't protect her very well, and no difficulties in life can count on the help of close people. This is unbearable for Daiyu. Daiyu was once regarded as the apple of her eye, so she always looked aloof and arrogant in the Grand View Garden, half of which was the pride of her real talent and half of which was fake. She is afraid of being laughed at, and the girl's self-esteem does not allow others to despise herself. She wants to protect herself.

Lin Daiyu has nothing but a strong desire for love. Although she is not practical in a strange environment, Jia's love gives her some comfort. An adult Jia Baoyu is her spiritual support. Because of Baoyu, her heart has a little peace in a strange environment. However, this stable life was soon broken. Xue Baochai, a beautiful and virtuous opponent, appeared. Since then, Lin Daiyu has been haunted by a new anxiety factor. This time, the anxiety is stronger than the anxiety of being in a strange environment before. If the previous anxiety was caused by being thrown into a strange environment, then this time it is the anxiety that something that belongs to you will be taken away.

Lin Daiyu was overwhelmed by "good words". Her spirit is always in a tense and sensitive state. Because her parents died young, feudal ethics had little influence on her, and she was always thinking about her future. This kind of anxiety makes her pay more attention to herself than the surrounding environment and people she doesn't trust, so she has no scruples when expressing her emotions. Her growing experience and loneliness in life, as well as her fate can not be independent, present an uncertainty. Existentialism believes that uncertainty, as a special form of existential fear and anxiety, will always be transformed into certainty through human efforts. [2](P 138)

When she encounters some uncertain factors and is deeply threatened, she often chooses an introverted and self-enclosed way to experience and chew, and repeatedly thinks about her life experience and mistakes in past behavior. Her usual situation is: nothing to do, not frowning, or tears streaming down her face, and I don't know why, it's better to cry because she often sighs. At first, someone advised him, or he was afraid that he would miss his parents and hometown. He was wronged and had to comfort him with words. Who knows this often happens in January of the following year? I'm used to it, and I don't even have a theory.

"Self-pity and self-sighing" is a way to show Lin Daiyu's anxiety and also a way to eliminate it. No one else can enter or share.

Tears and crying are one way for her to get rid of melancholy, worry and anxiety, and the other way is poetry. She wrote all her feelings about life in poetry, which became her spiritual sustenance.

She often sighs with tears and writes poems, which is the road to self-retirement and self-closure. But at night, she couldn't stay during the day because of insomnia. During the day, she has to face either fake love or people behind the scenes, so she hides her helplessness in a strange environment. She can't tolerate others' contempt for herself. She said to Zhou Rui's family who sent palace flowers, "If others don't pick the rest, they won't give it to me." She doesn't even look at those humble people, so everyone says she is headstrong and arrogant. Sometimes sharp words, sometimes crying, giving people a feeling of "children".

Her love of crying, willfulness, pride, sentimentality, cowardice and meanness have all become the shortcomings of the people around her, and her personality is not liked by others and tolerated by the world. And her self-esteem made her never allow herself to give in to others and the environment. The contradiction between her personality and environment is the main factor of her tragic fate.

Secondly, the feudal ethics determined her tragic fate.

Feudal ethics thought that "a woman without talent is virtue", and The Romance of the West Chamber and The Peony Pavilion are all obscene rhetoric, so young men and women should not read them. For these requirements, Lin Daiyu rarely does. She always shows her talents at any time and place, saying that The Romance of the West Chamber and The Peony Pavilion are all "exquisite words and fragrant flowers", but she sings casually in public.

Lin Daiyu often does not sew. She reads and writes poems in the "excellent study room" of Xiaoxiang Pavilion every day. Her poems are always devoted, passionate and sincere. She boldly reveals her inner feelings with poems, showing her arbitrary and arrogant personality.

Feudal ethics thought that young men and women should abide by the marriage system of "parents' orders and matchmakers' words", that is, they must obey their parents' orders and have matchmakers' words, regardless of the feelings of the parties, in order to form a marriage. What Lin Daiyu pursues is beautiful love with blood in her heart and tears in her eyes. Daiyu's heart is on Baoyu, arguing and probing with Baoyu, and repeatedly fighting against the "golden jade words" is a kind of rebellion against the "parents' matchmaker words".

Although Lin Daiyu can't help showing her deep affection for Baoyu from time to time, she lived in that era after all. When Baoyu sometimes forgets to say, "You are an affectionate lady, how can you make the bed?" Or sometimes pulling her hand, Daiyu will turn her face and say that Baoyu makes fun of her and doesn't respect her. Her psychology is also suppressed and influenced by the whole ethical code. But later, after quarreling and probing, Baodai has become soul mates and got to know each other. Baoyu was beaten and gave her two old handkerchiefs. In her view, this private token transfer is a great progress. This is a quite bold action, which broke through the shackles imposed on her by feudal ethics to a certain extent.

However, the authorities in Jia's house don't care about Bao Dai's feelings. They followed the times, followed the golden jade marriage, and finally ruined a life as beautiful as flowers and jade.

It violates the feudal creed that "a woman without talent is a virtue" and "parents' orders and matchmakers' words", which is obviously another important factor that caused Lin Daiyu's tragedy.

Thirdly, the pursuit of pure love accelerated her tragic fate.

Lin Daiyu, who is lonely and dependent on others, doesn't love women's red, but only likes to sing poems. He is not good at winning people's hearts, but is clever and arrogant. In the Grand View Garden, few people really love her, and few people are attracted by her eyes. Therefore, she is lonely. She is full of worries and worries. Who should she tell?

Sue Xue Baochai, encounter different, different ideas; Shi Xiang Xiangyun, she is not around; As for Mrs. Jia, although she cares about Daiyu, she is surrounded by people and cannot always take care of Daiyu. After shaking his head and sighing, fortunately, there is also a Baoyu who lived in a place, played in a place and was awkward in a place. The collision and running-in of two hearts made them gradually discover the same things from each other. This discovery is mixed with intuition and emotion. When they tried to argue, they finally had a heart-to-heart, they felt the same heart, and they also experienced an unforgettable love. During their love period, it is a big problem whether to read books or not and what kind of books to read. Fortunately, on this issue, Baoyu and Daiyu have acquired * * * knowledge in tangible and intangible ways. They are not interested in the four books, but they all like to read books like The West Chamber. With the convergence of spiritual life, they found each other enjoying a spiritual world connected by * * *, where they all got warmth and comfort.

But although they have love, they can't have marriage. At that time, the marriage followed "parents' orders and matchmakers' words" and paid attention to "matching the right family", while Lin Daiyu insisted on pursuing her own happiness, which was against the feudal ethics and was intolerable by those who maintained it, such as Jia Mu and others. Moreover, some of them are against it out of selfishness. Such as Mrs. Wang, xiren, Xifeng and others. Baochai's love tragedy ended with Daiyu's tearful death, the combination of firewood and jade, and finally the "golden jade marriage" defeated the "wood-stone alliance". .

The pursuit of love, the giving of love, and the getting of love can only accelerate the early death of Daiyu without the company of love.

Fourthly, the decline of feudal family completed her tragedy.

After Lin Daiyu's parents died, she lived in her grandmother's house, a noble family-Jiafu. When she first arrived in Jiafu, Jiafu was still a bustling scene, and gradually this aristocratic family began to show a declining trend. In the process of decline, the author created several women who were "in the same family" and took some remedial measures, such as the funeral of Xi-feng and the family management, all of which were remedies and remedies for the crumbling Jia family. However, Jia Fu is still a hopeless ending.

In the process of remedy, Baoyu's marriage is also a remedy. Jia Baoyu hates stereotyped writing, does not seek fame and fortune, and values affection over ceremony. Lin Daiyu has no money, no virtue, loneliness, infirmity and arrogance. Their marriage is not in the interests of the Jia family. Xue Baochai strictly abides by feudal norms and often persuades Baoyu to read four books about his official career. Besides, Xue is healthy, gentle, well-connected and comes from the imperial business. Therefore, the feudal parents chose Xue Baochai, who has both ability and political integrity, as the candidate of Bao Er's grandmother, hoping to "persuade" Baoyu to take the official career economy and change the fate of Jia's decline. In this way, the true love between Bao and Dai was destroyed, and Dai's "red disappears and the fragrance is broken, and the soul hates the sky" has become a sacrificial object to save the decline of Jia's family.

In addition, although the sincere love between Bao Dai and Bao Dai is valuable, their love is based on Jia Fu, a big feudal family. Although Lin Daiyu has advanced ideological pursuit and made a step forward than her contemporaries, she is a member of the feudal aristocracy after all. As a noble lady, she can't carry it on her shoulders or hands, and everything needs service. Her daily life and diet depend entirely on this big family. It is precisely because she is a noble family that she has time to read and write poems every day to cultivate her temperament and "sleep every day"; It was the Jia family who built a villa for the provincial relatives, so that she and Baoyu had a grand view garden that was less ruled by feudal thoughts, and sincere feelings could be generated and developed in the grand view garden. So what they are fighting against is exactly what they rely on.

Imagine that Baodai's love has won, Mu's marriage has been realized, and Jia's family has declined and is dying. Are their love and marriage still happy? This will undoubtedly be another tragedy.