A Brief Introduction to the Story of Thunderstorm

A Brief Introduction to the Story of Thunderstorm

Sifeng is Zhou's maid. Zhou Ping? Zhou is half-brother. Also fell in love with Sifeng. Zhou Pingben and Fan Yi? (that is, Zhou's mother)? Having an affair Since secretly falling in love with Sifeng? I will no longer pay attention to Fan Yi. Fan Yi's heart is broken. Fan Yi knew that Zhou Chong liked Sifeng. Invite Four Fung's mother, Ma Lu, as a guest. I hope Ma Lu will take Sifeng away at once. When did Ma Lu leave? But I met Master Zhou. I didn't know I worked in Zhou's house thirty years ago. Master is pregnant with Zhou Ping and the sea? But eventually abandoned, Ma Lu and the sea remarried to Gui Lu. Four phoenixes were born. Therefore, Ma Lu hates his master. I plan to take Sifeng away from Zhou's home. Sifeng is pregnant. Let Zhou Ping take her away? How much does Ma Lu want to faint? What about now? Only two people are advised to go. Can Fan Yi stop his drought-striken fields from leaving? Shake out the intricate relationship between everyone. Zhou Ping and Sifeng made a big mistake. Zhou Ping committed suicide by swallowing a gun. Sifeng electrocuted herself. In order to save Sifeng, Zhou Chong was electrocuted.

Brief introduction to drama

Cao Yu, a playwright, began to brew characters and conceive scripts from 1929, and finally finished the creation of Thunderstorm from 1933, which was published the following year. It took five years before and after. Although it was Cao Yu's first drama, it became an instant hit, shook the literary world, became a classic in the history of modern literature, and was hailed as "the cornerstone of China's drama realism". Out of an "urgent need for emotion" and "looking down on this group of people on the ground with a feeling of compassion", the author analyzes the deep evils of society and history through two families who are inextricably linked in ethical blood.

Thunderstorm shows a great tragedy of life and is a cruel trick of fate on people. Autocratic, hypocritical parents, enthusiastic, simple young people, charming women who are carried away by love, constantly chauffeured who regret their sins but unconsciously commit more crimes, as well as family secrets and life secrets, all of which broke out on a thunderstorm night. Guilty people and innocent people go to destruction together. Cao Yu vented his pent-up resentment and vilified China's family and society in an extremely stormy way. ? Thunderstorm is really a brilliant work, which is perfect in dramatic art. First of all, drama is conflict. The conflict setting in Thunderstorm has reached the extreme in its own characteristics. The dramatic conflict in Thunderstorm has the symptoms of summer thunderstorm. Secondly, Thunderstorm successfully shaped the characters in the play. If there are no unforgettable characters in a play, then no matter how fierce the plot conflict is, it is only a temporary excitement.

The characters in Thunderstorm are plump and complicated. ? Thunderstorm has a poetic beauty. This is not only because of the beauty of the words, but also because of the poetry of the characters in the play, or it can be said that all this, including stage tips and role analysis, is a metaphysical temperament and taste.

Thunderstorm reveals many aspects of human nature by describing the complicated relationship between Zhou and Lu. No matter which role, there is a sad and hateful side.

Note: The works are often misunderstood as exposing the ugliness of capitalism because of the struggle between the working class and the bourgeoisie and the construction of such a tragic story against the background of capitalist families. This is not Mr. Cao Yu's original intention, please interpret it in depth. ?

job responsibility

One summer in the 1920s, the climate was sultry, there was no sunshine outside, the sky was dark, and a storm was coming. The owner of Zhoufu has been busy with official business because of dealing with the miners' strike, and has not seen his wife after returning home. Sifeng, the maid in the living room, is filtering medicine. Her father Gui Lu even drank and gambled yesterday and owed money to others. He had the cheek to ask his daughter for money. "If you don't give it, I'll make your affair with that gentleman public." Sifeng had no choice but to give him money to send him away. Gui Lu was so happy that he told Sifengjun Zhou Ping that he had an incestuous relationship with his stepmother Fan Yi. Just then, Fan Yi walked into the living room and asked Sifeng about Mr. Zhou Ping. When his wife asked, Sifeng became more nervous. His wife invited her mother again. She didn't know what Ann was worried about.

At this moment, Fan Yi's son Zhou Chong came skipping. He told his mother that he wanted to give Sifeng half the tuition and let her go to school because he was madly in love with Sifeng. Just then, his drought-striken fields walked into the living room. He said he would leave home tomorrow to talk to his father in the mine.

His drought-striken fields were born to Zhou Puyuan and one of his maids. At that time, Zhou Puyuan was a gentleman of a feudal bureaucratic family, and he fell in love with Mei Shiping, the daughter of his servant Ma Mei. Shi Ping gave birth to two sons for him. Because Zhou's father didn't agree to this marriage, Shi Ping was kicked out of the house on the third day after giving birth to her second child. She braved the snowstorm with her child in her arms and jumped into the river. Hou Zhou's family moved several times.

Yi Fan is Zhou Puyuan's third wife. She is only seven years older than Zhou Ping? /kloc-She is 0/8 years old, with pale face, beautiful facial contour and melancholy eyes. She was neurotic and couldn't get any warmth, so she fell in love with the weak Zhou Ping. Fan Yi asked Sifeng's mother Ma Lu to let her take Sifeng away and get his drought-striken fields back.

After lunch, the weather became more gloomy. His drought-striken fields went into the living room and made a sign. Sifeng ran in from the outside. They agreed to meet Sifeng at night 1 1. Fan Yi hopes that his drought-striken fields can be with her. She accused Zhou Ping of seducing her, making her mother not like her mother and her mistress not like her mistress. Zhou Ping said coldly, "If you think you are not my father's wife, I will admit that I am my father's son." "I hope this conversation will be our last." She said to his drought-striken fields, "You can't just abandon me. I can't be bullied by the Zhou family for two generations. I want you to taste the power of a woman when she is injured. "

Ma Lu, accompanied by Sifeng, went to the living room. She is Mei Shiping who threw herself into the river. She was not dead, but saved. Later, she was married twice, both of which were inferior. She never imagined that thirty years ago, she served master Zhou, and thirty years later, her daughter served master Zhou again.

Zhou Puyuan walked into the living room, and Shi Ping's Wuxi accent caught his attention. After questioning, he recognized Shi Ping. Before that, he missed Shi Ping very much. Everything in the room was arranged according to Shi Ping's existence, but when Shi Ping stood in front of him, he snapped, "What are you doing here?" "Who sent you?" Shi Ping replied angrily: "Life, unfair life sent me here." Zhou Puyuan decided to settle their differences with money. Shi Ping tore a check for 5000 yuan in person, saying that she just wanted to meet his Pinger.

Then the strike representative Lu Dahai broke in. He is the second son of Shi Ping and Zhou Puyuan. Zhou Puyuan took out the contract and prepared to return to work. It turned out that he used money to buy off three other strikers and prepared to fire Lu Dahai. Lu Dahai angrily revealed that when he was in Jiangqiao, Harbin, he deliberately let the levee go out of danger, drowned more than 3,000 workers and made a fortune. His drought-striken fields slapped Lu Dahai, and Shi Ping saw the fatal tragedy of his father and son.

In the evening, there was lightning and thunder, and it was stormy. Zhou Chong's mother ordered her to give 100 to Shi Ping? Yuan money. Sifeng refused to accept it, but Gui Lu had the cheek to accept it. Lu Dahai knew about it, returned the money to Zhou Chong with Gui Lu, and drove Zhou Chong out of the house. His drought-striken fields also came to lujia in the rain, and his drought-striken fields jumped into Sifeng's room from the window. Fan Yi, who followed him, closed the window and went into the room to get things. The sea found his drought-striken fields, and Sifeng fled in shame.

Shi Ping and Lu Dahai came to Zhou Mansion to find Sifeng. Shi Ping wants to take Sifeng home. Sifeng had to tell Shi Ping the truth. She was pregnant with his drought-striken fields, and Shi Ping's arrival was like a bolt from the blue, because she knew that Sifeng and his drought-striken fields were half-brothers. At the pleading of Sifeng, she promised to let his drought-striken fields take Sifeng away and never see them again.

Fan Yi took Zhou Chong to stop his drought-striken fields from taking away the four phoenixes, and Zhou Puyuan also heard the sound. He thought Shi Ping had come to recognize his son and asked his drought-striken fields to kneel down and recognize his birth mother. The harsh reality made Sifeng unbearable. She rushed to the garden and died when she touched a leaking wire. Zhou Chong was electrocuted to save her. His drought-striken fields shot himself, the kind Luma was insane, Fan Yi in Yin Zhi was crazy, and the stubborn Lu Dahai ran away. ?

Brief introduction of the author

Cao Yu (19 10- 1996), formerly known as Wan Jiabao, is an outstanding modern dramatist in China. He wrote such famous works as Thunderstorm, Sunrise, Yuan Ye and Peking Man, and wrote eight plays in his life. Cao Yu's ancestral home is Qianjiang, Hubei. Qing was born in Tianjin on August 2 1 00 (19 10 on September 24). I was nicknamed "Little Baby" when I was studying in Tsinghua. "Cao Yu" is the pseudonym he used for the first time when he published a novel on 1926 (the prefix "Cao" in the traditional Chinese characters of Wan surname is homophonic "Cao"). Cao Yu is "an audience of civilized dramas, an amateur actor who loves American dramas, and a playwright under the influence of the left-wing new culture movement" (Sun Qingsheng: On Cao Yu, Peking University Publishing House, 1986). This sentence roughly summarizes Cao Yu's dramatic life. ? Cao Yu's wife, Li Yuru, is a famous Peking Opera actress. ?

Creation background

Cao Yu was born in a declining feudal family. When I was a teenager, I witnessed the dark reality of semi-feudal and semi-colonial China society and had a strong rebellious mentality. After several years' gestation and conception, I finished his first novel Thunderstorm in the fourth grade of Tsinghua University from 65438 to 0933. When talking about the writing intention, the author said that Thunderstorm is the product of Days Without the Sun. I wanted to resist at that time. Trapped in the darkness and corruption of the old society, I was unwilling, so I picked up a pen. Thunderstorm was my first moan, maybe a cry. "(Postscript of Selected Works of Cao Yu) also said that" writing Thunderstorm is an urgent need of emotion ","It seems that there is a surging emotion pushing me, and I am venting my pent-up resentment and slandering China's family and society. " (Preface to Thunderstorm)

Lu Dahai in Thunderstorm is the shadow of a thoughtful and intelligent young worker Cao Yu met in Baoding.

At that time, many excellent plays by Ibsen, a famous Norwegian writer, which exposed social darkness and pursued the liberation of human nature and women, had been introduced to China. Ibsen's thought had a great influence on Cao Yu. His graduation thesis in Tsinghua University was on Ibsen written in English. In addition, the plays of Shakespeare and ancient Greece also had a far-reaching influence on Cao Yu. ?

leading part

Zhou Puyuan: 55 years old? The chairman of a mining company once had a maid lover, Mei Shiping, who was forced by family pressure to abandon her and marry another woman.

Fan Yi: 35 years old, Zhou Puyuan's wife.

Lu Shiping: A 47-year-old maid, originally surnamed Mei, is her old lover. More than 30 years ago, Zhou Puyuan was born out of wedlock with Zhou Ping and Lu Dahai (the second year after Zhou Ping was born). Three days after giving birth to Lu Dahai, he was driven out of the house by the Zhou family and jumped into the river to be rescued. They married Zhou's servant and gave birth to their daughter Sifeng.

Zhou Ping: 28-year-old, having an affair with Shi Ping's eldest son, Master Zhou, and his stepmother and half-sister Sifeng. ? Lu Dahai: 27-year-old, the second son of Zhou Puyuan and Shi Ping, lives with his mother, who is a worker of a mining company and a leader of the labor movement.

Zhou Chong: 17 years old, the only son of Zhou Puyuan and Fan Yi, a student, secretly loves Sifeng.

Lu Sifeng: 65,438+08 years old, with Shi Ping's only daughter and half-sister, worked as a maid in Zhou's house, and fell in love with her half-brother and got pregnant without knowing it.

Gui Lu: 48 years old, Zhou's servant, Shi Ping's husband and Sifeng's biological father.

Role relationship

1. Gui Lu is Sifeng's father.

It's Zhou's servant.

Sifeng is Zhou's maid.

Lu Dahai is the son of Zhou Puyuan.

Zhou Puyuan? head of a household

Hey? : Zhou Puyuan's wife

: the son of Zhou's parents, with his son.

Zhou Chong: The second son of the Zhou family, with his son.

2. Lujia: Gui Lu, Lu Shiping, Lu Dahai and Sifeng.

Zhou Jia: Zhou Puyuan, Fan Yi, Zhou Ping and Zhou Chong.

Master and servant: Zhou Puyuan Gui Lu.

(2) Husband and wife: Zhou Puyuan-Fan Yi.

(3) Blood relationship: Zhou Puyuan-Zhou Ping, Fan Yi-Zhou Chong.

(4) Improper sexual relations: Zhou Ping-Fan Yi? Zhou Ping-Sifeng

3? Zhou Puyuan and Lu Shiping: master and servant, former lovers.

Zhou Puyuan and Lu Dahai: Father and son.

Fan Yi and Zhou Ping: mother and son (not related by blood), lovers.

Zhou Ping and Sifeng: Half-brothers and sisters who love each other.

Lu Dahai and Zhou Ping: Brothers.

Lu Shiping and Zhou Ping: Mother and child.

Zhou Chong and Sifeng: Unrequited Love

works appreciation

Thunderstorm is Cao Yu's first artistic life, and it also marks the maturity of modern drama. The publication of Thunderstorm shocked the literary world. At this time, Cao Yu was only 22 years old. In addition, his four classic masterpieces Thunderstorm, Sunrise, Yuan Ye and Peking Man all appeared on thousands of stages in various ways and were deeply interpreted by different people.

Thunderstorm makes full use of the "three unifications". The story of eight characters from two families in just one day involves past grievances, and it is still confusing. In the narrow stage, it not only highlights the contradiction between ethics and class, but also highlights the strong disharmony between individuals and the environment and the times, and completes the characterization in various fierce conflicts. In fact, tragedy has long been lurking in every line and every foreshadowing, and it only broke out at the last minute, turning into a downpour, which shocked everyone's soul extremely strongly.

Image interpretation

The image of Fan Yi

Yi Fan is the most distinctive and distinctive figure in Thunderstorm. She is a new female representative who pursues women's liberation and strives for independence and freedom since the May 4th Movement. She dares to love and hate, fearing that the Zhou family doesn't care. Of course, her resistance to the old system was manifested in a deformed way. Under heavy pressure, she often feels helpless, inferior and even self-abuse. This is a weakness that Fan Yi cannot get rid of. As the author said, she fell into "a cruel well". The author made great efforts to describe the inner world of this character. She felt unbearable for the vulgar and monotonous life of the Zhou family, tired of this gloomy atmosphere and mentally bound, and she demanded to get rid of all this. In a sense, she is also an insulted and hurt person. The script made her develop abnormally in an irresistible environment: love turned into hate and stubbornness turned into madness. The significance of tragedy is more profound and prominent. The tragic image of Fan Yi is a great contribution of Cao Yu to modern drama, which profoundly conveys the theme of anti-feudalism and personality liberation in the May 4th Movement. In the play, Fan Yi experienced her whole spiritual journey in the double tragic conflict. In this tragic woman, Cao Yu's outstanding artistic talent shines brilliantly.

Zhou Chong and Sifeng?

Zhou Chong is a young man who grew up under the influence of new ideas and new culture. He is naturally full of fantasy and romance. However, his tenacity and lack of stubborn understanding of the feudal system doomed his tragic fate. Zhou Chong and Sifeng are the most unbearable victims in the whole play. They are simple and clear, so yearning for sweet love and full of enthusiasm for the future. Their bright eyes can't see the rough waves hidden in the dark, they only outline the outline of happiness. When their childishness was hit hard in the face of cruel reality, the ancient clock has rung. Sifeng fell in love with his drought-striken fields, but was involved in a storm. She is a young and energetic person, but a series of blows have made her fate bumpy and difficult. In fact, Zhou Chong is more innocent than Sifeng. It seems that he is just a child, without the maturity of his drought-striken fields and the sin of Zhou Puyuan. He has some thoughts that he should have at his age, simple and honest. Even when he knew that Sifeng was in love with his brother, he was not as jealous as Fan Yi, but he still had a persistent attitude towards Sifeng. After Sifeng rushed out, she did not hesitate to save her, which led to her electrocution.

Lu Dahai's character

Lu Dahai is a young worker with thoughts and actions. He is straightforward, simple but clear-headed. He is a rude man, and he hates capitalists, so he will face Zhou Puyuan squarely, count all his sins and speak frankly. We can also read his sense of justice from his words. The working class he represents will be the vanguard of the proletarian revolution in China. They are thunderstorms and lightning, which will destroy the dark and fading old system. This is also the author's original intention. And fought resolutely against Zhou Puyuan, showing his spirit of resistance. But after all, Cao Yu is not familiar with workers, so the image of Lu Dahai is thinner than others.

Zhou Ping's character?

Zhou Ping, he can be said to be a contradictory person. He has a reverence for his father and dare not go against his words. He is also depressed in this family, otherwise it is impossible to have feelings with his stepmother. However, the appearance of Sifeng made him feel angry and youthful-this is what he longed for. He wanted to get rid of Fan Yi's interference, so he decided to leave home. It can be seen that he is still a person who dares not face the problem and tries his best to escape the difficulties. But he's a coward. He's a total coward. Only by this, he will never be worthy of Fan Yi. In the end, facing the cruel and helpless fact, he had to choose death to free himself. This tragic way is also in line with the character. )

Brief introduction of Zhou Puyuan

Zhou Puyuan is the central figure in the play. He is a new capitalist, with both bourgeois ideas of freedom and equality and feudal autocracy. He was 55 when he appeared. 65438+ Studying abroad in the 1980s and 1990s. The rich and powerful young lady made Zhou Puyuan consciously erase his memory, and even had some hostility towards him, which made him give up Shi Ping, give up the confrontation with society, and then embarked on the road of submission. In Zhou Puyuan's mind, right, reputation and order are the most important things. At this time, he will only use money to appease Shi Ping, and his psychology has become indifferent and emotional distortion. The Old Man in the preface and conclusion shows the return of Zhou Puyuan's nature. I can't see the tenacity of personality in the old man. His eyes are calm and worried. He desperately thinks that his only son is dead. He just watches the fire. From this, the author's sadness about the fate of the characters is entrusted. The author has a faint warmth towards Zhou Puyuan, bearing the shadow of his parents. His personality characteristics are mainly manifested through his relationship with two female images, Shi Ping and Fan Yi, and with Lu Dahai. He is a man with a deep heart, and he has one side that all capitalists in society had at that time: insidious, cunning and hypocritical. From Lu Dahai's accusations against him, we can clearly understand that for his own benefit, he will do whatever it takes, even at the expense of others' lives. Through the relationship between Zhou Puyuan and Shi Ping, the author mainly examines his history, and through his relationship with Fan Yi, shows his performance as a feudal autocratic parent in reality. His relationship with Lu Dahai, Gui Lu and others supplemented his essential characteristics as a capitalist from different aspects.

Lu Shiping's introduction?

Some characters in the play are also remarkable. Despite the difficult situation, Lu Shiping persisted through the most difficult period of her life with her strong personality. It can be said that she is a tenacious woman. Shi Ping's silence made us dare not ignore fate in the same silence. On the contrary, Shi Ping's life experience sounded the tragic death knell of Thunderstorm: she tore up the most valuable things for people to see. As a lower class woman in the old society, Shi Ping's life has always been divided into two parts: half belongs to her husband; Half of them belong to children. She hopes to get the love and understanding of others in her silent and selfless dedication, so as to confirm the value of her existence.

Gui Lu's image summary?

Gui Lu is an ordinary nobody in the bourgeoisie. He is greedy for money, and he wants his daughter to find a rich man's treacherous face, which is beyond doubt in his words.

Note: The creative center of Thunderstorm was originally Fan Yi, but in the historical environment at that time, this contradiction was amplified and continued because Lu Dahai participated in the workers' movement against Zhou Puyuan, which made people's understanding of Thunderstorm deviate from Cao Yu's original intention.

Name resolution

Thunderstorm became a classic not only because of its gripping story, but also because Cao Yu contributed a number of distinctive characters to modern literature in China. Their personalities are distinct, and it is precisely because of their personalities that the story develops in this way. In addition to personality, a person's name in literary works may also be worthy of scrutiny. Many people know that Cao Xueqin took pains to name the characters in A Dream of Red Mansions, so I pay special attention to the names of the characters when I understand Thunderstorm. Here I start with the names of people and analyze the characters in Thunderstorm. ?

The first one is a hero, a gentleman of the Zhou family, and the eldest son of Shiping. "Zhou Ping" is a kind of duckweed parasitic on Zhoujiahu Lake. He is a contradictory person. He was depressed in Zhou Jia, but he didn't dare to disobey his father. The appearance of Sifeng brought him vitality. He longed for the simplicity and vitality of Sifeng, but dared not face Fan Yi. He wants to escape the problem and leave Zhou Jia to Sifeng. He was as timid as a mouse, wandering around like a duckweed, and finally faced with the cruel reality, he chose to escape completely-ending his own life, which was the only way to free himself.

The most distinctive character in Thunderstorm is Zhou, whose family is a stagnant pool, which has caused ripples. This wave of ripples made duckweed lose its foothold. She dares to love and hate, strive for independence and freedom, and challenge that morbid era. However, she is just a ripple, which can not change the "stagnant water" and is not contained by the "stagnant water". She gradually developed into a abnormal development in an irresistible and lasting environment. Her beautiful mind has been imprisoned for too long, and her stubbornness has turned into paranoid madness, which doomed her life to be a thunderstorm-like tragedy.

The "supreme ruler" of Zhou Mansion is an entrepreneur who calls the wind and calls the rain in Thunderstorm. The cause of Thunderstorm can also be said to be the resistance struggle under his oppression. "Park Garden", a quiet and simple home, is his ideal Zhou home. He felt that the Zhou family was like this, because he didn't have a trace of family warmth, and he suppressed everyone in a stagnant home. "Quiet and simple" masks coldness and depression.

Zhou Chong is probably the most naive character in Thunderstorm. He is as lively as his name. He is as pure and clear as Sifeng, full of enthusiasm for the future, and imagines the future with a kind of "rush". At the end of the story, he rushed out to save Sifeng without hesitation, but he was electrocuted.

After Zhou Jia finished, it's time to talk about Lu Jia. The first is Sifeng, the heroine of Thunderstorm. "Four Phoenix" is like a phoenix, innocent and full of youth, which brings warmth and hope to Zhou Ping. Her lover weaved a warm and beautiful dream for her, and at the same time gave her a promise that could never be realized, so that she could live in a happy fantasy. Her innocence, her simplicity and her beautiful dreams were all shattered on that thunderstorm night. She paid the price of love. Fate makes them meet, and fate makes them farewell. Like a phoenix, it burns vigorously and eventually becomes disillusioned.

Sifeng's mother is Shi Ping, a silent and strong woman. She was the lowest and most ordinary woman in that era, silently enduring a difficult fate. Fan Yi said that her name was "Little Girl", and her own maid of the Zhou family was doomed to be inseparable from the Zhou family for the rest of her life. She waited on the Zhou family from herself to her daughter. ?

The sea in Shandong is also a vigorous thunderstorm. He has thoughts and actions, which is in sharp contrast with his stepfather (Gui Lu). He hates the bourgeoisie as magnificent as the sea, as rough and straightforward as the sea, erin brockovich.

It can be seen that every name in Thunderstorm is also scrutinized by the author, which embodies the character characteristics and fate of the characters and the talent of the author Cao Yu.