Reflections on Ba Jin's Cold Night

After reading Ba Jin's Cold Night, the model essay 1 "She felt the cold of the night, and she really needed some warmth". This is the last sentence in Ba Jin's Cold Night, which is closely related to the meaning of the topic, complete and full, and some previously suppressed contradictions pour out in one thought. I don't know if this is dripping pain or more disoriented sadness. There seems to be a voice sobbing in my heart, although the story is dull. Cherish, it makes me know how to cherish the meaning of peacetime, the meaning of love and the value as a person. It should be said that this is a complete tragedy. In 1930s and 1940s, China was in turmoil, with a couple, Wang Wenxuan and Zeng Shusheng, who graduated from the Department of Education. After the outbreak of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, they fled to Chungking. The husband works as a proofreader in a semi-official and semi-commercial book and stationery company, and the wife works as a "vase" in the bank.

Wang Wenxuan's mother does housework to reduce her son's living burden, but Wang Mu and Zeng Shusheng's mother-in-law are not on good terms. Wang Wenxuan was caught in the middle, suffering from lung disease. Prosperity and war, luxury and destruction, justice and evil are extremely parallel in this city. Intellectuals living at the bottom of society are knowledgeable and have a clear understanding of love, hate and hatred, but they are forced by the injustice and cold suppression of powerful people. The economic hardship and beautiful ideals brought by the war violently collided with contradictory living conditions, and they had to choose to accept them. He and his wife once thought that no matter how the world evolved, the initial love could be faithful, but when the world really changed, the entanglement of times and fate made them feel at a loss in each other's silence. His wife is eager for a stable and happy life and a happy young time, which is exactly what his little proofreader can't give. So on the last night after repeated choices, his wife was going to pack up and find another man. The dark corridor happened to bump into him and he went home. Sad silence flowed between them like night, but Wang Wenxuan never broke out again. His heart was so desolate that he had no choice about his time and destiny, so he had to give up his ideals and all judgments about right and wrong, and finally comforted himself with death.

The author's brushwork is extremely delicate, and his portrayal of the characters' hearts is sincere and profound, especially the struggling state of wandering back and forth and wanting to say goodbye, which makes people feel deeply. Our life today is beautiful because of peace, and precious because of beauty. Healthy body and happy time are the constant desires of human beings. However, it is painful if we want to remain strong and loving when we experience our destiny in tragic times. It is better to give it enough patience now and give our love a sparse lamp in the cold night. composition

The birth of Ba Jin's Cold Night marks Ba Jin's highest achievement in realistic art exploration. The novel vividly and completely reproduces the picture of most people living at the bottom of society at that time through only a few people and a simple family story. When I first read Cold Night, a feeling of desolation and gloom filled my whole body and mind. Since then, this emotion has become more and more intense, and with the end of the story, this heavy emotion has reached its extreme. Every time I read for a while, I need to take a long breath, otherwise the whole person seems to be unable to bear the heavy burden any more.

The novel Cold Night is a work written by Ba Jin at the end of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, with Wang Wenxuan's family life as the main clue. Wang Wenxuan and Zeng Shusheng, the protagonists of the novel, are a couple who graduated from the Department of Education. When they were young, they had woven many beautiful ideals, hoping to use their knowledge and strength to run a "rural and family-oriented" school and do something useful for the country and the people. However, after the outbreak of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, they fled to Chungking. Wang Wenxuan works as a proofreader in a semi-official and semi-commercial book and stationery company, and Zeng Shusheng works as a clerk in Dachuan Bank. His mother came to do housework to reduce the burden of his son's life, but the relationship between Wang's mother and Zeng Shusheng's mother-in-law was not harmonious. Wang Wenxuan was caught in the middle, suffering from lung disease, and his family was very poor. Finally, Zeng Shusheng flew to Lanzhou with the young manager of the bank. Wang Wenxuan died of firecrackers in the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, and Wang Mu returned to his hometown in Kunming with his grandson Xiao Xuan. Two months later, Zeng Shusheng returned to Chongqing from Lanzhou, but things changed and he was very sad.

Technically, I have to say that the characterization in the novel is very successful. In my opinion, Wang Mu, the central figure of this family tragedy, was widowed when she was young, and her only love was given to her son. She doesn't allow others to share him, even her daughter-in-law. Her love is meticulous but selfish and overbearing. Although her love made Wenxuan feel extremely warm, it also brought great pain to Wenxuan. In the article, Wang Mu is the representative of feudalism. She always fetters her new wife with the ideas and ethics of the old society. She always feels that her daughter-in-law doesn't know the rules and always compares herself with her age. Although everything she did was for her son, it was too extreme.

Shusheng is a woman with higher education in the new period. She loves her family, her husband and her children, but she can't stand the bondage and contempt of her mother and can't live in harmony with her mother. In the end, I can only choose to escape from this family that has brought her endless pain and suffering, even if I don't give up. Her departure is entirely a personal pursuit of happiness. Ba Jin wants to express her new idea of pursuing freedom.

Wang Wenxuan is one of the greatest achievements of Cold Night. I believe that anyone who has read Cold Night cannot but be deeply impressed by him. I used to be a young man with ideals and enthusiasm. Influenced by the May 4th new trend of thought, he was an anti-feudal warrior who pursued personality liberation, love and free marriage. With the great ideal and ambition of "saving the country through education", he went to the society and wanted to run a "country home school" to serve the motherland. However, the artillery fire of the Japanese invaders, the corrupt social system, poverty and illness made the ideal and enthusiasm go down the drain and "ruined the real life of that period". Be a model for the weak. Patience and compromise became the dominant aspect of Wang Wenxuan, who was cowardly, incompetent, uncontroversial, resigned to his fate and dared not fight, and pursued a new philosophy of "tolerating life". He is afraid to see the eyes of his superiors, the words of dissatisfaction from his superiors, and even the gentle cough from his superiors. He must doubt whether he has any opinions on himself. In a word, he works in a fearful environment all day, which seriously damages his physical and mental health. So is the wife. He went to see her with strong thoughts, but when he saw his wife talking and laughing with other men, he only felt cold in his heart, but he was afraid to go over to meet them. In the end, he "had to go back to his office with his head down." In the family quarrel between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, he dare not criticize anyone, nor dare he criticize the merits. We can only try to win their sympathy through self-abuse, so as to calm the dispute. In order to make a living, he worked hard regardless of his health, endured illness and never told anyone.

Ideologically, Ba Jin wrote Cold Night to "accuse the old system of the old society". Condemn the death penalty in the old society and system. It exposed the cold and dark social reality and the hardships of people's lives in the Kuomintang-controlled areas and expressed people's desire for a new life of freedom, equality and democracy.

Novels always put the tragedy of this family in the overall social environment. The threat of war, the chaos of the current situation, the corruption and selfishness of bureaucrats, the disparity between the rich and the poor, and the fear of unemployment and escape have become unbearable pressures for this family. Taking Wang Wenxuan's family as the center, the author appropriately extended his pen and ink outside this family and wrote the tragedies of other ordinary people. Such as: our classmate Tang and colleague Lao Zhong. These tragedies further prove that Wang's tragedy is not accidental, but a microcosm of the whole social tragedy.

Comments on Ba Jin's "Cold Night" 3 "Cold Night" is a very famous work of Mr. Ba Jin, and I have always wanted to read it. This time I had the opportunity to read this novel carefully from beginning to end, and I had some feelings.

First of all, the novel begins with a dark night as the background, paving the tense atmosphere during the Anti-Japanese War. It was written in the war years, and the fear and despair of some ordinary citizens caused people to fall into deep gloom and sadness. Then Wang Wenxuan, the hero of the novel, is an image of a little intellectual crushed by an unreasonable society. His appearance seems to reveal a trace of sadness. On a cold night, he walked alone in the street, and the plane circled overhead, making terrible noises from time to time, but he didn't seem to have time to take care of these, because at the moment he had more important things on his mind-his wife Zeng Shuzhen had left home. He tried to recall that his clumsiness led to the quarrel between the couple. His wife slammed the door and ran out angrily. At first, he thought his wife was just angry with her, and soon he came back by himself. But it was so late that his wife had not come back, so he decided to look for her.

This situation is not once or twice. His weakness and forbearance exhausted him in this broken family. So, what kind of family does he have?

The protagonist Wang Wenxuan and his wife Zeng Shusheng are both intellectuals with ideals and revenge. Due to the outbreak of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, their family had to flee to Chongqing and live here. Wang Wenxuan has an old mother who lost her husband very early. She pinned all her hopes and love on her only son, Wang Wenxuan. Wang Wenxuan started proofreading in a book and stationery company. Because of the darkness of society and the oppression and cruelty of bourgeois monopolists, Wang's work in his own company was not satisfactory and was squeezed out and exploited by his boss. Coupled with his own cowardice and inferiority, bullying and insulting others is just a blind retreat, which leads to his name being "good man". Meanwhile, Zeng Shusheng works in a bank. Although his salary is not high, he is taken care of by his boss because of his good appearance, lively personality and frequent social activities. At the same time, Wang's old mother hated his daughter-in-law, and the relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law deteriorated and she often quarreled, which made Wang feel very uncomfortable. As Wang's lung disease worsened, Zeng Shusheng left, which brought a heavy blow to Wang's spirit. Finally, she couldn't stand the mental pressure and pain and vomited blood and died. Two months later, Zeng Shusheng returned to Chongqing and everything changed. His mother left here with Xiao Xuan, leaving Zeng Shusheng wandering in the street and facing the cold night alone.

After reading it, I think this tragedy is inevitable. In the social environment, the economic depression and darkness in the Kuomintang-controlled areas did not give intellectuals any room to display their talents. Their full of blood and ideals and ambitions have disappeared bit by bit with the smoke and the threat of survival. It's just Rainbow Wenxuan and Zeng Shusheng in the novel. They were originally high flyers who graduated from the Department of Education, but they were forced to take refuge in Chongqing because of the war. What are their ideals and pursuits in an era when survival and security cannot be guaranteed? At the same time, I think the tragedy of their marriage is largely due to the conflict between traditional concepts and modern concepts. In the feudal society of China, the daughter-in-law must abide by the three obedience and four virtues, and Wang Jiazheng is in this era of alternating old and new ideas, the era of the Republic of China. Wang Mu was educated by traditional ideas since childhood, and Zeng Shusheng is a new age woman with modern ideas. Wang's mother's traditional ethics told her that a daughter-in-law can only abide by her duties if she honestly educates her husband and children at home and does not go out to socialize. Zeng Shusheng's lively and cheerful nature and sociable personality just violated Wang Mu's taboo, so Wang Mu hated his daughter-in-law very much and even denied that he was her daughter-in-law. Zeng Shusheng couldn't get the warmth and freedom he wanted at home, so he left home. It is not only the contradiction between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law that leads to this tragedy, but also the personality is closely related to the ending of the novel Wang Wenxuan is a timid little intellectual. He is in poor health and never quarrels. On the contrary, he regressed again and again, making his image as a good man deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. Later, his wife said the same thing about him, but he didn't think so, as if that was what he should do. Compared with her husband, Zeng Shusheng is an energetic and young intellectual woman. She is beautiful, lively and cheerful, sociable, gentle and lovely, and particularly likable. All these make Wang Wenxuan feel more inferior. The conflict of husband and wife's personality always leads to the contradiction being unresolved, and the contradiction between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law finally broke out in the daytime. Zeng Shusheng and director Chen, who loves her, went to Lanzhou and stayed at home.

With this in mind, the occurrence and development of this story is reasonable. Under the background of that era, people's ideals and ambitions are often diluted by reality, knowledge is not used, and the fate of people living at the bottom of society is sometimes out of their own hands. Every word in the book makes people feel biting cold, and every story shakes my heart. Think of the last sentence of the novel: "The night is really cold, she needs warmth." Yes, Zeng Shusheng struggled for her warmth all his life, but finally spent the cold night alone.

Comments on Ba Jin's "A Cold Night" 4 The characters in "A Cold Night" are vividly portrayed in Ba Jin's works: Wang Wenxuan, skinny, hunched over, obedient to Nuo Nuo, coughing from time to time, trying to do things perfectly, and can't even speak loudly; Wang Wenxuan's wife, Zeng Shusheng, is beautiful, slim, fair-skinned and clean, and has a rouge fragrance. She is a passionate and energetic woman who loves beauty and is charming. Wang Wenxuan's mother is hardworking, her mother-in-law is numb, but she is kind but doesn't do good; Wang Wenxuan's son, Xiao Xuan, was pale and weak, with timid eyes, taciturn and premature aging. In my opinion, Xiao Xuan is a child after all, and the child is innocent. The other three people are neither positive nor negative for the time being. The three closest and favorite people can't live in harmony, but they will hurt each other. Does love have to be accompanied by pain all the time?

Ba Jin wrote "Cold Night", apparently accusing the old society and system at that time, calling for the grievances and grievances of people who lived in the hot water war years and were poor. I looked at the cold night and burst into tears. I was not moved by the story in the book, nor did I sympathize with Wang Wenxuan's family. I just feel sorry for the lifestyle of the Wang Wenxuan family. Since the times have made people very helpless, why should the family argue endlessly? At that time, the social family was already very troublesome. Why can't a family of four share weal and woe and live in harmony? Why can't Qi Xin work together to face everything? Wang Wenxuan's mother is deeply in love with her sick son. She is willing to do everything for her son, but she is always hurting him. She clearly knows that Zeng Shusheng is her son's favorite woman, but she can't tolerate the woman that her son loves deeply. She couldn't wait for the tree to leave home a day earlier. Zeng Shusheng once wanted to stay and spend his life with his sick husband. She only wants her mother-in-law to hate herself less and her husband to make decisions for himself. However, her husband's obedience and her mother-in-law's ruthlessness forced her to run away from home against her will. Every one of them may not be worthy of sympathy. I just pity them. They are not alive, but struggling.

Under the old system of the old society, it was sad to be short of clothes and food, and quarreling was indispensable when complaining. Now, I have nothing to worry about. Does every family live a happy life? The divorce rate is getting higher and higher, and the relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law is still a contradiction. From the perspective of external pressure, external factors may be indispensable, and we may not be able to control others, let alone society. Why can't a family understand, trust and respect each other? Yes, it doesn't mean that the whole family can survive, nor does it mean that everyone can understand. Otherwise, how can we say that every family has a difficult experience? In this case, it is better to live self and live self-confidence.

Ba Jin's model essay on Cold Night: It was a cold season and a gloomy winter. In the sound of the alarm, everyone rushed to the narrow air-raid shelter. The cold continues, and the land is desolate and dark, lifeless.

This is a story that happened on the eve of the victory of the Anti-Japanese War. This is a trivial and sad story. This is a family of four, with a mother-in-law, a husband, a wife and a son, the most common contradiction between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, and the most common economic difficulties. It is such a family of four who performed a tragedy in Where Are You Going?

Scholar, I sympathize with you. You are such a energetic and passionate person, but you are constantly converging and wronged for your family. You are doing a job for your family that you don't like, but you always attract the cynicism of your mother-in-law without complaint. You long for love and friendship, but you gradually give up in repeated disappointments. Scholar, you are very tired, not physically, but mentally. Your heart has been tense for a long time. It's time to relax. Scholar, I understand your desire for freedom and life. You want to make your short life more exciting, so why don't you go? Why did you come back after you left? When I come back, I'm facing the reality that people are gone and things are different. Can you stand it? They lied to you, even in good faith, but it still doesn't change their deception to you. In fact, they are selfish, knowing that you can't never come back, but they still don't tell you and let you live in remorse forever. Scholar, are you in pain?

Wenxuan, although I don't hate you, I can't forgive you. You are too weak and unbearable. Although they call you a "good man", I prefer to call you a coward and a weak man. Because of your weakness and compromise, the person who loves you the most has been hurt. When your mother insulted his wife, you always listened to Nuo Nuo and didn't dare to retort loudly. You know your wife's character very well. You want her to learn to be patient and put up with her mother's irrationality. Wenxuan, shouldn't he be the one you protect your life? Why did you do this to her? Wenxuan, don't you feel cruel? Push her away cruelly, let her wander in a foreign land, and cruelly don't tell him about your illness. Are you really nice to her? Have you thought about his pain and sadness? Wenxuan, you hurt physically, but you make the tree hurt in your heart.

This is a tragedy, both a personal tragedy and a world tragedy. How many families have been torn apart in the war, where will you go? In order to survive, people who are in panic every day are helpless, as if everything is resigned to fate. This is the sorrow of the times. In this turbulent era, it is not easy for people to live.

It's still so cold, the wind is still blowing, and the days pass by, ushered in spring and ushered in the victory of the Anti-Japanese War. People are happy, and the tense nerves can finally be relaxed. Some people are celebrating the victory, others are celebrating the New Year, and the scholar finally survived this spring.

Time passed and everyone died. May the tree life meet the literary propaganda underground, and may the historical tragedy not repeat itself.

After reading Ba Jin's Cold Night, I have a feeling of reading it and reading Ba Jin's family. From beginning to end, it gives you a feeling of gloom, dreariness and depression. In addition to your deep maternal love and touching husband and wife love from time to time, the rest can only be "cold nights"-before the victory of the Anti-Japanese War-economic depression-cold nights when it is difficult to make a living.

I think the protagonist Wang Wenxuan, his mother Wang Mu and his wife Zeng Shusheng. The relationship between three people is like an equilateral triangle. We know that triangles have the highest stability. However, when one of the angles is unstable, the triangle is also unstable. In the novel, the relationship between Wang Mu and his wife, Zeng Shusheng, is that the angles of the triangle have moved-it is unstable. Reading novels, I don't understand why. Think about it later, whether it is the traditional or the progressive petty bourgeoisie. Wang Mu is a traditional woman. She loves her son deeply. She hates her daughter-in-law's petty-bourgeois style, leaving early and returning late, attending dances and making boyfriends. She hated it and asked her to leave. Zeng Shusheng, with higher education and economic independence, can even support an unsustainable family. It is true that she pursues romance and attends the dance. This doomed the struggle between the two women, but they both loved Wang Wenxuan, so their fighting often led to reconciliation in Wang Wenxuan.

The hero Wang Wenxuan, the so-called "great guy", is actually a good guy who works as a small proofreader in a publishing house. There is no doubt that such a life is a tragedy of this era, especially in a difficult and thin society. There is not much sympathy here. He was alienated from his colleagues because of lung disease, and even his colleagues collectively wrote to ask him not to go to work for fear of infecting them. Except for Zhong Lao, Zhong Lao was almost the only good man and the only friend, but in the end both of them died of illness. Wang Wenxuan's overall impression is that he is weak, lacking distinctive personality, modest in everything and lacking in scheming. It is difficult for him to be caught between his mother and his wife. He loves his mother and his wife deeply. Every time they quarrel, he speaks for his wife in front of his mother and his mother. Finally, he was seriously ill in bed. While they were still arguing, his heart was broken. Finally, Zeng Shusheng left the house, took it and the bank to Lanzhou, and her boyfriend, Manager Chen of the bank, if you can say so. But she still sends letters home every month. This shows that she still has feelings for this family, especially Wang Wenxuan and her son at school. At that time, Wang Wenxuan's lung disease became more and more serious, and only his mother took good care of him. In this family, there is no life, no smile, only depression and pain.

Finally, as Wang Wenxuan lay dying, War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression won. However, the suffering of this family has not changed. To paraphrase a certain sentence, victory belongs to others and has nothing to do with "me". When Zeng Shusheng came back, Wang Wenxuan was already dead, and he didn't know where he was buried. Wang Mu and her son don't know where they moved. The sense that gives a person is a word-cold.

Ba Jin's "Cold Night" model essay 7 Every era embodies a historical story, and in each story, there will be different scenes and stories of people belonging to this era. The love between scholar and Wenxuan in Cold Night is a sad story that happened in that unpleasant scene.

When I first saw Cold Night, I felt that the publicity was too weak, and "good man" was not a commendatory term in my opinion. First of all, at work, as a highly educated intellectual, he dragged his sick body to do the work of office clerk so humbly, but never dared to say "no" to all unfair treatment. At first, his lofty ideals were sealed in his heart. In the family, facing the contradiction between his wife Shusheng and his mother, he can neither play the role of a good husband nor fulfill his responsibilities as a son. But later, at the end of the novel, I began to think, what should I do if I were Wenxuan, or what can I do?

Admittedly, the weakness in Wenxuan's character cannot be ignored. But in that era when intellectuals were not valued, he was unable to change his low status. In order not to lose his job, he had to work as carefully as a sick cow, even though his salary was very low. In the family, mother and Shusheng are not multiple-choice questions, and he can't lose both. This is not greed. So he was sandwiched between two people and silently suffered the pain from two people he loved most.

He loves his mother, and all love can be explained by the word "mother". He also loves his wife deeply, which is different from his love for his mother. So thinking of his broken body and the injustice that Shusheng suffered in this poor family, he would rather let her go and let her leave herself to live a better life. In the dying days, he still insisted on writing to Shusheng, telling her that he was in good health and didn't have to worry. Even though he knew that the result was that the sound of trees could not come back to spend his last time with him, he still persisted.

Shusheng is a typical new woman. She has a good education, knowledge, thought and pursuit. For life, she still has a beautiful vision.

However, she is not happy in that poor family. The indifference of her son and the cowardice of her husband are the most unbearable things for her mother-in-law. So she asked herself-"What has this life given me? Am I satisfied? " The answer is-"No! I didn't get any satisfaction, either mentally or materially. " Keep asking yourself-"Then I sacrificed my ideal, at what price?" "So later? What hope can there be in the future? " -No one answered.

Her mother-in-law is also Wenxuan's mother. She doesn't want to share her son's love with other women. The more Wenxuan loves trees, the more he hates them. For Shusheng, she never really regarded her as family. And that dark and loveless home is simply a cage for the sound of trees. So the scholar finally chose to leave after repeated hesitation.

In her letter to Wenxuan, she said, "But I can only pity you and can't love you anymore. You were not such a weak person before! " "I am still young, and my vitality is still very strong. I can't live a rigid and monotonous life with you. I can't spend my life in that monotonous quarrel and loneliness. I love sports, I love playing, and I need a passionate life. I can't die in your old temple. " Actually, Shusheng is a brave woman. I don't think she did anything wrong. Instead of suffering in that house and three people are sad, it is better to leave altogether. Shusheng is not the kind of woman who is willing to give up her freedom for her family.

"Victory is their victory, not our victory. We did not create a national disaster, but we fell into victory. " Looking forward to the end of the war day and night, but when this day finally came, the people living at the bottom found that they did not enjoy any benefits brought by the victory of the war. The tree is back, but everything is not the same as before.

I think, if Wenxuan and the scholar didn't live in that era when intellectuals suffered cold eyes, their story endings would be completely different. However, the ethereal life can't see people far away. Who knows what will happen in the future?