A Story about Revenge —— Yuan Ye by Cao Yu

A story about revenge. The protagonists are Qiu Hu, Hua Jin, Jiao Da Star and Jiao Mu. Qiu Hu's revenge began when King Jiao Yan (the father of Jiao Da Star) buried Qiu Hu's father alive and sent his sister to a brothel to die.

However, Hua Jin, who had a matchmaker relationship with Hu Qiu since childhood, married Xing, and even Hu Qiu himself went to prison. Throughout the book, there is a strong atmosphere of tragic fate, and it is full of Mr. Cao Yu's thoughts on the dilemma of life and the mystery of the universe.

At the beginning of the book, Hu Qiu escaped from prison, jumped off the train, and went back to Jiao's house to seek revenge for Yan, but Yan was dead and he lost the object of revenge. Hatred made him crazy and paralyzed his eyes.

Driven by hatred, his thinking evolved into "father's debt and son's compensation". His hatred was transferred to Daxing and his mother, and he fled to the golden land covered with flowers, but it ended in vain. Qiu Hu died on the track, and the story ended.

Indeed, in the face of exploiters, human life is not worth mentioning. God only thinks of powerful people, not ordinary people. In the end, the oppressed and the suffering people have no chance to redress their grievances.

Notes on the title or background of a book.

The title is Yuan Ye, and there are a lot of descriptions and atmosphere renderings about Yuan Ye in the book. The sky is always gloomy, the Woods are dark, there is no moon and no stars.

The description of the scenery in the book always implies that they will never get out of this vilen and the place covered with gold, even though they hear the sound of the train "paint-fork-card-fork" not far away, and even though they have been running around in the thorny vilen, the final result is just to get lost in this vilen and find a way out.

On the Yuan Ye, they listened to the roar of the train not far away, the breeze was blowing on the Yuan Ye, the sky was turning white and the clouds were dispersing. The train is still screaming noisily, and they are still on the run, but they will never escape, nor can they escape from the strange circle of fate.

Character interpretation

The book focuses on telling this revenge story from the perspective of hating tigers, and then expounds the relationship between the characters involved in this revenge and the whole story.

Qiuhu

Qiu Hu, a vengeful man-eating tiger. He is fierce, cunning, deceitful and jealous. He is a man who has just escaped from hell. There is nothing but hatred in his heart. He wants to avenge his loved ones and Yan's death. He can't see the future, and he is burdened with blood feuds. He jumped on the train after he escaped from prison. A series of actions are for revenge. When he learned that his enemy was dead, the woman he loved also married his enemy's son. At this time, he is like vilen in the fog. He couldn't see what was ahead and couldn't find the way out.

Hatred has lost its purpose. He really wants to put aside his hatred and run away with his lover. But the illusion that his father was buried alive and his sister was forced to sell to a brothel kept floating in front of him. He ran in the fog, but the voices and shadows of those people were always with him. He killed the big star, but he didn't have the joy of revenge success in his heart.

He killed a good man and a big star who knew nothing about it. Fear gripped his heart, and his look showed extreme anxiety. His eyes began to hallucinate frequently, and the shadows of those people began to move very actively and wander around him, and their voices kept echoing in his ears.

He can't tell reality from illusion, and he is lost. He represents the oppressed people. He not only represents himself, but also represents the shadow of thousands of Qian Qian people who are oppressed like him.

Jiaoda Star

In Yuan Ye, Hu Qiu is portrayed as a vicious man, full of blood and primitive wildness.

He is very manly. By contrast, Jiao Da is like a little boy. He knew nothing about his parents' sins and married someone his brother liked.

They love the same woman. He kept saying that Hu Qiu was his brother, but he didn't know that he was the son of his brother's enemy. He said he liked gold, but he never defended his wife when she had a conflict with her mother. He is a well-protected person, he is weak and has no opinion, and his existence is like a joke. He is pathetic, a puppet controlled by his mother.

He is too fragile, as fragile as an ant, and will be crushed by a light touch. He is not destined to be the person that Kim likes.

I lost myself, lost my freedom, stayed in my mother's infancy all my life, lived in my mother's lies, was influenced by my mother's thoughts, and had no independent personality. It was so sad.

Huajinzi

It is normal for Huajin to fall in love with Qiu Hu, but a bloody man and a responsible man will undoubtedly arouse Huajin's love.

Autumn tiger is fierce, but his gentleness gives gold. He took revenge and fled, trying to start a new life with gold. They couldn't escape, but he tried his best to let the gold escape and committed suicide by lying on the tracks. It is not surprising that such a man will fall in love with gold, not to mention that they are engaged.

Jiao's family is like a huge cage, and Jin is forced to stay in this place. She has no freedom, and her husband is also a loser with no opinion. She was oppressed by her vicious mother-in-law, but her husband couldn't help her.

The vicious mother-in-law cursed herself with a doll, and the dark cage restricted her freedom and made her breathless. Jiao Mu's surveillance, curse and harsh words made the originally kind gold start to rebel.

She began to yearn for the place where Qiu Hu said the road was covered with gold. She is fed up with Jiao's house arrest and oppression. She wants to escape, really love someone and have a new life. There's nothing wrong with that. Wrong is Jiao Jia, wrong is the malice and meanness of Jiao Mu.

Jiaomu

With Yan dead, Jiao's mother can still treat others well and live a good life. However, she is not kind at all, and she has no regrets about what her husband did. However, when facing Qiu Hu, she put all the responsibilities on Hu Qiu's family. When the big star questioned her, she covered up the facts with countless lies. Her son became an innocent victim, her grandson was killed by her own mistake, and she deserved it.

It's time for revenge She wouldn't let go, wandering in the dark like a ghost. Her face is like a sad mask, locked with painful brows, and the quarrel hangs down two deep ditches, showing a terrible appearance.

She is like a demon god, who has been haunting the fleeing gold and Hu Qiu until the end. Like an evil ghost, she can't escape. Like the night, she will never see the day. Finally, white-haired people send black-haired people. She is blind not only in her eyes, but also in her vicious heart.