In Lu Xun's classic ** "The True Story of Ah Q", we are led into a low-level rural village and witness the life of an ordinary person named Ah Q.
Ah Q, a little person who was oppressed by feudal society and ridiculed by people, his life is like a microcosm of society, full of irony and profound social allegories.
In Weizhuang Village, the old society, Ah Q lived in poverty and had no family, so he could only make a living by doing odd jobs. Ignored, ridiculed, and no one even knows his real name, he's just that "Ah Q" - a ridiculous bum.
However, Ah Q is not willing to be ordinary, he uses a "spiritual victory method" to escape the cruel reality, create a false sense of victory for himself, and forget the pain of life.
This "spiritual victory method" is flooded in Ah Q's psychology, and he does not dare to resist when he encounters a strong person, so he can only comfort himself with the so-called "mean", and he is deeply trapped in an illusion of self-comfort.
Lu Xun's profound revelation of this mentality: "When you meet a strong person, you don't dare to resist, so you will whitewash it with the words 'mean' and talk about it."
Such thinking ruthlessly corrodes the oppressed represented by Ah Q, making them forget their real suffering and cater to their own fantasies.
Ah Q's fate seems to have doomed him to be incompatible with society, and even if he was once generous, he was also looked down upon in the village because of his appearance problems, especially the leprosy scar on his head.
These fragmented appearance problems became part of his psychological shadow, making him angry when faced with the homonym of the word "leprosy", and even the homonyms of "light" and "lamp" became his taboo.
This kind of over-concern about his appearance in turn affects his attitude towards life, showing the extreme discrimination and influence of society on individuals.
Ah Q's anger has turned into attacks on others many times, but often he suffers more losses, which leads to his initial scolding and hitting to his later "angry eyes".
This mentality is deeply ingrained in his heart, and it also makes him the object of ridicule by the villagers, who comfort himself with various "victory methods", although these methods do not change his situation, but become a ridiculous means for him to escape from reality.
Ah Q's attitude towards women is also distorted and deformed, and he is full of suspicion and disdain for both nuns and women who go out.
However, at some point, when he made a move on the little nun, he suddenly awakened to a different feeling. This mutation shows his deep inner distortion and misunderstanding of emotions, and also suggests that the human mind can be greatly affected under certain circumstances.
Ah Q's tragedy is not simply bullying from the outside world, but also his own blindness and ignorance.
When society changed and the tide of revolution swept in, Ah Q's attitude also underwent a subtle change.
He began to yearn for the revolutionary party and hoped to change his destiny through this change, but his understanding of the revolution was distorted and absurd, a vague yearning for resistance, not a real awakening.
Ah Q's performance in the city is even more farce, he tries to get some vanity satisfaction by imitating the appearance of the upper class, but it is even more ridiculous because he does not know how to deal with the etiquette of the upper class.
His efforts and performances can only be used as a laughing stock by the people in the city, and his so-called "spiritual victory method" seems so pale and ridiculous in this environment.
Eventually, Ah Q was arrested and imprisoned for being involved in robbery and faced the threat of death, however, when faced with his ultimate fate, Ah Q's mentality did not change significantly, and he even tried to seek some comfort through singing before the execution was carried out.
Such an ending is not only a ridiculous summary of his life, but also a reflection on the entire old society.
The greatest sorrow for adults is that they suddenly understood Ah Q. This sentence is not only a summary of Ah Q's fate, but also a reflection on the entire social system.
Ah Q's tragedy is not only his individual failure, but also the cruelty and injustice of the whole society to the people at the bottom.
In the process of growing up, adults may experience a period of confusion and confusion, but when we really understand Ah Q, it means that we have a deeper understanding of society.
The sorrow at this time is no longer just the emotion of individual fate, but also the regret of the whole society, because the tragedy of Ah Q is the tragedy of the morality and system of the whole society, and it is a profound tragedy of human nature.
In modern society, we may have been freed from the shackles of feudal society, but Ah Q's story still has a profound revelation.
I heard that we need to constantly examine the shortcomings of society, pay attention to the rights and interests of the people at the bottom, and avoid falling into the confusion and escape of Ah Q again. The greatest sorrow of adults may not come from the failure of the individual, but from the understanding of the deep-seated problems of society.