Juan Sheng and Zi Jun, the protagonists, are typical representatives of young intellectuals who bravely pursued marriage autonomy and personality liberation during the May 4th Movement. Zi Jun once said, "I am my own, and none of them has the right to interfere with me!" . This was a famous combative language against feudalism and propriety in that era, which marked the revolutionary awakening of the younger generation of democracy.

This era has a strong voice and put it into bold action. But their love ended in tragedy. The reasons are as follows: First, the feudal forces were powerful. Although new ideas and new cultures appeared during the May 4th Movement, feudal ideology was not swept away immediately, and it still affected people's way of thinking and behavior in all aspects.

At the beginning of love, Zijun was a holy angel and goddess in Juansheng's mind, and it was a beautiful lyric poem. After living together, the distance between Juansheng and Zijun's beauty disappeared, and realism replaced romanticism. At this time, Zijun began to make great efforts for his livelihood, and fell into the abyss of feudalism, slowly losing his original personality and thoughts.

Juan Shengcai "gradually and soberly read' her body, her soul'". Feudal forces regarded the free love of young people as immoral, and Juansheng's unemployment accelerated the split of feelings. However, the limitation of Zijun's thought of personality liberation is also the ideological root of the tragedy.

zijun's pursuit of freedom of knowledge, love and marriage, and the realization of his goal, regard the narrow world as the whole world and the small family life as the whole meaning of life. In this way, people's personality will inevitably become vulgar and empty, timid and weak, and love will fade, which shows that it is difficult for women to pursue personal freedom and happiness without social reform.

Second, the requirement of individual liberation of knowledge can't be accomplished without social liberation. No matter how determined they once were, their struggle was weak or even accomplished nothing. On the other hand, it is also a luxury for petty-bourgeois intellectuals.

Juansheng's character tragedy shows that the first thing is to have a clear understanding. Only by getting rid of fantasy can we gain a firm foothold in the harsh reality, and only by not losing "now" can we have a "future". Through their love tragedy, Mr. Lu Xun profoundly pointed out the weakness and vacillation of petty-bourgeois intellectuals in the pursuit of personality liberation, thus revealing that social liberation is the premise of personality liberation.

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Creative background

During the May 4th Movement, it was the general will of many young people to tell the pain of marital freedom, and fighting for the freedom of love and marriage became an important content of emancipating the mind at that time. Therefore, in the 192s, 98% of the novels described the love between men and women, most of which were about the fact that marriage was not free. Lu Xun fully affirmed the anti-feudal significance of personality liberation < P >, but at the same time he was keenly aware of the crisis hidden behind the freedom of love and marriage. As early as the end of 1923, Lu Xun pointed out in his speech "What happened after Nora left". Women should use "fierce fighting" to fight for economic rights when they want to liberate. "If the economic system is actually reformed, then of course the above is completely nonsense."

By 1925, Lu Xun's world outlook was on the eve of a fundamental change. At this time, he advocated using the "with fire and sword" method to completely change the social system. Regret for the Past, written in October 1925, is different from the popular works praising the supremacy of love at that time, and is also different from the tragedy of double suicide with death in traditional masterpieces.

in the form of novels, Lu Xun linked the problems of women's marriage and young intellectuals with the changes of the whole social system and economic system, in order to enlighten the vast number of young people to get rid of the shackles of individual liberation and personal struggle and explore new ways.

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