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What is home like?

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By chenPublished 2 years ago 4 min read
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What is home like? If life is compared to flying, then home is a small kite. Home is the broad sky, home is always the line, if the life is compared to a journey, then home is the most beautiful scenery along the way, home is the final destination of the journey.

Reading Ba Jin's famous book "Home" gave me more views about the feudal family. "Home" mainly tells the story of the gradual corruption of the Gao family in a big feudal family in the 1920s. Through the description of the Gaos, Ba Jin reflects his hatred and hatred for the old society and the old system, and bitterly expresses the dark heart and the adulation in interpersonal communication. Through the different personality between brothers and different views on the future society, he makes a deep analysis, which makes people see clearly and has endless aftertaste of interlacing feelings.

"Home" is a dark shadow of the society at that time. The protagonist of "Home" represents all kinds of characters in the society. For example: The old and decayed master of the Kao family. He represents corrupt, greedy officials in government. And dare to die, to the feudal autocracy protest, challenge the authority of the strong wench Ming Feng. As well as vivid descriptions of young awakening and rebels such as Chueh - hui, Chueh - min and Qin, who are influenced by new ideas and yearn for freedom and equality. Ba Jin described the awakening and struggle of a young revolutionary who was oppressed by the feudal society.

Chueh - hsin was the eldest son, precocious and weak, influenced by new ideas but afraid to contradict his elders. All kinds of family and social influence on him unconsciously caused him to choose to escape, endure and obey too much when facing things. , like most of the people under the social corrosion, chose to roll with the punches to accept rather than resist, his young cousin fell in love with the plum, but accept the other married her, her parents after getting married, he lived a happy, have children, also love his beautiful wife, but forget the plum, especially married may soon became a widow, back to chengdu, Their meeting brought him endless pain. Soon after, May died in a state of melancholy. Reading the whole novel, it can be seen that the author has described the character of Chueh - hsin the most, and can be said to be the backbone of the whole layout of the novel. This was a young man who had lost his rebellious character under the influence of the old system. In his heart, though he had the boundary between right and wrong, love and hate, he also understood that what robbed him of his happiness and future, and his beloved Mei Heyu, was "the decadent ethical code of the whole society, the feudal tradition of the whole society, and the superstition of the whole society." But he was powerless to resist, can only cry, bear the heart of the spiritual pain. He was a victim of the feudal ethical system. Bear the burden of the whole family to deal with all kinds of infighting, gradually become not tender, not passion, he has not been the original naive embrace of the dream of young students. He adopted non-resistance, which was not his will, but his helplessness in the complicated family struggle. The tragedy of Chueh - hsin is unfolding in all kinds of helplessness. Chueh - hsin's tragedy is not only his own fault, but also the misery brought by the corrupt Gao family under the society. This was the inevitable tragedy of the transition of the new society and the final result of Chueh hsin's cowardice to the feudal society. Chueh - hsin was not a simple individual, but a tragedy of such a decadent society. The epitome of the character. His contradictions, his misfortunes, are bound to become a character fragment of that. All the misfortune brought by their own cowardice, all the tragedy brought by The Times, the unfortunate creation of characters.

Chueh - hui is a typical figure of ba Jin's new youth. Ba Jin once commented: "A traitor to the old ethical code, a naive but bold traitor. I'll put my hope on him to bring us some fresh air, for we'll be too stuffy in that house." Chueh - hui is the most rebellious of the three brothers. He falls in love with Ming - feng, a clever handmaid, but is accused of marrying Ming - feng as a concubine. Ming - feng refuses to obey and throws herself into a river. At this point, Chueh - hsin woke up, but Chueh - hui still separated from his family and devoted himself to the revolution in pursuit of his desired life.

In a word, "home" from ideological work, the work of destruction of youth, the feudalism and the feudal system of life angry complaints control for those who suffer the weight of the feudal ethical code, finally made a victim of sympathy given the wireless, for those who are fighting for freedom of life people carried out vigorously to support.

Another characteristic of home is permeated with a strong and pure youthful atmosphere, which is pure and natural, just as Ba Jin said; "Eternal life in the field of youth." Home is like a table of dishes, a table of delicious dishes, it contains the joys and sorrows of loved ones.

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