Appreciation of Jia Baoyu in A Dream of Red Mansions

Jia Baoyu is the main central figure in A Dream of Red Mansions. As a descendant of the Rong-Guo mansion, he was born with extraordinary intelligence and wit, and he was the heir of Jia's great hope. But his thoughts and personality prompted him to betray his family. The formation of his rebellious character is not accidental. The novel fully describes the living environment that caused his character and his specific situation in all aspects, and profoundly reveals the subjective and objective reasons for his character growth. On the one hand, the aristocratic society centered on men is so hypocritical, ugly and decadent that he feels lifelong regret for being a man; On the other hand, the purity and beauty of the girls made him feel that he would only be satisfied with them. He was also sent to his home school to study the Four Books and Five Classics, but the content and atmosphere of his home school were so decadent, and the masters who took this educational route were so vulgar and disgusting. His feudal education was emotionally inappropriate. He seldom contacts with his father who is an official. He is as scared as a tiger and gives him a wide berth. His parents gave him to a group of wet nurses and maids when he was young. Those ladies who surrounded him and treated him with a pure heart were his first teachers. The profound purity and freedom of the maids infected him, and the misfortunes they suffered because of their social status also inspired him. In Jia Baoyu's intuitive life, they are in sharp contrast with the leading forces of the center, which are mainly secular men: wisdom and stupidity, innocence and decay, cleanliness and filth, innocence and hypocrisy, kindness and evil, beauty and ugliness. In such an environment, Jia Baoyu gradually formed a love-hate tendency of his thoughts and feelings. The core of Jia Baoyu's personality is to treat others equally, respect individuality, and advocate that everyone can act freely according to his own will. In his mind, there are only true and false, good and evil, beautiful and ugly. He hates and despises secular men, and is close to and respects oppressed women. He said, "Daughters are made of water and men are made of mud. I feel refreshed when I see my daughter, and I feel turbid and smelly when I see a man. " In connection with this, he dislikes the family from which he came, and loves and is close to those who have similar personalities and smells and come from humble origins. This is essentially a denial of the aristocratic class from which he came. At the same time, he strongly resisted the traditional life path arranged for him by feudalism. For the sake of feudal ethics, except in the morning, he tried to avoid taking part in the fellowship and entertainment of literati. I am very disgusted with the highest ideals of feudal literati, such as fame and fortune marriage, and completely deny them. He just wants to live as he pleases, resigned to his fate, that is, to startle flowers in the daughter country of the Grand View Garden, sing quietly and live freely. "If I am lucky at this time, I will die when you are all in front of me, and then you can cry my tears, flow into a river, float my body, send it to a secluded place without birds, melt with the wind, and I will never be born again. This is my death. " Limited by the times, Jia Baoyu could not find a way out of real life. He wants to get rid of the shackles of aristocratic society, but he can't help but cling to the aristocratic class. This makes his thought and character have tragic and serious contradictions. His ideal is undoubtedly a denial of feudal life, but it is hazy and has a strong sentimental and nihilistic color. Jia Baoyu's pursuit of personality freedom is embodied in love and marriage. Feudal marriage depends on parents' orders and family interests. Jia Baoyu, on the other hand, devotes himself to sincere ideological friendship and has no scruples about family interests. He loves Lin Daiyu because Lin Daiyu's life experience, situation and inner character reflect all the objective and subjective characteristics of all the girls who moved him and made him dear in his living environment. His love with Lin Daiyu is based on thoughts and feelings and has profound social content. On the contrary, this contradiction between love and feudalism became the main supporting force and motive force for him to overcome his own shortcomings and weaknesses step by step and develop and improve his ideological character day by day. This kind of love with rebellious thoughts as the core is increasingly oppressed by feudal forces. According to Cao Xueqin's original arrangement, Lin Daiyu will die in tears, and Jia Baoyu will marry Xue Baochai after his death. Xue Baochai's personality and marriage life made him completely desperate, and he finally abandoned his home and ran away, returning to the slim nothingness. Jia Baoyu's rebellious character was not fixed at the beginning, and his works focused on describing the development history of his character. He lived in a sinful and corrupt aristocratic environment, inevitably contaminated with the bad habits and decadent ideas of some aristocratic children, and these bad habits coexisted with the good tendencies in his character. However, with the stimulation and education given by the major events he saw and heard in his life, and with the mental setbacks and blows he suffered when he was involved in realistic contradictions, some decadent and bad things in his ideological character gradually decreased and eliminated, and his rebellious ideological character gradually became firm and mature. His attitude, sympathy and love for the girls around him have always been the dominant aspect, but at first it also contained some decadent and evil elements. Qin Keqing's death, Qin Zhong's death, Lin Daiyu's wandering life experience and her inner sadness as a noble sister made him realize the difference between respect and playing, purity and decay, beauty and sincerity, and sin and hypocrisy in the relationship between men and women. From then on, he gradually showed a serious attitude towards the relationship between men and women and a deep antipathy to the society in which he lived. He used to think that all the girls' tears would be sent to him. He loves Lin Daiyu, but when he meets the gentle and lovely Xue Baochai and the elegant and free Shi Xiangyun, he is dazzled and deeply touched. Because of the uncertainty of feelings, Lin Daiyu constantly exerted influence on him with blood, tears and life, so that he gradually got rid of the entanglement and attraction of social forces and aristocratic bad habits from his painful experience, which made his character tend to be purified, his mind tend to be sober, and his thoughts and feelings tend to be stable and firm. In addition, the maid's personality and experience also influenced him, making him realize that "love in life is different." He is generally gentle and docile to girls, but sometimes he reveals some violent styles in his early days, such as kicking snow, kicking people and training Qingwen, all of which were beaten by his father. After this series of events, he not only abandoned the act of beating and cursing the servant girl forever, but also greatly strengthened his rebellious thoughts and deepened his understanding. Since then, his sympathy and consideration for the oppressed and devastated girls have become more profound and thoughtful. Moreover, on the basis of deepening the understanding of women's social status and destiny, I think it is a shackle to send her glory, and I am willing to pay attention to her death. I made a clear choice, for example, for Lin Daiyu and Xue Baochai and Shi Xiangyun, for Qingwen and Xiren and Sheyue, I feel close to each other. Based on this kind of ideological understanding, there was a plot of "congenial", and his love for Lin Daiyu matured and consolidated from then on until death do us part. Another suppression by feudal forces was the raid on the Grand View Garden initiated by Mrs. Wang: Qingwen and Siqi were forced to death, and Fangguan was driven away, and the Grand View Garden finally became a desolate place. This is mainly because the feudal forces want to destroy the relationship between Jia Baoyu and Lin Daiyu, sweep away all the factors that violate etiquette, and prevent Jia Baoyu from embarking on the feudal right path. However, after witnessing the tragedy of Qingwen and others and the disaster in the Grand View Garden, Jia Baoyu abandoned his delusion of feudal forces and rushed into the shield with his own blood. Rong's daughter is tantamount to a declaration of resistance to the end. Jia Baoyu denied the feudal social order, but he did not reach the height of denying monarchical power and clan power, that is, feudal sovereignty. On the one hand, he developed his rebellious thoughts step by step, completely leaning towards the oppressed and supporting them; He insisted on his love with Lin Daiyu and urgently demanded the autonomy of marriage; In fact, all this was due to the privilege given to him by feudal forces, and he could not deny feudal rule. What he hates is exactly what he relies on; What he opposes is exactly what he relies on. He can't completely break away from feudal rule, nor can he give up his democratic ideological requirements. Therefore, his way out does not exist in reality, and he can only go to the illusory surreal world in the end.