What story does Thunderstorm tell? What is the evaluation?
In this seemingly respectable family, Zhou Puyuan is the only owner. He ruled this "most complete and orderly family" according to his own set of standards, but he didn't know that sin and disaster were hidden behind the calm. The interview was with his second wife, a weak and wise woman with a little primitive wildness. She married the Zhou family for eighteen years, and gave birth to a son, Wang, but it was like a grave. Until Zhou Puyuan's ex-wife's son Zhou Ping came to this home from the countryside. Zhou Ping rekindled her desire for life. She regards this love as all hope and clings to it. But his drought-striken fields was a weak man, and he soon became disgusted with this "abnormal" relationship and deeply regretted that he had cheated his father. In extreme pain, he had feelings for the housekeeper Gui Lu's daughter and the beautiful and simple maid four winds. He hopes to take this opportunity. Every day, he even intends to leave this home and start a new life. His younger brother Zhou Chong, a simple, kind and full of fantasy, also fell in love with four winds.
The betrayal of his drought-striken fields made Fan Yi extremely miserable, and the fact that he was about to leave made her extremely afraid of the future. She grasped at the last straw in despair. At this time, Sifeng's mother came back as a helper in a school in Jinan. Fan Yi learned that Ma Lu didn't want her daughter to work for others in a mansion, so she was going to drive with Sifeng through Ma Lu to leave. So, on the afternoon of the storm, I walked into Zhou's mansion.
Lumai went to Zhou Mansion, and everything familiar in the study suddenly made her feel like she was in a dream. It turns out that Luma is the biological mother and the maid Shi Ping ten years ago on Wednesday. She fell in love with Zhou's first husband and gave birth to two children, but was eventually abandoned because of the disparity in status. On New Year's Eve, she left Zhou's home with her child who had just given birth for three days. She tried to throw herself into the river, but she was rescued. From then on, I began a miserable life for 30 years. When Fan Yi met Dai Ping, she hinted that Sifeng was having an affair with her son Zhou Chong. Shi Ping did not expect that fate would be so arranged. Thirty years later, her daughter walked into Zhou Jia again, repeating her previous path. She decided to take Sifeng and leave here far away.
The sudden appearance of Shi Ping surprised Zhou Puyuan. Although he has been guilty of the past for many years and has always had sincere nostalgia for Shi Ping, the appearance of Shi Ping now still makes him feel the real danger. He was afraid that his position and family would be destroyed, so he hoped to send Shi Ping away with money. Shi Ping was completely disappointed with Zhou Puyuan, saying that he just wanted to meet his son Zhou Ping. At the same time, another son Lu Dahai, who was taken away by Shi Ping, is now waiting in the concierge to negotiate with Zhou Puyuan as a strike representative of Zhou Puyuan Mine. The family met in such a situation full of opposites and contradictions. Zhou Puyuan clashed with Lu Dahai, and his drought-striken fields angered the sea. Her son, who had been missing for many years, appeared in front of her in this way. Shi Ping was indignant and left Zhou's home with four winds and the sea.
Fan Yi begged his drought-striken fields not to give up, but his drought-striken fields refused. Fan Yi was desperate. Shiping made Sifeng swear that she would never see Zhou's family again. Sifeng felt very painful and at a loss. On a thunderstorm night, drunk Zhou Ping came to Lujia and sneaked into Sifeng's room from the back window. When Lu Dahai came home, Zhou Ping tried to escape, but Fan Yi's window was followed and quietly locked from the outside. The sea tried to kill Zhou Ping, but Shi Ping stopped him in despair.
His drought-striken fields returned home, faced with numerous appeals again, and decided to leave that night. Sifeng who ran out of the house in shame found his drought-striken fields, and his drought-striken fields decided to take her away. At this time, Shi Ping and the sea are looking for Sifeng, and Sifeng also came to Zhoujia. Shi Ping resolutely refused to let Sifeng and Zhou Ping be together, but Sifeng told her mother that she was pregnant. Faced with this huge "sin", the dead Shi Ping is determined to swallow the bitter fruit herself. Then she called Zhou Puyuan and forced everyone to stand face to face. Thus, on this thunderstorm night, the relationship between all the characters and all the cruelest facts was uncovered. His drought-striken fields couldn't face all this, and finally he shot himself, and Sifeng who rushed into the rainy night in the frenzy and Zhou Chong who went out to save her were electrocuted. Under the heavy blow of this fate, Fan Yi and Shi Ping completely collapsed, and this human tragedy finally came to an end.
A brief comment
No matter from the story level, dramatic effect, or deeper philosophical meaning of life, Thunderstorm is a wonderful work worth reading. There are "the cruelest love and the most unbearable roots", there are "the most thunderstorm" women, there are "like a fragile grass" men, and there are people who have experienced cold in the years. There are also children who are still full of illusions about life. In this most concentrated time and space, all people are struggling, either to achieve redemption, or to pursue dreams, or to maintain a little peace in front of them, but all efforts are powerless and ultimate destruction is inevitable. The author wants to express a kind of human destiny. People's "nameless fear" and "unspeakable desire" for a mysterious and unknowable force. This is the passionate work of a 23-year-old young man, and we also need to read it with passion and feel it with our hearts. Of course, Thunderstorm has been popular as a social drama for many years, and the author has also recognized people's interpretation of its works, which may explain this work.
Celebrity review
Thunderstorm is a work that can be performed and read.
-Ba Jin
A drama that mobilizes people, a natural and great long drama.
-Liu Xiwei (Li Jianwu)
Speaking of Thunderstorm, I should admit that thanks to it, I believe that China really has modern drama.
—— Li Liewen
Wonderful chapter recommendation
In fact, the whole script is not long and can be read in one breath, but if you have to choose, the following parts are the most worth watching:
Preface and Postscript: This part is often ignored and basically deleted when it is put on the stage, but the author himself attaches great importance to it and makes a special explanation. What's the point? Read it yourself.
Act II: This is the selected chapter in the textbook, and its classic degree is self-evident.
The fourth act: the climax of the whole drama, the conflict reaches its peak, which can not be ignored.
(Wu Lan)
Thunderstorm, a film with complicated blood relationship and numerous coincidences, reveals an inevitable tragedy.
See a dream of red mansions from a distance and a thunderstorm from a distance.
The classic works that influenced the modern culture of China.
Landmark Works in China's Drama History
Thunderstorm is the masterpiece of Cao Yu, a famous playwright, and also his famous work. Known as an epoch-making banner in the history of China literature, the play has been designated as a compulsory course in middle schools and universities, which can prove its important position in the history of literature.
When Cao Yu was studying in Tsinghua University at the age of 23, his four-act drama Thunderstorm not only established his position as an outstanding realistic playwright in the history of China drama, but also marked the maturity of China youth drama art. 。
Thunderstorm shows a great tragedy of life. Cao Yu, in an extreme thunderstorm-like way, slowly glides across the reader's heartstrings like a blade with gripping plots, concise and implicit language, vivid characters and extremely rich subtext, with lingering sound. For decades, Thunderstorm has been read by several generations and rehearsed by several groups of actors.
Thunderstorm is indeed a rare masterpiece. The structure, plot and dialogue of the whole play are really painstaking, but they are all natural and compact, without a trace of painstaking efforts. The author seems to have considerable attainments in psychopathology and psychoanalysis. It seems to us medical students that even if we are careful in finding faults, we can't find any flaws. In these places, the author
—— Guo Moruo
Thunderstorm is Cao Yu's first multi-act long play, which was written in 1933 and first published in 1934 Literature Quarterly. Within a limited time and space framework, the script focuses on the 30-year complex entanglement between Zhou and Lu families and the great tragedy caused by it, and profoundly exposes the historical evils of the upper class in old China.
—— Professor Peking University Tangyuan
Thunderstorm boldly absorbed the rich experience of foreign excellent plays and successfully produced a dramatic and explosive play with China characteristics. Compact structure, complete concentration, few characters, short time and concentrated scenes. The development of the plot is reasonable, which is in line with the logic of life and the logic of the characters, and the climax finally appears, which is irresistible.
-Jean Joy, a literary theorist
Desire for mysterious temptation
Regarding the theme of Thunderstorm, Cao Yu once explained: "Thunderstorm is a temptation to me. The emotion accompanying Thunderstorm is an unspeakable yearning for many mysterious things in the universe. " In his youth, Cao Yu was full of passion and tried to express his life feelings through his creation. But the relative lack of calm and rational thinking made him unable to answer all the puzzles in life, so thunderstorm
First of all, this "mysterious temptation" comes from the fear, confusion and call sign of impermanent fate. The ninth character who has never appeared in the play-"fate" will always be the supreme master of the whole play. It easily played tricks on the characters on the stage again and again, and its sudden arrival and silence touched everyone's fear. Lu Shiping, who is forbearing and shrinking, is always on the alert, step by step, all the time. Zhou Puyuan, who is arrogant, is also deeply anxious about the possible disasters caused by the sins of the first half of his life. He is afraid that any relationship with Shi Ping will make him lose everything he has. He is worried that fate will mercilessly deprive him of the wealth and reputation he already has ... The extreme fear of fate torments every soul with a strong desire, and their anxiety is like the depressed sky before a thunderstorm. However, this fear itself is a temptation, just like watching a horror movie and wanting to watch the emotional experience over and over again.
The fear of fate is real, but people who are driven by cruel fate are not fatally waiting for the final judgment. Their tenacious will and instinct for survival urge them to struggle constantly, so the dying struggle in the predicament forms another "mysterious temptation"-the publicity, praise and worship of vitality. Fan Yi, the "devil", made two choices in life, which fully ignited the passionate flame of this vitality.
In addition to the cruel reality that makes people fear and fight, the pursuit of ideals and hopes, like the wings of an angel, gives people the vision and belief to fly to heaven. The "mysterious temptation" of this layer is to get rid of heavy comfort.
Fear of fate, survival of fate, transcendence of fate ideal. The "mysterious temptation" in Thunderstorm contains these three meanings, but it is far more than that. Because we can't make a rational positioning for a text, even the playwright himself can't Chen Qing-"And I can't give it a proper name, and I don't have the ability to describe its truth. Because it is too big and complicated. " Therefore, if Thunderstorm is defined as a simple tragedy of fate, it cannot cover its extended meaning, while understanding Cao Yu's creative emotion-"the desire for mysterious temptation" can be close to the true nature of the play, which is the value of our interpretation.
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