Analysis of the image of madman in Lu Xun's Diary of a Madman

It is "intended to expose the evils of the family system and rituals". In this work, we can see that although the madman has the spiritual characteristics of persecution mania, such as "There is no moonlight today, and I know it's not good", "Zhao Guiweng's eyes are strange: it seems that he wants to do me harm", "Why is the Zhao family dog looking at me twice? Why did he look at me twice?" and so on. etc. However, the deeper meaning of the work is consciously pointing to thousands of years of history and the phenomenon of "cannibalism" in the society at that time, from the ancient practice of "feeding the children to the people" to "the day before yesterday, the tenants of Wolf Village came to say that they ate the hearts and livers"; from "the tenants of Wolf Village came to say that they ate the hearts and livers The phenomenon of "cannibalism" ranges from the ancient phenomenon of "eating one's own son" to "the tenants of Wolfson Village came to tell of the eating of the heart and liver of the day before yesterday"; and from "Yi Ya steamed his son and gave him to Jie Zhou to eat" to Xu Xilin (i.e., Xu Xilin) who was fired and ate his liver. Although the content of the work is characterized by the illogical psychology of a madman, it is always centered on "cannibalism" and the various forms of cannibalism that have been occurring in the Chinese nation for thousands of years, both historically and historically undocumented, and its intention is obvious.

First, the maniac in "Diary of a Madman" suffers from the disease of "persecution mania", from the medical point of view, its prominent symptom is that the patient is in a kind of reactive delusion, for everything around him, may be due to the characteristics of a certain thing caused by a paranoid reaction: or suspected of harming him, or suspected of insulting him. Therefore, the madman in Diary of a Madman is characterized by significant "paranoia", or conversely, what Lu Xun focuses on in Diary of a Madman is the "paranoia" of the madman. (Of course, we can't apply the maniac's suspicion to Lu Xun in the work, as we shall see below.)

No challenge, only awakening. The madman is an anti-tradition, anti-morality, anti-oppression image, he realized that the original thousands of years of feudal morality and feudal culture are nothing but man-eating culture and morality, but he is powerless to challenge the oppression of the powerful traditional morality, and can only remain eaten and persecuted. When all the people have not yet awakened and he awakened, everyone else was taken by him as a madman, a maniac.