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Second, while modern China was politically invaded by foreign powers, its traditional culture was also impacted by western ideas. The old ethical concepts are constantly disintegrating, but the new values have not yet been formed, so there is a vacant and nihilistic zone in the spirit, which makes people feel at a loss. The disintegration of a value concept not only means individual liberation and freedom, but also indicates that people must face nothingness and disillusionment. People can no longer give the responsibility of choice to some kind of ethics or thought. Fromm said in Escape from Freedom that although most people yearn for freedom, excessive freedom is unbearable for ordinary people. If existentialism thinks that people can make their own choices in the face of nothingness, then, for Lian? Self? For people who have lost everything, freedom means losing their sense of security and phase, meaning nothingness and death. What did this anxiety lead to? Do individuals want to combine with people or things that have nothing to do with themselves in order to gain the power they lack? This tendency to give up independence and freedom is to escape freedom.

Usually, the most obvious manifestation of escaping nothingness is trying to obey and dominate others, that is, being abused and sadistic. Sadists feel their importance by dominating others and bringing them pain; Sadists try to give up themselves completely in order to integrate into a more powerful object. Fromm believes that everyone has abused and abused personality, and if a person's personality is completely controlled by this aspect, it will go to extremes. This is the case with Cao's and Chang 'an in The Golden Lock.

After the May 4th Movement, the landlord class in China experienced a final struggle, finally declined, and the national bourgeoisie began to rise. Fu Lei analyzed that there are two reasons for Cao's tragedy. The first is that the portal does not match, and the second is that the old lady made her a wife, giving this humble woman an environment stimulated by money and the ability to harm people. ? Qiaojie? She is a businessman who runs a sesame oil shop. She comes from a poor family and always wants to catch something real. The Jiang family she married was a declining landlord family, and everything was dispensable. The contradiction between her and her husband's family is also the embodiment of the conflict between the two classes in the transition from the old to the new. But the result of the struggle is neither the old killing the new, nor the new conquering the old, but the depressing desolation.

Zhang Ailing is a talented woman. Her life is precocious, strange and full of legend. Her personality is intelligent, persistent, maverick and unconstrained. She has a sensitive, profound and unique understanding of things around her. Her works are sad and desolate, full of human themes. The Golden Lock is her early work. When she was published, she was only twenty-three, but her works were quite mature, and she made a breakthrough in the angle of material selection, ideological depth and performance skills, which was highly praised by critics at that time and later.