What is the tragedy of the characters in Border Town?

One, the superstition of fate

The western Hunan world in Shen Congwen's writing is a closed world, foreign culture is not easy to spread in, people are generally xenophobic, and very resistant to the outside of the new things, so their strong feudalism is y rooted in their minds, and they believe that everything is the fate of God.

Second, the main body of the main character is weak in will

Border Town is centered on the love entanglements between Cuicui and Big Brother, and Second Brother. Cuicui's love is spontaneous rather than conscious, much less autonomous. Cuicui desire and her favorite Nuo Nuo lovers into a couple, *** with the inheritance of her grandfather's ferry career. But in the end, the lovers did not get together is the root cause of Cuicui's own subjective awareness of the weakness of Cuicui.

In front of love, she always hide, dare not face up to, let alone take the initiative to pursue. She grew up in western Hunan, and the traditional thinking is y rooted in her soul, controlling her maidenly thoughts, resulting in her weak consciousness in the face of love. It is this character flaw of Cuicui that makes her love lost to her in her dodging time and again.

Three, the reality of the level of the conflict of fame and fortune

The people of the border town are kind-hearted, people respect each other, but in front of the reality of the conflict, in front of the money and interests, people appear to be so fragile. The reason why Shen emphasized the opposition between the ferry and the mill in his article is because he deplored the loss of natural and simple folk customs under the erosion of civilization, money and real profit in the real society.

Money and fame play an important role in the tragedy of love between Nuo and Cuicui. It makes Cuicui feel inferior and small in front of the reality, it makes the old boat man in front of the reality of uncertainty and helplessness, it makes Nuo Nuo this filial child in the will of his father, leave in anger.

Extended information

"Border Town" hosted Shen Congwen "beauty" and "love" of the aesthetic ideal, is his work in the most expressive of the beauty of human nature of a novel. The virtues that have been preserved in traditional culture, which Biancheng is trying to eulogize, are relative to the reality that traditional virtues have been undermined in the modern society, which is full of materialistic monetarism, superficiality, vulgarity and corruption.

The western Hunan depicted in "Border Town" is characterized by beautiful natural scenery, pure and simple folk customs, people don't talk about hierarchies and utilitarianism, and people treat each other sincerely and love each other. Grandpa's love for his granddaughter, Cuicui to Nuo Nuo's innocent love, Tianbao brothers to Cuicui sincere love and brotherly love between sincere brotherhood, these represent the uncontaminated agricultural civilization of traditional virtues.

The author's effort to write about the purity of nature in western Hunan is also aimed at writing about the purity of the hearts of western Hunanese people. The Border Town writes about the proposal of marriage by song, the marriage of brothers, and the love between Grandpa and Cuicui, which are the forms and ways of life of the western Hunan people, all of which imply the sadness about the loss of the ancient virtues and values in the real life, as well as the criticism of the proliferation of materialistic desires in the modern civilization. By emphasizing the western Hunanese way of life, the author also wants to rebuild the nation's character and personality.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia - Border Town