Discuss what are the reasons for the layer of the tragic figure of Cao Qixiao

I) Roots of Social and Historical Environment

A person becomes a beast

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Surely there are reasons of his own thoughts and character

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but

what is most detestable

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is the soil in which this kind of thoughts and

character is generated. Feudal rites and gold worship are the social factors of Chikao's psychopathy.

The story of The Book of Golden Locks unfolds after the Xinhai Revolution,

which was an incomplete revolution,

because it didn't change the social nature of China

still in a semi-feudal and semi-colonial society, and the dregs of the traditional Chinese culture have a profound impact on people's daily life.

The story of The Book of Golden Locks is a story about the development of the Chinese culture, which has a profound influence on people's daily life. In the feudal and patriarchal society of "the survival of heaven and the destruction of humanity"

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"the order of parents and the words of matchmakers,"

Seven Qiao, unable to control her own destiny, marries into the Jiang family to survive, and maintains the patriarchal society

in a slavish and self-disciplined way. She is unable to control her own destiny and marries into the Jiang family in order to survive, using a slavish self-discipline to maintain the order of a patriarchal society

. She does not dare to show her sadness and happiness, her hatred and love, and she is unable to objectify her

feelings. This is the root of Cao Qixiao's tragic fate. By unleashing the evil side of Cao Qixiao's humanity, Zhang Eileen reveals the tragic fate of women under male domination: no freedom, no status, only absolute obedience to men and a sense of service to men

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The word "home" is supposed to be a harbor of belonging and a yearning of the heart for us ordinary people, but in Cao's case,

Qixiao,

"home" has become the main culprit of her tragic fate, pushing her step by step to her destruction. It pushes her step by step into the abyss of destruction.

First of all, Cao Qixiao's family,

She was born in a hemp oil store, belonging to the bottom of the social class,

such a family has the desire to climb up the ranks of the rich and powerful, and when there is a chance to do so, they will certainly try to get close to the so-called upper-class society by any means possible.

Cao Qixiao's parents died when she was a child, and she was taken care of by her brother and sister-in-law.

The idea of "the eldest brother being the father" is an important part of the traditional Chinese ethical culture.

Though Qixiao is from a humble background, she is still considered a young woman, and it is not difficult for her to find an in-law. However, in order to

satisfy her own selfish desires, her brother and sister-in-law took the liberty of marrying Qixiao to the second young master of the Jiang family, who is suffering from a crippling disease. Even if hate, can only be buried in the heart, occasionally one or two vent also

only to satisfy the pleasure of the moment, the real wheel of fate is Qixiao can not be reversed.

In those days, a bad family background was the beginning of Cao Qixiao's tragic fate.

Secondly, Cao Qixiao's second home had an even more profound effect on her. In a big feudal family like the Jiang family,

everywhere you have to be careful, and you have to be more mindful in what you say and do, especially when Qixiao originally came from a family below the Jiang family's status

unlike the first and third youngest grandmothers, who were from prestigious families, so she had to put in more effort if she wanted to get the respect of others in the Jiang family

. Feudal families have a lot of family rules and customs to follow, which invariably bring a lot of pressure for

people's survival, and also everywhere to bind people's behavior, Qixiao in such a family environment will not be able to have

an easy life. In addition, her husband is an invalid, Qixiao must rely on

herself to satisfy her many needs, including the need for lust, she tried hard to pursue Jiang Jize, in return, but refused, which is undoubtedly a huge blow to her

great, since then, she began to learn to suppress all of her own normal requirements. At this time, "home" to her is only

an empty thing, she did not get anything from the family can make her happy, on the contrary,

"home" to her only

has been constantly hurt, but also become the obstacles to her pursuit of happiness. In such a family, Cao Qixiao's psychology gradually

undergoes qualitative changes, and her human nature is distorted in the never-ending repression.

Long before the Xinhai Revolution, China's traditional culture was y affected by the impact of new Western ideas. Under the

fierce collision of old and new ideas, people's values would have a hard time choosing and setting up. In "The Book of Golden Locks", the author uses "Golden

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Locks" as the title, obviously, to tell a story about money. In the social background of the story, the new ideas of the West

are strongly impacting on the Chinese culture, which is still dominated by feudalism, and the conservative people are not interested in the traditional culture, but in the traditional culture. The old-fashioned people have a deep-rooted attitude of absolute trust and obedience to the traditional

old customs, and when they are confronted with the new ideas, they have some

doubt and interest,

but they are not able to correctly understand and utilize these new ideas.

Author Eileen Chang starts from this perspective,

and through the story of a woman who was put in a double golden yoke by others and by herself, she tells the story of the cannibalization of human nature by the Western gold-worshipping ideology

that made an otherwise normal woman give up the happiness

and life that should be pursued in her life under the bondage of money.

Cao Qixiao, under the influence of feudalism, has y bound her humanity, giving up some normal pursuits

that she should have had, but Zhang Eileen puts her in Shanghai, a place y influenced by Western ideas, and Cao Qixiao is bound to be inevitably impacted in that environment

and if the spread of women's self-awakening consciousness will be affected by the If the spread of women's self-awakening consciousness will be strongly

rejected by old-fashioned people, but gold-worshipping will be welcomed at all levels of society, and no one can resist the temptation of money. After failing to pursue a normal life, Cao Qixiao's eyes are fixed on money, which in her opinion will never betray her, and she has been fighting for money all her life. The heavy golden yoke presses her psychologically, and she can't allow anyone to get their hands on her property. To this end, she would rather sacrifice even a short period of happiness, and this has eventually evolved into the only pursuit and goal of life,

Her humanity was twisted by the golden yoke, destroyed, she herself has been eaten by the gold, her youth and love is also the golden yoke

locked to the stifling, she with the money obsessed with a perverted guardianship of the psychology of the burial of their own and their families' lives.

(2) Cao Qixiao's personal reasons

From the article

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The repression of eroticism is the motivating factor of Cao Qixiao's individual psychological mutation.

From Maslow's humanistic psychological perspective

the physiological needs and safety needs are the psychological roots of Qixiao's tragic character.

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Eroticism

Cao Qixiao's psychological development and change is carried out little by little, and can be roughly divided into three phases: one is that she married into the Jiang family to

begin to the Cao Dainian marrying her daughter to the family's visit, this phase is the stage when she feels the pressure, including the recognition of identity status

recognition, the body's awareness, sexual awareness and so on, which is the cause of her human distortion. This is what causes her human nature to be distorted; the second stage is her

reminiscence after sending her brother and sister-in-law away and the unhappy discussion with Jiang Jize about family problems, this time is the stage when she tries to find an outlet for herself, but

it is unfortunate that she is unsuccessful, and due to the unfulfillment of her erotic desires, it accelerates the transformation of her human nature; the last stage is from the incident of Cao Qiqiao's The last stage begins with the incident of Cao Chunxi, Cao Qixiao's nephew, and her psychopathy is transferred to her children. This is a gradual

process, one in which Cao Qixiao goes from a normal life to a perverted one.

The following is a deep analysis of Cao Qixiao's psychological changes. Because her normal sexual desire is not satisfied, she must always

remind herself to suppress the lust that cannot be given vent to. Cao Qixiao's inability to satisfy her lust inevitably

makes her psychology start to be distorted.

This is not a proclamation of sexuality,

but a person who cannot satisfy her normal needs

then her life is bound to be a perverted life.

What is more important is that she can't satisfy her normal desires.

But if a person's normal needs are not met, her life is bound to be crippled, and if she is not properly guided, the consequences are unimaginable

This can be seen in Cao Qixiao's life.

Sexual desire is one of the most primitive needs of human beings, a kind of instinct of human beings, and it is the return of human beings to their true nature.

It can be said that Cao Qixiao's normal lust is not satisfied, which is a very important reason for her psychopathy. Her living environment

decided that it is impossible for her to have a normal release of lust, which is a kind of torment and a kind of destruction for her, and gradually she has

walked on the road to the point of no return of her perverted life, and the extreme depression and unbalance of her inner being makes her dislike all the people. This kind of extreme inner depression and imbalance makes her dislike all the people who have happiness

and even hate them, she must find a vent for this, and her pair of children unfortunately acted as this

vent, Cao Qiqiao used all the impossible means to destroy her son, Changbai and daughter, Chang'an's happiness, and the final result is to make them become the pallbearers of her own unfortunate life. At this time, she has some psychological satisfaction, but this kind of satisfaction

satisfaction is very human, is chilling, but also at this time, Cao Qixiao completely showed the nature of the perversion

quality, became a complete "madman"

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. Physiological needs safety needs

Humanistic psychology is

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surge of a kind of psychological school, Maslow as its representative will be the figure,

the human needs are divided into seven levels:

"Physiological needs, safety needs, belonging and love, need for safety,

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"Physiological needs, safety needs

The physiological needs, safety needs, the need for belonging and love, the need for respect, the need for recognition

the need for awareness, the need for aesthetics, the need for self-actualization.

"As an absence need, it can cause scarcity motivation

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machine. In Cao Qixiao, there are only two most dominant needs at every moment: the need for lust and the need for security (to become the second grandmother for the sake of her livelihood

, and to voluntarily put on the golden yoke for the sake of her future life)

, and so these two needs dominate Cao Qixiao's consciousness

, and become the core force that organizes her behavior. So under the domination of erotic needs, she will fall in love with the third young master, Ji Ze, and have

"love for her son and cynicism for her daughter"

, and out of the need for security, she will exchange her love, affection, happiness, and personality for money, and will do whatever it takes to hold on to the little bit of family property that she has traded in her youth.

Cao Qiqiao's behavior is very different from that of the young master, but she has no need for any other kind of love.

The repression of lust is accompanied by the extreme expansion of materialistic desire. A woman of Cao Qixiao's background has a primitive

desire for money, and when she fails in her pursuit of normal lust, she becomes more and more narrow-minded, and in the end, she only recognizes that money is the only thing in her life she can truly rely on and trust, and that any kind of human feelings and any kind of family are all false. All of them will dislike her

abandon her, in her view, only her own hands have money, is the real life. In her opinion, the only real life is to have money in her hands. So driven by this kind of mentality

she tries to get money by all means and values it more than anything else, Qixiao doesn't trust anyone anymore, and in her eyes, all the people who want to get close to her are doing it for the sake of her money, for the sake of her sacrificing her whole life's happiness in exchange for a little

compensation,

she binds herself to the money. bundle,

living like a miser,

with no joy in life to talk about,

except for lying on a smoking couch all day and night and gulping down clouds, which is a way for Cao Qixiao to paralyze herself, because at the end of the novel

we can see that, in the dead of the night, she gropes for the emerald jade bracelet on her wrist, and slowly moves the bracelet down the bone-thin as

children's arms up to her armpits. She herself could not believe that she had ever had round arms when she was young, and even

a few years after she married, she could only fit a handkerchief in the bracelet. When she was a girl at eighteen or nineteen, those who liked her included Chao Lu in the butcher shop

, her brother's sworn brothers Yu Yugean and Zhang Shaoquan, and Tailor Shen's son. If you like her, you may just like to

joke with her, however, if she picked one of them, after a long time, after the birth of a child, the man more

less still a little bit of sincerity to her. But there is no if. Seven Qiao lying alone, moved the bottom of the ruffled small pillow, up to

face to rub a little, that moment of a tear she did not bother to wipe, by it on the cheeks, gradually dry themselves.

The memories of her youth and the tears that flowed out of her eyes proved that there is still a sensitive string deep inside Cao Qixiao's heart, and the waves of this string

moved her a little bit, but she let the tears stay on her face, which shows that she is no longer the Cao Qixiao of the past after all, and that she is only a soulless shell now

filled with human indifference and a passionate desire for money. The only thing she has left is a soulless shell, filled with human indifference and a passion for money. Cao Qixiao's mind

is so distorted that it can no longer be altered by the slightest touch or regret.

(3) Author Eileen Chang's Reason

Eileen Chang said, "Sadness is a kind of completion."

An important factor that we can't ignore in the investigation of Cao Qixiao's tragedy of destiny is the influence of the author, Eileen Chang.

Cao Qixiao's life is full of tragedy. Zhang Eileen's life is full of tragedy, her childhood and marriage misfortune and the surrounding environment she came into contact with have brewed

her tragic outlook on life, as well as her tragic sense of creation in her novels.

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. The influence of Eileen Chang's family experience

The most important stage in a person's life for the formation of his personality is of course childhood and adolescence, and it also has a significant impact on the formation of a writer's work

style, Eileen Chang was born in a family with a distinguished family background, whose maternal great-grandfather

was Li Hongzhang, his grandfather was Zhang Peilun, a minister at the end of the Qing Dynasty, and his mother was a famous girl, Huang Yifan. famous girl. Although Eileen Chang was born into such an

aristocratic family, her childhood and adolescence were not as happy as one might expect. This mainly stemmed from her parents

unfortunate marriage. Zhang Eileen's father lived a lavish life on his ancestral fortune, and soon after marrying Huang Yifan, he

started a life of keeping aunts, gambling, and smoking cigarettes, degenerating step by step. Huang Yifan decided to leave her husband and her son behind to study abroad

. The difference in lifestyles and even ideas eventually led to a divorce, and she and her brother were sentenced to their father's custody and

rearing. The unfortunate marriage of her parents cast a heavy shadow prematurely on Eileen's young mind, and the young Zhang Eileen,

feeling the sadness of life, the difficulty of the world and the hardships of current affairs, had an extremely great impact on her childhood. A few years later, her

father married another aunt, so Zhang Eileen had a stepmother. She and her stepmother could not live in harmony***. Due to a small conflict, although

not Zhang Eileen's fault, but the indiscriminate father then beat her in public, and then put her under house arrest

for half a year, which in the middle of the time, she also had a serious illness, almost died. After her father's heartlessness, Eileen's daughter, Zhang Ailing,

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was numb to the feelings between her father and daughter, but when she tried to escape from her father's home and live with her mother,

she realized that she was so incompatible with this so-called "Western-style lady" lifestyle, and that her mother

would not be able to live with her. The problems of her mother's life, which was often characterized by financial constraints, caused her mother's love to deteriorate a bit

. The unfortunate family experiences between her parents had a negative impact on Eileen's psyche. Therefore, the marriage in Eileen's writing is loveless, bitter, and with extremely strong tragic colors.

Subconsciously, the depression and resentment left by the early family breakup and parental widowhood are placed on the characters she portrayed

In Chang'an we can see the shadow of Eileen Chang's childhood, Jiang Chang'an's vulnerability is universal, the patriarchal system has long since dug a good grave for

her, she can only bear and bear the burden in silence, in the case of Jiang Chang'an, the more forceful Criticize the feudal consciousness and

the poisonous effects of the feudal family on women.

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. Disputes over Zhang Eileen's relationship with Hu Lancheng

When Zhang Eileen became popular in the Shanghai literary scene, Hu Lancheng came into her life.

In 1944

Hu Lancheng's wife, after learning of her

husband's extramarital affair, took the initiative to file for divorce to make room for Zhang Eileen. It was in this year that Zhang Eileen and Hu Lan Cheng

were married in Shanghai, but happiness is always so short-lived. When Japan lost the war, Hu Lancheng, who was regarded as a "cultural traitor", was

wanted by the national government and forced to go into exile. Zhang Eileen endured the panic in her heart, and still followed her

lover closely. But Hulan Cheng was still womanizing while on the run. Soon his affair with a 17-year-old nurse in Wuhan

was exposed in full force

and Eileen heard the sound of her family breaking up in her grief.

In February

1946

, Zhang Eileen boarded a ship bound for Wenzhou

in her grief. There she waited for Hu Lancheng's choice, but what she waited for was the news that Hu was living with a young nurse. Zhang

Eileen's legendary love affair ended in despair.

The unfortunate marriage, the blow to Zhang Eileen is huge, the formation of her tragic creative outlook on the pivotal role

of her later life on the road of choice, an immeasurable impact.

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. Influence of Chinese and Western cultures

Chang Eileen was born into a family that was influenced by both Chinese and Western cultures. Chang Eileen's father was a young man of the past

, who was elegant and literate, and gave her some classical enlightenment, which fostered her hobby of literature. Eileen's mother, on the other hand, was a bold new woman who dared to study abroad and get divorced, and whose taste in life and art was more

westernized.

When her mother first returned from overseas,

the seeds of Western culture were sown in Eileen's young mind.

Chang received her university education in Hong Kong, where Chinese and Western cultures intermingled, and this experience had a great impact on her creativity,

and the nourishment of classical literature, such as Journey to the West and Dream of the Red Chamber, which she read as a child, penetrated deep into the marrow of her bones and seeped out from between the lines. The cultural background in Eileen Chang's works can be summarized as: culture in decline,

civilization in chaos.

"Too much joy and too much sorrow have the same thing - the same need to stay away from the crowd."

From her own tragic life, she looked at the tragedy of all human nature in the world, and wrote a scene of tragedy, leaving the world with a lot of

controversy. The writer's life experience and the sadness of his life is closely related to his life experience and sense of tragedy.

Born in a rich and prosperous family,

although not worried about food and clothing,

but by the coldness of his parents,

lack of love and warmth,

was confined by his father during his teenage years, and was forced to escape from the shadow of the father's power.

The author's life can be said to be closely related to the author's sense of tragedy, which he omits at times.

The tragic fate of Cao Qixiao is a microcosm of the social misfortunes of the time, which is greatly exaggerated in Zhang Eiling's writing, and it is

such an exaggeration that makes us feel shocked and shuddered by a character whose personality and life are extremely distorted. By describing the two aspects of her being eaten and cannibalism,

the author gives the reader a deep insight into the fear of that cannibalistic world.

Zhang Ailing shows us the nature of the cannibalistic world in another way through the beginning and end of Cao Qixiao's perverted life, and

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And in a kind of bloodless but ubiquitous way, people can experience the bloody fact that her tragedy is the tragedy of the society, and also the tragedy of that time! This is a kind of flogging on our mind, a smelting, a thinking?