What is the central idea of ??"Soap"?

Through scene presentation and dramatic irony, "Soap" reveals the erotic imagination of defenders of Confucian ethics and the personal erotic desires hidden under family ethics, thereby deconstructing traditional Confucian ethics.

Through the presentation of scenes, the novel deconstructs the father-son ethics and husband-wife gender ethics in traditional Confucian ethics one by one, exposes the hypocrisy of the defenders, and reveals the inherent decay of traditional ethics and the collapse and subversion of traditional family ethics.

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In "Soap", gender ethics can be summarized as the model of "seeing and being seen", which is reflected on two levels.

Creative background "Soap" was written in 1924. At this time, after the failure of the Revolution of 1911 and the "Second Revolution", the advanced intellectuals during the "May 4th" period had a deeper understanding of the influence of feudal ethical thoughts accumulated in the minds of the people on politics.

The huge restrictive effect on the revolutionary process and the necessity of launching an ideological enlightenment movement.

Therefore, opposing the old morality of feudalism and advocating the new morality of democracy are two inseparable aspects of the ideological enlightenment movement.

Literature was a useful tool to propagate the ideas of this movement. Many writers at that time held on to the position of literature and launched fierce attacks on feudalism. As the standard-bearer of the literary revolution, Lu Xun also used literature as a spear and dagger to attack feudalism.

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