Appreciation of the Content of Before the Thunderstorm

"Before the Thunderstorm" was published in 1934, and in Comic LifeNo. 1 (published in1September 20, 934). Regarding the meaning, artistic conception and writing techniques of Before the Thunderstorm, Mr. Mao Dun once said: "I would like to recommend Before the Thunderstorm and Footprints on the Beach; These two essays are also symbolic, but the symbolists are different from those in Praise of Poplar and Landscape Talk in different times, backgrounds and methods. It can be said that two essays such as Praise of Poplar only describe people in reality in a symbolic way, while two essays such as Before Thunderstorm describe the political and social contradictions in China in the 1930s in a symbolic way. " (Sketches of Mao Dun's Prose)

After reading this work, we can pay attention to the use of symbolic techniques of natural realism. There is not a word in the text, not even a hint. Everything is based on the true colors of natural things, grasping their characteristics, generalizing images by analogy, exaggeration and other rhetorical devices, and showing their symbolic significance in their own movements and conflicts. For example, the atmosphere of Early Morning: sultry, windless, people sleeping on the street, gray curtains, dry rivers and hard soil, is still like "spitting" and "hot air". This is the actual feeling from vision and touch. The atmosphere of writing "This Morning": There may be wind outside the curtain, but the curtain does not move, resulting in a "sultry feeling". Sweat sticks to the skin like a cannonball, which truly reproduces the real scene that the hot air is getting stronger and stronger and the depressed atmosphere is getting stronger and stronger as time goes by. It was around three o'clock in the afternoon, and the "gray curtain of the sky" cracked when it was "like a dried-up fish"! But this "ray of light in dark kingdom" is fleeting, and the curtain and Miyun are extremely stubborn: "The air is twice as stuffy as before! That curtain is twice as thick as before! It's doubly black! " Render the gloomy and greasy atmosphere to the extreme. This series of vivid descriptions gives people a real feeling of being there and suffering, and the desire to breathe stiffly and change the environment is getting stronger and stronger, so that readers who are in the white terror created by the Kuomintang reactionaries naturally associate the natural environment with the heavy political environment, naturally accept the symbolic meaning of the works, naturally understand the symbolic image of the "giant with a knife", and will appreciate and support his efforts to cut the curtain, and even join his ranks.

The symbolic significance of the artistic image of the work: at first, the oppressive and suffocating atmosphere before the thunderstorm symbolizes the dark social reality under the rule of the Kuomintang, and then points out that due to reactionary rule, that is, "there is a gray curtain in the sky", the revolutionary forces resist, that is, "the giant is holding a bright broadsword outside in an attempt to break the gray curtain". In the fierce struggle, although the accomplices came out to make trouble, the revolutionaries were not afraid of violence and fought against the dark forces. "The giant immediately tore the gray curtain to pieces!" At the end of the article, it shows that a better society will eventually come, "let the thunderstorm wash out a clean and cool world!"

The sentences in the work are concise and powerful. "You will feel that the end of the world can't be worse than this!" This pun is profound and particularly touching, especially reflecting the people's desire to overthrow the reactionary rule, and especially encouraging readers and giants to destroy the suffocating situation composed of curtains and hateful insects in Before the Thunderstorm. Short and pithy sentences are used to describe the great changes in the situation, which is shocking. The word "fierce" is very imposing; A "lightning" gives people a strong sense of pleasure; "Boom, boom", the thunder is fierce, "Hoo-"the wind is very strong, "cicadas are silent, flies escape, mosquitoes hide", "people are as cold as shells", and the scene is abrupt and extremely happy. Finally, point out the "eye" of prose in the form of line-by-line poems:

Huo! Huo! Huo! The giant's knife light is flying in the sky.

Boom, boom, come on! Speak louder!

Let the thunderstorm wash out a clean and cool world!

This finishing touch is vigorous and free, like lightning and thunder! Shouted out the reader's voice and sang the strongest voice of the times.

When the author wrote Before Thunderstorm, the gloomy and dreary high temperature with dark clouds and no rain, and the momentum and atmosphere of thunder and lightning brought by thunderstorm reminded people of Cao Yu's drama Thunderstorm. Writing about the giant with a knife fighting with a gray curtain, the stupid action of flies, mosquitoes and cicadas, calling for a thunderstorm in the author's own tone, reminds us of Gorky's prose poem Haiyan. These great writers in the history of literature all used symbolic techniques, and everyone carefully refined the materials provided by real life with their unique creative and aesthetic views, bringing us to their carefully constructed artistic realm, edifying people with their thoughts and enjoying beauty.

That is, from the first paragraph to the third paragraph, write about the stone bridge that is still hot in the morning, the sun covered by clouds, the cracked soil, and the lightning and thunder that can't help cool down at three o'clock in the afternoon.

These pictures about weather scenes show gloomy and suffocating weather scenes, so the author is eager to "let thunderstorms wash out a clean and cool world!" " "