How dare I hide my face, I was born without a face

Shaina 2022-04-24 07:01:24

The maid Yan'er was frozen to death because she refused to admit her mistake, and the burnt lantern was ashes as hope. She is the person with the lowest status in the manor. She has no culture, no appearance, no knowledge, and no means. She has served people all her life and tried her best to be a wife and get rid of her slave life. In the end, she failed. What's wrong? Should I be born a slave?

Further up are the wives. The second wife is like a dog who serves the master with care and diligence. Whoever robs her of the master will harm anyone. The third wife is like a cat and seduces the master. She has more self-esteem than the second wife. If the master doesn't like her, she will find someone else. But when the master likes cats, being petty is fun. When the master doesn't like it, he will hang the cat. reason. The fourth wife is literate, but what's the use of studying? It's not just a piece of clothing on the master's body. Women are the same thing, they can't control their fate, they live on the food they get, the more noble they are, the more trampled they will be. They can only beg for food for a lifetime by being a dog like a second wife.

"Just a little bitch?"

Born without a face. Is this just the fate of women? In the house, the master is a god, and no one can show him his face. When he leaves the house, the master has to look at the face of his boss, and the face of the new party. The master has no face and is also someone else's servant. If he was not a servant, he would not be in the house. He followed this set of rules, he couldn't live without this set of rules, just like the fourth wife was despised, she had to belittle the maid Yan'er, otherwise the fourth wife would not be able to live. Yan'er had no object for her to vent on, so she had to die. She was born without face. In a society that treats people as slaves, no one has face. Even a feudal emperor, the Supreme Being of the Ninety-five Years, had no face when he was invaded and oppressed. Even if he became the master of the world for a while, he had to be afraid of ghosts and minions rebelling. He was uneasy every day, and it was also the life of a dog. As long as Yan'er is a slave, everyone is a slave. As long as Yan'er has no face, everyone has no face.

The fourth wife has something wrong with her brain.

A person, forbid her to be a human being, and force her to be a dog, can she have no problem with her brain? When people's thinking has progressed, the environment is still imprisoning people like an iron wall, forcing her to adapt to the backward ecology. This is a perversion in itself. Even if a lion is forced to be locked in a cage, it will behave stereotyped and become mad. People have read the book and understood the rationale, but they are still treated as a piece of clothing by the gentlemen. They can use them how they want. Is there any other way to go except going crazy?

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Raise the Red Lantern quotes

  • The Third Concubine: Good or bad, it's all playacting. If you act well, you can fool other people; if you do it badly, you can only fool yourself, and when you can't even fool yourself, you just can fool the ghosts.

  • Yan'er: Who are you?

    Housekeeper: Fourth mistress, please come inside.

    Yan'er: [losing her cool] So you're the fourth mistress!

    [Yan'er rudely pulls the water bowl away from Songlian and puts clothes in it]

    Songlian: Yes! I am the fourth mistress. Bring my suitcase inside please.