no doubt that you are the earth , and in Pearl Buck's description, Alan is inevitably portrayed as a typical traditional Chinese woman known to us. In the feudal and patriarchal society, Alan showed the virtues that women possessed by traditional Chinese society. When she was a servant girl in the Huang Family Courtyard, she worked hard every day and carefully maintained her existence. In the process of silently obeying and succumbing to the bullying of other girls, she finally waited for her marriage. After being bought by Wang Long, she took her husband as the key link, worked hard without complaining, obeyed the etiquette of three obedience and four virtues, and voluntarily placed herself in a subordinate position. Holding a secret bite in her hand, Wang Long didn't dare to chew when he saw her. She suppressed her natural desire for life, hoping to find a breakthrough in her obedience to her husband, and to gain her husband's love and rebirth. "Work, have children, support the family, serve him, father-in-law and children", work like men, undertake a lot of housework, and raise many children. Even when Wang Long changed his mind and wanted to marry the prostitute Lotus, although she was angry, disgusted and sad, she could only obey her husband's decision and silently accepted the cruel reality of her husband taking a concubine. When Wang Lung wanted to take away the two pearls she had treasured for a long time to show them to the lotus, she could only let "big tears drip down slowly from her eyes" and gave him the pearls reluctantly. . In the end, in the torment of illness, he finished his short life. Her loyalty and obscure dedication finally ushered in the last trace of Wang Long's tenderness. However, her life was tragic, Wang Long only regarded her as a labor partner, a sex partner, and a tool for inheriting the lineage, and he never loved her as much as he loved the lotus flower. Like an old scalper, she only knows how to work hard, but she seldom takes care of herself; she burns herself like a candle, even if she sheds tears like a candle, she can't get her husband's pity. Bear. It was not until she was terminally ill that her husband knew that she had been seriously ill. The ignorance caused by the times made her life full of tragedy and became a victim of feudal ethics.
The above are my most intuitive feelings about Alan's tragic life, but when I re-experienced this movie, I realized that in Alan's silent eyes there is a silent longing for life! Did you see that Alan carefully picked up the peach core that her husband Wang Long spit out, and planted it in the yard on the wedding night, it was a kind of expectation for her to start a new life! We can see how Alan will do everything possible in her future life to protect her family that she had come to, how fortunate that the torture and humiliation she suffered in the Huang family was not her loss of confidence in her future life. Instead, she has the courage to change her own destiny. After she became pregnant, she planned what kind of clothes she would make for her son, and how to carry her son back to Huang's house in a beautiful and beautiful way, and let those who used to make a fortune on her head see her. Alan also had his first day. After marrying Wang Long, she worked diligently to make a living, which gradually brought life to the dilapidated home, and encouraged Wang Long to buy the first piece of land that belonged to her. In the famine years, he was so hungry that he could no longer survive by boiling the soil. When Wang Long had to sell the land reluctantly, Alan, who had just given birth, dragged his weak body to stop him: the land is our life. In spite of the threats of the feudal parents, they desperately kept the land. It was also at this time that Alan suggested that the whole family would rather go all the way to the south for begging, rather than waiting for God's favor like this hopelessly. It took many years to get out of the sea of misery, and it was also in this waiting that I got the last bit of gentleness from my husband. She is not reconciled, she wants to try to change her destiny and change this endless waiting. In the south, it is also because of Alan that their family can make a living. She led her children to beg, and taught them how to gain the sympathy of the rich, and only then got the money for the next day's porridge. It was also because she followed the crowd into the house of the rich family by accident. Obtaining some jewels enabled Wang Long to return to the land he dreamed of at night, and also allowed Wang Long to buy more land and become a landlord. We can see the critical moment, it was Alan who changed the fate of the whole family with strong will and far-sighted insight, showing the greatness and intelligence of this ugly, ordinary woman, It also makes the image of weak Chinese women tall and plump. But on the other hand, Wang Long's success is also another beginning of Alan's tragic fate. Wang Long began to despise her, began to find another new love, and fell into the arms of others. What a blow to Alan! The husband whom he loves and loves, the husband who never leaves him, not only abandons himself but also the land that nurtures him.
Lotus and Alan can be said to be the two extremes of being a woman. Lotus does not have all the virtues in Alan. All she has is to sell her own body, sell her personal dignity, and depend on men to live. Her parasitic and rotten life has been scolded by the old man time and time again, and it has also constantly stirred up the young and impulsive heart of the second young master of the Wang family. I thought that the Wang Long family would end up being imprisoned here and not be able to live in peace. Fortunately, in the end, the land still favored them. The arrival of the locust plague finally made Wang Long realize that only the land is his root, his vein, and his partner who will not turn his back on him. Just like Alan, he will never abandon himself at any time. It's just that this kind of awakening came too late, and he could only finally express a kind of reluctance and nostalgia for his wife as a husband when Alan was dying, and then began his lonely life.
At the end of the film, the peach tree is already in front of us with lush branches and leaves, but although the tree is still there, of course, the woman who planted the tree has been away from us for a long time.
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