In the dream plot, the protagonist uses someone else's double dose of morphine to euthanize a hopeless patient. This is his warning that using someone else's name and uncontrolled drug use will lead to death. But when he was hungry and gorged on ham (morphine would symbolize gastrointestinal disturbances, and an appetite hinted at his hope of success in detoxification) he acquiesced to the new doctor who gave the grieving groom half a dose of morphine as a consolation, and another Judgment of high-performing doctors, small doses, placebo effects, etc., are all rationalizing the behavior of drug use. Therefore, the protagonist's detoxification must have failed, but through dose control, he did not go to complete destruction until he was sent to a detoxification center 17 years later, which is the last scene of the play.
The protagonist has been entangled in the problem of syphilis, in fact, he refuses to be vulgar, keeps a distance from the peasants with the relationship between doctors and patients, and
the legend about beautiful pants is that he mocks the so-called vanity, and he is nostalgic and longing for the upper class of the big city. Walking further and further away
, he saw the problems at the bottom and the top at the same time, which led him to marginalize himself, unable to determine which group he wanted to belong to. And his persistent demand for cigarettes and newspapers is that he can't let go of vulgar entertainment and political news at the same time, thus laying the tone of loneliness and alienation in the play; a lonely small clinic, talking to himself in his diary, differentiates himself from another self Images, drug use, hallucinations, etc. are the result of this tone of loneliness and alienation.
This is the problem faced by the protagonist in 1917, and in 1918, when the representatives of the interests of the two classes of Russia finally broke out, the Russian Civil War, in which the Red Army and the White Army fought, finally ended with the victory of the Red Army. I don't know if this historical background is related to the war between heaven and man in the play, whether the protagonist shoots at the bearded old doctor again and again
, and the line in 1934 does not know what historical background corresponds to this Russia at that time.
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