It seems that everyone's growth is not so easy. The road to growth seems to be Charlie in " Bouquet for Algeron " from "stupid" to smart; it is Tara in " When you fly to your mountain like a bird " who breaks away from the family bond and becomes a new life; it is Ye Youhui's understanding of "mother"'s warmth that makes it difficult to find home; it is " Invisible Typewriter " that becomes the gray shadow of others, fulfilling the joy of others; it is...
And these growths are about experiencing pain and breaking into a butterfly, and when returning, it is about the inner peace and calmness of finding yourself.
And "The Lady of Oracle" is similar to this, but it is different. The similarity is that Qiong competes with her mother and a patriarchal society, flees again and again, constantly growing and finding herself. The difference is that Qiong's growth is accompanied by the unacceptable feminism of that era, mixed with the struggle against patriarchalism.
"Lady of Oracle"
escapes from his mother and reshapes his body
180 pounds of weight is the reason why Qiong was despised by his mother since childhood. The mother always despised Qiong's figure, not only his figure, but also his mother denies Qiong's inferiority and friendliness with incompetence.
Mother sent Qiong to shape her body. Qiong fell in love with dance. She wanted to put wings on the stage and dance a song ballet . However, because of her body shape, her mother and teacher deprived her of the right to dance and let her play Shi Tou in toys. Who knew that she had cried for a long time, and who knew that her mother just said that she was useless.
If the mother just doesn't want to accept such an imperfect child, it is actually that she is not satisfied with her own marriage, a family without love, and even a child cannot become a good person if she is not satisfied.
Mother did not get the love she wanted, she could not marry the person she loved, she married her father, her father participated in the war, Qiong relied on her mother since childhood, and even though her father came back, she was like a stranger in the family. Her mother was a good housewife, but her father did not love her, and her father had no emotions towards her mother and Qiong. Her mother was a victim in the patriarchal society, and her sacrifice made Qiong's tragedy.
Maybe this is the society at that time, women were bound and not recognized, and the loss of their mothers was imposed on Qiong, allowing her to walk through her own rugged growth path.
This child who was despised by her mother because of her fatness, Qiong endured everything she shouldn't have to endure. When she received the news that Aunt Lu, whom she had always loved, she decided to change and embark on the road to losing weight.
But who knows that the mother who wanted Qiong to lose weight saw that Qiong was damaging her body, and once again despised her and even looked at her with a knife.
Qiong's obesity is not her fault. Not wanting to lose weight is her power. When she is obese, her mother hates her. When she is determined to lose weight, her mother still hates her. No matter how she does it, she is ineffective in her mother's way. No matter how she does it, she can't win back her cold heart that is deeply bound. Finally, when her mother takes a knife to her, she breaks free from the shackles and runs away from home.
is bullied
escapes obesity and finds love
simply makes Qiong lose weight successfully and sheds the obese cicada cocoon.
This is good news and bad news.
But who knows that obesity is her amulet. The process of truly fading away obesity and becoming beautiful is more of a man's eye. However, she, who is not familiar with the world, is always targeted by people under thin beauty. In this way, she was rescued by Paul and was also bound by him, becoming Paul's mistress.
But it was also because of Paul's acquaintance, and came into contact with classical Gothic novel , and began to create her own creation, but when she surpassed Paul's level, Paul abused her. Under the imposition of patriarchy, she fled from Paul, met Arthur, and found her love.
In fact, she wanted to participate in Arthur's regime thinking at first. She participated in it to have a common topic. In fact, to some extent, Joan sacrificed too much herself for Arthur.
The real Joan actually wants to do her own creation the most, but this is not accepted by Arthur. She carefully concealed it and lived a dual life of reality and creation.
When she finally published a very satisfactory book, she told Arthur that she received not praise, but was the alienation of Arthur and the coercion of public opinion after becoming famous.
I really hope they have never met
escaped from patriarchal power and became themselves
When books became famous, public opinion gradually revealed, and Qiong's childhood obesity and gossip began to expose Qiong's childhood obesity and gossip. Qiong chose to escape again, create the illusion of drowning, and start his new life alone.
She fled from Paul, Arthur, and the imperial porcupine. She fled from the unwilling self in public opinion. She truly returned to her life alone and had never met others. But the play of children on the road could make her feel a little warm.
Of course, she still has some expectations, hoping that Arthur can come to her, hoping that she can have the power that a normal woman should have, instead of blindly giving the happiness that can only be exchanged for by obedience, but she still accepted that Arthur's never-becoming, be herself, guard a house, reconcile with herself, and write her own creations.
Comfortable and Beautiful
Written at the end
"A person is either born or a woman, she becomes a woman."
Jiang uses her experience to interpret the true meaning of becoming a woman. Maybe we often say that escaping means not daring to look directly at the problem itself, but from Joan's escape, what I see is courage, growth, and being my true selves. Maybe we have not become women yet, maybe we have become women, maybe we can all find a microcosm of ourselves in "The Lady of Oracle", maybe we can all become better women.
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