the golden cangue response

The Goledn Cangue 1.“The Golden Cangue" is acclaimed for its delicate and authentic psychological description of women's conditions under feudalism in China in the 1920s. 2. The story centers on Chao chichiao, a daughter in a lower class family who was arranged to marry into a wealthy family by her brother in exchange for money. 3. what’s more, her husband, the second sick son of the family, suffered soft bone disease, so they didn't have the real physical relationship as a married couple. 4. Therefore, she falls in love with her young brother-in-law. 5. This forbidden love and desire drive her crazy and upon inheriting a large fortune she becomes obsessed with money and destroying her children's happiness. 6. Under feudalism in China at that time, the author suggested that people value land and money, so they are eager to have wealth as much as they can and get into the slave owner class. 7. In Chao Ch ichiao’s case, she was not independent and her fate was controlled by her family for wealth. 8. Even though she struggled for gender equality, possessiveness, freedom, and love, she had nothing to fight against the rule before she got married and had no one to depend on after marriage because her husband was not a healthy man. 9. In the other words, she obeyed the arrangement to live wealthier life and stay in the feudal slave owner class, even though she should sacrificed her chance of pursuing true love and freedom, as the author wrote “For thirty years now she had worn a golden cangue.” 10. After she spent her life in complaining, struggling and destroying, the author wrote that: ” She had used its heavy edges to chop down several people; those that did not die were half dead.”. 11. That’s Chichiao’s way to release her anger with making people around her suffer tragedy too after she have surrendered to the feudalism marriage. 12. Comparing with pitiful Chao Chichao, in the article, “the Gold boy, Emerald Girl”, Professor Dai had a free life of middle