Analysis of "A Madman's Diary"
Lit13 – E02
Analysis of “A Madman’s Diary”
Story – “A Madman’s Diary” by Lu Xun
Plot
The story started with a man visiting his good friends who l seriously ill. However, he is only successful on meeting one of them and because the other one who was ill recovered some time ago and has gone to take up an official post according to his brother. The man who visited was shown a diary of the one who was ill and he read it through. Later, he found out that the diarist suffered from a form of persecution complex. Base on him, the writing was most confused and incoherent, and he had made many wild statements. After that, the story proceeded to the diary entries. There are a total of 13 entries. The first entry started with the diarist noticing the moon that is very bright. According to him, he had never seen it for over 30 years. The next entry is about the murderous look of the town people against him. As if all the people he passed were afraid of him and that includes the children playing at the street. He wondered why they have a grudge on him because he think of nothing except the incident 20 years ago where he trod on Mr, Ku Chiu’s account sheets. In this entry, he started to be a paranoid. In the third entry, he mentioned a woman who spanked her son and said “Little devil! I’d like to bite several mouthfuls out of you to work off my feelings!” which became a hint for his suspicion wherein the town people are “man-eaters”. He remembered that a tenant of them from Wolf Club Village came to report a failure of the crops a few days ago. That tenant told his elder brother about a man beaten to death and his heart and liver is fried in oil and eaten. This became the trigger to think that his suspicion is true which the cause of his paranoia is. That night, he read intently and he began to see words between the lines and written is “Eat people”. On the fourth entry, he was examined and this lead to the discovery that his brother is also one of the man
Analysis of “A Madman’s Diary”
Story – “A Madman’s Diary” by Lu Xun
Plot
The story started with a man visiting his good friends who l seriously ill. However, he is only successful on meeting one of them and because the other one who was ill recovered some time ago and has gone to take up an official post according to his brother. The man who visited was shown a diary of the one who was ill and he read it through. Later, he found out that the diarist suffered from a form of persecution complex. Base on him, the writing was most confused and incoherent, and he had made many wild statements. After that, the story proceeded to the diary entries. There are a total of 13 entries. The first entry started with the diarist noticing the moon that is very bright. According to him, he had never seen it for over 30 years. The next entry is about the murderous look of the town people against him. As if all the people he passed were afraid of him and that includes the children playing at the street. He wondered why they have a grudge on him because he think of nothing except the incident 20 years ago where he trod on Mr, Ku Chiu’s account sheets. In this entry, he started to be a paranoid. In the third entry, he mentioned a woman who spanked her son and said “Little devil! I’d like to bite several mouthfuls out of you to work off my feelings!” which became a hint for his suspicion wherein the town people are “man-eaters”. He remembered that a tenant of them from Wolf Club Village came to report a failure of the crops a few days ago. That tenant told his elder brother about a man beaten to death and his heart and liver is fried in oil and eaten. This became the trigger to think that his suspicion is true which the cause of his paranoia is. That night, he read intently and he began to see words between the lines and written is “Eat people”. On the fourth entry, he was examined and this lead to the discovery that his brother is also one of the man