Lu Xun, a novelist and essayist, had different views with numerous individuals who insisted on maintaining “China’s national character or national principle” ( Ebrey 423). He saw China’s history as the “recurrence of undesirable patterns” (Ebrey, 423) instead of as past triumphs that should be reminisced with pride. A lot of his essays encouraged drastic change by condemning outdated cultural ideals and repressive socials traditions.
When Lu Xun was younger his father died. This came after traditional physicians in China were successful of curing his father of tuberculosis. Lu Xun stated that a well-known physician, who made out the prescription for his father, used uncommon remedies: “aloe root dug up in winter, sugar-cane that had been three years exposed to frost, twin crickets, and ardisa” (Preface)…all of which were hard to acquire. Shortly after, Lu Xun concluded that many of China’s physicians were either ignorant or impostors; and he started to feel sorry for sick individuals and their families that suffered because of these …show more content…
Ah Q is shown to be both a foolish person—through his self-absorbed obliviousness and his made up “victories” (regardless of how much he is shamed, he claims moral superiority) — and a pitiful character. In 1911 he overheard talks about a revolution, however it was beyond the understanding of ordinary Chinese like Ah Q , who took it as something that wasn’t very dissimilar to burglary. He quickly learns that the old, typically sophisticated aristocrats and the new, educated/wealthy individuals from different countries were working together to take over the revolution and told him to stay away. Toward the end of the short story, he became a victim of the useless revolution and was killed by representatives of the revolution for something he didn’t do (robbery), so that they didn’t have to spend time and energy to find the real