What kind of person is Fang Hung-chien?

Fang Hung-chien is the main character in Fortress Besieged, and his personality determines that he can accomplish nothing. First of all, he is ignorant, weak and incompetent, and always attached to others. Secondly, in love and marriage, we always take a game attitude of coping and taking part in accidental amusement. But he has a patriotic heart, integrity, no flattery, and refuses to take refuge in powerful people. He thinks highly of himself, has extraordinary taste and is cynical, but he can't do any specific work in practice. "His heart is higher than the sky, and he is a base", which is exactly the fate of many small intellectuals. Keywords: Fang Hung-chien; Personality characteristics; Cowardly and incompetent; Take part in accidental amusement; Cynicism; The novel Fortress Besieged written by Mr. Qian Zhongshu has to be said to be a novel with distinctive artistic features. The book describes the living conditions of the upper-class intellectuals at that time. Although they are full of ideals, but in the face of cruel social reality, they live a life of spiritual emptiness, wretched soul and selfish ambition. The novel takes Fang Hung-chien as the main line, and focuses on describing his living dilemma in four aspects: love, career, marriage and family. If all the life experiences of the protagonist Fang Hung-chien are simplified, it is not difficult to see that he always rushes out of one besieged city and then falls into another. So repeatedly out of the city and then into the city, and then out of the city and then into the city ... endless. All this is not his own choice. All his actions are driven to revolt passively, not consciously. He is in a state of blindness. Almost dominated by some instinct, it can also be said that he was dragged by fate, which made him go in and out of various castles, but ultimately ended in failure. The reasons were all caused by the inherent defects of his personality. This paper reveals Fang Hung-chien's personality characteristics from many aspects, so as to deeply and comprehensively understand Fang Hung-chien's character image. First, Fang Hung-chien, who is uneducated, cowardly and always attached to others, was originally a very ordinary character, with no special features from beginning to end, but he couldn't find the slightest disadvantage. It seems that he is just useless and incompetent, both pitiful and lacking in pity. He is always dominated by external forces and can't control his own destiny. Just as Mr. Qian Zhongshu said in his novel, "It is like a donkey with a carrot hanging in front of its nose. It is always led forward by the carrot in front of it." This is not the case with the cowardly Fang Hung-chien. Although he tried his best, he could not squeeze into the upper class. He could only wander inside and outside the besieged city, always depending on others to change his life, but there was nothing he could do. At the beginning of the article, it was pointed out that "he is a useless person who can't learn civil engineering. He transferred from the Department of Social Studies to the Department of Philosophy in the university, and finally transferred to the Department of China Literature to graduate." But he was very lucky. At his father's insistence, he made an engagement with a countryman. Although he didn't know the woman well, he agreed to the engagement after a slight objection. Fortunately, the woman died soon, and her father will prepare the dowry for him to go abroad for further study in memory of his only daughter. Fang Hung-chien went to Europe, changed to three universities in four years, listened to a few courses casually, had a wide range of interests, learned nothing, and lived a particularly lazy life. In the spring of the fourth year, I saw that there were only more than 4 pounds left in the bank, so I planned to return to China in the summer. He didn't want to get a degree, but he felt that he needed to buy a fake title to meet the expectations of his father and the father of his late fiancee, so he bought a fake diploma from the so-called Clayton University in the hands of the Irish. After returning home, his father-in-law published a notice in the newspaper for him to return home after his studies, which made the headmaster of the county middle school know that there was a "Dr. Fang" in the county, which directly led to a big joke and exposed his shallow and humble nature. My father's old friend, President Lu of the county provincial middle school, asked Fang Hung-chien to give a speech to the students on "The influence of western culture in the history of China and its review." At this time, Fang Hung-chien realized that he was ignorant of learning. He turned over three or five history textbooks to make up a speech of more than 1, words. However, Fang Hung-chien, who was cynical, forgot to bring his speech. Facing the audience full of male and female students, he boasted that only two kinds of western things would last forever in the whole China society. One was opium and the other was syphilis, which made a big joke. People in the county also rumored that Fang's son who came back from studying abroad publicly advocated smoking and courting prostitutes, and Fang Hung-chien became the laughing stock of everyone after dinner. He had no face to stay in the county, so he went back to Shanghai to live in his father-in-law's house, lived a lazy life as a bourgeois rich young master, and had no ability, so he had to be named in his father-in-law's Dianjin Bank, but he acted himself and offended the Zhou couple, who he lived on. In the end, he had to go south to "San Lv" University to teach on the recommendation of Zhao Xinmei, who regarded him as a "rival in love". In "San Lv" University, his cowardice and incompetence are even more obvious, and he also made a series of jokes-he even imitated the demeanor of a famous professor who never called the roll in class, indicating that he didn't care if the students would come to class or not. But in the end, self-defeating, fewer and fewer lectures, forcing him to quickly put away the posture of a famous professor. In order to cover up his ignorance, he also invented the method of "killing time" by writing more books on the blackboard, giving opportunities to "colleagues" who are jealous of each other and undermine each other. Thanks to Zhao Xinmei's care, he can survive in this environment full of intrigue and collusion. However, everything is unpredictable. Zhao Xinmei left Chongqing because of Mrs. Wang, which made Fang Hung-chien lose Zhao Xinmei as his patron. In addition, Zhao left a book called * * * Theory of Productive Party, written by Lasky, in a hurry, which gave the school an excuse not to renew its employment, leading to the end of Fang's unemployment again. Fang, who had no intention of getting married in the mainland, and Sun Roujia, who was helpless, suddenly came together in appreciate each other. On the way back to Shanghai, it was also because of Zhao Xinmei's persuasion that he married Sun Roujia in Hong Kong. After returning to Shanghai, it was because of Zhao Xinmei's relationship that Fang Hung-chien worked in Shanghai Huamei News Agency, as if Zhao Xinmei was Fang's "crutch". He could only survive in society by relying on Zhao Xinmei and never tried to realize his own value through his own efforts. He only pinned his hopes on others, but he could not master it until the end of the novel. The writer also emphasizes and exaggerates Fang Hung-chien's character through the evaluation of people around him. His good friend Zhao Xinmei said in front of him at the end of his arduous journey to San Lv University, "You don't hate it, but it's useless." His wife said that he always likes to be smart, and all the results are self-defeating. Sun Roujia's aunt, Mrs. Lu, said to him, "The ability and qualifications are frankly despised," and said that he "has no ability, but he has a big temper." Gao Songnian, president of San Lv University, decided that he was just a "tourist student" wandering around the world. Professor Liu Dongfang and his wife think that he is too bad and clever. Even the old couple heard that their son didn't earn as much money as his daughter-in-law, and then they realized, "Can this kind of husband still cheer up?" My son has ruined the husband's platform in the world, "so Fang Dunweng sighed:" My son is worthless, let him go! " And so on. These characters all reveal Fang Hung-chien's cowardly and incompetent personality from their own perspectives. Second, in the aspect of love and marriage, he always takes a game attitude of coping and taking part in accidental amusement. In Fortress Besieged, he wrote that Fang Hung-chien's love and marriage are quite extraordinary, and his understanding of "marriage castle" is quite insightful and intriguing. Fang Hung-chien was born in a feudal gentry family, and he had a lot of badness in his body-he took part in love, changed his mind, and lacked stereotypes. In addition, influenced by western culture, he was particularly casual in love and marriage, and he had emotional entanglements with four women successively. But in the end, it all ended like a game. (1) One-night party with Miss Bao On the mail boat returning to China, he was seduced by Miss Bao, who was on the same boat. Miss Bao was dressed in a revealing and sexy way, so some people called her "truth" because it was said that "truth is naked," and Miss Bao was not naked, so they revised it to "partial truth." Such a romantic and fashionable woman, Fang Hung-chien knew very well in his heart that Miss Bao was not the ideal woman in his mind. "He only felt that he wanted Miss Bao and didn't love her." Just out of their own impulse, or instinctive needs, "don't love her" has an unclear relationship with her. He was played by miss Bao himself, but he was complacent. When he understood, he comforted himself that "he didn't suffer, maybe he took advantage." Fang Hung-chien's clever explanation just exposed his inner filth. (2) Fang Hung-chien, who is specious in love with Su Wenwan, thinks that Su Wenwan is "the most ideal girlfriend, with brains and status, and going to the theater and restaurants with her does not lose her face." When he knew that he couldn't find a suitable partner for a while after being abandoned by Miss Bao, he consoled himself with Miss Su. However, Fang Hung-chien thought that he and Su Wenwan could not be together. "Self-confidence stops here, just like two parallel straight lines, no matter how close they are, no matter how long they are drawn, they will never get together." He didn't want to meet Miss Su again, but living in Shanghai's father-in-law's house felt that life was too boring, and "ready-made girlfriends were too scarce", so he took the initiative to see Miss Su with the mentality of "trying to be comfortable in front of him first". He met Zhao Xinmei in Su's home. He grew up with Su Wenwan, and he liked Su Wenwan since childhood. When he grew up, he naturally became her loyal pursuer. Su Wenwan is arrogant. "He likes Zhao and Fang to fight for themselves." Fang Hung-chien knew that Hsin-mei regarded him as a rival in love, and he didn't explain it to Hsin-mei, so he got involved in the love triangle. Therefore, Zhao Xinmei was very unkind to him, and once he got drunk with evil intentions and made him make a fool of himself in front of everyone. In order to monopolize Miss Su by herself, Zhao Xinmei sabotaged it and got Gao Songnian, president of San Lv University, to hire Fang, so as to teach Miss Su to alienate Hung-chien. As a result, Fang has had nightmares from now on, so Fang Hung-chien's tragic fate is inseparable from his self-blame. (3) Sincere love with "Tang Xiaofu" Fang Hung-chien went to Su Wenwan when he was bored, and met Su Wenwan's cousin Tang Xiaofu in Su Fu. Her pure appearance and lively personality deeply attracted Fang Hung-chien, who fell in love with this "rare thing in modern civilized society-a real girl" at first sight. In the future exchanges, the two appreciated each other and quickly fell in love. After Miss Tang accepted Fang Hung-chien's invitation to dinner, "His sleep that night was like the lines of rice noodles, which were not sticky and could not last long. His happiness came out of his sleep and made him wake up four or five times. Every time he woke up, it was like Tang Xiaofu's face was in front of his eyes and his voice was in his ears. He put every word and every move of today's conversation with her on his heart, went to sleep in a daze, and woke up later, feeling that this happiness was buried in sleep, holding back from sleeping, and warming up the scene of the day again. "What infatuation and joy this is!" Unfortunately, he never got up the courage to break up with Miss Su, who was expecting him to propose to him day and night. It was too late for his final showdown, and the angry Miss Su maliciously told her cousin that Hung-chien was a liar and a villain. When he went to see Tang Xiaofu, she was still angry at the news. He silently listened to her scolding and sarcasm, made no excuses, and didn't try his best to remedy the fault. A beautiful love affair ended because of his lack of courage to stick it out, which could only be a pain in his heart and Miss Tang's heart. (4) Fang Hung-chien, who has no love foundation with "Sun Roujia", loves a pure woman like Tang Xiaofu, but Sun Roujia just doesn't belong to this type. She is an extremely ordinary-looking woman with no interest, but she has her own opinions. When he first met Fang Hung-chien, it was when he failed in love, his career was not smooth, and his heart was most empty. As Zhao Xinmei said, he was like a big fish, with great calculation and patience, and waited for the party to fall into his pocket. Fang Hung-chien felt even more tired in the treacherous San Lv University, so he didn't have the spirit to deal with it. Therefore, in the face of the cynicism of Li Meiting and Lu Zixiao, he strengthened his determination to "ally" with Sun Roujia, and Sun Roujia captured Fang Hung-chien as he wished, but it also showed that their marriage lacked a solid foundation. But after being engaged for a month, Sun Roujia is not as weak a girl as she seems. She is not only very assertive, but also insists on influencing others with her own opinions. She has a strong possessiveness in her heart. She regards her husband as her private property. As soon as she gets married, she will always keep her own, so she can't have her own world. She has repeatedly questioned Fang Hung-chien's relationship with Su Wenwan and Tang Xiaofu before her. Although she claimed that she would not be jealous, Fang Hung-chien was glad that she had hidden a large part from his face. If the above is the fuse of the breakdown of their marriage, then Fang Hung-chien, as the head of the family, has an unshirkable responsibility. Fang Hung-chien's life in Shanghai can be described as "internal and external difficulties". On the one hand, Shanghai has fallen, and Fang Hung-chien has become conquered people, living in an island-like concession. Thanks to Zhao Xinmei's relationship, he found a job as a librarian in a newspaper office, and he felt like he was in a cage. My parents also fled to Shanghai from their hometown, and their family circumstances were not as good as before, while the temper of the country gentleman remained the same. Between Sun Roujia and his family, he was not only embarrassed, but also humiliated, instead of actively trying his best to improve the relationship between them. On the other hand, at home, Sun Roujia works better than him, earns more money than him, and naturally speaks more confidently than him. Sun Roujia's aunt popped up for no reason. He was an autocratic addict. He worked as a personnel section chief in a factory run by foreigners and was used to fake foreign devils bossing around his compatriots. Jou-chia was pampered since childhood, and this time she bought a dowry for Sun Roujia. Naturally, she felt more entitled to interfere in the family affairs of Sun Roujia and Fang Hung-chien. Mrs. Gu thinks that my niece is the wrong person, and she frankly despises Hung-chien's abilities and qualifications. Together, these forces made Fang Hung-chien deeply feel the pressure of the environment and the deterioration of his living conditions. He once said derisively to Sun Roujia, "Well, as an unlucky person, I should get a dog. Relatives look down on me, friends don't, and my wife-er-wife tends to get angry and ignore people. A dog wags its tail at me and thinks there is something lower than me in the world that wants to please me. " It happened that he was a man who didn't want to be wronged. I have no ability to resist the big environment and I can't find a clear object. Sun Roujia became the closest representative of the oppressive environment in his feelings, and naturally became the object of his resistance and venting. He regarded Sun Roujia as a "besieged city" and made up his mind to rush out from this "besieged city". A loveless marriage ended completely in several quarrels. Third, Fang Hung-chien is honest, does not flatter, and refuses to take refuge in the powerful. Fang Hung-chien is completely different from a philistine like Dr. Wen who is infected with the bad habits of foreign slaves. He has lost his conscience and dignity in a "rotten" social environment. (1) Innocent attitude towards "the supremacy of love" Su Wenwan is the microscope of Su Hongye, the counselor of the Kuomintang Senior Bureaucratic State Council, and a doctor of literature at the University of Lyon, France. She is talented, handsome and powerful. However, Fang Hung-chien did not buy his account. In Fang Hung-chien's eyes, Miss Su, as the father of the counselor of the Special Affairs Council, did not add icing on the cake to Miss Su's net worth, but her loveliness was mixed with dross. Fang Hung-chien is the most contemptuous. "Many people talk about marriage in a tone of homosexual love, instead of valuing the girl herself, they envy her father or her brother." She disdained and despised "spineless and proud of nepotism." Therefore, he only thinks that Miss Su is "the ideal girlfriend, with brains and status." But he decided that his friendship with her was limited. Fang Hung-chien's thought is reflected in another one of her works.