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The words of 'I regret to have killed' in the Battle of Dragon and Tiger were too poor. I'll thrash you with a steel mace was still the best. But when he wanted to raise his hands, he remembered that they were bound together; so he did not sing I'll thrash you either."(113)
Lu Hsun's narrator in the story is another highlight of the work. The narrator is as fictional as the protagonist himself and maintains completely authority over the story's events. He chooses when and how an event would be described. In the first Chapter, he speaks in first person but turns to third person from there on. He describes himself as an -old-fashioned Chinese intellectual whose voice is at times smug because of his access to knowledge and his position as the writer. He shows a range of emotions towards Ah Q. from condescension and criticism to sympathy and indifference, thus influencing the readers' and public's opinion of the protagonist and his wretched condition.
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The hero whose name suggests he is a completely useless fellow is employed as a device to reveal the negative traits of Chinese people. Vain, pathetic and self-complacent, Ah Q. has now become a symbol of corruption, inaction and stupidity.
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L.D. Pozdneeva, Lu Hsun: His Life and Works, 1881-1936 Moscow: Moscow State University, 1959
Smith Arthur H. Chinese Characteristics. New York: Revell, 1894
Li Tuo. " Xuebeng hechu?" (Where does the avalanche fall?). Preface to Yu Hua, Shiba sui chumen yuanxing (Leaving home at the age of eighteen). Taipei: Yuanliu, 1990,
Lu Hsun, Zaitan baoliu," (My further reservation) Complete works of Lu Xun 5: 114 wen ben 'Ah Q. zhengzhuan' xu ji zhuzhe zixu zhuanlue," Complete works of Lu Xun 7: 77
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