This essay first retaliates against the "modern critics" for slandering the author "hating cats" and exposes their despicable means. Then the author explains the proximate cause of his "hating cats" and describes the main characteristics of "cats". Then, by tracing back to childhood, it explains the distant cause of "hating cats"; Finally, it criticizes the "golden mean" and points out that its essence is to abuse evil and support rape.
On the surface, the author hates cats, but in fact he lashed a class of people who have similar habits with cats, such as some "gentlemen" in society at that time and accomplices of warlords and rulers. The author expresses sympathy for the weak and hatred for the perpetrators by recalling the past when a lovely hidden mouse rescued in childhood was finally killed.
Dog, Cat and Mouse is an essay written by modern writer Lu Xun at 1926.
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This article begins with others attacking their "hatred of cats", talking about "the difference between people and birds" and satirizing the theory of human disobedience. The Party opposes differences. Metaphor "modern critics" as "dogs without vision", thus profoundly exposing the hypocrisy of comprador literati "gentlemen". Facing the attack of "modern critics" like gentlemen, Mr. Lu Xun was never timid.
He painted a portrait of a spoiled cat with the word "cat and dog". Mr. Wang has always hated "slave-like" slaves, so he satirized the "coquetry cat" style of "modern critics" with a pungent style.
The author recalls the experience and feeling that the lovely Tibetan mouse rescued in childhood was destroyed, which shows that the author sympathizes with the weak and hates the tyrant. At the end, when talking about the attitude and strategy to deal with "cats", it lashed out at the phenomenon that society condoned evil and could not eliminate it at that time, and at the same time showed the tenacious fighting spirit of the author in fighting against warlords.
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