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Summary: “Diary of a Madman”. Lu Xun's "Diary of a Madman" was first published in China in 1918, during a period of significant cultural and political upheaval in the country. The Qin dynasty, in power since 1644, had recently collapsed from internal and external pressures in the 1912 Xinhai Revolution, marking a dramatic break from the past.
- An Ill Friend
- Clear Vision
- Eat People
- The Executioner
- A Man-Eat-Man World
- Save The Children
The narrator learns that one of his two good friends is sick. His two good friends are brothers. He stops by his friends' house on his journey home. The healthy brother greets him and gives him good news. He tells the narrator that the sick brother has recovered and left home. However, during his illness, the sick brother had become a madman. The m...
The rest of the narrative consists of passages from the madman's diary. In the first entry, the madman realizes that he can see more clearly than ever before when he sees a very bright moon in the sky. He is paranoid about his neighbor Chao's dog whom he believes looked at him twice. When the moon goes away, the madman knows it is a bad omen. He no...
The madman can no longer sleep because he is up at night going over everything that has happened during the day. He recalls a woman disciplining her son. The woman told her son that she wanted to take several bites out of him. While she spoke to her son, she seemed to be looking at the madman. Even the people in his home act as if they do not know ...
The madman's doctor Mr. Ho comes to visit the madman in his home. The madman is sure that Mr. Ho is the executioner. When the doctor takes his pulse, the madman is sure that it is in guise of checking to see if he is plump enough to eat. When the doctor tells him to rest, he is sure that his neighbors and family are waiting for him to fatten up. As...
The madman is confined to his home. He puzzles over the life of a cannibal. He figures cannibals must be constantly wanting to eat their fellow humans, while always having to fear that their fellow humans will eat them. A young man visits the madman in his home. The madman tries to talk to the visitor about cannibalism. When the young man evades hi...
The madman recalls his sister. The madman's sister died when she was only five years old. He is sure now that his brother ate her. He wonders if his brother mixed her flesh in with their food. He worries that he might have eaten her without knowing it. He hopes that there are still children that are not cannibals and pleads, "Save the children."
Synopsis. The story begins with a note from the narrator written in Classical Chinese, describing his reunion with an old friend. Having heard that the friend's brother was ill, he visits them, but discovers that the brother has recovered and taken up an official post.
Summary. The story contains thirteen fragments from the diary of a man who has lived in confusion for thirty years and suddenly gains spiritual insight from the moon. This lunatic sensitivity...
Nov 21, 2023 · "Diary of a Madman" is about a man who goes mad and believes his fellow towns-people and his brother are cannibals who want to eat him. A narrator shares the madman's diary entries,...
