Top 7 Essays on feeling My awakening process related to Chi Pheo in “A Phu couple” and “Chi Pheo” (12th grade)

In the realist literature of Vietnam, the appearance of a series of talented writers such as Nam Cao, Vu Trong Phung, Ngo Tat To, Nguyen Cong Hoan, etc., has reflected in a very true way the tragic fate. The drama of the peasants, the poor intellectuals in the old society, together with the injustices and cruelty of the semi-feudal colonial regime pushed people to the end. In which, with Nam Cao’s Chi Pheo and To Hoai’s A Phu Couple, we all realize that the main content throughout the work is the awakening and strong rise of the main character. However, with the different birth contexts and directions in each author’s writing style, the awakening of the characters and their endings also develop in their own ways, one side is tragedy, the other is tragic. On the other side is a bright path full of hope.

First of all, talking about the awakening process of My in the A Phu couple, I am a beautiful girl, talented in playing the flute, working hard, and having a beautiful love, who thought she would have a warm life. Be quiet with the one you love, even if you’re not rich. But the custom of the powerful and the feudal theocracy broke everything, the traditional debt of the poor father, which I had to bear instead, pushed me on the path of becoming a debt-reducing daughter-in-law. Stepping into the rich family’s bride, but forced to live a life no different from buffalo and horse, becoming a talking labor machine. I used to suffer desperately, just wanted to eat leaves to die, but when I think of my old father, I can’t bear to die, I can only grit my teeth and endure. After a long time “in suffering for a long time, I am also used to suffering. Now I think I am also a buffalo, I am also a horse. The horse can only eat grass and work”. She became inert, no longer interested in life, no longer knew what pain and suffering was, My soul became cold as ashes, she shrank into a tough shell by the The pain is too much to bear when I myself am aware that “The horse and buffalo sometimes work, at night, they can stand scratching their feet, chewing grass, the women and girls of this family bury themselves in work all night and all day. “. Not only was she physically tormented, but my pain also came from scenes of bondage in my soul, when people always see me sad, head down, not eager to speak, mind Always thinking about going to work.

The room I live in is like a prison when there is only a small square hole the size of a hand “always looking out I can see a white moon, I don’t know if it’s dew or sunshine”, dark and cramped, keeping everyone in prison. My soul and body, but sometimes I thought that I would live and die in this small room for the rest of my life. It’s so sad to think about a human life. In addition, another pain of mine is the pain of being separated from love and having to live with the person that she hates for the rest of her life – A Su, a cruel, brute, just playing around consider Me as his wife but treat her like a slave in the house, despite being brutally treated. How can a life like that not make people desperate, callous, and confused like a turtle in a corner, it’s like hell on earth, and that rich house is a prison. life is guarded by theocracy and power, it has trampled and destroyed the souls and bodies of miserable women like Me.

My awakening took place very naturally, originating from the flute calling to you in the spring love night, thinking that my soul was completely dumbfounded, but now I hear the sound of the flute chirping, joyfully, it awakens strongly again, like a sprout that has risen after many days of drought and showers. I suddenly fell in love with life, I mumbled to sing along to the flute, I quietly remembered the happy memories of the day I did not return to be the wife of the governor of Pa Tra. Then she drank wine, gulped down each bowl as if she wanted to vent all her sorrows and pain, she remembered that she used to play the flute and play the leaves very well, so she used the leaves to blow up cheerful music. , love life. Since then, my heart has started to wake up with the desire to have fun and communicate with everyone, to enjoy the happiness of youth “I feel refreshed again, my heart is suddenly as happy as the previous Tet nights. I’m young, I’m still young. I want to go out. Many married people also go to Tet.” Said to make me go into the room to wear a flower dress, tie her hair, but A Su tied me up when it came back, it didn’t let me go out, although she was tied up, her soul was still hanging on the sound of the flute in the street. It wasn’t until late at night when I thought about a woman in this house who had been tied to death that I was startled, “I’m so scared, I struggled to see if I was alive or dead. Wrists, head, calves were tied by ropes, painful to pieces of flesh.”

The pain, the fear are the clearest proofs of my potential vitality, it turns out that I still want to live, love this life, I don’t want to die right here, right now, I still yearning for youthful happiness, intense desire for freedom and they are burning in the young woman’s heart, just don’t know how to achieve those desires. While I was at a standstill, the tattered appearance of A Phu showed me a hopeful way out, the scene where the boy seemed to have fainted from hunger and cold, but when I rescued him, he had used up all of it. The vitality to run, roll down the hillside, but refused to stay and wait for death, broke my soul to a truth: I have liberated others, why not liberate myself myself can. So I risked my life to follow A Phu, free myself, move towards a new life, get out of that cruel and deadlocked prison. All the changes in Mi’s psyche, as well as her daring actions, reveal precious spiritual beauties that are intense latent vitality, strong resistance, longing for freedom, happiness. burning happiness in the soul. All of this became the driving force that made me liberate and save myself and A Phu.

As for Chi Pheo, his awakening process was much more arduous and tricky than Me, and Chi himself also had a life full of unhappiness, with tragic tragedies similar to hers. Living with the status of an orphan floating until the age of 20 with beautiful wishes, he was sent to prison only for the promiscuity of a woman and the jealousy of a helpless man who was afraid of his wife. Seven or eight years later, that colonial prison returned to Vu Dai village a delinquent with a hideous appearance “looking like a fisherman! The head is bald, the teeth are shaved white, the face is black. He was dressed in a black sow dress with a yellow shirt, his chest was full of dragon and phoenix carvings with a mace-wielding general, and both arms. Looks horrible!”. Not only in terms of humanity, but in Chi Pheo, there is also a corruption of dignity when he became fond of drinking and eating dog meat, used to slicing his face, and cursed the village, cursed life, and cursed people. dreadful. Sliding in alienation, Chi Pheo, because of the tragedies of life tormented and gullible ignorance, easily sank into the path of sin when he became Ba Kien’s henchman, doing all the things for him on his behalf. stabbing for hire, debt collection for hire. Becoming the devil of Vu Dai village, a strange animal in the eyes of people, selling his soul cheaply to earn a few coins to serve the long drunkenness that has never been awake for 15 years.

Chi Pheo’s awakening took place overall twice, the first time was thanks to Thi No, thanks to a strange love affair with an ugly woman who hated the devil and added a crazy personality. However, she gave him the care and warmth of a mother, a woman with a beautiful soul with a bowl of steaming onion porridge. Chi Pheo suddenly realized that he had stepped to the other side of life, he was old, his body had begun to collapse, he was not afraid of death but was afraid to live a lonely, shaky life, Then he remembered dreams in his twenties, to have a warm family, the husband plows and hires his wife to weave cloth, raise pigs, and buy land. And he longs to do those things with Thi No, he wants to build a family with her and she will be the bridge to bring him back to the human world, so that he can return to his senses and live a new life.

But sadly, Chi Pheo had only just come out of a long drunkenness for a few days, only had hopes of the joy of life, but it was immediately overthrown by the harsh prejudices of society through words. by Mrs. Thi No “Why are all the men dead, why would they go to marry a fatherless man. Who would marry a man who only had one job to cut his face?” That harsh word dealt a fatal blow to Chi Pheo, awakening him from his dreams, clearly aware of his fate of his tragic and sinful fate, he had no chance to turn back. back again, he wants to be honest, but who gave him that precious honesty. At the same time, Chi Pheo is also aware that his enemy, who has caused him so many tragedies, is Ba Kien. He also chose a way to free himself like Me, in order to keep the good gifts left in him. But unlike Me, the end of Chi Pheo’s awakening process is a tragedy. He killed Ba Kien, and at the same time committed suicide to end his life full of painful and sinful misfortunes. This can be seen as a reasonable ending for the short story, and also reflects harshly the injustice of the old society that has brought people so many tragic tragedies, leaving them with no way back, forced to choose. The most negative way to liberation.

In short, it can be clearly seen that the two characters, Me and Chi Pheo, have in common those precious spiritual beauties such as the desire to live, the desire for happiness, and the intense love. However, if I myself choose to bury and cover my soul with a hard, dry, emotionless shell, Chi Pheo chooses to leave it to fate and slide down the path of sin. , that’s why until the end of the awakening process, the two characters end up with a person who finds freedom and happiness, who suffers from a tragedy ending his life, which is also a reasonable and suitable plot development direction. suitable with the situation as well as the ideas that the two authors want to convey to the readers.

Nam Cao and To Hoai are two typical writers of modern Vietnamese literature. With talent and deep humanity, both writers use their pen to reflect on the life and fate of poor farmers. If Nam Cao delved deeply into the tragedy of human alienation through the character Chi Pheo in the short story of the same name, To Hoai turned to poor farmers who were trampled physically and mentally. In the Northwest mountains, a typical example can be mentioned is Mi in the short story “A Phu couple”.

Both Nam Cao and To Hoai in their work not only built profound content but also met in a deeply humanitarian spirit. Through the characters Chi Pheo (Chi Pheo) and Me (The A Phu couple), the two writers have expressed sympathy for the poor and unfortunate farmers, and at the same time deeply condemned the society. Feudal associations have oppressed, exploited and trampled on the dignity of honest people.

Me and Chi Pheo are people from poor backgrounds, being oppressed and trampled by power to the point of paralysis, losing the ability to resist, having to live in a dark life, losing themselves. However, inside those unfortunate people is a potential and intense vitality, they are not forever resigned to the dark life but have risen out of the shadow of power, awakened to revive again. return to his benevolent nature.

Chi Pheo was an honest and sincere farmer, because of Ba Kien’s jealousy, he was unjustly and unjustly sent to prison. The colonial prison turned an honest man Chi Pheo into a delinquent with an unruly and overbearing appearance. With a “black” background after being released from prison, it is difficult for Chi Pheo to return to honest jobs like before, no one wants, and no one dares to hire him. In order to continue living, Chi Pheo sought out his own enemy, who pushed him into prison – Ba Kien. Since accepting to be Ba Kien’s henchman is also when Chi Pheo entered the path of sin, a hand Chi Pheo has committed many crimes, Chi gradually corrupted and became the devil of Vu Dai village.

The whole village of Vu Dai hated and refused to recognize Chi’s human rights. The thought that Chi would forever slide on the path of corruption, forever the devil of Vu Dai village, but Thi No’s bowl of onion porridge awakened the humanity inside of Chi. The idyllic dreams of his youth suddenly came to life in Chi, Chi longed to make peace with everyone, wanted to return to the honest path.

When he knew he couldn’t return to an honest life forever, Chi Pheo would rather choose the most tragic ending for himself than shake hands with crime again. Chi Pheo’s death not only condemned the corrupt feudal society but also expressed Nam Cao’s deeply empathetic attitude towards the tragic fate of the peasants.

I am a beautiful girl who loves life with full youthful vitality but is forced to become a daughter-in-law to pay off debt for the governor’s family. Living at the governor’s family, I had to work hard day and night, being treated like a buffalo, a horse, trampled both physically and mentally. Having lived a long life in misery, I went from a young, loving girl to a resigned woman like a turtle raised in a corner. I was paralyzed, lost the ability to resist the painful reality in front of me. In the night of spring love, the vitality inside Me was awakened, but then was suppressed by the cruel reality so that she returned to her usual resigned life.

On the night of spring love, my inner vitality was awakened, A Phu’s tears caused that vitality to burn fiercely to urge me to rise up to save A Phu’s life, which is also liberating my own life. .

Through the two characters Chi Pheo and Me, two writers Nam Cao and To Hoai showed their deep sympathy for the unfortunate poor farmers. The revival of Chi Pheo and Me shows the two writers’ respect and belief in the values ​​of dignity and potential vitality within people, and at the same time deeply criticizes the dark society that has push people down the path of alienation.

To Hoai is one of the great writers of modern Vietnamese literature. His works always show a deep understanding, especially about the customs and daily life of different cultural regions in our country. He was successful with his works on animals and was especially impressed with his works on the reality of life and people in the Northwest. The highlight is the short story A Phu couple – a true picture of the life of the poor mountainous people and their potential vitality.

Nam Cao is a typical writer of the critical realist literary movement before the Revolution. He is always deeply aware of his artistic conception, and at the same time requires art to be associated with life, touching human pain to raise a cry for happiness. Therefore, the writer comprehensively criticizes the idea that “art is the moonlight that deceives”, which is escapist from life. From there, he brought to Vietnam’s literary treasure the Chi Pheo fairy tale, over the course of time, still maintaining its humanitarian value and profound reality.

When comparing the characters of Me and Chi Pheo, we can see that both authors direct their writing to the miserable life of Vietnamese farmers at that time. If Nam Cao went deep to exploit the image of the demon Chi Pheo of Vu Dai village with all the horror of humanity and humanity, To Hoai went back to the Northwest mountains to look for the image of a beautiful girl. beautiful, suffering, hard-working. Reading the two works above, we cannot forget the image of the two characters Me and Chi Pheo, especially the revival that arose in them.

Describing the character of Me, To Hoai is not humble in words to praise a talented girl who is no less than anyone else. The girl in the Northwest mountains is beautiful, not only that, but also has a talent to play the flute, so many boys inside and outside the village always aspire to have her. In particular, unlike the majority of Me, who loves freedom and has self-respect, this girl constantly aspires to rise in life by working. Not only has a romantic soul, but inside I also exudes the beauty of filial piety and the tragedy of this girl’s life also begins there. Three words “strawberry remove debt” is the only way to pay filial piety when I want to pay off the family’s debt. From then on, Mi became a victim of an exploitative feudal society and a victim of the old marriage custom at that time.

When I became the wife of the Ly dynasty, I suffered both physically and mentally. I was brutally exploited for labor, had to work around the clock and was locked in a tight circle of work. The comparison of the characters Me and Chi Pheo has realized and realized the miserable life and many sufferings of people in the old regime. Under the narration of writer To Hoai, Mi appeared as a talking tool, and then more than once, I was sobbing not as much as a buffalo and a horse. My life is gradually being materialized. Besides, Mi was also beaten and tortured by her own husband in a brutal and unreasonable way.

When we compare the characters of Mi and Chi Pheo, we see that Mi is already humiliated, but through that we can see more clearly the misery of Chi’s life. His birth was inherently unfortunate, with the image of a baby abandoned in an old brick kiln. Nam Cao seems to let his character grow and mature among the love of the people of Vu Dai village, which is an affirmation that Chi Pheo was originally a person with a gentle and thoughtful nature. Only after that, the new writer turned his pen into the corruption and misery of the character’s life in the most cruel way.

Nam Cao is not afraid to let his character become the image of a demon, at the beginning of the story is the image of “he just walked and cursed…” and then there are many images of slapping his face, going in and out. prison many times. It was the wrongful colonial prison that took away in Chi the gentleness and honesty and returned a man who had lost both humanity and humanity. The sharpness in the writer’s voice is a true account of a corrupt feudal society at that time, where only exploitation and pushed honest people to the end of suffering. The analysis of Chi’s mood and psychological development helps highlight the comparison between the characters of Me and Chi Pheo.

The revival of the character through a unique story situation. My strong desire to live through the mood and action in the spring night of love. The reality I live in is a dark, oppressive reality that makes her a confused shadow, living but dead. But once again the past called to make this girl excited, excited with the joy of living and the desire for freedom. The catalyst that brought me back to life was the sound of the flute, the strong smell of wine and the love of spring, “the sound of the flute calling you to love floating in the street…”

The writer used the word lily to describe the sound of the flute in an inviting way, it made Me unable to sit still with the past but awakened the desire to go to spring in her. I had daring actions “I didn’t say, I went to the corner of the house to get a tube of grease and rolled up a piece… I wrapped my hair, I reached for the flower dress, I wanted to go out”. Those rushing thoughts and actions have shown that Mi is no longer afraid of the present, in her head now only flutters by the sound of the flute and the desire to live. Chi Pheo’s mood changes with each psychological wave, which clearly reflects his desire to live, and also helps us to have a specific view when comparing the characters of Me and Chi Pheo.

My’s rise was once again emphasized when she caught the image of A Phu “a stream of sparkling tears crawling down the darkened cheeks”. The love for fellow human beings in Me arose out of sympathy and compassion for her own life. The writer described a series of actions that Mi saved A Phu from gentle, careful with the urging “go now” so that A Phu could run away and live. Then, the climax of the rise of the desire to live dearly to Me was the voice in the fear-filled complexity of the psychology of “A Phu let me go with… I will die here”

From the vibe before the flute of the spring night to the risk of cutting the ropes for A Phu, it shows that Mi has courageously freed her life from the power. My footsteps broke the oppression of the regime at that time and showed my potential vitality. To Hoai praised the beauty of women in the Northwest, at the same time affirming the desire to live and the desire for happiness of people even in the end of the deadlock. The brutality of society has crushed a person, but just with the small impact of human love, the demon’s footsteps have stopped, marking the return of a human life. he wakes up. And he never woke up to know he was in this world.”

Two consecutive sentences seem to carry the same meaning, but they open a turning point about Chi’s “firsts” from the day he corrupted. This is not only the awakening of the body but also the awakening of the soul. For the first time, he felt the breath of life and vaguely dreamed of his past dreams. “It seems that there was a time when he wished to have a small family”. This detail is like the knot of the fairy tale and also the knot of Chi’s life, the self-awareness and rise of humanity made him once again live and soberly acknowledge his own life.

When comparing the characters of Me and Chi Pheo, if Mi’s rise comes from nostalgia for the beautiful past, Chi’s rise is awakened by the warmth from Thi No’s bowl of onion porridge. The bowl of onion porridge represents human love – something he never thought he would have in this life. The care from a woman’s hands was new and warm to him so that he could find his way back to honesty. “He finds his eyes wet” is an image marking the rise of man in Chi. Nam Cao calls tears the pearl of man, it saves, it washes away all sins and keeps people in the clear part of conscience. The process of self-consciousness culminates when “thinking of alcohol gives me a shiver”. Because what he craves now is not the pungent smell of alcohol but the taste of honesty “He craves honesty”.

When comparing the characters of Me and Chi Pheo, readers can deeply feel the real value and humanitarian value in the two works A Phu and Chi Pheo. Thereby. The author has generalized the face of brutal feudal society. At the same time, praising the beauty of the soul and the rise to seek life of people who are suffering. Unlike contemporary critical realist writers, Nam Cao and To Hoai did not go into depth describing the process of hunger and tearing of the farmer’s clothes, even though it was a very common fact. He loved the character by emphasizing the real value of the character’s life tragedies. From there, when comparing the characters of Me and Chi Pheo, readers can clearly understand the pain of demanding the right to life, the right to be a human and contribute their voice to denounce the society at that time.

If it weren’t for a humanitarian heart and outstanding talent, both writers would not have made the reader so emotional when comparing the characters of Me and Chi Pheo. Each writer has their own creative way, but when writing about the farmer, they always focus their writing on the hidden beauty of the character.

To Hoai and Nam Cao are considered two excellent writers in modern Vietnamese literature. The two men have a common feature that they love to write about farmers who suffer and suffer from oppression and exploitation. If Nam Cao goes deep into exploiting the image of a farmer in Dai Hoang village – the hometown of the typical writer, the character Chi Pheo. Then To Hoai looked to the farmers who suffered and worked hard in the remote Northwest mountains, typically the character Me. Two different characters but all have in common is the revival of awakening after long days of living in darkness.

Nam Cao and To Hoai are considered to have the same soul, meet in terms of humanitarian ideology. When their literature and poetry are voices of love, they deeply sympathize with the fate of people in the feudal society. suffered oppression and exploitation to the point of alienating themselves. However, their characters did not succumb to the shadow of power, but at the end of the road they were revived back to their good selves.

Before being revived with the desire to live a normal life, both Chi and Me were gentle and hard-working farmers. Chi Pheo was originally a hardworking farmer waiting for Ba Kien’s family. Because of her passion for sex. Ba and Ba Kien’s cowardly jealousy pushed that young man into prison. The colonial prison full of injustice has corrupted Chi’s gentle person and returned a man who lost both his humanity and humanity. On Chi’s face, there are many scars “striped along horizontal stripes”, “whitened teeth”, “bald head” looks hideous. In terms of humanity, he is considered the demon of Vu Dai village, specializing in slitting his face. Chi had to face the most painful tragedy of his life, his parents abandoned him, the villagers rejected him. No one accepted him back into society. He was denied his human rights by society and considered as “leftover meat” in the village.

I was originally a beautiful and talented girl who was admired by many boys who wanted to have her. However, that perfect girl fell into the tragedy of life when she had to be a bride to get rid of debts for her family. Thong Ly Pa Tra’s family. From here, My life entered a series of long dark days. I live at Thong Li’s house, wandering around like a turtle in a corner. Day by day, I only know how to spin yarn, cut horse grass, go to the fields… to work hard from morning to night. Even the buffalo and the horse sometimes have a break to eat grass, and the women and girls of this family never get a break. That’s why, her face is always sad. To explain the revival of the two characters Chi Pheo and Me, both Nam Cao and To Hoai have built dramatic situations that awaken the characters with a change in thought and action.

We see, in the character Chi Pheo after long days immersed in alcohol. That night, Chi met Thi No – the ugly girl of Vu Dai. After that night of love in the banana garden really revived the person of Chi. He heard again the familiar sounds of everyday life. He also remembered that there was a time when he dreamed of living a simple life. Husband and wife told each other to do business, raise pigs, and raise chickens to build a happy family. A dream of a normal life like many others has been evoked since meeting Thi No. Chi wants to be an honest person. He came to find Ba Kien and ended his miserable life with the question “Who gave me honesty”. Although, Chi Pheo died, but before he died, he found kindness in people.

For the character Mi, my awakening was in my situation on that spring night of love and when I saw the tears rolling down A Phu’s cheeks. The intense desire to live was awakened in Me. I heard the shirt calling for a mate and she wanted to wear a skirt again, to be prepared to go to the party like in the old days. Those actions show that I have awakened. The latent vitality in people was awakened by the sound of the flute. Then she witnessed A Phu being tortured by the Thong Li family and tied to a pillar in the yard. She knew that if she didn’t run away, she would slowly die like the daughters-in-law who lived in the Thong Li house before. So she untied A Phu and went with him to find new horizons.

Both Nam Cao and To Hoai felt pity and sympathy for their characters. The revival of their humanity as well as the intense desire to live by Chi Pheo and Me was a harsh critic of the corrupt feudal society. Where people have used power to oppress gentle farmers to become corrupted and lose all sense of life.

The two short stories A Phu husband and wife by To Hoai and Chi Pheo by Nam Cao show us that despite writing about the lives of two characters with different destinies. But the common point between the characters Chi Pheo and Me is that they both have an unhappy life. After a lot of suffering and loss, they finally found their former self. Their revival and awakening is the author’s sympathetic voice. And show deep human values ​​in the two works.

Nam Cao and To Hoai are two excellent writers in modern Vietnamese literature. If Nam Cao went into exploiting the topic of farmers in Dai Hoang village – the writer’s hometown, To Hoai was very successful in finding workers in the remote Northwest mountainous region to build his works. unique artwork. Literature is the rhythm of the soul searching for the same souls”, Nam Cao and To Hoai had a meeting and were in sync with their thoughts and feelings. That is the deep love voice of the writer for his character.

“Revive” means to come back to life. “Reviving humanity” is humanity, human love is resurrected. Talking about the revival of humanity, we have seen that revival in the literature before, any character, once corrupted, they have a spiritual awakening process, like Truong Sinh (Story). Nam Xuong’s daughter – Nguyen Du, like Ho (Leadership – Nam Cao)… If Truong Sinh woke up after the unjust death of his wife, then Ho woke up after chasing his wife and children because of the burden of rice. Sinh set up a forum to exonerate his wife, Ho cried, Ho’s tears are proof of the awakening and revival of humanity, and the revival of Chi Pheo and Me’s humanity was led by Nam Cao and To Hoai. how to solve?

“Literature is the soul’s rhythm in search of like-minded souls”, Nam Cao and To Hoai had a meeting and sympathized with thoughts and feelings. That is the deep love voice of the writer for his character. The awakening of the humanity of the two characters in A Phu and Chi Pheo couple has shown the author’s sympathetic look at the fate of people in the old society.

Before the revival of humanity, in the couple A Phu and Chi Pheo, both Chi and Me had the same painful fates and tragedies. Chi Pheo was originally a gentle, simple, hardworking farmer who lived and rented for Ba Kien’s house. Because of Ba Kien’s jealousy, Chi was pushed into a colonial prison. In that colonial prison, unfortunately, they accepted people when they were innocent and honest and released them when they became corrupt, lost both humanity and humanity. In terms of personality, Chi is a strange animal with a face “striped across the horizontal stripes of countless scars”, in terms of humanity, Chi is “the devil of Vu Dai village”, a person who specializes in slitting his face and slapping his face. acting as a debt collector for Ba Kien. Chi Pheo’s most painful tragedy was “denied human rights, parents rejected Chi, villagers also rejected Chi”.

In the process of comparing A Phu and Chi Pheo, the reader also finds that Chi fell into tragedy because no one welcomed him back to a flat society. If it was a human, no one would dare to expose themselves like that, no one would dare to be willing to hire or hire, just for money, would not dare to “burn the shop” of the “liquor lady” but Chi became lost. “humanity”, losing such “humanity”. I am also a beautiful, talented and filial girl, and I also have to suffer a painful fate no less than Chi Pheo. I have to become a “daughter-in-law to clear debt for the governor of Pa Tra”. Those who are far away, having to go to the house of the governor of Pa Tra, often see a girl, sitting and spinning, cutting horse grass, … she always looks sad. I’m like a turtle raised in a corner. Living in the house of governor Pa Tra, Me, like all the women in this house, is busy working day and night. If Nam Cao’s Chi Pheo wanted to communicate with people, Mi didn’t bother to communicate. I’m always wrong, she also lost her humanity but the “humanity” lost here is different from Chi.

When comparing the awakening of the two characters in A Phu and Chi Pheo, we find that, if Chi Pheo is corrupted in humanity and becomes a demon, then Mi loses her humanity in that She is not considered a human being. Living at the governor’s house Pa Tra, MI is like a “buffalo, horse”. Because the buffalo and the horse still have time to rest, over here I have to work hard all day. It is because of such a life that I have become a person who has lost its vitality.

Although there are similarities in fate and life, the process of reviving the humanity of Chi Pheo and Me is very different. The revival of Chi’s humanity is that after the night of meeting Thi No, it was Thi No’s humanity that awakened “humanity” in the demon of Vu Dai village. Thi is an ugly woman who hates ghosts of Vu Dai village. However, inside her ugly appearance and crazy personality is a very tolerant and selfless heart. After a night of sleeping together, waking up the next morning, Chi for the first time listened to the sounds around him, the sounds of life and felt that life was also interesting.

And Chi wants to be an honest person. That honest desire is evidence for the revival of Chi’s humanity. Chi recalls his life before being pushed into a colonial prison with very simple dreams. Chi realized that Thi No was also predestined and wanted to live with her. Chi wanted to be human and Thi No was the bridge to bring Chi back to an honest person. Comparing A Phu and Chi Pheo, we see that thanks to her humanity, Chi revived her humanity, yearning to live an honest life. For Me, the vitality of that girl’s revival is the sound of a flute calling a mate on the night of spring love in the Northwest. Spring, the season of intense vitality. I live in Pa Tra’s house like a person who has lost her soul.

However, on that spring love night, when the cold came, when the young girls hung “their skirts spread like butterflies on the rocks” and the children played and the flute called for their mates, started to appear. I seem to be alive again with my own soul. She reminisces about the past when she went out with her lover on spring love nights. Just like Chi, I also reminisce about the beautiful past, when I was still a beautiful girl with a great talent for playing the flute. I was drinking and when I was drunk, I suddenly heard the flute calling for my partner and I wanted to go out too. I want to play like when I was young. I went to the corner of the house to roll up some fat and put it in the lamp to light it up, reaching for the dress.

Those actions proved that I was really revived, the latent vitality in Me was revived by the sound of the flute. Just like Chi Pheo, the sound of life around awakens the soul, awakens the intense vitality of Me. The sound of the flute brought me along with the games, even when I was tied to a pillar by A Su. I let my soul fly to the flute of the spring love night. I’m unconscious, I don’t feel pain because at this moment my revival of humanity is very strong. Chi Pheo and Me were both revived. That revival shows us the humanitarian vision of Nam Cao and To Hoai. Must really love and sympathize with their characters, two writers can let them revive their humanity like that. For Chi Pheo, it is to return to an honest life, and for Me, it is to reveal her latent vitality.

Both Nam Cao and To Hoai were very sorry and sympathetic for the fate of Chi Pheo and Me, and cherished their simple dreams. On the other hand, from the revival of Chi Pheo and Me’s humanity, they spoke out harshly criticizing the forces that trampled on the fate of that unfortunate person. The society with the remnants of feudalism, Ba Kien pushed Chi into corruption. And the old customs of the mountains with the wicked and greedy rulers like the governor Pa Tra robbed him and eroded his strength. My life.

Although writing on different topics, the lives and fates of the characters in A Phu and Chi Pheo are both the experiences and hard work of the writers. Through his characters, writers want to voice their hearts and sympathize with their fate. Those are the humanitarian values ​​of the work. Humanitarian value is the basic value of a genuine literary work” and the basic core of that value is love for people. This great value has been shown very successfully through two works A Phu and Chi Pheo. Thereby, we also see the heart and respectful sympathy that To Hoai and Nam Cao have for their characters.

In the realist literature of Vietnam, the appearance of a series of talented writers such as Nam Cao, Vu Trong Phung, Ngo Tat To, Nguyen Cong Hoan, etc., has reflected in a very true way the tragic fate. The drama of the peasants, the poor intellectuals in the old society, together with the injustices and cruelty of the semi-feudal colonial regime pushed people to the end. In which, with Nam Cao’s Chi Pheo and To Hoai’s A Phu Couple, we all realize that the main content throughout the work is the awakening and strong rise of the main character. However, with the different birth contexts and directions in each author’s writing style, the awakening of the characters and their endings also develop in their own ways, one side is tragedy, the other is tragic. On the other side is a bright path full of hope.

First of all, talking about the awakening process of My in the A Phu couple, I am a beautiful girl, talented in playing the flute, working hard, and having a beautiful love, who thought she would have a warm life. Be quiet with the one you love, even if you’re not rich. But the custom of the powerful and the feudal theocracy broke everything, the traditional debt of the poor father, which I had to bear instead, pushed me on the path of becoming a debt-reducing daughter-in-law. Stepping into the rich family’s bride, but forced to live a life no different from buffaloes and horses, becoming a talking labor machine. I used to suffer and despair, just wanted to eat leaves to die, but think of my old father, I could not bear to die, only gritted my teeth and endured. After that, “I’ve been in suffering for a long time, I’m used to suffering. Now I think I’m a buffalo, I’m also a horse. The horse can only eat grass and work.” She became inert, no longer interested in life, no longer knew what pain and suffering was, My soul became cold as ashes, she shrunk into a tough shell by the The pain is too much to bear when I myself am aware that “The horse and buffalo sometimes work, at night, they can stand scratching their feet, chewing grass, the women and girls of this family bury themselves all night and all day. “.

Not only was she physically tormented, but my pain also came from scenes of bondage in my soul, when people always see me sad, head down, not eager to speak, mind Always thinking about going to work. The room I live in is like a prison when there is only a small square hole the size of a hand “always looking out I can see a white moon, I don’t know if it’s dew or sunshine”, dark and cramped, keeping everyone in prison. My soul and body, but sometimes I thought that I would live and die in this small room for the rest of my life. It’s so sad to think about a human life. In addition, another pain of mine is the pain of being separated from love and having to live with the person that she hates for the rest of her life – A Su, a cruel, brute, just playing around. consider Me as his wife but treat her like a slave in the house, despite being brutally treated. How can a life like that not make people desperate, callous, and confused like a turtle in a corner, it’s like hell on earth, and that rich house is a prison. life is guarded by theocracy and power, it has trampled and destroyed the souls and bodies of miserable women like Me.

My awakening took place very naturally, originating from the flute calling to you in the spring love night, thinking that my soul was completely dumbfounded, but now I hear the sound of the flute chirping, joyfully, it awakened strongly again, like a young tree sprouted after many days of drought and rain. I suddenly fell in love with life, I mumbled to sing along to the flute, I quietly remembered the happy memories of the day I did not return to be the wife of the governor of Pa Tra. Then she drank wine, gulped each bowl as if she wanted to vent all her sorrows and pain, she remembered that she used to play the flute and play the leaves very well, so she used the leaves to blow up cheerful music. , love life. From then on, my heart began to wake up with the desire to have fun and communicate with people, to enjoy the happiness of youth “I feel refreshed again, my heart is suddenly as happy as the previous Tet nights. I’m young, I’m still young. I want to go out. Many married people also go to Tet.” Said to make me go to the room to wear a flower dress, tie her hair, but A Su tied me up when it came back, it didn’t let me go out, although she was tied up, her soul was still hanging on the sound of the flute in the street. It wasn’t until late at night when I thought about a woman in this house who had been tied to death, that I was startled, “I’m so scared, I’m struggling to see if I’m alive or dead. Wrists, head, calves were tied with ropes, painful to pieces of flesh.” The pain and fear are the clearest proofs of my potential vitality, it turns out that I still have a desire to live, love this life, I don’t want to die right here, right now, I still yearning for youthful happiness, intense desire for freedom and they are burning in the young woman’s heart, just don’t know how to achieve those desires.

While I was at a standstill, the tattered appearance of A Phu showed me a hopeful way out, the scene where the boy seemed to have fainted from hunger and cold, but when I rescued him, he had used up all of it. The vitality to run, roll down the hillside, but refused to stay and wait for death, broke my soul to a truth: I have liberated others, why not liberate myself myself can. So, I risked my life to follow A Phu, free myself, move towards a new life, get out of that cruel and deadlocked prison. All the changes in Mi’s psychology, as well as her daring actions, reveal precious spiritual beauties that are intense latent vitality, strong resistance, longing for freedom, happiness. burning happiness in the soul. All of this became the driving force that made me liberated and saved myself and A Phu.

As for Chi Pheo, his awakening process was much more arduous and tricky than Me, and Chi himself also had a life full of unhappiness, with tragic tragedies similar to hers. Living with the status of an orphan floating until the age of 20 with beautiful wishes, he was sent to prison only for the promiscuity of a woman and the jealousy of a helpless man who was afraid of his wife. Seven or eight years later, that colonial prison returned to Vu Dai village a delinquent with a hideous appearance “looking like a fisherman! The head is bald, the teeth are shaved white, the face is black. He was dressed in a black sow dress with a yellow shirt, his chest was full of dragon and phoenix carvings with a mace-wielding general, and both arms. Looks horrible!”. Not only in terms of humanity, but in Chi Pheo, there is also a corruption of dignity when he became fond of drinking and eating dog meat, used to slicing his face, and cursed the village, cursed life, and cursed people. dreadful. Sliding in alienation, Chi Pheo, because of the tragedies of life tormented and gullible ignorance, easily sank into the path of sin when he became Ba Kien’s henchman, doing all the things for him on his behalf. stabbing for hire, debt collection for hire. Becoming the devil of Vu Dai village, a strange animal in the eyes of people, selling his soul cheaply to earn a few coins to serve the long drunkenness that has never been awake for 15 years. Chi Pheo’s awakening took place overall twice, the first time was thanks to Thi No, thanks to a strange love affair with an ugly woman who hated the devil and added a crazy personality.

However, she gave him the care and warmth of a mother, a woman with a beautiful soul with a bowl of steaming onion porridge. Chi Pheo suddenly realized that he had stepped to the other side of life, he was old, his body had begun to collapse, he was not afraid of death but was afraid to live a lonely, shaky life, Then he remembered dreams in his twenties, to have a warm family, the husband plows and hires his wife to weave cloth, raise pigs, and buy land. And he longs to do those things with Thi No, he wants to build a family with her and she will be the bridge to bring him back to the human world, so that he can return to his senses and live a new life. But sadly, Chi Pheo had only just come out of a long drunkenness for a few days, only had hopes of the joy of living, but it was immediately overthrown by the harsh prejudices of society through words. by Mrs. Thi No “Why are all the men dead, why would they go to marry a fatherless man. Who would marry a man who only had one job to cut his face?” That harsh word dealt a fatal blow to Chi Pheo, awakening him from his dreams, clearly aware of his fate of his tragic and sinful fate, he had no chance to turn back. come back again, he wants to be honest, but who gave him that precious honesty. At the same time, Chi Pheo is also aware that his enemy, who has caused him so many tragedies, is Ba Kien. He also chooses a way to free himself like Me, to keep the good gifts left in him. But unlike Me, the end of Chi Pheo’s awakening process is a tragedy. He killed Ba Kien, and at the same time committed suicide to end his life full of painful and sinful misfortunes. This can be seen as a reasonable ending for the short story, and also reflects harshly the injustice of the old society that has brought people so many tragic tragedies, leaving them with no way back, forced to choose. The most negative way to liberation.

In short, it can be clearly seen that the two characters, Me and Chi Pheo, have in common those precious spiritual beauties such as the desire to live, the desire for happiness, and the intense love. However, if I myself choose to bury and cover my soul with a hard, dry, emotionless shell, Chi Pheo chooses to leave it to fate and slide down the path of sin. , that’s why until the end of the awakening process, the two characters end up with a person who finds freedom and happiness, who suffers from a tragedy ending his life, which is also a reasonable and suitable plot development direction. suitable with the situation as well as the ideas that the two authors want to convey to the readers.

Nam Cao and To Hoai are two excellent writers in modern Vietnamese literature. If Nam Cao went into exploiting the topic of farmers in Dai Hoang village – the writer’s hometown, To Hoai was very successful in finding workers in the remote Northwest mountainous region to build his works. unique artwork. Reading Chi Pheo by Nam Cao and The couple A Phu by To Hoai, readers cannot forget the two characters Chi Pheo and Me, especially their revival of humanity.

“Literature is the soul’s rhythm in search of like-minded souls”, Nam Cao and To Hoai had a meeting and sympathized with thoughts and feelings. That is the deep love voice of the writer for his character. “Revive” means to come back to life. “Reviving humanity” is human nature, human love is resurrected. Talking about the revival of humanity, we have seen that revival in the literature before, any character, once corrupted, they have a spiritual awakening process, like Truong Sinh (Story). the daughter of Nam Xuong – Nguyen Du), like Ho (Leadership – Nam Cao),

… If Truong Sinh awakened after the unjust death of his wife, then Ho woke up after chasing his wife and children because of the burden of rice and clothes. Truong Sinh set up a forum to exonerate his wife, Ho cried, Ho’s tears were proof of his awakening and revival of humanity. How is the revival of Chi Pheo and Me’s humanity explained by Nam Cao and To Hoai? To explain the revival of the two characters’ humanity, Nam Cao and To Hoai both refer to external influences. Yes, there must be an impact before people can wake up, just like when people fall into a deep sleep, there must be an impact before we can wake up. Both Chi Pheo and Me have such agents.

Chi revives his humanity after the night of meeting Thi No. Thi No’s humanity awakened Chi’s humanity, and only that love aroused Chi’s revival. And I woke up to humanity on the night of spring love. If Chi thanks to the impact of people, human love, then Mi thanks to the influence of the scenery, to revive humanity. Before the revival of humanity, both Chi and Me had similar painful fates and tragedies.

Chi Pheo is a gentle, simple, hardworking farmer who lives and rents for Ba Kien’s house. Because of Ba Kien’s jealousy, Chi was pushed into a colonial prison. That colonial prison, unfortunately, it accepted people when they were innocent and honest and released them when they became corrupt, lost both humanity and humanity. In terms of personality, Chi is a strange animal with a face “striped across the horizontal stripes of countless scars”, in terms of humanity, Chi is “the devil of Vu Dai village”, a person who specializes in slitting his face and slapping his face. acting as a debt collector for Ba Kien. Chi Pheo’s most painful tragedy was “denied human rights, parents rejected Chi, villagers also rejected Chi”. Chi falls into tragedy when no one welcomes Chi back to that flat society. If it was a human, no one would dare to expose themselves like that, no one would dare to be willing to hire or hire, just for money, would not dare to “burn the shop” of the “liquor lady” but Chi became lost. “humanity”, losing such “humanity”.

I am also a beautiful, talented and filial girl, and I also suffered a painful fate no less than Chi Pheo. I have to become a “daughter-in-law to clear debt for the governor of Pa Tra”. Those who are far away, having to go to the house of the governor of Pa Tra, often see a girl, sitting spinning, cutting horse grass, … she always looks sad. I am like a turtle raised in a corner, living in the house of governor Pa Tra, I, like the women in this house, are busy working night and day. If Nam Cao’s Chi Pheo wanted to communicate with people, Mi didn’t bother to communicate. I’m always wrong, she also lost her humanity but the “humanity” lost here is different from Chi. If Chi Pheo was corrupted in humanity, becoming a demon, Mi lost her humanity in that she was not considered a human. Living in the house of governor Pa Tra, Me is like a “buffalo, horse”. Because the buffalo and the horse still have time to rest, over here I have to work hard all day. It is because of such a life that I have become a person who has lost its vitality.

Although there are similarities in fate and life, the process of reviving the humanity of Chi Pheo and Me is very different. The revival of Chi’s humanity is that after the night of meeting Thi No, it was Thi No’s humanity that awakened “humanity” in the demon of Vu Dai village. Thi is an ugly woman who hates ghosts of Vu Dai village. However, inside her ugly appearance and crazy personality is a very tolerant and selfless heart. After a night of sleeping together, waking up the next morning, Chi for the first time listened to the sounds around him, the sounds of life and felt that life was also interesting. And Chi wants to be an honest person. That honest desire is proof of the revival of Chi’s humanity. Chi recalls his life before being pushed into a colonial prison with very simple dreams. Chi realized that Thi No was also predestined and wanted to live with her. Chi wanted to be human and Thi No was the bridge to bring Chi back to an honest person.

Thanks to her humanity, Chi revived her humanity, longing to live an honest life. For Me, the vitality of that girl’s revival is the sound of a flute calling a mate on the night of spring love in the Northwest. Spring, the season of intense vitality. I live in Pa Tra’s house like a person who has lost her soul. However, on that spring love night, when the cold came, when the young girls hung “their skirts spread like butterflies on the rocks” and the children played and the flute called for their mates. started to appear. I seem to be alive again with my own soul. She reminisces about the past when she went out with her lover on spring love nights. Just like Chi, I also reminisce about the beautiful past, when I was still a beautiful girl who had a great talent for playing the flute. I was drinking and when I was drunk, I suddenly heard the flute calling my partner and I wanted to go out too. I want to play like when I was young. I went to the corner of the house to roll up some fat and put it in the lamp to light it up, reaching for the dress. Those actions proved that I was really revived, the latent vitality in Me was revived by the sound of the flute. Just like Chi Pheo, the sound of life around awakens the soul, awakens the intense vitality of Me. The sound of the flute brought me along with the games, even when I was tied to a pillar by A Su. I let my soul fly to the flute of the spring love night. I’m unconscious, I don’t feel pain because at this moment my revival of humanity is very strong.

Chi Pheo and Me were both revived. That revival shows us the humanitarian vision of Nam Cao and To Hoai. Must really love and sympathize with their characters, two writers can let them revive their humanity like that. For Chi Pheo, it is to return to an honest life, and for Me, it is to reveal her latent vitality. Both Nam Cao and To Hoai are very sorry for the fate of Chi Pheo and Me, and cherish their simple dreams. On the other hand, from the revival of the humanity of Chi Pheo and Me, they spoke out harshly criticizing the forces that trampled on the fate of that unfortunate person. The society with feudal remnants, Ba Kien pushed Chi into alienation. And the old customs of the mountains with evil and greedy rulers like governor Pa Tra robbed and eroded my vitality.

Although, writing about different topics, but the life and fate of the characters are the experiences and hard work of the writers. Through his characters, writers want to voice their hearts and sympathize with their fate. Those are the humanitarian values ​​of the work.

Folding the two short stories Chi Pheo by Nam Cao and The couple A Phu by To Hoai, we can see that the revival of humanity brings the two characters to different new lives, but the value of that revival is different. has a very similar value, it reflects the hearts of Nam Cao and To Hoai for the characters Chi Pheo and Me, people with very pitiful fates.