![]() ![]() ![]() Gu, fed up with the injustice of her daughter's death, the inability to perform proper mourning rights, and the overall sense of confinement, reaches her transformative moment, she is brought down by her husband's determined acquiescence: "'What I own is my fortune what I'm owed is my fate,'"Teacher Gu answered. Ultimately though, it is Teacher Gu's dark voice of reason that shadows the actions of all the others. There is a scent of change, a flicker of hope and some unidentifiable potential. We see the characters trying to escape these identity confines, trying to see new possibilities and to alter the course of their lives. ![]() ![]() A robber or a thief got a sentence of a year or more for a crime-a stolen purse-but the tag of idiot, just as counterrevolutionary, was a charge against someone's very being.” For these charges one cannot serve time and gain reconciliation with society the sentence of one's identity is final. The novel's Shakespearian fool, Bashi, notes that his perceived idiocy is "one of the rare crimes for which one could never get enough punishment. Identity is unalterable and we are confined both by our past and by the popular perception. Shan's death reminds each character of his or her inescapable fate. ![]()
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