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This 3 page paper discusses the work "The True Story of Ah Q" by Xun Lu and argues that Ah Q's self-involvement prevents him from seeing the reality of the situation he is in, which ultimately proves fatal. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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paper takes as its thesis the argument that by failing to recognize the reality of his situation, Ah Q is ultimately the agent of his own destruction. The story is
set in China in 1911, just after the country had gone through "a bourgeois democratic revolution ... overthrowing the last imperial dynasty and setting up a republican government the following
year" (McMillan, 2004). The country is unsettled, people are suspicious of one another and no one is entirely certain what will happen next. Western readers of this novella will
probably be confused by it, or perhaps disappointed, because "it seems to have no moral centre. Ah Q is motivated by self-interest, even when he tries (and fails to join
the revolution. None of his persecutors nor his victims seem [sic] to be people of any integrity" (McMillan, 2004). Indeed, Ah Q himself is not likeable, and that is a
major "stumbling block" for most readers, who will find it difficult to identify with this character, or to approve of him and his actions. He has no family and no
job; instead he does odd jobs around his village, Weichuang (Xun). He lives, apparently free of charge, in the Tutelary Gods Temple; he is poor, a drunk and shiftless (Xun).
He is a thoroughly unpleasant character. Despite this, he is amusing (in a sick way) because he always convinces himself that whatever happens, hes won. "For example, while being beaten
by idlers, he loudly denigrates himself as being as low as an insect, thus showing himself to be the "foremost self-belittler" and certainly being "foremost" in anything is admirable, isnt
it? Once again he is spiritually superior to his persecutors" (McMillan, 2004). However, the idea of being the best of the worst would seem to have only a limited appeal,
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