Someone once said, ¨In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom.¨ In the stories; “A Madman’s Diary” by Lu Xun, “Memoirs of a Madman” Nikolai Gogol , and “The Yellow Wallpaper” Charlotte Perkins Gilman , share a similar objective of society leading the characters into madness
In the short story “A Madman’s Diary” by Lu Xun the diarist was driven into madness by the Confucianist thoughts and ways in his society. One example of the madness the character possesses is when he claims, “The eater of human flesh is my elder brother” (Xun)! The diarists brother isn't really trying to eat him; his brother follows the ways of Confucianism, so he feels that his brother is trying to consume him. Another example of his madness is, “They are eating men now in Wolf Club Village, and you can see it written all over the books, in fresh red ink” (Xun). The people in Wolf Club are not really eating people. They are worshipping or practicing Confucianism. Lu Xun uses this character to send out the message that not everyone needs to be a Confucianist because if you force someone to, it might just drive them insane.…show more content… One piece of evidence to suggest that the main character is mad is, ¨What an extraordinary dog! I was, to tell the truth, quite amazed to hear it talk human language” (Gogol). The dog cannot really talk, it is society warping his mind to think that dogs can really speak a human language. Another example is, “they wear cloaks with long collars, but mine has only a short double collar” (Gogol). This shows that the social classes really drive him mad. This is proven by wearing different types of
