What is the theme of Lao She's novel Teahouse that ruined three eras?

1. Teahouse has neither consistent contradiction nor complete story from beginning to end. How does it express the theme of "destroying three eras" through three relatively independent plays? Try to illustrate with the image-building of the protagonist Wang Lifa.

1. Examination knowledge points: The characters and structural features in Teahouse are the knowledge points of topic 3 and belong to the understanding part.

2. Common mistakes: it is easy to get rid of the empty interpretation of the work.

3. Prompt the answer:

Teahouse is only a three-act drama, but it reflects the age of half a century. Through a short three-act drama, Lao She completed 50 years of changeable and worldly affairs.

Wang Lifa is the owner of Yutai Teahouse, and also a small business owner who lives in the lower class. He is not only an honest, obedient and cautious "obedient", but also a smooth and shrewd businessman. Selfishness, kindness and justice of buyers and sellers. Although he worked hard all his life, the result went from bad to worse and was finally cornered. His fate reflects the changing and declining trend of the times.

Wang Lifa, the teahouse owner, is a successful model, which is fully reflected through the three-act structure of the play, and profoundly reveals the development process of his thought and personality. In the first scene, the teahouse owner in his youth was convinced of this article: "If I follow the old method left by my father, I will say more good things, pay more respect and be liked by people, I won't make a big mistake!" For decades, he has been acting according to the philosophy of "pleasing people". He is not only in front of powerful and unstoppable eunuchs, officials and local ruffians, but also a very flexible attitude of both buyers and sellers, that is, Tang Tiezui, a fortune-teller who is down and out in the Jianghu and is not worth much. At the same time, he is despised and disgusted from the bottom of his heart. I'd rather send "a bowl of tea". There is such a pen and ink that hits the nail on the head in the script: as a small businessman full of desire to get rich, it is a natural law in his life to work hard and collect wealth in many ways. However, Wang Lifa was able to agree to increase the rent without complaint, and even enthusiastically make amends in front of Qin, a rich and powerful homeowner. However, this is Wang Lifa's attitude towards the strong, the powerful and those close to the powerful, and it is an aspect of his character. He has another side, that is, his attitude towards the weak and the poor who have nothing: when a tragedy of selling his daughter was staged in his teahouse, he had no pity or sympathy at all, and coldly advised a kind tea drinker, "There are too many things on this road, too many! Nobody cares! " These bland words without any enthusiasm really exposed the brand of the exploiting class on him. Here, Mr. Lao She did not use strong brushstrokes and dramatic plots with abrupt changes to shape Wang Lifa. On the contrary, through some trivial activities in daily life, he revealed Wang Lifa's ideological character, style expression and inner feelings in detail layer by layer, which made this figure have intriguing artistic charm and gave people a sense of beauty.