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A spiritual elegy of self-analysis, a bitter and sincere lonely monologue. Segawa Umatsu, an intellectual young man with a fiery heart but a weak character, was born in the untouchable class at the bottom of society. In an era of strict class divisions, Chou Song concealed his origin in order to escape the prejudice and discrimination of the world. After experiencing the self-sacrifice of relatives, the help and trust of close friends, the words and deeds of teachers, and the perseverance of lovers, faced with the bullying of society, Usomatsu finally made up his mind whether to break through the cage of prejudice... Shimazaki Fujimura's delicate and calm style, true and straightforward description, depicts the dissatisfaction of modern Japanese youth with social prejudice and the awakening of personal consciousness. The protagonist Segawa Umatsu not only expresses the antipathy, dissatisfaction and resistance of modern Japanese youth towards society, but also reflects their weakness. Through the description of the process from observing the precepts to breaking the precepts, it reflects the entanglement between the modern concepts of eliminating class differences and advocating human rights liberation and freedom and equality, and the remaining feudal class consciousness in Japanese society.
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