Medicine by Lu Hsun

[student007]

I just read "medicine" by Lu Hsun, and i noticed a recurring theme regarding the selfishness and greed of humans. However, i still can't figure out what the part about the guy who got arrested and executed means figuratively. Hopefully someone has read it before and can give some hint regarding this...thanx

[rodanho]

hello,luckily i am a english learner from china, and i have just read medicine in chinese. here in china,lu xun is hailed as the greatest chinese writer in the 20th century.medicine is a short story about a martyr that sacrificed for the liberation of the whole race and nation. but, quite ironically, for his did all that just for the benefits of the chinese people, his blood was used as the medicine of diseases.the whole story displays the chinese people's ignorance an incomprehension of the importance of revolution, and it also shows the foolishness of the people under the deep rooted reign of the feudalism.