Compare And Contrast Diary Of A Madman By Gogol And Lu Xun

Both Gogol and Lu Xun “Diary of a Madman” provided the social problems that occur in their society, during their own respective times by using a diary written by a lunatic. Even though these two stories were written with a similar structure, they both showed the problem of society by portraying them trough a madman’s experience of society. Gogol uses the diary to revel the difficulties of Russia’s social order. On the other hand, Lu Xun perspective of the story revels that china’s traditions could lead to disaster. There are two problems portrayed in Gogol “diary of a Madman”, which are the alienation of Poprishchin and the deficiency of Russia’s social order. In the story, the alienation of Poprishchin is made apparent when he opens the