What is the real name of Mrs. Dau in Turning Off the Lights?
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Ms. Dau is one of the typical images of Vietnamese literature in the period before 1945. So, how many readers have noticed, what is the real name of Ms. Dau?
Ms. Dau is the main character in the work Turning off the lights by writer Ngo Tat To (1893-1954). This is one of the most typical works of critical realist literature in Vietnam in the period before 1945. Photo: Shaping the Rooster on film.
The work Turning off the lights was first published in Vietnamese women’s newspapers in 1937. The content of the work talks about the miserable life of Vietnamese farmers under the oppression of the semi-feudal colonial regime before the August Revolution. The work was adapted into a movie in 1980. Photo: Literature Publishing House.
According to Turn Off the Lights, Ms. Dau’s real name is Le Thi Dao, who is a beautiful, intelligent, smart, talented, resourceful woman. At first, the family background of the Rooster (Nguyen Van Dau) was rich, but because at the same time when his mother and brother died together, even though they were very thrifty, they still had to spend too much money on two funerals. . After that, Mr. Dau suddenly contracted malaria, could not do anything, all the hardships fell on Ms. Dau’s shoulders, making the family situation “first and second in the same category”. Photo: Pictures from the movie “Sister Dau”.
In order to have money to collect for the landlords and feudal lords to save her husband, she was forced to sell her first daughter (Cai Ty) and newborn dogs to Nghi Que, a feudal landowner famous for his sweet and sinister charms. area in exchange for 2 dong. Cai Ty was an early child who knew how to do, think, and take care of herself, so she suppressed the nostalgia for her mother, loved her brother, and accepted to go to Nghi Que’s house. Photo: Movie “Sister Dau”.
After having to sell her children to collect money, the feudal landlords still did not forgive her, they forced her family to pay more of Uncle Hoi’s collection (the brother of the Rooster died). After freely shouting and shouting, despite her begging, they decided to tie the Rooster’s neck and take it away again. The water broke, she protested fiercely: “My husband is sick, he is not allowed to torture”, then she said as a challenge: “You tie her husband immediately, I will show you”. Finally, her anger was too much to bear, and she hit both the ruler and the head of the family’s name. Photo: Movie “Sister Dau”.
Committing the crime of hitting the wrong mandarin, she was pushed to the bureau. The district official was about to take action again, so she threw a handful of silver in his face and ran away. Lucky to meet a mandarin’s family in the province, gave her 2 dong to pay for the collection and promised her her job of milking for the mandarin to drink (because the mandarin had lost all his teeth and could not eat rice). At first, she made money and sent it to Mr. Dau. But on a dark night, the old man crept into her room to play tricks on her… The work ends with the sentence “She ran out in the middle of the night when it was pitch black, black as her future. so!”. The image of “It’s pitch black” in Lights Out is also the common fate of Vietnamese farmers impoverished by the semi-feudal colonial regime. Photo: Literature Publishing House.
Ngo Tat To is a writer, journalist, translator, and Confucian who has had a profound influence on Vietnamese literature. He was born in Dong Anh (Hanoi) today. During his life, he made many contributions to the country’s literature, composing many novels, short stories, memoirs…
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