1.2 Stupidity and Submission
Stupidity is stupid, unreasonable, lacking in acuity, and humorous.
However, submission is to accept what is given as unavoidable. That
is, there is no help for it. It is difficult to avoid the current situation and
inevitable to accept it. These differences in the scene of surrogacy of
the couple Wang Zu and Xiao Shizi are explained in detail here.
Neither Xiao Shizi nor Gugu are slightly mentally normal. Xiao
Shizi believes that she can no longer give birth as she grows older.
Although it makes sense to have a child by surrogacy, when Xiao Shizi
shows the behaviour of a young woman wanting a child, it’s silly and
humorous.
From her husband Wang Zu’s point of view, a wife can fight for
custody by surrogacy and loves the baby as her own child without
giving up, even if it is decided in court. Even Gugu, who has been
so verbally expressive about childbirth, has no remnants of what she
used to be after she left. In such a situation, as Wang Zu can accept
babies by surrogacy, we accept it. This achieves the equality of having
children, and we have reached not only the acceptance of law but also
the equality of socialism.
花村嘉英（2022）「莫言の「蛙」でシナジーのメタファーを考える」より translated by Yoshihisa Hanamura