Betrayal And Madness in Ha Jin’s The Crazed

This article focuses on the study of betrayal and madness in Ha Jin’s novel The Crazed. Chinese American writer HaJin’s novel provides as with a platform to rethink modern literature in the global context. Jin’s writing is above China, he also delivers universal humanistic values and explores cultural element entrenched in Chinese tradition. The crazed, cantering on the June Fourth incident in 1989, is one of the most controversial novels written by Ha Jin, in which the author successfully reproduces a distorted and depressive world with individuals of contorted souls. The novel centers around the crazed professor Yang who constantly betrays “forbidden truth and Beijing’s” incident in 1989, ingeniously married by the gradually awakening protagonist Jian Wan. This paper aims to probe into the relationship between individual power relation through the contrast of madness and betrayal.