Plot
The subject matter of Thunderstorm is the complex relationship between the members of two households - the Zhou family, upper class and wealthy, the Lu family low class and poor. Specifically, the plot of Thunderstorm centers on the Zhou family's psychological and physical destruction as a result of incest, as perpetrated at the hands of its morally depraved and corrupt patriarch, Zhou Puyuan. Thirty years earlier he sends away the maid Lu Ma having fathered two children with her. Lu Ma's daughter Sifeng returns to become a maid in her place, and falls in love with the young master - her own brother - Zhou Ping, who is having an affair with his step-mother Zhou Fanyi. Zhou Ping discards his step-mother for the maid - his sister, Sifeng. Sifeng is pursued by the other "young master" Zhou Chong, son of Zhou Puyuan and Zhou Fanyi. The play concludes with Sifeng and the two young masters dead, Zhou Fanyi insane, and Lu Ma grief-stricken.
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