The last Emperor

The Last Emperor describes the customs of Manchuria. Women lived in the service of their courtiers who carried out all their tasks in the palace. The story takes place in the Forbidden City. There lived an empress who could not have children. She looked for a poor family who had two children. Among them was Puyi; he was three years old. He was the last emperor of China. He was separated from his family in his pre-teens. He began to suffer from a lack of affection; his mother died from excessive consumption of opium, which was a hallucinogen that drugged people. Puyi was called the puppet emperor because he failed to take control of his position as emperor in the palace. All the leaders who worked with him manipulated him. The consorts lacked wisdom and discernment to advance. For them it was terrible that the emperor wore glasses without taking into account their well-being. And their health. Puyi enjoyed adventure, climbing and doing somersaults on rooftops. The only person who loved and valued Puyi was his teacher and master, Johnston, who guided and mentored him. He begged him to emigrate to London at the time the war began. Puyi was a prisoner of circumstances and the consequences he suffered in the war due to his lack of reason and discernment. He was carried away by circumstances and appearances and made mistakes due to the pride he harbored. In his heart, he suffered greatly because he could not conceive children. He lacked guidance and direction in his life to learn to live with his fertility problems. He learned that the empress who was his wife had an affair with the driver and had him killed; then the empress lost the baby. She suffered from depression and sadness. At that time, it was frowned upon for a woman to be a lesbian. The other wife became a lesbian. Because of the emotional deficiencies she suffered, there was a lot of rivalry between one wife and another because of the custom that existed at that time that the emperor could have two wives. At that time there was a lack of emotional stability and a lot of machismo on the part of the emperor. Because of his lack of character and the mistakes he made, that cost him jail. There he received psychological abuse. They made him write in notebooks the experiences he lived through. He wrote a notebook of truth and lies. After serving his prison sentence, he dedicated himself to gardening. The day he arrived at the palace, he got a surprise: the palace was turned into a museum; they almost didn't let him in until he told the son of the guard that he had been the last emperor to live in the palace. The evidence he found was the pet that had aged, his lucky cricket. The guard arrived to see what was happening and told him his story. He spent his last days in the palace until he died.

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