The humiliation of being unrecognized as a part of the international community, the repressiveness of martial law, and the frustrations of a fatiguing life had built up emotions in Taiwanese society to a boiling point.
流亡政權的屈辱、戒嚴社會的壓抑、困頓生活的挫折，使得當年的台灣社會如此易感，如此激動。