Maupassant
The French writer Maupassant, born of the nobility, fell in the middle of the family in his early years, wrote many popular short stories in his youth, and since then he has gained fame and fortune, and once again ranked among the high society, he has said to his friends many times: As long as it is a woman I like, I will be able to hold it in my arms.
He never married in his life, had three illegitimate children, had syphilis, and looked at his works, but he showed a noble moral charm: pity for the living conditions of women at the bottom, and sneering at the hypocrisy of the upper class.
The masterpieces "Lamb Fat Ball" and "Necklace" have been interpreted over and over again, and in a large number of works, there is a short story about the love between nobles and maids- "The True Story", but it is dusty and little known.
The French nobleman Monsieur Velendo, who took a fancy to a maid named Rose, traded a horse with the maid's proprietor, and the maid came to him and fell deeply in love with him, but he was worried about it, and he did not intend to last long.
Who knew that the maid was pregnant, and he became afraid, afraid of being told by his family about this, and he used his meager assets as a dowry to let a poor man marry a maid, and the poor man abused the maid and the child to death in order to seize the assets.
Mr. Velendo considered the experience to be a rather bizarre story of his life, and years later he told it to the crowd in a tavern, winning the praise of his audience.
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Titled "The True Story", the work tells the story from the perspective of the nobility, showing the life of the upper class who has nothing to do all day and looks around for fun to pass the time. It is impossible to know whether the novel is true or not, but it can be guessed that Maupassant has heard and witnessed the living conditions of the upper class people, what they think, and even that he himself is a part of it.
Perhaps in a certain tavern, at a certain party, in countless cups and cups, the nobles talked about the affair, and Maupassant was deeply shocked by certain things, and he was shocked by the attitude of the nobles to ordinary people, the attitude of being contemptuous and despicable, and playing with people in the palm of their hands, which made people palpitate.
And so it went: the little girl came to my castle, and I personally sent the horse to Coville, and sold three hundred equine.
Rose's owner looks at Wei Lunduo's horse, Wei Lunduo looks at Rose, out of romantic imagination, this should be a hero to give up his belongings to get a beautiful story, but in fact, in Wei Lunduo's heart, the value of roses is only enough for her owner to exchange for a chance to trade, and the owner still has to pay the value of the horse.
Rose came to the castle alone, but the horse was sent by Wei Lunduo himself, and the cherishing of the horse, the contempt for Rose, and the comparison of the specific details of the transaction showed that Wei Lunduo did not care about Rose in his heart.
He was sure that roses would come to him, and as he self-judged, he was "young, rich, and lived in a castle", and no one could resist his favor, let alone a maid. This high self-esteem comes from the affirmation of one's own status and wealth, and from the successful experience of no disadvantage.
She told me she was pregnant. It was like two shots crackled in my chest. And she hugged me and kissed and kissed, laughed and jumped, it was crazy.
Knowing that she was pregnant, Rose danced happily, but Wei Lunduo made up his mind that his love affair with Rose should end, and the contrast between Rose and Wei Lundo's attitudes to the pregnancy further revealed Wei Lundo's ruthlessness.
Wei Lunduo has a firm boundary in his heart, that is, the gap between his social status and Rose, even if Rose's love has made him dizzy, he has always reminded himself in his heart that he must not be above love, can not lose his own value, can not be for a maid and the whole family as an enemy.
Rose Flower Language: I am madly in love with you
Rose thought that she had thrown herself into the arms of love, responded to Wei Lundo with the warmest love, and unreservedly paid her most precious love, from a female point of view, a hot love was enough to make the two stand on an equal footing, and from a male point of view, the door to the door is the first condition, but "women are so stupid,...... Love first, everything for love. ”
But he suddenly asked with a cunning and embarrassed look, "But if she dies, who will belong to this property?" I said, "Of course it's yours." ”
Wei Lunduo learned that a mother and son with a very bad reputation were willing to sell their souls for money, and Wei Lunduo married Rose to his son with a field house as a dowry.
In the whole process, Wei Lunduo did not leave a way for Rose to live, like holding a hot potato, he only wanted to completely break away from Rose and draw a line.
Knowing that the mother and son were not right in their hearts, Wei Lunduo still chose the mother and son for the first time, and the mother and son's eagerness for wealth satisfies Wei Lunduo's eagerness to get rid of the rose.
The mother and son bargained, Wei Lun was stingy and ruthless, the two sides calculated to maximize their respective interests, and Rose knelt on her knees and cried bitterly, rationally comparing sensibility, and feeling more aware of the cruelty of reality to innocent emotions.
If there is a little warmth, Wei Lunduo will patiently choose a poor but kind family for Rose, and if there is a little mercy, Wei Lunduo will remind the mother and son that the land and the house are Rose's, and if she dies, I will take back everything.
Anticipating Rose's miserable future life, Wei Lundo still used a deal and couldn't wait to marry her off, just as he had exchanged a deal for Rose.
Whenever I think about it, I always remember Mirza, a female dog, and I have sold it to Count de Ossone, but it cannot do without me, and it always runs back... Do you know what happened to this beast? It died of grief.
In Velendo's view, dogs and maids have four things in common: female, deeply in love with him, dying because of love for him, and worthless. He abandoned the dog as if he had abandoned The Rose, and when the dog ran back to him, he asked the Count to tie it with a chain, and when the Rose held the child and asked him for help, he hid for a year, and a year later, the Rose and the child, were tortured to death.
Abandoning love, lovers, children, he rationalizes his ruthless behavior, Rose, a maid who is in love with the owner, "there must be something unusual in the blood", the implication is that Rose is coming for his wealth, and he cleverly dodged a love trap, "her husband was lucky, and later became a town councilor", and this is because of him.
At the end of the story, Velendo once again concludes that Rose is really like Mirza. The analogy between a man and a dog is very insulting, but even a dog is sentient, and Wei Lundo just kissed his own child.
The tragedy of Mirza and Rose was caused by Wei Lunduo, looking back on the past, he did not blame himself for the loss of life, but was complacent, and the narcissistic psychology of the protagonist Wei Lundo formed a strong contrast with the reader's psychology, once again confirming the cold-blooded ruthlessness of the aristocratic class.
More than a hundred years have passed since the era in which Maupassant lived, and to this day, it is still a toiling masses struggling at the bottom of social life, still a group of elites who "why not eat meat", young girls who are addicted to love have their dreams broken and give their lives, ordinary people are pouring out to get more resources to climb to higher levels, and "True Story" is still being staged.
A well-known emotional blogger once said that men are actuaries, which is carried by bones. This is somewhat biased, after experiencing the beatings of life, almost everyone is a cold-blooded actuary, Maupassant did not say this, but in the novel let the actuary speak for himself, a realistic technique, better than the curative effect of bitter persuasion.
Edward VIII and his lover
The reality is a arena where blood and tears cannot be seen, people are either fighting each other, or holding together for profit, Edward VIII, who pays the throne for love, like an alien, value-dominated world, looks, feelings are added value, about marriage, "True Story" reveals a guiding point: economic value> reproduction value> emotional value.
If the girl is from an ordinary background, she must understand that what people can ultimately rely on is enough wisdom and courage to see everything clearly and create their own situation. Like the heroine of Another Maupassant's novel, The Story of a Female Hirer, she transforms the tragic fate of being abandoned into just the right life.