It's a tome that made me cry a few times and angry a few times, and Hugo is a storyteller. All the descriptions, all the monologues, all the plot design... It can make the person who reads the story really bring in.
When conscience is in direct conflict with the law
It is the law that becomes irrelevant
Or does conscience become worthless?
The great charm of Hugo's novels to me is that most of them are not universal endings, and in layman's terms, if "Les Misérables" is made into a movie or TV series, it will not pass the review.
Liars, robbers, child abuse, corpse theft, murder... Donald, an almost unscrupulous and shameless innkeeper, eventually got a large sum of money he wanted and went to the Americas to start a slave trade.
The man who started the chaos and abandonment caused Fantine's tragic fate became a lawyer who gained fame and fortune 20 years later, but still looked for flowers and asked Willow.
......
Of course, this book is not a "miserable world" that describes the soaring yellow tengda of evil and the poverty of good, on the contrary, there is always a "love" light in the book, which always makes people feel that suffering will always come to an end, and there is still hope in the world.
And Hugo's "art of mockery" is once again revealed in the opening chapter of Les Misérables, in which he describes the bishop's obituary of seeing a certain nobleman, whose lengthy obituary is full of various feudal aristocratic titles; the bishop exclaims:
"This dead man's backbone is so strong!" The burden on his back was so heavy that he could hold on. What a prominent title! ”
When I saw this precise spit, I didn't control laughing, because it was too easy to remind people of the various "powerful characters" I had met who had sold their reputations.
Human beings should be thankful that books give us the opportunity to communicate with our predecessors, and everything that shines in the past, in the long river of time, does not consume death, but becomes more and more vivid.
When I try to talk to the literary heroes of hundreds of years ago with my own shallow thoughts through words, I am occasionally surprised to find that human nature has not progressed; the inferiorities described in the articles of that year, for hundreds of thousands of years, can still find resonance in this world. Of course, the shining point of human nature has not regressed in the slightest, I just have some lamentations, even if the future enters a very high so-called civilized society, utopia will always be just a beautiful illusion.
Madelan, a successful entrepreneur who has been sparing no effort in his philanthropic business: building schools, expanding hospitals, helping the poor, when people see Maderan's actions, they suspect that he is doing these good deeds for the sake of profit.
Some people think that he is a "money-making fan", when it is found that Madelan's money is used to serve the society, some people say that he is an "ambitionist" who seeks the mayor's position, and when Maderan does not resign from the mayor's position, he is rumored to be for the "medal of honor".
Reading this paragraph, I only have a sense of "intimate familiarity", which has been the case throughout the ages.
A man who buys flowers for his wife will be pointed out that he must have done something to be sorry for his wife;
A hard-working young man will be pointed out by colleagues as a hard-working and a showmanship;
Young and beautiful workplace executive women are inevitably criticized by "unspoken rules";
Man, as if as long as he is alive, every one of our actions may be accompanied by various "motive speculations", and can never be avoided, many can not be defended, I suddenly felt that the word "coffin conclusive" is full of the wisdom of the ancestors.
The Tangyin Bishi records a story: Sun Zhang made a mistake in conveying the emperor's holy will, changing the original punishment result of the prisoner, and the Han Ming Emperor suspected that Sun Zhang had another hidden reason for this practice because Sun Zhang and the prisoner were in the same county. Guo Gong advised, "A gentleman does not rebel. Punishment must not be compromised", to the effect that a gentleman does not expect others to be deceitful, and the conviction should also be based on facts, and cannot be far-fetched.
A gentleman does not deceive, but learns from these words.
The original french name of Les Misérables is Les Misérables, literally translated as: Poor\ Miserable People. That being the case, the entire book's synopsis should be summed up in the stories of various tragic characters:
#偷窃面包而受了19年牢狱之灾的苦刑犯 #
#被始乱终弃最终沦为妓女的女人 #
#因自以为的正义不再是正义而自杀的警察 #
#为共和国战斗而死的青年人们 #
In the book, he is a real thief and an almost complete gooddoer, whose goodness is indiscriminate, and he does not take any revenge even in the face of the excesses of the wicked Donald.
He practiced the biblical saying, "If someone hits you on the left side of the face, stick out the right side of your face, and if someone else wants your coat, give him your shirt." ”
It is very clever that the goodness of Valjean is described very realistically, and when faced with the possibility of escaping and letting others be scapegoats, he also had selfish thoughts, he had struggled, he had found noble reasons for himself to escape from acknowledging identity, and reading this description, you will feel that he is also a real person, not God, and that goodness is the result of a choice.
In the story, Jean Valjean is a man who is difficult to judge good or bad, who is both an absolute bad man in the legal sense and an absolute good man in the secular sense.
For Valjean's evaluation, when I flipped through it for the second time, or Hugo gave him the attitude at the beginning.
Never be afraid of thieves and murderers, but we are the only ones to be afraid of. Prejudice is a thief, vice is a murderer. Great dangers actually occur in our hearts, and what harms the soul is the most terrible. The head, the money bag, are all things outside the body.
Police Officer Javert is a very interesting character, he maintains a sense of justice in black and white; in his eyes, the law is above all else.
He did not have the four words "excusable" in his heart, and bluntly said that even if his father committed a crime, he would arrest him immediately. So when the prostitute Fantine clashed with the gentleman, he immediately took Fantine back to the police station, regardless of whether the gentleman harassed and bullied Fantine first, in his head, there was only XXXX Regulation XX Article: The prostitute offended the upper gentleman and needed to be imprisoned.
The law is right, and that's perfect in him.
Eventually, when the Kinko rule was slapped hard by reality, he became suspicious of his self-perceived justice. He could not accept that he had spared Jean Valjean because he was a legal sinner, nor could he accept his arrest of Jean Valjean because he was the benefactor who saved himself, and he was a good man.
He collapsed and eventually committed suicide.
The law must retreat before the sinner who has changed his face, and it must also apologize to him?
The description of Fantine in the first half of the book is very beautiful, beautiful, simple, dedicated to love, loyal, and all the beautiful descriptions of girls are almost used to shape Fantine's image.
Ironically, such people have become prostitutes.
I thought she was pitiful, but it was hard to sympathize with her. If the person who caused her whole tragedy to begin was the irresponsible man, then it was her own irresponsible entrustment of her daughter to the Donald family that caused her own tragedy and the tragedy of her daughter's childhood.
She sold her hair, sold her teeth to send to her daughter, and when there was nothing to sell, and the shameless Donald was constantly making up reasons for money, lying that her daughter had scarlet disease, she had to sell herself.
Fantine had a heavy sense of suffering in her, and she seemed to be trapped in a swamp of suffering, sinking deeper and deeper, unable to come out on her own.
Jean Valjean "saved" her.
We should create, as far as possible, opportunities for education for those who have no knowledge. Not running compulsory education is a social sin. When a person's heart is filled with darkness, sin is born there, and it is not sinful that is guilty, but the society that creates darkness.
The Donald family has made me angry several times, Mrs. Donald is as ugly and disgusting as her appearance, and Donald himself is even more shameless.
This is a completely evil character in the whole article, and in him, there is not a trace of human morality.
Extremely dramatic, when Donald went to Marius's house with the purpose of blackmail and self-righteous speculation, he inadvertently proved Valjean's nobility and resolved Marius's misunderstanding of Valjean.
The only regret is that Donald's daughter, AiPani, lives in a selfish, vicious deformed family, and Aipani grows into a collection of thieves, cheaters, beggars, and shrews. Surprisingly, her performance of love was exceptionally kind and brave, and she died for it. If it were not for the sad birth of this family, I believe that this girl would grow into a good girl who is loved by everyone.
In our dark society, climbing up can only be a chronic corrosive agent from top to bottom.
After reading "Les Misérables", what repeatedly hovered in front of my eyes was not the protagonist of the heavy ink rewrite, but the Suicidal Savoy policeman.
I remember a case in Sherlock Holmes that I read when I was very young, and now I only vaguely remember the general story: the victim (the head of the family) was a heinous bad guy, and the murderer was a poor person, and everyone in the family sympathized with the murderer and wanted to kill the old man, so he gave everyone a cover to help the murderer, but Holmes finally found the truth and pointed out the real murderer.
But Holmes, after understanding the cause of the murder and the victim's behavior, made a decision against his professional ethics: before the police came, he helped the criminal rearrange the scene and helped her escape responsibility.
As Holmes got into the carriage and left, the murderer gave Sherlock Holmes a bouquet of flowers, And Holmes: "I still receive flowers from criminals for the first time."
The next day's newspaper read: "When the xx murder occurred, even the famous detective Holmes was helpless and his reputation was not guaranteed, but our police will definitely arrest the real murderer." ”
The original intention of the law is to uphold justice
When justice clashes with the law
When the law no longer represents justice
Sacrificing the law or sacrificing justice?
inner peace