On the streets of France in the 15th century, the arrival of a beautiful gypsy girl shatters the usual calm.
She can sing and dance, generous and lively, she is innocent and kind, attracting many admirers to fall in love with her.
In the pen of the French Romantic writer Victor Hugo, she seems to combine all the beauty of the world, which is so dazzling.
The heroine's name is Esmeralda, she lost her mother's care from childhood but never lost the power of love, she lived a turbulent and wandering life but still loved every day.
Such a radiant girl made the three men fall for it, and their respective loves reflected the truth of 3 human natures, which made people unable to calm down for a long time.
Human nature is complex, don't talk about good and evil
Writer Zhang Hongjie once said:
"Man is an animal that is too complex, and its complexity sometimes leaves humans themselves stunned."
Claude was the archbishop of Notre Dame.
He was born into a middle-class family and came from a well-off family, and he received a good education from an early age.
He was studious and knowledgeable.
Compassionate, he adopted Quasimodo, who was rejected by everyone for his ugly face.
He respects the old and loves the young, and his family is well-off but can study seriously, obediently and self-motivated, which can be described by two words: excellent.
He was devoted to his priesthood, pure in heart, and respected.
But when Esmeralda appeared, he could not control the desires and insidiousness at the bottom of human nature, hurting people and hurting himself.
The book describes him as follows:
"His eyes sparkle, his eyes are jealous and evil."
As Maugham said:
"Evil and noble sentiments stand shoulder to shoulder.
Contradictory, even mutually exclusive, traits can coexist in the same person and are harmonious. ”
Claude is such a person who combines good and evil, suppresses and coexists with each other.
When Claude first saw Esmeralda, he was struck by her beauty, and the long-suppressed love was violent and hurtful.
At this moment, those excellent and kind qualities were all lost in him.
On the contrary, the face of an insidious, vicious, and despicable villain began to become his main theme.
He instructs Quasimodo to help him kidnap Esmeralda, the kind Quasimodo does not know so chooses to believe him, and at the critical moment of being abducted, the captain of the guard, Phoebis, appears to save the girl.
The simple Esmeralda fell in love with the hero who saved the United States without hesitation.
Claude's kidnapping fails, and sees his beloved girl thrown into the arms of others, angrily wanting to make this man "deserve the punishment".
Jealous to the point of madness, a sharp knife pierced the man's body and fled, while the girl became a scapegoat for the murder in the street.
He said to the girl:
"I decide your life and death, you decide my soul."
Threaten the girl to fall in love with him in exchange for her own life.
But in the end, Esmeralda's persistence successfully broke the last line of defense in his heart.
He personally sent his beloved girl to the gallows and eventually watched her die.
Claude's heart is complicated.
On the one hand he was a self-motivated and loving bishop, and on the other hand he was a sinister, cunning, jealous, lust-ridden executioner.
He loves girls, he can give up his career for her, give up the dogma he has always believed in, and he can push her into the abyss with his own hands because he does not get the love of girls.
I remembered a sentence I had seen:
"There are no bad people in this world, only poor people who go the wrong way."
Human nature is the same body of good and evil, behind everyone there is a place of half-man and half-ghost, the most evil people also have square inches of sunshine in their hearts, and even the most good people also have darkness in their hearts.
Saying goes:
"A man will die, and his words will be good."
People who commit great treachery and evil can often be warm people at critical moments.
Human nature is complex, evil never disappears, and some are always entangled with good and evil.
However, the difference is the strength of self-control.
By fighting the evil in human nature, when the good side is greater than the evil side, we can get long-term peace and unashamedness.
One thought becomes a demon, and one thought becomes a Buddha.
Liu Bei once said:
"Do not do what is good and small, and do not do it with evil."
Only by sticking to one's own heart and controlling the good and evil in human nature can we harvest true peace in our hearts.
Don't test humanity, don't overestimate yourself
Keigo Higashino said:
"There are two things in the world that cannot be looked at directly, one is the sun, and the other is the human heart."
Getting along with people is a science.
Complex and fragile.
Phoebes, as the king's bow and arrow captain, was heroic and handsome.
By chance, he rescued Esmeralda, who was held hostage by Quasimodo, and made the heroine fall in love with him at first sight.
Esmeralda once said:
"I only love a man who can protect me."
So, under the rhetoric of Phoebes, Esmeralda quickly fell in love, and her heart was secretly agreed.
However, because of the jealousy of the vice-bishop Claude, he designed the "Witch Murder Case", stabbed Phoebis and blamed Esmeralda, hoping to force the girl to obey through his authority.
And Phoebes, who knew the truth of all this, did not stand up to Esmeralda in court, and even held another woman coldly when she was hanged.
There is a focus effect in psychology, which is a manifestation of people overestimating the attention of those around them to their appearance and behavior.
The focus effect means that humans tend to see themselves as the center of everything and intuitively overestimate how much others pay attention to us.
Never overestimate your place in the hearts of others.
The girl once thought that both Phoebes and Phoebes were deeply in love with each other, but at the critical moment, she could see that she was just a passerby in the eyes of the other.
Human nature is too fragile to stand the test.
Never overestimate the conscience of others, after all, many people wear masks and can't see the real appearance.
In this world, the most untested thing is human nature, and the most unsightly thing is human nature.
Man, selfishness is nature.
Don't test human nature with power, don't use money to tempt human nature, don't use feelings to test human nature.
The wisdom of adults lies in not having a fluke mentality towards human nature and doing a good job of themselves.
Not tempted, not entangled, clinging to the heart.
Polish writer Lemont said:
"Everything in the world must be in place according to certain rules and orders."
The same is true of human nature.
I always think that I am the lucky one who is unique enough, but the result is often beyond regret, and it is you who have to pay for all this in the end.
Relying on oneself in everything, doing things in a down-to-earth manner, and being a prudent person is the way for smart people to deal with the world.
Good human nature is one light that lights up another
In Notre Dame de Paris, Hugo inscribed the famous phrase on the bellows of the alchemy room: "Spira, Spera" (as long as there is breath, there is hope).
In Quasimodo's body, there is always a flash of yearning for beautiful and innocent love.
Because of the bowl of water handed by Esmeralda in times of crisis, he also fell in love with this beautiful and kind gypsy girl, but the difference was that his face was ugly and difficult to accept.
The book describes his appearance as follows:
"A deformed child with a geometric face, a tetrahedral nose, a horseshoe-shaped mouth, jagged teeth, one-eyed, deaf, hunched over, and an unpleasant and loyal voice."
From birth his parents abandoned him on the street, children feared him, and adults laughed at him.
But even so, he always maintained an innocent and kind heart.
He was grateful to his adoptive father Claude, dedicated to the work of the bell ringer, and strong in his love for Esmeralda without a trace of dust.
A good soul that transcends all the beauty and ugliness of the world.
Shakespeare said:
"True love is difficult to express in words, and behavior is the best explanation of faithfulness."
At the critical moment when the girl was about to be hanged, only he saved Esmeralda despite the danger.
He said:
"The bell I ring every day is my love, my love.
I want them to sing, where is Esmeralda?
I want to tell the world that I Quasimodo loves her. ”
He gave the girl his food and bedding, slept at the door like a door god, and handed the girl a whistle, telling her that as soon as she blew the whistle in a moment of crisis, he immediately came to the rescue.
However, as the Ragged Crowd says:
"The group is not good at reasoning, but it is eager to act."
The blind masses found Esmeralda guilty, believing her to be the embodiment of the devil, or pushing her to death.
Two years later, in the great tomb of Monfugong, two bones were found hugging each other.
When people tried to separate the two, the bones turned to dust.
At this moment, they embraced each other forever.
Hugo once said:
"A good heart is the sun!"
Human nature is complex and fragile, but as long as we are firm in our hearts, we can defeat the evil in human nature and have good hearts.
Good human nature will guide you to meet the same warm people, harvest love and hope.