Under dumas and dumas's article, someone said: "Dumas's 'La Traviata' is just a prostitute's love story, the plot is cheesy, the writing is poor, and it is far worse than his father's work." ”
Hugo said: "Dumas is a genius, Dumas is a talent." ”
On the popularity and readability of the works, Dumas is indeed inferior to his father, but in terms of the ideological and critical nature of the works, Dumas is much more profound than his father.
Published in 1848, La Traviata was the first work in the history of French literature to feature jinv as the protagonist, and the first foreign novel translated in China.
Many of the bridges in it have been borrowed and copied by later romance novels, film and television dramas, so that now it seems to be a bit vulgar.
It is written on the surface of the love of the courtesan flower, in fact, the heroine is the epitome of thousands of women in the world.
It tells us three truths that every woman should know.
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Originally a poor country girl, Margaret came to Paris to earn a living and became the most famous socialite in Paris.
A bag of Moore candy, a bouquet of camellias, and a pair of binoculars were her standard, and everyone called her "La Traviata".
Margaret had a severe lung disease, and while undergoing treatment, she became acquainted with a noble lady, and after the death of the young lady, the father of the young lady, the Duke of Jurardy, felt that Margaret looked similar to his daughter and took her in as a dry daughter.
The Duke persuaded her to withdraw from the party and promised to bear her full expenses, but she could not do it completely, so the Duke cut the money that financed her by half.
She needed a lot of money to treat her illness, as well as to pay for her agent, cook, and maid, and soon she couldn't make ends meet, so she accepted jewelry from another earl.
The male protagonist, Armand, was an illegitimate son, his mother died early, and his family was in a general situation.
A friend took him to visit Margaret and said to him, "You don't have to give face to these girls to take them seriously." They don't know what elegance is, what politeness is, just like sprinkling perfume on a dog, they find the smell bad and want to run to the ditch and roll. ”
Armand fell in love with Margaret at first sight, running to inquire about her illness every day when she was sick, tearfully pleading with her not to hurt herself when she was defiant of her body, and treasured the buttons she had lost six months earlier.
Margaret was touched by him and gave him a camellia flower with a heart-to-heart promise.
They rented houses in the countryside and ate, walked, slept, and caught butterflies together like ordinary couples. When the Duke heard of this, he cut off Margaret's financial resources, and when the news spread, the creditors went to collect debts, and in order to alleviate Armand's financial pressure, Margaret had to secretly let her friends sell gold and silver jewelry and carriages and horses for her.
Margaret's friend persuaded Armand to leave her and let her return to her original life without worrying about food and clothing and not worrying about paying off debts, but Armand refused.
He went around raising money and decided to transfer the inheritance left by his mother to help Margaret pay off her debts.
Just as he was on his way to raise money, his father approached Margaret and demanded that she leave his son: "You love Armand, and you can only prove your love to him in this way: that is, to sacrifice your love and fulfill his future." ”
He told Margaret that Armand's sister was about to get engaged, that the other was a decent family, and that if Armand did not break off relations with her, her sister's marriage would be yellow.
For armand's future and his sister's happiness, Margaret agreed to break off relations with him.
She wrote a letter of renunciation to Armand and returned to Paris alone, accepting the pursuit of Baron Valville, who helped her pay off her debts and redeem her jewelry and carriage.
When Armand saw the letter, he thought that Margaret was in love with vanity and launched a crazy revenge on her.
Margaret was stimulated and fell ill. The people who used to pursue her have left, and the creditors have all come to the door to force the debt.
In the end, Margaret, 23, ended up with a grudge on carnival day.
Neighbor Millie helped her with the aftermath, and there were only two people to send her to the funeral.
Armand returned to Paris, saw the diary sent by Margaret Tomili, knew the truth of the matter, and was very upset and remorseful.
He reburied Margaret's grave and placed a "affectionate" memorial of camellia flowers in front of her grave.
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Before meeting Armand, the men who circled around Margaret coveted only her beauty and fame, so she thought that only money and status could bring security.
After meeting Armand, she renounced vanity and gave up the earl's pursuit, the duke's offering.
She was advised that she should associate with the rich men who could bring her diamonds, carriages, and costumes, rather than with Armand, the impoverished bastard: "Do you think that it is enough to love each other?" Do you think you can just go to the countryside together and live that dreamy idyllic life? No, my friend, in addition to this ideal, there is also the material life, and the purest determination is associated with vulgarity, and these implications are like ugly roots, firmly hanging under the beautiful ideal flower. ”
Armand's father also said: "Can you be sure that you will always love each other after you are together, and can you be sure that you can get used to giving up a luxurious life and working day after day to become a housewife?" Can you be sure that Armand can sustain himself all the time, satisfying your life as much as possible without getting bored? ”
But Margaret can give up her extravagant life for love, or she can sacrifice herself for love.
Instead, Armand said that he loved Margaret and didn't care about her identity, in fact, he cared about her identity from beginning to end.
He took Margaret to the countryside for fear of meeting her former lover in Paris, he wanted her to retain her vanity to satisfy his vanity, he did not want to make progress, indulged in gambling, felt that this was the "fastest way to get money", he did not seek verification and humiliated her, when she was seriously ill, he did not see her, it can be said that what really strangled Marguerite's love was Armand's vanity and suspicion.
"You don't want me to know your situation, you want me to keep my vanity to satisfy your vanity, you want to keep my past extravagant life, you want to keep the gap in our minds, you don't believe in my selfless love for you, you don't believe that I am willing to share the joys and sorrows with you, with your property we could have lived happily, but you would rather ruin yourself, your prejudice is really too deep-rooted." 」 Do you think I'm going to treat vanity as happiness? A woman can be satisfied with vanity when there is no love in her heart, but once there is love, vanity becomes vulgar. ”
Men always like to accuse women of vanity, but from Du Shiniang, who is angry and sinks a treasure chest, to the camellia girl who gives up a good life, from Huo Xiaoyu, who is "overwhelmed by water and difficult to harvest", to Liu Ruyi, who scatters his family wealth to resist the Qing, all prove that men are the most vain and the most untested.
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Men are accustomed to putting shackles and labels on women, classifying them as two extreme images of "chaste and martyr" and "slut", treating them as commodities, snooping, asking for prices, obtaining, and transferring.
Therefore, Margaret, who is in the happy scene, can only use drunken dreams to alleviate the spiritual humiliation and the loneliness that cannot be escaped in the depths of her soul.
She wanted to find a young and obedient lover, who was affectionate and not too hearty, who accepted her love without demanding rights.
But because of Armand, she gave up all her principles and made the greatest sacrifice.
The first sacrifice was that, in order to make Armand no longer jealous, she rejected the Duke and the Count, voluntarily abandoning her own gold lord.
The second sacrifice is that she and Armand live in seclusion in the countryside, which for her is not only a abandonment of her past life, but also a subversion and betrayal of herself.
The third sacrifice was that she gave her life for Armand's happiness.
She was saddled with the charge of coveting vanity and bearing Armand's humiliation, hoping only for his respect and guilt: "Except that your insult is evidence that you have always loved me, I seem to think that the more you torture me, the day you know the truth, I will appear more noble in your eyes." 」 ”
However, after her death, Armand told others their stories, "the mood was relieved, and soon returned to health", which shows that his love for Margaret is not pure.
If Margaret had no fame and beauty, and was not sought after by the princes and nobles, would he fall in love with her purity? There are so many innocent and pure women in the world, is only the purity of the courtesan flower called pure?
The book says, "Acquiring a heart that has no experience of being attacked is like taking a city that is not guarded." But to really get the love of a prostitute, that is a very rare victory. ”
That's probably why he fell in love with Margaret.
Many women will be as self-touched and self-sacrificing as Margaret, and even feel tragic that men will remember them for a lifetime because of guilt, but in fact, men's guilt is worthless.
If you don't insist on it enough, you will sigh in the middle of the night.
If you don't work hard enough, you will drink heavily, cry, write love poems, and decorate the lintel of your weak love.
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Margaret said to Armand, "I am faster to commit myself to you than to any man, and I can swear to you." Why? Because you saw me vomiting blood, you grabbed my hand, because you shed tears, because you were the only one who really sympathized with me. I tell you a stupid thing, once upon a time I once had a puppy that looked at me sadly whenever I coughed, the only creature I ever loved. When it died, I cried even more bitterly than when I died. So, I immediately fell in love with you like I loved my dog. Some men squander their possessions on us, not for us, as they say, but to satisfy their vanity. You love me for me and not for yourself, and others, they always love me for themselves. ”
In the face of reality, Margaret chose to sacrifice herself for love, and Armand chose revenge for love.
When he first met Margaret, she was a goddess that everyone sought after, and he made his gesture extremely humble, and when he got her, he changed.
"Men are always like this, once they get what they would have been difficult to get, over time they will feel unsatisfied again, and they will ask to know what their lover is, past, and even future. After they gradually became acquainted with the lover, they wanted to control her, and the more the lover was accommodated, the more they had to move forward. ”
He was no different from other men.
Whatever they love is for themselves.
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Many women are as passionate as Margaret, and their rule of approach to love is whether the other person is truly in love with themselves.
Once they determine that the other party is sincere, they will completely disregard the other party's origin, status, lintel, property, or whether the relationship is beneficial to their future, releasing all their feelings like fireworks, and the ending can be imagined.
Love can give women great strength and courage to challenge the rules, laws, and worldly visions of human society for thousands of years, but love has gaps, so those things such as dignity, status, and money can take advantage of it.
The book says: "The kinder the young girl is, the easier it is for her to commit, if not to the lover, but also to love, without the wariness she has no strength." ”
Hegel said: "Love is the most beautiful in women, because women concentrate all their spiritual and real lives in love and promote it into love, they can only find the support of life in love, and if they encounter misfortune in love, they are like a flame extinguished by a gust of wind."
Therefore, women should not be like Margaret, take love as the support of life, and pin the realization of their own value on men, whether in love or in marriage, men cannot bear your value sustenance.
Only by being an independent, valuable person and finding your own life support can you have happiness.