Souls Wounded by Human Suffering - Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago

Doctor Zhivago is not so much a work as it is a painting, a huge social picture. It spans a very large time span, telling the story of the changes in that society, the tired hearts of people.

Taking Dr. Zhivago as a clue, his life is a microcosm of that society. He was a real man, the soul of Pasternak's pen. Dr. Zhivago's figure lingered after watching the movie, and the book gave life to the character and gave him a soul. Pasternak used his own eyes and his own mind to observe that era, to observe society.

Doctor Zhivago depicts the nearly 45-year history of the 1905 Revolution, World War I, the February Revolution, the October Revolution, and the New Economic Policy. It depicts the social turmoil and the helplessness and involuntariness of people's lives.

I think Pasternak is that doctor, he doesn't have a clear political stance of his own. He does not support and oppose the revolution. Like Dr. Zhivago, he is eager to save the world, and the doctor's mission is to save the dead. He did not care whether his patient was the Red Army or the White Army, whether his patient was Bolsheviks or Mensheviks, he regarded him only as a man, a man entitled to life.

As long as they are human beings, they have the right to life, they have the right to pursue self-expression, whether it is the years of revolutionary war or peace, we should not sacrifice the dignity of the individual and sacrifice humanity to fulfill the so-called progress. Doctors loved to write poetry, but in those days, even writing poetry could involve politics, and writing poetry was a sin. A person who does not even have the freedom to express emotions is really too depressing and cruel.

Doctor Zhivago exposes the tragedy of social upheaval, a time when the voice of the individual was forgotten. Its perspective is not placed on the progress of society, nor on the progressive meaning of revolution, but on people, on their lives and their emotions.

There is no shortage of poignant love in any work of literature, and Doctor Zhivago is no exception. Lara is a woman with a lot of fate, like a manjushri blooming in the desert, experiencing wind and frost, still wonderful and beautiful; the doctor is the one who saves lives and helps the injured in the chaotic world.

The two of them were originally two parallel lines, and it was the war that connected them together, but it was also the war that separated them. Their love is like a shooting star in the black night sky, so briefly together, but brilliant, forever blooming in the heart.

In such a turbulent era, people are afraid, I am afraid that only such perfect love can calm that restless heart! Their love is too beautiful, and it seems that their later life is so cruel.

Tonya is also a tragic figure, the doctor's companion from childhood, until the moment of the final separation, she is deeply in love with the doctor, even if she knows that they may never see each other again, she will always love him. In the war, they gathered less and separated more; in the end, for political reasons, they were separated forever.

Basha, the fanatical revolutionary, loved his wife, Lara, but he loved himself more, he loved the revolution even more, and finally had to choose suicide. The Doctor eventually marries the neighbor's daughter, his beloved Lara is sent to a concentration camp and his whereabouts are unknown; tonya, the person who loves him the most, is separated from him forever, and the Doctor dies one day after the tram.

This is not only their tragedy, but also the tragedy of this era. The misfortune of the individual is also the misfortune of the unfortunate nation of this country.