"Of all the great men of literature and art, he is the only one who lives in the hearts of the French people."
This is What Romain Rowland said about Hugo.
"Les Misérables" and "Notre Dame de Paris", two important works in the history of world literature are from Hugo's hand.
Reading "Les Misérables", the most prominent feeling is thickness.
This huge work created by Hugo for more than thirty years describes the suffering and predicament of the French people in the more than ten years before and after the Napoleonic Wars, and the tragic experiences of the protagonists.
The circumstances in the world are different, but the 4 truths of life hidden in the book can warn us.
Your choice is your world
The Leap says:
"Choice determines fate, the ladder is on the right wall, and it makes sense to climb hard."
A person's life is a process of continuous selection.
The right choice, the wind and the water; the wrong choice, all the way thorns.
We all have the right to choose, but we don't have the freedom not to choose.
In a short lifetime, your choice is your world.
The tragic life of fantine, a female worker in "Les Misérables", can be seen from her every choice.
In Paris, Fantine met the children of wealthy families who had come to study.
Fantine thought that she had met someone who could entrust her life, and despite the reminders of her co-workers, she chose to live with him and gave birth to her daughter Cosette.
Unexpectedly, the rich family's children just made a scene, and when their studies were over, he abandoned Fantine's mother and daughter and went away alone.
Fantine took her daughter and did not dare to return home unable to work.
By chance, she met Aunt Tenner.
In order to concentrate on her work, Fantine entrusted her daughter to their care before she knew the Tyner family.
As a result, the Tyner family ostensibly agreed, but behind the scenes, demanded huge child support for various reasons.
In order to let her daughter be taken care of, Fantine agreed to all the conditions.
But she worked so hard that she still couldn't make ends meet.
The roof leaked during the overnight rain.
At the juncture of needing money, Fantine's adoption of an illegitimate daughter was exposed.
Under pressure, the factory director gave Fantine dozens of francs and told her to leave the factory.
With no source of income, the daughter's foster care fees became a big problem.
Under the pressure of life, Fantine could no longer calm down to plan the way forward: for 50 francs, she even chose to sell her hair and front teeth.
Again and again, the wrong choice has forced the frustrated Fantine to a dead end.
She became a prostitute and ended up dying of torture on the streets.
On the verge of death, he entrusted his daughter to the factory director Jean Jean.
Behind the choice is fate, and each choice hides the future direction.
Never choose the wrong, that is God's criterion; choosing the wrong, correcting it in time is the real wise.
When we come to the fork in the road of life, what we can do is to improve our ability to distinguish between right and wrong, even if we are careless for a while and choose the wrong path, we must stop and reflect in time.
The long road is long, and you can adjust while moving forward, so that you can walk easily and smoothly.
Your state of mind is your blessing
The world is full of mud and sand.
We can't always walk smoothly.
Writer Balzac said:
"Suffering is a stepping stone for genius, a treasure for the able, and an abyss for the weak."
What life really tests us is the mentality of facing suffering.
The life of Fantine's daughter Cosette can be described as tortuous.
She was abandoned by her father from an early age, and her mother fostered her in a greedy family in order to concentrate on her work.
Here Cosette was summoned as a "servant": cleaning the room and yard, cleaning cups, plates and cups, even carrying heavy goods...
Poor Cosette, who had to endure inhuman treatment every day.
Although life was difficult, young Cosette always longed for her mother's arrival.
She waited with this beautiful expectation in her heart.
As the saying goes:
"Once you choose hope, anything is possible."
It wasn't long before Valjean, the director of the glass factory, finally appeared and took Cosette, who had been tortured.
Jean Valjean took Cosette to a monastery on the outskirts of the city, where she grew up healthy.
Later, Cosette meets Marius in the park, and the two fall in love at first sight.
But Jean Valjean thinks of the tragic experience of Cosette's mother, Fantine, and tries to stop the two from continuing.
In the face of obstruction, Cosette remained calm and patient.
Later, by chance, Jean Valjean discovered that Marius was a reliable young man and finally agreed to be together.
Cosette, who has endured hardships, finally has a happy ending.
Everyone's life will encounter a difficult time.
But no matter how harsh the reality is, life always has the hope of turning corners.
As Yang Dai said:
"We are still young, with hope and confidence, and we can only survive the darkness before dawn to see the clouds and sunrise."
The harder it is, the more you have to meditate.
There is no obstacle in life that cannot be overcome, only a heart that is unwilling to face positively.
For the rest of your life, whether it is bitter or sweet, do not complain, stay optimistic, everything will slowly get better.
Opening yourself up is the best state to face the world
Someone said:
"There are only two kinds of people in the world: one who lives out of himself and one who suppresses himself."
In a life of obstinate will only get narrower and narrower.
The sea of life, do not because of the temporary limitations, cover all the light of life.
The experience of the stereotypical and conservative police officer Javi has given us a wake-up call.
Javi is conformist and opinionated.
His attitude toward the world is always only one: one mistake, always a mistake; no matter how to make up for it, it will never change.
Javi is obstinate, does not believe the facts, and cannot see the truth.
When he discovers that Fantine has become a prostitute, he immediately identifies her as a depraved woman.
Later, Fantine was bullied and injured, but he instead thought that Fantine was at fault and almost threw her into prison.
Jean Valjean was imprisoned for stealing a slice of bread from his sister's children because they were so hungry.
After his release, Javi did not believe that he would change, and was bent on throwing him back into prison.
Later, Jean Valjean reformed and helped many poor families solve their living problems with their own efforts.
But Javi still weighs everything with prejudice.
Until one time, when there was a clash in the downtown area and Jean Valjean was involved, Jarvi felt that this was a perfect opportunity to capture him once and for all.
Unfortunately, he himself was caught.
Just as he was about to be executed, Jean Valjean risked his life and quietly released him.
For a moment, Jia Wei was difficult to understand, and what happened in reality and his fixed ideas created a strong conflict.
He was entangled in the "justice" in his heart and refused to accept reality.
As he himself said:
"The world as I know it is lost in the shadows."
In the end, because of this extreme inability to balance, Javi could no longer face himself and chose to jump off the bridge to commit suicide.
Life has no fixed form, we must learn to step out of our own small world.
Only when everything is let go can we grasp the essence.
As Socrates said, "I am smarter than others because I know my own ignorance." ”
Learn to go out, put yourself in the position of a learner, and constantly open yourself, in order to open up more new roads and harvest more progress.
Life does not lose everything because of one suffering
As the old saying goes:
"The world is changeable, how can it be as good as people are?"
The world is complicated, and throughout everyone's life, every step is not easy.
But when you have survived those hardships and walked through those difficulties, you will also have a deep understanding: life will not lose everything because of one suffering.
Jean Valjean was born into a poor peasant family.
Soon after his birth, his parents died, and he had to live with his sister.
It was the first time he felt helpless in life.
But life goes on, and Jean Valjean always believes that life will have a better day.
However, fate always likes to joke.
One winter, Jean Valjean couldn't find a job and saw that his family had run out of food.
In order not to let his sister's children starve to death, he had to steal a piece of bread.
As a result, this loaf of bread left Jean Valjean with nineteen years in prison.
In prison, he was forced to do heavy work: toiling like a cow during the day and nestled in cramped cells at night.
After his release from prison on parole, the guilt of a hard laborer was forever attached to him.
He couldn't find a job, he had no place to live, and he was overwhelmed like an abandoned, dilapidated object.
Just as Jean Valjean was about to give up on himself, a kind priest held out his hand to him:
The priest took him to the stove to warm up, prepared him hot bread, and made him a clean white bed...
In the face of sudden kindness, Jean Valjean doubted more than he enjoyed, he felt that all this was not true, and the priest would never accept himself for no reason.
So in the darkness of the night, Jean Valjean stole the silverware from the priest's house.
On the way to abscond, he was caught by the police, and if convicted again, he would spend his life in prison.
At the critical moment, the priest "sheltered" him again, and the priest said calmly: "You have caught the wrong person, these are all given to him by me." ”
Then he turned to Jean Valjean and said:
"My brother, you are not an evil man, and I will save your soul from darkness and return it to God."
The world of endless suffering is penetrated by a warm ray of sunshine.
Jean Valjean regained himself from his loss and began to embark on the path of growth:
With the labor and accumulation of the first half of his life, he opened a glass factory, and the scale of the factory was expanding day by day;
He enthusiastically accepted the poor and solved their life problems, and was elected mayor many years later;
He raised Fantine's daughter and accompanied her into the palace of marriage...
Everyone encounters the darkest moments of life.
As the old saying goes, "The so-called destiny is half in the sky and half in oneself." ”
Life doesn't lose everything because of a single suffering.
What we really have to do is to walk on the road forward, to see into life, to be aware of ourselves.
As long as you are sober in your heart and firm in your feet, you will eventually reap the fullness and live out the way you expect it.
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Before its publication, Les Misérables was titled Misery.
The protagonists' respective suffering experiences constitute the entire tragic world.
In the face of suffering, perhaps our strength is weak.
But when we experience impermanence, when we experience despair, we can better understand the true meaning of life.
As Lu Xun said: "Embark on the journey of life, even if the future is very long and dark, but do not be afraid, there is a road in front of those who are not afraid." ”
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