"The Man with the Smiley Face": Hugo, a love that celebrates a hundred years, a tear-jerking story
There was such a person, who lived at the bottom of society, who had seen many tragic stories, whose kind heart was particularly easy to hurt, but who always had a smiling face on his face, and the more sad he was, the more he wanted to cry, the more funny the expression on that smiley face, the more he seemed to laugh, the more funny he was, and he was Hugo's smiling man, Guan Bolan. The smiling man died, and with his indelible smile, he jumped into the Thames in the darkness and chased after his lover, Dia, who had died before him. The night was still so calm, the river was so calm, and in the darkness, on the great river, only the hoarse cries of his righteous father, Ursus, could be heard. And the howl of the wolf.
The story takes place in seventeenth-century England. Guan Beran was a descendant of the nobility, his father was exiled for advocating republicanism, and he was the only son born in marriage during his father's exile. After the death of his father, the king did not spare the orphans, and Guan Bolan was sold to child traffickers and undergoing transfiguration surgery. Guan Beran's mouth was drawn to his ear so that he could be sold to the jugglers as a clown in the future. From then on, he always looked like he was laughing. Guan Beran lives among child traffickers. When he was ten years old, the king ordered the hunt for child traffickers. When the child trafficker fled England, he was seen as a burden, left in the snow and ice, and left to die.
But the child did not give in. Dressed in a single suit, he walked barefoot in the snow world, and on the way, he saved the life-dying baby girl Deya from the chest of a frozen mother. The child finally returned to the world with the baby girl in her arms, and the jianghu artist Ursus took them in. He saved his rations and raised two poor children. Ursus takes the wolf he names "Man", plus the ugly Guan Bolan and the beautiful blind girl Deya, form a strange family. They wandered and sold art, Guan Bolan's stage name "Smiley Man" spread in the rivers and lakes, life was more settled, Guan Bolan and Deya fell in love.
Besides, before the children's traffickers were caught in a storm at sea and the boat sank, they repented of their sins, wrote down the life of Guan Beran, sealed it in a small wine jug, and threw it into the sea, which floated in the sea for many years, and was finally picked up by the British Admiralty. The Queen decided to restore The Knighthood of Guan Boran. They took Guan Beran and ordered Ursus to leave England as quickly as possible to cover up their ugly deeds.
Guan Beran entered the House of Lords. However, while discussing and voting to increase the queen's and nobles' expenses, he made a generous statement about what he saw as the suffering of the lower classes, hoping to use the money to save the affected people, only to be ridiculed and ridiculed by the nobles. Indignant, he walked out of the parliament hall to find his relatives who were leaving. By this time, Dia, Ursus and Awaki had boarded the boat to Rotterdam. Because of the sudden blow to her heart, she had a heart attack, and before she died, Guan Bolan arrived, and she closed her eyes in the arms of her lover.
The Man with the Smiley Face is Hugo's masterpiece in his later years, published in 1869, nearly forty years after the publication of Notre Dame de Paris. During these forty years, Hugo published a great deal of literature, and his ideas progressed with the political changes in the French fatherland, most notably from a royalist to a Republican. Yet his humanitarian ideas are consistent, and a word of love runs through all of his work. "Ugly is beautiful", this has always been the banner held high by Hugo.
The creation of "The Smiley Man" marked a major step towards realism by the author, something that Notre Dame did not have. Ursus really seems to be Molière's character, and how similar is that long monologue to Abagun's monologue! And how the layout of the whole novel is like a classicist tragedy. At this time, Hugo's literary prowess reached an unfathomable and fascinating degree. Hugo's greatness is not only that he was the leader of Romanticism, but also that he cared about it. Care more about this!