Balzac is one of the most famous realist writers in the world of literature.
He is known as "a mirror of French society", with a pen cold and sharp to reveal the various farces and tragedies of French society, under the development of capitalist materialism, human nature is twisted and strange growth.
His series of stories is called "the encyclopedia of capitalist society", writing all the tragedies of the capitalist era, but he ironically named the book "The Comedy of Man" to write joy and sorrow, which is the usual routine of literary giants, but it has permanent vitality.
The Tall Old Man is the most famous of Balzac's critical realist epoch novels, and some call it the prologue to The Comedy of Man.
Dark ages and deformed fatherly love succeed in shaping the image of a poor and pathetic father.
In 19th-century France, under the golden flash of the old-style aristocracy's extreme luxury, there was an indirect trend of ending, and the forces of capitalism began to take center stage in society, their status was not high, but they had the envy of the old-style aristocracy.
The nobles, on the one hand, despised these people who had started their careers in commerce, and on the other hand, they were particularly envious of their money, and a strange and deformed phenomenon arose, in which they wanted to get acquainted with them and get money from them, and on the other hand, they looked down on them because of the deep-rooted ideas in their bones.
In the midst of the repeated changes between the Empire and the Republic, the fate of the people has become confusing, and the farce between the aristocratic class and the bourgeoisie has been repeatedly released.
。 In that era, countless people climbed up at all costs, and under the temptation of money and power, human nature was fragile and could not withstand any test.
The tall old man had two daughters, the eldest daughter Anastazzi became a countess, and the younger daughter Danfeira became the banker's mother-in-law.
He used all his strength to successfully cultivate his two daughters into Mrs. Kuo. Successfully let his daughter fly out of the crow pile to make a golden phoenix.
He spared no effort to satisfy his daughters' excessive vanity and extravagance, but the daughters who had become golden phoenixes began to hate him as an old crow. On the one hand, he hated it, but on the other hand, he was red-eyed about his father's money. The two rich, pearlescent wives finally squeezed out all the old man's money.
Under the golden life of the nobles, are they really happy? Bound by the magic of money, they did not hesitate to kill their father. It's just that when the poor tall old man left, the mrs. Kuo, who was accustomed to being drunk and gold-obsessed, and the upper-class nobles who were used to spending money like water, where should they squeeze money?
It was an era of social change, money and power were invisibly replaced again and again, and behind the aristocratic paper drunk gold fans was the sadness of an era, when capitalism became the main wave of development, these old-fashioned aristocrats were bound to be pushed off the stage of history. Their fate is like a bubble of golden light on the surface of the lake, flashy, fragile and colorful.
But under the temptation of money and power, there are still a large number of people who chase that kind of life, even at the cost of destroying humanity, with a twisted and deformed attitude.
Is the tall old man a success? From today's perspective, yes. He was a natural businessman, intelligent and courageous. In just a few years, he changed from a small migrant boy to a rich noodle merchant, and even married the daughter of a beautiful rich family.
However, in the middle age of the old man, his wife died. The man who loved his wife deeply transferred all his love to his daughter who had nowhere to vent.
There is an old Chinese saying that "habits are like killing children", excessive coddling will eventually ruin children. But the old man did not understand this truth, and he met any unreasonable demands of his daughters with a paranoid mentality, great and sad.
He gave his daughters the best aristocratic education, and dressed them up exquisitely and beautifully, completely according to the standard aristocratic ladies.
In the end, the daughters also got acquainted with the upper class people, married them, and became the rich wives of the real upper class, and the old man originally thought that he could receive the respect he deserved, and he had thought of a better life in the future, but he was disappointed.
He sent his daughters into high society with a huge dowry, turned around and his daughters and sons-in-law went to kick him, he was lonely and embarrassed that he did not want to embarrass the children, he regarded his two daughters as life, did not want to see the daughters suffer the slightest grievance. But his daughters had wronged him to the fullest.
At the end of the story, the old man is terminally ill, and his only wish is for his two daughters to come to see him. He had a great and deformed love for his two daughters, and he did not regret it until his death. As long as the daughters can come to see him, he is dead and happy, what a sad and touching fatherly love.
However, his eldest daughter was held back by her husband for her excesses when she cheated. In fact, this is not a calculation, the count married her originally for her father's money, seemingly luxurious and romantic life, in fact, there is no emotion to speak of.
The youngest daughter pretended to be ill and had gained the care of Vienna, but the man was originally a man who had given up legal and moral constraints in pursuit of high society.
In the end, someone still went to visit their father, but their mourning, somewhat ironic, was not a little sad but full of resentment. This father, who had originally given them all the glory and wealth, poured out all his fatherly love, and finally was completely rejected by his daughters.
As the old man himself said, "Everything is my fault, I indulged them to stomp me under my feet, I was a fool, and finally I was punished." "The poor father left this world with regret and resentment, and everything he gave in the name of love became a pitiful and hateful tragedy.
"O I, in order not to shed tears, I can betray even the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit." What a paranoid and crazy love it should be, just to make his daughter happy, he can betray his faith, and the deep-rooted faith in his bones is no better than his love for his daughters.
However, such a great love can not be answered in the slightest, the story of the farmer and the snake is always released in the real society, and when the last bit of blood on the body is exhausted, the locust will go to find the next host.
This concept of family affection has a tragic color from the beginning, and from the beginning of the old man's stubborn desire to send his daughters to the upper class, it has laid an extreme foreshadowing for subsequent tragedies.
Blind giving and narrow giving pushed them together into the abyss of eternal doom, and the life of the tall old man was tragic, so why not his daughters? In 19th-century French society, sin and absurdity filled people's lives, full of unbearable and dirty.
The old man's way of educating his daughters to satisfy everything was wrong from the beginning, although many people still have the idea of enriching their daughters, but the richness of the old man is a kind of rich and unlimited, even a kind of connivance to cultivate pampering and hedonism, and finally these daughters have become money worshippers and bourgeois sluts.
The image of the tall old man has a typical tendency, he represents a typical father's love, under these typical descriptions and portrayals, his image is extremely distinct, the tall old man is not an example, represents the idea of an era, money is supreme is not someone's concept.
The tall old man finally ended his life with his own blood and tears, this man who loved his daughter like life, and finally the daughters wanted to die, and the tragedy was doomed from the beginning to struggle. However, the tragedy continues, and the idea of pursuing pleasure will undoubtedly lead more people to greater tragedies.
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