Text/Du Dou Bean
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The dreams of teenagers are often very fragile.
There is a saying that says: "The old do not look at the Three Kingdoms, the young do not look at the Water Margin, the men do not look at the Journey to the West, and the women do not look at the Red Chamber." The Three Kingdoms make people learn to be cunning, the Water Margin is too violent, the Journey to the West makes men not love their families, and the Red Chamber makes women despair of love.
Just talk about this "Dream of the Red Chamber", in fact, "Dream of the Red Chamber" is a youth novel, which is about the life of the boudoir beauty in Jia Baoyu's eyes, no matter whether these characters are in the noble and lowly, they are nothing more than the feelings of some young boys and girls. It is only after being elevated to the four masterpieces, but it is a bit over-interpreted, which makes people have a sense of distance of "high cabinet".
"Dream of the Red Chamber" is a tragedy, every boy and girl in the book is loving with their hearts, exhausting their youth, but in the end they cannot end well. Women see more of the Red Chamber, they will lose hope for men, lose their dreams for love, and feel too miserable in the world. This is the reason why "women do not look at the Red Chamber".
We read Hamlet, and while it tells a story of revenge, in fact, it embodies, on a deeper level, the shattering of a teenager's dream.
In Prince Hamlet's heart, the heroic and mighty father is the idol he worships, and the love of his parents is the love of his dreams. The father and queen were very fond of the mother queen, and the father and queen "did not even allow the heavenly wind to hurt her tender face", while the mother queen snuggled in the arms of the father and did not want to be separated for a moment. These, the prince sees in his eyes, but also let him have a beautiful yearning for love.
He imagined that the day he ascended the throne, he would have the heroic power of his father, and the gentle Ophelia was his beautiful queen. They will also be inseparable and loving like fathers and queens.
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Unfortunately, life is always unpredictable, and you never know what the next chapter will be.
One second Hamlet was still studying in a German university classroom, and the next second he was hit by a thunderbolt on a sunny day - his father died of a violent illness! By the time he hurried back to Denmark, the crown was already on his uncle Claudius' head. How can this beast of despicable character be compared to his father? What is even more frightening is that the old king's bones are not cold, and the mother queen will marry this new king again!
The god-like father and king fell, and the change of life and death made the prince see the impermanence of fate. And the love belief he once held on to collapsed in an instant. Hesitant, lonely, wandering, the memories of the past are all in front of you. His bitter heart shattered into a moonlight, too desolate to face.
How could the queen mother be so watery, so quickly forget the days of love with her father and king, and be willing to commit herself to a person who was inferior to the beast? Love is so vulnerable, what else to talk about for a long time? Women, can you still trust?
Mother, you have defiled this sacred title and insulted the identity of "wife", not to mention that you are still the queen of a country, and you are a disgrace among women!
The prince roared bitterly and helplessly to the sky: "Fragile, your name is Woman!" ”
There is no more truth, everything is an illusion.
The heat and coldness of this life's change made the prince's heart cold as ice. He even felt that as the son of his mother, there was sin in his veins.
Where is there truth in the world? Love is hypocritical, life is fragile, life is full of treachery. What else is the meaning of life? Should we survive or perish?
When he called out to Ophelia, he said, "Let me go into the convent." Do you like to raise a whole bunch of sinners? Where is this rebuke of Ophelia, which is clearly a crusade against the queen, a dislike for herself, and a resentment of the world!
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Shakespeare's greatness lies in the fact that he gave the action of revenge a human connotation.
In fact, the subject of Hamlet is a legend that has been around Nordics for a long time. Even in Shakespeare's contemporaries, there were already many scripts that played out this story. But Shakespeare did not stay on the depiction of the revenge plot like them, but let the revenge drama flash a deeper ideological connotation.
Before Prince Hamlet meets the ghost of his father, what you see is a teenager's grief. He lost his father, shattered the dreams of his youth, lost hope in life, and lost his way in the sea like a lonely boat.
When Hamlet learns the truth about his father being poisoned by his uncle in the garden, it seems that the heavy duty of revenge has brought him new vitality and made him find something - he wants to survive and avenge the snow!
The soul of the Father and the King disappeared into the dawn of dawn, and the broken heart of the Prince was really restored?
What we see is a young man, like a ghost released from hell, running to the boudoir of his lover Ophelia, disheveled, trembling all over his body, wanting to talk and stopping, long and short sighs. The secret that was hidden in his heart and made him unacceptable sent him to hell. All the light was obscured, he could no longer see the future, and the flames of hatred engulfed his heart, casting a thick layer of darkness.
Survival or Destruction?
When the mind is occupied by the devil, all that remains is the temptation of death.
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If it were just revenge, Hamlet would not be Hamlet.
Ophelia's brother Leatis is also an avenger. Unlike Hamlet, his goal of revenge is simple. As soon as he heard that his father had been killed, he immediately took a group of people and ran to the palace to ask the king for his life. "Pay back my father!" This bloody cry, swift action, is logical. Therefore, Lyatis will conspire with the new king Claudius to frame Hamlet, and will confess unreservedly after his conscience is discovered before his death.
Hamlet's revenge, however, is different, and he is trapped by his own life thoughts.
Even if he ended evil with the sword of righteousness, would the human world still be as bright as he had imagined?
Even if he can survive and regain his strength, will the trauma of the past allow him to regain his former ideals?
Can his heart, shattered into moonlight, reconstruct the world of love and rekindle his hope for the future?
Deep down Hamlet was completely desperate for the world, and he couldn't find a reason to survive.
So, even if it is a mission of revenge, Hamlet is forced to complete it himself. He followed the example of Fordimbra, encouraged himself with chivalry, and for the sake of honor he had to rule out any distractions, "only a motive to kill"!
Therefore, Hamlet must die with the forces of evil. Only death can free him from the difficulties of the heart. He will leave without love, leaving only the last words: "Everything is silent." ”
What killed Hamlet was not a poison sword, but hope. When hope is dashed, nothing can be loved.
The Shawshank Redemption
As the Shawshank Redemption says:
fear can hold you prisoner. hope can set you free。 (Fear makes you a prisoner, and hope makes you free.) ）
Hopefully, and Will redeem Andy of Shawshank. There is no hope that Hamlet of Denmark will be buried.
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About author:Du Doudou, it has been in the industry for more than 20 years, and has studied English, computer, aesthetics and psychology. In the early years, he worked in a number of world-renowned IT foreign companies, and now works in a research institute. Bookworm, idle code word. He is also a contracted author of many platforms, a member partner of Jianshu, and the founder of the 10,000 Volumes of Good Books Studio and the 10,000 Volumes of Good Books Reading Club.