After reading the text of "Gao Lao Tou", Balzac, a great critical realist writer, really looks like a mirror and truly reflects those ferocious faces in reality. He is a real writer, a great writer who is always admired and loved by those who dare to face up to and curse the ugly reality. "He decided to use all literary means to reflect the whole picture of this society in the whole era he wanted to write. He fulfilled his duty as a self-proclaimed "secretary" of history, which is his wish in the preface of Human Comedy. He paid his wish with so many characters and masterpieces, but his time owed him a favor, blushing and hanging his head, just not giving him honor and justice. "
Yes, in reality, anyone who tells the truth seems to be belittled by reality, and often can't get the treatment and reward he deserves. If there is a Balzac in China today, then maybe he will get the same result, even much worse than him, although he is already recognized as a great writer in China literary world, although his works are recognized as world masterpieces. The hypocrisy, ugliness and sin of reality can never die out, so it's really great to be cold. Baroness Neuchingen and Countess Leicester will always be the public of mankind and can be seen everywhere. Gaurio is pitiful, painful and blames himself involuntarily. Nie, written by Rasty, is just a person who often radiates the brilliance of human nature in his heart and often cooperates with the "public" in his actions. People whose thoughts and actions are exactly the same as their words and deeds do not exist in reality, unless they are children.
After reading "Old Man", people can't help but feel sad for the indifference between human feelings and the money-centered upper class in Paris. In Paris, there is no affection and love in the upper class, only the money relationship between people. Marx once said: "The bourgeoisie has torn off the veil of tenderness hanging over family relations and turned this relationship into a purely naked money relationship." Lao Gaoman is a flour merchant. During the revolution, he made a lot of money selling flour. He loves his two daughters very much, even to the point of doting. That's it, and the tragedy of his family came from it. He just wants his daughter to live comfortably and doesn't even care about giving everything. He hoped that she would marry into a noble family and let the two good girls live happily without suffering.
After reading the text of Gao Laotou, I read Gao Laotou again today. I just tasted it and didn't have much impression and feeling.
"If you can't see the children, being a father is equal to going to hell; I have tasted this since they got married. " A little exaggerated, but reasonable. Married woman, splashing water. There is always a saying that a daughter is a domestic child. Although I don't quite agree, I can't deny it. When a daughter gets married, she no longer belongs only to her parents. She has her own family, perhaps more important. She has a new life of her own, but for her parents, it is a new torture. It makes people angry that a child who was born for decades was taken away aboveboard. They participated in the first half of our lives and wanted to stay with us, but we deprived them of this opportunity. Therefore, married children often go home to see, so that elderly parents are less lonely and more at ease.
"alas! Friend, don't get married and have children! You give them life, they give you death. You bring them into this world, and they drive you out of this world. " Very vivid expression, but very sad feeling. Are we really like this? Will our children do this to us in the future? I can't help asking myself this question. Reluctantly answer but have to face the facts. After squeezing our parents dry, we started a new life of our own with the results we got, and then they died alone. We just gave them a seemingly decent funeral and a few sensational tears until they died. Our life is given by them, but when we grow up, we can't wait to fly away. Without their restraint, we think we can have a better life. The rest are lonely. Two lonely old people are waiting for their children who have left the nest. There is no return, but there is always hope. We don't want to be a juicer, but our words and deeds give us no chance to defend ourselves. If you don't want a dryer, treat your parents well and don't set such an example for them.
After reading the text of "Gao Lao Tou", Balzac's five articles and three novels can be described as uncovering the ugly face of the upper class in Paris in the old society, strongly satirizing the so-called "upper class" and exposing the social atmosphere of the Parisian people's fanaticism about money worship.
This novel depicts many characters in detail, such as the old man who loves his daughter as much as his life, and the noble youth Rasty Nie who wants to enter the upper class. Everyone has distinct personality characteristics.
The author's description of Lao Gaoman's father-daughter relationship highlights the atmosphere of "recognizing money but not people" in Paris. When Lao Gaoman just gave his two daughters 400,000 each, his daughter-in-law was really meticulous. And when he was about to be crushed, he didn't even want his daughter to stay a little longer. No one visited Lao Gaoman during his illness, so he had to die in despair. What caused a person to fall down here? This is human nature, and people's desire for money is at work! If you have money, you don't have to worry about having no relatives. If you have nothing to do, you can recognize your relatives. When you are down and out, they disperse in a hubbub, and few people really care about you and take care of you.
Money, the devil, not only distorts family relations, but also corrupts love and marriage. For money, Walter Khan instigated Rasty to win the heart of Miss Ty Evy. But Rasty was carried away by money and sacrificed his conscience to inherit Miss Evy's legacy. Fortunately, he pulled back from the brink and avoided falling into a quagmire and tragedy. This is enough to prove the importance of money at that time: as long as a college student has money, he can think of anything and do anything. In that society, no matter who you are, you can't escape the fate of being enslaved by money
In fact, this concept of interest is everywhere in real life: some people turn a blind eye to the garbage that can be seen everywhere because they can't get benefits from picking up garbage; Some people keep things for themselves because they can't get paid for returning them to the owner; What's more, in order to get more benefits, I don't hesitate to break the law and harm the interests of others ... aren't these all caused by the concept of interests?
I hope everyone can put an end to this concept of interests, and instead carry forward the excellent moral spirit, so that the society can be rejuvenated.
After reading the text of "Gao Lao Tou", 5 articles 4 "Gao Lao Tou" is a world masterpiece written by Balzac, a great French writer in19th century. It is an era novel that criticizes realism. It condenses the color of the times and shows the hypocrisy, cunning and cruelty between people in the society at that time ... The Chinese version of this book is less than180,000 words, but it has a broad vision and colorful characters, which is almost a panoramic view.
This book is about a father who devoted his life to his two daughters, but when he was buried at last, he was so humble that none of his daughters came to see him off. But the old man blessed his two daughters when he died, hoping to bear all the pain on their behalf. The only thing buried with the old man is a pendant. Woven with silver hair, there is a sign hanging below, with the names of two daughters written on both sides of the sign. The old man has been hanging it on his chest. But there were only two people in the funeral procession, not his daughter. One is an intern, and the other is a college student who is eager to enter the upper class. Others just made a few cold jokes about his death. It's ironic
There is a passage in it: "a person can be born, live and die here, and no one will pay attention to you." What a cruel society! It's so dark, my father is so great and so pitiful. In order to let his two daughters live a luxurious aristocratic life, he said that he would make his daughter the happiest person in the world. But in the end, he didn't do it. His daughter actually looks down on him because he is too poor and dirty. She didn't wake up until finally, when the old man was dying. But time is running out. The old man is dead. ...
The experience of being old and tall is the true epitome of many people in society at that time. His ending is a killing of French aristocratic society. The glory of his life is always hidden in that lonely grave, with pain and memories ... but the tragedy of the old man Gao is not entirely caused by society. His tragedy is accidental and epoch-making, but it is more inevitable and subjective. I would like to ask, can an old man who dotes on his daughter like Gao, who is almost morbid, not have a bad influence on his daughter? I think it is probably a tragedy that this kind of education is moving towards today's society.
The father in "Gao Lao tou" is the sorrow of that era and a kind of family confusion. I don't know whether to admire this father or sigh this father.
After reading "Old Man Gao", I found that Mr. Gao is an interesting and complicated figure.
He is 18 13, a noodle merchant who quit his business, but he has always been rich and used mostly gold. The landlady found that he was rich, so she approached him slowly and wanted to marry him, but Mr. Gao refused all her hints and looked silly. However, this does not mean that he is really stupid. If he was stupid, he wouldn't be so rich, which shows that he is smart and sophisticated.
As a father, he cared too much about his daughter, gave most of his savings to her to marry him, and let them live a high-class life. But he himself lived a civilian life and made himself look humble. He always thought that as long as his daughter married a noble, her daughter became a noble and he became a guest of the noble.
But his son-in-law, Earl Reston, looked down on him very much and didn't want to mention him, as if mentioning him would undermine his status. Here, I found from Mr. Gao's experience that family status is very important in aristocratic society.
It is not difficult to see from the incident that those people married Mr. Gao's daughter for money: the temptation of money is very great.
Mr. Gao took good care of his daughter, gave everything he had and even sacrificed blindly for them. But when he was dying, his daughters thought that he had been squeezed dry and useless, and they didn't even come to see him. Although he saw through this dark society before he died, he was still eager to see his daughter and get a little warmth.
My feeling here is bitter. Fatherly love is pure love, but the temptation of money distorts it. This kind of blind fatherly love is not desirable. If Mr. Gao had been thinking and doing things from the rational perspective of the business world, his results would not be so tragic.
In that society ruled by money, he must keep a rational perspective to think. Only by making rational judgments can we increase our own interests and reduce our own losses.
Besides, his fatherly love is too rampant. If he had a different idea, he wouldn't have ended like that. Although he finally woke up, it was too late.
I learned a lesson from Mr. Gao Lao: we must think rationally, or we will end up like Mr. Gao Lao.