Mrs. Boucylon is "the leader of aristocratic society", and her mansion is "the most interesting place" in aristocratic residential areas. Being able to appear in this magni
Mrs. Boucylon is "the leader of aristocratic society", and her mansion is "the most interesting place" in aristocratic residential areas. Being able to appear in this magnificent living room is equivalent to reading the certificate of a noble family. " Once you step into this place where access control is stricter than any society, "you can travel everywhere." On one occasion, Rasty Nie, who had just come out of the cottage, was mentioned as "having something to do with Mrs. Boucylon", and she immediately. It is the greatest honor for bourgeois women to squeeze into this noble salon. These nobles are arrogant, and when it comes to bourgeois women, they try their best to despise sarcasm. "Middle-class women think that wearing our hats will change our style. "Mrs. Bao cylon's evaluation of Dan Feina, the second daughter of Gao Laotou, is that" all actions can't get rid of high spirits. "This is too arrogant. However, the apparent prosperity cannot be concealed. Gorgeous ostentation and extravagance can't hide political failure. The changes of the times cannot be kept, and the attack of the bourgeoisie is unstoppable. Balzac pointed out the hidden crisis and predicted the hidden disaster when describing the flourishing age of a hundred flowers. When Rasty's Nie was introduced to Fu Bao, Mrs. Bao cylon had reached the "moment of abandonment", and her anxiety could not be expressed in words, "upper class"
Ironically, although Mrs. Boucylon thinks highly of herself and despises bourgeois women, her "enlightenment" to Rasty's Nie is completely bourgeois: "The more ruthless you are, the faster you will rise. If you hit others mercilessly, they will be afraid of you. You can only treat men and women as post horses, ride exhausted and dump them at the station, so as to realize your wish of swimming. But let Rasty go after the banker's wife and "love her if you can, or use her". She also personally took him to the theater to meet Fener, because her personal experience and experience made her understand that the aristocratic style is out of date and the money and power of the bourgeoisie are the real rulers. In fact, she is a loser of money. Rochefitt is a new upstart. Alku da, the lover of Madame Busayon, didn't like Miss Rochefitte very much either, but he resolutely abandoned the famous Madame Busayon and decided to marry the bourgeois nouveau riche, because he could get a "dowry of 200,000 francs with interest".
Madame Bucylon, the last daughter of Bagon's royal family, bid farewell to the grand ball in Paris; It is Balzac's "endless elegy of the inevitable collapse of the upper class". Outside the living room, "the lights on four or five hundred cars lit up the surroundings of the Bao cylon mansion." In the living room, "it is the most beautiful woman in Paris", "the most prominent figure in the court" and "the band sends out sentence after sentence of music, which permeates the golden ceiling". Magnificent appearance and Bao's. This splendid palace is just a desolation. " This colorful dance is like the light of aristocratic society. People flocked here to "see how the heroine stepped down", "just like the crowd crowded into Glenford Square to watch the execution." The upper class seems to be specially decorated with flowers to bid farewell to one of its mothers. " Although this lady is "quiet" in front of everyone. She wept, trembled, packed her bags, burned love letters and made final preparations for bidding farewell to Paris. The performance of this kind of people is a true portrayal of the decline of the social status of the aristocratic class and its dependence on dignity. Mrs. Bao cylon went to the countryside to live in seclusion with tears in her eyes, and Fenner, who was ridiculed by her in every way, finally squeezed into this society with a heart to climb up and realized her old dream. However, Finnan lived a life of "being proud of her edge in public", and even Mrs. Busion had to admit that "Mrs. Neuchingen is very beautiful tonight". In contrast, the fate of these two classes is obvious.
Gao Laotou is Balzac's masterpiece of human comedy. This paper compares it to a panoramic view of French society in19th century, which vividly shows the writer's literary and artistic talents, and analyzes the achievements of his works from both ideological and artistic aspects, which is deeply touched.
Keywords: Gao Laotou, genre painting, ideological art
Gao Laotou is an excellent work published by Balzac in 1834. The novel is set at the end of 18 19 and the beginning of 1820, with the Fu Gai apartment and Madame Poseidon's salon as the stage, and the story of Gao Laotou and Lu Sidi Ni crossing in parallel as the main plot.
Gao Laotou embodies Balzac's creative talent and has high ideological and artistic value. The translation of this book into Chinese is less than180,000 words, but its broad vision and colorful characters are almost a panorama. It truly reproduces the French society at that time, is a "custom history of French society" and "marks an era", and fully embodies Balzac's ability to master materials and refine life.
The background of this "genre painting" is/kloc-French society during the Bourbon Restoration in the early 9th century. At that time, capitalist thought had had a great influence on western society, but the feudal system had not yet withdrawn from the historical stage, and it was a transitional period from feudal patriarchal society to capitalist society. Gao Laotou gives a detailed and in-depth description of the historical trend of feudal aristocratic forces in this period.
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I just finished reading the book Gao Laotou a few days ago and deeply felt the fragility of human feelings in capitalist society. At that time, people's only pursuit was money and power, and the protagonist of this book, Gao Leo (Gao Laotou), was the biggest victim. He used to be a shrewd noodle merchant, made a lot of money and became a local celebrity. He has two daughters, and because his wife died young, he dotes on them, which can be said to be doting, no, more doting than doting! This is also the fuse of his tragedy. It is his deformed love that makes him not only unable to get the love of his daughters, but also attracts their hatred. Even when he drove the crane westward, he didn't see his two beloved baby daughters.
His two daughters, one of whom chose money-to marry a banker, the other chose position-to marry a baron. They chose different roads, but at the same time they chose the upper class and gave up their father who loved them deeply! They just thought of their father in the most difficult time, hollowed out everything about him and left him, even if they died, although they all had their own reasons. In the end, they lost their father's blessing and their happiness and everything. Maybe they deserve it, and all this is just because of a father's love, excessive love and abnormal love!
There is also a character in the article, Ou Ren. At first, he was a college student who tried to squeeze into the upper class. Even for this reason, he asked his mother, aunt and cousin for money many times, knowing that they had no money, but they still asked for money. So his mother and aunt had to go out to make money for him, and they also ransacked all his cousin's private money. With this hard-earned money, he wandered in the upper class through his cousin (a romantic figure in the upper class, who later woke up because of his lover's betrayal and found a remote place to come back). At that time, he was very excited because he entered this circle. Gaurio lives in the same apartment as him. When he learned the truth about his two daughters, he treated the strange old man differently. Later, after a series of changes, he realized that he was moved by Gaurio's father's love, and he was also surprised by the indifference of his two daughters (especially the youngest daughter, who tried to make her love her father because they fell in love) before his father died. Finally, he buried Lao Gaoman and his long-cherished dream ... In the social background at that time, he became a clear spring, although he was once dirty.