First of all, the lights are not clear.
This novel named "The Lamp" must have profound meaning. In short, the light of street lamps; Deep thinking is the light of human nature. There are several descriptions related to lighting in the article.
1. There are stars in the night sky. There is light in the stars, but "I" feel that the stars look more desolate, gloomy and dark, on this railway line under construction. The author's description here highlights a feeling of darkness, strangeness, desolation and chaos. The world is made up of roads, sand, soil, gravel, huts, pits and trolleys. And has formed a unique pattern in ancient times, without transformation and construction. The description of this scene should correspond to the deep heart of the characters, or imply a kind of darkness and strangeness of human nature. Then the author wrote about the light, where the black has been mixed, there is a vague and distant light that extends to the distant darkness. It is worth noting that the lights are vague, and the author expresses it clearly: "They seem to have something in common with the silence of the night and the elegy of wires. There seems to be a big secret buried under the embankment, only lights, night and wires know. " In other words, lights, night and wires belong to the same category, have the same nature and keep the same secret. So, what is its essence? Loneliness of monotonous songs, desolation and darkness at night are all attributes of lighting. It is of great significance to endow luminous lights with dark and lonely characteristics. It can be understood that this hazy light is only a kind of darkness, and there is no mission to strive for light. Moreover, all three things have sadness, and this sadness is related to this great secret. What is the secret? It is the soul of this dilapidated construction site-humanity. Therefore, the engineer regards the words "wonderful", "vast" and "authentic Mont Blanc" as perfect satire. The engineer can't understand the sadness of light and the secret kept by light, and the engineer's exaggerated lyric also exposes his actual emptiness.
2. This is related to death. The same light represents the development of life and civilization in the eyes of engineers. I saw the excitement after 120 years and the prosperity in the future. But in the eyes of college students, what they see is something that has died, something that lived thousands of years ago. What college students see is that the future, like the past, will eventually die.
3. The concept of "wisdom". The story of the engineer led by light becomes another annotation of light. Engineers expounded the "wisdom" of their thoughts with their own experiences, and the whole narrative process can be divided into several stages.
(1) It is a disaster for young people to have this idea, because it can only lead to the end of life. This "noble idea" is a "wisdom wealth" that belongs exclusively to the elderly. In terms of actual age, this engineer is still in the prime of life, but he pretends to be a "big brother" and exercises the right to criticize young people's thoughts with an old-fashioned attitude. His state is calm, stable and confident, "just like those who clearly know that they are on the right path, have a fixed job, have a fixed income and have a fixed view on everything", in the author's implicit explanation. In other words, a solidified self-identity model has been formed, which is the capital and the "confidence" for engineers to directly "warn" college students to change their way of thinking.
(2) I like telling stories that fascinate me. The engineer is intoxicated with the ideas he believes in, which contradicts his external calmness and calmness, and can also glimpse his blind and fanatical "belief" in himself. He gained a kind of so-called growth wisdom in the process of "climbing the ladder", which was only an epiphany on meaningless life at the top of the steps and could not be used as the starting point for young people to think.
(3) An example. The college students asked the engineer to give an example. The engineer described it as an authentic novel, which contained the question of truth and falsehood. A melancholy youth who feels that life has no purpose and meaning, an expert who can combine the noblest thoughts with the humblest vulgar thoughts, met his former classmate Kisochika, so he tried his best to get close to him and later gave up; There is a turning point after giving up, forcibly occupying; Unable to face it, I chose to escape. The story is very specific, especially the psychological process. Engineers regard it as their mature journey from abnormality to normality, a highly cognitive wisdom of life gained from disasters, and a credible factual basis for privileged people. However, is this really the case? The article wrote that the engineer "began to say his own ideas again, repeating what he had said before", which was wonderful. It seems that this idea has become a kind of "hypnosis", not only for engineers themselves, but also for others.
(4) Thought is poisonous. From the perspective of college students, the so-called toxic thoughts of engineers are also toxic to the elderly. The privilege of the elderly that the engineer has repeatedly emphasized is just to find a theoretical basis for his "successful" life model. However, from the author's repeated description of this privilege, it is not difficult for readers to see that the pessimistic thoughts at the top of the ladder cannot lead to the real light of human nature, just as engineers who are satisfied with the status quo do not have self-confidence and calm state of mind. In the following article, facing the exposure of the "nature" of the country people, the basic "nature" of caring heart easily defeated the "wise man" who tried to arm himself.
4. Cold light. For college students, it doesn't matter whether the light is on or off. This state is a profound ideological laziness and paralysis, and any changes and circumstances in life are meaningless. Nothing in life, work and entertainment can make him have some heat. As a result, he generally showed a calm, like a stagnant pool of water. Light means nothing to him. However, his "brainwashing" of engineers with words always shows a kind of rejection psychology, and also reflects a young people's pessimistic and skeptical attitude towards life.
Second, the dog barking is unknown.
The first sentence at the beginning is "A dog barks uneasily outside the door". Since then, the narrative has three purposes. One is that "restless dog" implies the engineers' restless mood all the time, and the other is to cooperate with the barking of dogs that appear many times in the article as a symbol to show a kind of diaphragm, so as to understand the dog's heart? The unknown meaning of dog barking can be associated with the unknown state of "I" by engineers and college students. That is, the complexity of people's hearts can't be solved without listening to voices (dogs barking and telling stories); Third, people who treat dogs as their own.
Specifically.
When the dog just barked, the reason was unknown. No one is idle, "empty shout." The engineer analyzed it as "it is a very neurotic animal!" " ""It can't stand loneliness and always has terrible dreams ",so this dog becomes a lonely dog tortured by nightmares. It will be sad, crazy and sad. Looking at the complete text and the judgment made by the engineer here, we can see the relationship between man and dog. In the eyes of engineers, the dog's state seems to be the engineer's own life state, such as anxiety, sensitivity, loneliness, pain, irritability and so on. Therefore, watching the dog is watching yourself.
In the middle of the engineer's speech, the dog barked again. Several words were used in the article, such as "bold", "sad" and "bump". Before the dog barked, Kisoka in the engineer's story told a woman who eloped with an actor. Everyone laughed at her, but no one knew the soul of that person. At this moment, the dog barked. From the perspective of cohesion, soul theory seems to be related to the dog's state at this time. Does the dog's desolation and sadness have the pain of the woman who eloped with others? Is there any sadness in Kisochika's heart telling the story of this woman? Dogs can hit the wall, and people's pain is only biting their hearts. It can be seen that the dog's state once again sets off people's emotions. The engineer said "poor dog", but the word "poor" is only an external impression and has not reached the depths of the soul, so it is still unknown. Perhaps there is also an understanding that Kisochika's soul is useless to engineers, and the two people are not in a real state of spiritual docking. It is better to let the dog call to interrupt this topic of understanding "inequality".
Engineers have two egos in their hearts, one is trying to prove that they are tall, and the other is living in a humble place. Young and old are just technical by going up one flight of stairs of thought, which has nothing to do with the essence of thought. In this way, the evaluation of engineers is somewhat heartless. After all, there are some bright spots in him, such as his warmth to his wife and children, his attitude towards others, and his efforts to show a noble friendship. But when I think about it, he still combines the sublime with the humble as before, and his heart is still full of anxiety that he never dared to admit, such as the word "cunning" used by the author, and such technical knowledge is temporarily in the upper position.
The great secret hidden under the light should be the ugliness of human nature and the mystery of human nature.
The light is not clear.