When Kundera said in "The Betrayed Will" that Thomas Mann’s novel is a humorous work, he took the biblical story of Potiphar’s wife and Joseph in Thomas Man’s work as an example: Fever, teasing him with idiotic language in various ways, when talking like a child, hissing air leaks from the teeth and making inaccurate sound: sleep with me, sleep with me, sleep with me, And Joseph has been guarding himself like a jade for the whole three years, patiently explaining to the hissing mistress day after day that it is strictly forbidden to have sex between them. On the day of the incident, only the two of them were at home, and she again Begging, sleep with me, sleep with me, and he again patiently and pedantically explained the reason for prohibiting them from having sex, just as he explained, his sexual desire He had an erection, my goodness, his erection was so strong, Potiphar's wife went crazy and grabbed Joseph's shirt when she saw it. When the thriving Joseph ran away, she suddenly lost her normality and despair. The ground howled, yelling for help, saying that Joseph was going to rape her." Of course, Joseph was imprisoned by his master afterwards.
The comparison between the two stories shows the psychology of the adulteress. Also, the screenwriter of "Pig's Head Going on the Street 3" may have seen Thomas Mann's novel. Of course, the "Bible" is always the motif.
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