The humble prostitute steals the'entry voucher' that only male elites or male aristocrats can be elected to the'fraternity' for the survival of herself and her daughter (if she dies of tuberculosis, she will have no money to raise her daughter who was sent to the orphanage). In the interview to become a non-staff member of the Brotherhood, she boldly admitted her lowly status: "I am a woman, and I am still a prostitute." What she got was not tolerance that has transcended worldly concepts, but an old and outdated spurn: "We No woman, you are a natural bastard, if you violate the rules, we will naturally punish you."-Use an Eastern Scimitar from Byzantium during the Crusade to chop off your head. If you think about it, the Crusaders are also a kind of brotherhood. They are made up of men who are gifted with theocracy, sheltered by the more sacred light of God, and God is also a man.
The mother has always supported her daughter with the money she earned from the bed. She didn't want her daughter to have the same fate as her own, so she sent her to the orphanage to be taken care of by the nuns, because their virtues were chastity and humility. But she did not expect that her most worried thing happened. The pearl-like pure daughter was raped by her enemy. The man threw a few coins on the shivering girl with blood in white clothes and said, "You are also a prostitute. "
This is a kind of unspeakable shame and pain imposed on a woman. The natural lowliness as objects of the second nature, and the'fraternity' that symbolizes the nobleness of the first nature-they don't need to create life, they themselves represent eternity. The second-sex mother and her daughter who created life can only be exiled by the Brotherhood and threatened by death at any time. At first, they also silently accepted this fate and spent the first two hundred years together.
Two hundred years later, when the Brotherhood sent the first messenger to punish her mother, the messenger continued to belittle her and said: "After so long, you have learned nothing but prostitution."-because she accepted her destiny and was doomed Humble, immortality only replaced her lungs that the lieutenant had coughed to death due to tuberculosis, but did not allow her to truly introspect and control her destiny. She is still dealing with skin and flesh business, and there is only one'living hope' at this time, that is, as a guardian and her daughter drifting in the world to depend on each other for life. If there is any change or improvement in her, it is that she is smarter and cunning, knows how to use men who are weaker than herself, and opened a brothel to be a madam by herself.
Compared with the mother, the story line of the daughter has more religious significance. After all, the "light of God" taught her, so she has always followed the precepts of the church orphanage. Being a vampire is more like an angel: only take away the lives of those who are ready to become the dead, pray for them, and gently give them death. At the same time, she was tired of her mother's "ridiculous" and the pain of not being allowed to reveal her identity. She was eager to be understood and communicated. Although the encounter with the boy with leukemia is a bit far-fetched, as the plot develops, she can reveal her own hopes, love and contradictions. For example, she appears in a place where the boy passes without intention, and stays in his hospital bed like any well-meaning girl. Before, I wrote stories of my own personal experience to him, and even gave him the chance of immortality. The most important thing is that unlike her mother, she chooses to reconcile with the first sex, and she chooses to be'new born' with her lover.
"Pearl is hidden in carrion." The ending was unexpected. His mother's first love and another member of the Brotherhood broke through the creed that had been observed for two hundred years and rescued her. He was also tired of the ancient and dull Brotherhood and yearned for secondary sex. accompany. Therefore, in the ending, the mother has a chance to make up for the “initial mistake” she made two hundred years ago. She is no longer rotten flesh, but a pearl stripped of rotten flesh, and she is also “stripped” to her daughter like a life-saving straw. The bondage of —— the awakening of self-consciousness made her let her daughter also find her own way. Even though the separation was full of heart-piercing pain and sadness, she still let go.
What is the biggest misunderstanding between men and women? If women have self-awareness and independence, will men be scared? If men who follow animality and desire freedom get rid of the bondage of women, is this also a kind of happiness? Are the Ares holding the sword and the Aphrodite holding the mirror finally the same in what they expect and seek in their lives?
I do not know either.
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