The writer's obsession with sex and writing is admirable, but the most profound thing is his performance in the dungeon when he learns from the priest that Madeleine is still a virgin until death, is he really impotent as the priest said (for I am impotent but fall into infinite sex fiction and pain)? Or did Madeleine, the first reader, sacrifice herself as the heroine of his novel but never did it?
The death of Madeline is regrettable, but her death is necessary for the development of the story, because her death touched the deeply repressed human nature of the priest, and there is a wonderful dream behind.
As the opposite of Madeline, the tragic character, the young and beautiful doctor's wife has a low appearance rate, but she is the most idealistic and happiest person in the play. I was deeply moved by her fairy-tale pure beauty.
Father, I think the most painful character in the entire show. His kindness and his love were completely subverted, and the long-suppressed humanity finally broke out: he dreamed that he caressed the corpse of Madeleine and made love with him. It was the finishing touch! What exactly is true? what is love? What is beauty? What is ugly? What is desire? What is sin? He is so young, yet he has to face so much challenge and suffer so much pain. But it is precisely because he is so young that he is so enthusiastic about saving the cause, and is obsessed with ideals and beliefs, and it is precisely because of this that he is hit hard by reality. In addition to my deep sympathy for such characters, I always have an inexplicable liking, probably due to the pessimism in my bones.
In the end, the writer died by swallowing the cross, and the priest took the place of the writer. Is there some kind of metaphor for these two points?
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