Hardy's Jude and Somerset Maugham's The Shackles of Humanity share a common core: wandering.
The two protagonists have no father or mother, facing the world alone, trying to find their destiny, but unfortunately, there is nothing.
In "The Shackles of Human Nature", the lame male protagonist Philip, I don't like him, but I like this novel very much. I think it is better than "The Moon and Sixpence", "The Veil", and "Blade".
It chronicles Philip's wanderings, how he was bullied in boarding school, how he went to study in Germany, then went back to London to work as an accountant, how he went to Paris to study art, and then went back to London to study medicine.
Every time Philip leaves the place where his physical body is now, it is a bluffing resistance to his own banality, an escape, and he escapes here without accomplishing anything, and goes anywhere else without accomplishing anything.
He once had a sadomasochistic relationship with a woman who was a vain and ruthless woman. She didn't love Philip and always took advantage of him. Philip saw through the essence of this woman and looked down on her, but she was dead and ignorant again and again. begging her to love him.
I don't like Philip's character, in large part because of his mediocre nature, because of his conceited and humble personality.
I really like the book "The Shackles of Human Nature". I think of Philip many times. His self-realization and love pursuit are lost. He can't find his lifelong destination. He is lonely. The feeling of loneliness, the sadness of being separated from everyone and facing the world alone", I understand this bitterness.
Speaking of Jude, he and Tess also suffered like this, but I am infatuated with Jude and Tess, because their stories have the same sympathetic temperament, which is fragile and tender, frustrated and resonant, Never be grandstanding, always be kind and compassionate.
How wandering is Jude? The movie uses the same chapter division method as the original, from Mali Green, to the Temple of Christ, from the Temple of Christ, to another place.
But Jude is very different from Philip. He has never been funded by anyone, has no chance to go to university, and has never tried the so-called idle life. He is studious, he is soft-hearted, but he is at the mercy of fate from start to finish.
Fortunately, the biggest difference between him and Philip is that he has had love.
Yes, true love includes respect, wisdom and moral love. Philip has no true love, but Jude has encountered love that pierces the heart.
Shuyi did not wander when she appeared. At that time, Jude watched her work from a distance from the glass window. She was bright and lively, smart and rebellious. She often held a cigarette in her right hand and went to the market with Jude to buy a nude statue. Lost her job after falling out with her traditionally staid landlord.
But strangely, as she got closer to Jude, she became more and more incomprehensible. You can't guess in the first half of the movie, does she love Jude or not, if she does, why would she go to another city with another man, if not, why would she sneak out of school and cross the river What about Jude?
Pride pits her against married Jude and makes her agree to someone else's proposal. The advanced concept and free love shocked the world again. She left her husband and followed Jude from one place to another. She gave birth to one child after another, and even sold homemade bread with Jude in the market with a big belly.
I used to think that realizing one’s own intelligence and upward vitality, but lacking the opportunity and capital to make a comeback, having to spend a lifetime in the world, even with precarious crises, is the most helpless and painful thing in life, and it is better to die.
Why didn't Jude and Shu die?
My favorite scene in the movie is when they bring a bunch of children back to the Christian Temple. They are not married, they have no jobs, they have no place to live, and they finally find someone to give them a small room and allow them to stay overnight.
That night, the two lay in bed, two frustrated idealists talking to each other comforting words.
I suddenly feel that the most romantic love is like this. It is a kind of love that lacks but does not care about the security of the world. The two of them are like two ants on a leaf floating in the sea, and the other half is powerless to protect yours. Wandering, but you have such a love, you share this moment of wandering in a life without foundation, there is only this moment left in front of your long life, and after this moment, even if there is love.
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