watched "The Boundless Man", a story about a British Cambridge mathematician who excavated an Indian math genius. What is genius? Genius is God's mouthpiece, shaped by God. Indian math geniuses get their own formulas, and then they prove them step by step, which sometimes turns out to be true. Isn't that what genius is? There is no way to measure it by secular standards, and even Hardy, who does not believe in God, is a little shaken.
What is genius? Genius is to love your career more than yourself. In the play, the hero comes to the UK alone. In addition to the most basic treatment, he has a dormitory to eat, and he can hardly see his extra life. It seems that learning is his way of living. All living beings.
God designed a genius, in addition to have superior intelligence, can not be shackled by life. The Indian genius family members in the play are all in India, and he can devote himself fully to his academic work, and he is not worried by the flies and dogs in his life, as if there is nothing to worry about except academics. Imagine, if the male protagonist's wife was really brought to London, would the male protagonist still be so invested? Obviously not possible. Because he has to take care of the other half.
The mother of the male protagonist in the play shows extreme selfishness under the moral coat of filial piety. In order to allow his son to come back to take care of himself, he actually hid several letters from his daughter-in-law to his son, so that the daughter-in-law once thought bitterly that the male protagonist did not want him, and when she went to a big city in England, she forgot her in the countryside.
The matter was as expected by the male protagonist's mother. Sure enough, the son came back, but he died a year later. At the beginning, the wishful thinking of the male protagonist's mother was also in vain, as if it was retribution. Presumably, the relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law became strained after the son came back. This also proves from the side that if academic genius is one of the necessary conditions for grades, it must get rid of certain life troubles. If he is trapped by life, he is not a genius of God, and gradually becomes a layman, and the aura of genius will disappear.
It is worth mentioning that World War I was written many times in the play. This has a lot to do with the fact that the Indian genius was finally named a Royal Academician and a Fellow of Trinity College. As a history student, when I saw the outbreak of the First World War and watched Hardy actively fight for the title of academician for the male protagonist, I felt that this academician was out of ten.
why? When Britain participated in World War I, it needed to obtain sufficient strategic resources from India, such as manpower, raw materials and so on. Therefore, changing the relationship between Britain and India and expressing sincerity to India has become a necessary task for the United Kingdom. Coincidentally, the math genius is Indian, good enough. Therefore, no matter how racially discriminated and populist the academicians were in the UK before, in the context of consolidating UK-India relations, the election of a Royal Academician is a matter of course and a matter of course.
As soon as I read it, I wrote down what I thought in my mind. There is no logic. Just be happy.
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