The church school that teaches French, music, embroidery, and calligraphy welcomes corporal Corporal MacBurney who suffered a leg injury. Corporal also means the flesh, which brings care and laughter to the girls' school without masculinity. But the dislocation of desire and indulgence resulted in tragedy. The corporal lost a leg and eventually his life. The peaceful girls' school was hidden out of sight again.
Corporal and the girls' school teachers Miss Matha and Miss Morrow become a fatal temptation to each other, becoming objects of desire that each other desires but is inaccessible. The handsome and wild scumbag corporal is the embodiment of physical desire. He is good at bewitching and wandering between two teachers in a girls' school and even a young student. The elegant and lonely girls' school is like singing birds, and also like the melodious sound of insects in the forest. The gunshots of them leaving the battlefield in the distance are the paradise of civilization. The intrusion of men can only become the victims of civilization. We don't know whether it was Miss Martha's revenge for not going to her room and intercepting his leg as revenge, as the servant cursed, or whether it was really to stop the bleeding and save his life. But this is not important. What is important is that the idyllic poetry of the girls' school can also be a weapon for murder, and the sweet natural sound can also be the gunfire on the battlefield, which is inaccessible.
Who is the liar and who is the deceived is equally unimportant. Everyone is an animal under the mask, and there is nothing under the mask. Animality and civilization are just an illusion that each is nowhere to be at ease, accidental intrusions completely changed their presentation and results.
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