Emma, the personification of romanticism, is destined to be sad
"Madame Bovary" is adapted from Flaubert's work. There are several versions of the film. Due to the pursuit of the picture, I chose the latest American version with a low rating to watch. Each screen can be described as an oil painting, but the content Compared with the disloyalty to the original work, the expression of deep thoughts in the work is also relatively simple.
So, if you only see a slutty woman after watching the movie, then please read the original book, you may love and hate Madame Bovary or Emma, or even love and hate.
While Flaubert was writing, he wrote Emma to death crying. He said: "Emma must die. He also said: Emma, that's me. What does this immoral-looking Emma represent? Why must die?
Judging from the author's life background, Flaubert lived in the era of French Romanticism from its prosperity to its decline. And Emma, who is extravagant in life, has a dreamy pursuit of love, and yearns for all good things, is obviously the embodiment of romanticism and desire.
There is nothing wrong with pursuing romantic beauty, but the romantic era is good at magnifying love, dreams and freedom.
Emma's pursuit is far from reality. She pursues love and allows her feelings to be released, but she doesn't care about her status as a wife, and uses her naive fantasies to beautify everything; she buys luxurious furniture and supplies without thinking about her own financial conditions, and repeatedly ignores her debts. She has been refusing to admit and accept the fact that all she wants is far beyond her actual ability.
She is an incarnation of romanticism who is free from the shackles and constraints of the real world and pursues pure self. In real life, she is just an illusory existence like a dream. And Flaubert and even many people once had such a misty self, but after all, that self was consumed by life and ceased to exist.
Therefore, she must die, all romanticism out of reality is just a delusion, and she will eventually pay the price for stealing apples for herself. And Flaubert probably didn't want to see the beauty she pursued being sullied by reality, and he couldn't bear to see her continue to be beaten all over by reality, so he sealed up that unrealistic beauty with a decent death.
There is no shortage of good fantasies in our lives, but reason makes us succumb to reality. However, we are also tormented in the leveraged game of reality and fantasy, intellect and emotion.
The more reality, the less passion, the more fantasy, but the vain. Proportionality makes us different and changing. Just like the several characters revolving around Emma in the work, they are all in different embarrassment.
Charlie Bovary was a collector and mourner of Romanticism. Emma satisfies his perfect imagination for his wife. He likes that she has a certain education, is elegant and beautiful, likes her attention to life, and likes her luxurious replacement of home decoration. He also knows that all this is tied to reality, but he will only occasionally stop her from reading some books, and when he sees a large bill, he will tell her that not everyone can live a rich life, as if never Can't bear to wake up Emma completely, and even tolerate her infidelity.
Emma was treasured by him like a treasure, but he never understood and understood her, even he was afraid and evaded to understand, hesitating between reality and illusion, watching his life bubble because of Emma. Constantly being blown up, and then falling into the bottom of reality at the moment of shattering, Emma, who couldn't stand the beautiful fantasy, disappeared forever from his life, and never recovered.
Charlie's future is not depicted in the film, but in the original book, Charlie was entangled in various debts and pseudo-debts, cut off contact with his mother, and was like a lost dog. In the end, he and Emma's children could only find refuge with distant relatives.
Charlie's life was twice out of balance between the levers of reality and ideals, one time he went to a vanity, one time he fell to pieces, the fantasy disappeared, and the life without expectation was destined to be spent in the dark. And is the personable Leon reining in the precipice?
Leon is a defector to Romanticism. When I first met Emma, I wanted to have a romantic spark with her, but it ended in platonic love. When they meet again, they directly upgrade the spark to fire, and they both fall into love, but the length of time dilutes the passion, and they feel the glitz of love again. And Leon was even more unable to bear this responsibility, and finally ended in his own cowardice and incompetence.
In this experience, Leon has received a contest between ability and ideal, but will he wake up to this? Or will it repeat itself into the next cycle or become another Rodolph?
Rodolph was the ravager of Romanticism. He is well aware of the spiritual enjoyment brought by this kind of romance, as well as the conditions that this kind of romance requires based on reality, so he exploits the loopholes and uses the beauty of romanticism to achieve his own short-term enjoyment. He induces Emma to believe in love, inspires and exacerbates Emma's romanticism, but quits in time, unwilling to pay for it. And Emma was but one of his many mistresses.
Rodolph is very familiar with the manipulation of the lever balance between reality and desire. He can always take action at the right time and withdraw at the right time. There is no lack of such sanctimonious "thieves" in life. The businessman Lele and he can be described as a raccoon dog.
Lele is the achiever of romantic ideals and the most direct strangler. He offered a fee to live a romantic life, but he wanted to seize Emma's desire and lure him by chance. Rodolph directly steals spiritual enjoyment, while Lele steals the most basic money. He is well aware of what money means in reality and ideals, so he is mercenary and unscrupulous. And his role is obviously the incarnation of money in the works, Emma wins him and loses him.
Flaubert brings the relationship and entanglement of reality, romantic ideals and money to the fullest. Everyone can see themselves or their potential self in the work.
Living in the pull of reality and ideals, emotion and reason, it is inevitable that ideals turn into delusions, and true feelings turn into promiscuous car accident scenes, but we can't repeat Emma's sorrow, nor can we become the helpless Charlie and the treacherous Rodolph and Rice. Le, we should try to make that "Leon" wake up. Learn to introspect in real life, and shape a self-confident self in the checks and balances of all parties.
Emma who has to cling to a man is sad
Aside from the metaphor, from the story itself, Emma is indeed a slutty woman who loves vanity, but from the background analysis of the status of women in the story, Emma is pitiful.
In Europe under the patriarchy of that era, women who were economically incapable of being independent, apart from obtaining some lucky property with a low probability of relying on the inheritance law, marriage and love were the only olive branches thrown to them by life, and they were nothing more than equal to their one. Fan career is also a changeable gamble. One beckons to the material, the other to the spirit. Win, rejoice in it. If you lose, you succumb to reality.
And Emma was the one who didn't admit defeat. She thought that Charlie, a doctor, could satisfy all her imaginations about love, marriage and life, but everything was disappointed when she got married. Relying on marriage, relying on the man in the marriage to change one's own destiny, completely failed. The cruel thing is that this was almost the only way for most women at that time. As the Chinese saying goes, marrying a chicken follows a chicken, and marrying a dog follows a dog.
Although the marriage between a peasant girl and a doctor is considered high in the real world, Emma has a little understanding of noble life, and it is human nature for Xianyu to turn over, but she has to be self-sufficient. But Emma is not overly self-contained, her beauty and temperament lured her, and even lured her into the urn.
So, Emma, under the beckoning of disappointment, desire, and temptation, launched two more morally dangerous bets. Rodolph's aristocratic vanity imagination and Leon's spiritual enjoyment in the name of love.
Although I have tasted the sweetness, the behavior that violates ethics and morality can be exciting for a while, but it is difficult to meet the true feelings, and it is even harder to say the responsibility. In the end, they all become disillusioned, destroy themselves, and lose the reputation of lascivious women.
However, please be tolerant when criticizing Emma.
Because Emma, who has her own imagination of a better life and has to depend on a man, is sad.
In other words, it is a little cruel to criticize women who can only rely on men and want to rely on men.
Emma who becomes a marriage accessory is sad
Sometimes the fault of one is the sin of two. Emma, who couldn't resist the temptation to let the marriage fall into the mud, was at fault, but Charlie was also to blame.
Does he love Emma? Maybe he loves, then his love is too superficial, or his love is too masculinity of the times. Emma talks to him about books, he scoffs at it, Emma encourages him to seek medical skills, but he is willing to quack. In modern parlance, there is no consensus among their three views.
He never wanted to know Emma, read Emma's inner world, and give thoughtful care. Instead, he thinks that everything should be centered on him. Emma is just an accessory to him, a trophy that he can show off to others, to satisfy his coitus at night, to show off when he goes out to meet friends, and to build a trophy. The vanity of a lauded decent family.
No matter how much love is given on the surface, Emma is just a pet dog. If Emma is the egoism of love, then Charlie is the refined egoism of love.
Charlie could not satisfy Emma either materially or spiritually, and such a marriage was no less than a prison for Emma. And if the three views are not in harmony, it is necessary to forbear and seek harmony, which will only deepen the grievances. Disappointment is enough, and the temptation at hand becomes redemption.
In real life, there are tens of thousands of imprisoned Emmas, but only a few of them break free, and many of them are just like the Emma in the works who are desperately ill, and gradually lose themselves.
But these Emma are not for everyone to criticize in the name of morality, but more for everyone to reflect on themselves and not let themselves become or brew an "Emma" around them. At the same time, learn to cherish and appreciate those around you who share your joys and sorrows, and embrace all those around you who are not with a strong heart.
Whether they choose to compromise because of the education that is deeply rooted in their thoughts, thinking that women should be like this, or they choose to forbearance because of the world, family and children, they are all pathetic individually. .
Should we be more lenient with Emma?
Because, to become an accessory in marriage is the sadness of a long life.
There was nothing wrong with her struggling to save herself, but in the wrong way.
Emma, who is gullible to men, is sad
Judging from the whole story, Emma is undoubtedly pure and stupid. She is too lacking in rational thinking, has no ambition but no wisdom, and lives purely in her own fantasy.
Because of her marriage with Charlie, because of her status as Doctor Charlie, she imagined that Charlie could bring her the good life she expected, so that the gap after marriage was huge and the illusion was disillusioned.
After attending a banquet, he coveted the life of the nobles, and the slight temptation quickly fell into the arms of Rodolph.
She acted purely on emotion, led her actions by naive fantasy, without thinking, Rodolph's abandonment only hurt her, but she did not learn the slightest lesson, and fell into Leon's love again. The debt is still high and the attitude of not crying without seeing the coffin. In the end, not only did it get nothing, but everything was lost.
Whether it's her sloppy marriage with Charlie, her blindness when she deviated from Rodolphe, her impulsive passion for Leon, and the temptation of Lele's fake vault, Emma is too easily blinded by her fantasies , gullible in men, gullible in love.
However, Emma's three emotions make people wonder what is love?
Her first acquaintance with Charlie was like a beautiful love, but it was exhausted by married life; her passion with Rodolph was like a sincere love, but when she was unable to repay her debts, she In the name of love, he reached out to him for money; and she and Leon, from platonic to dry wood and fire, from pure to strong, brewed a full flavor of love, but their passion could not withstand the flow of time, gradually subsided, and both sides stopped. The feeling is bland and tasteless, and in the end, it is a bit ugly to tear in front of the interests. Seriously, love is so vain, as if it existed before, and like a self-deception after another. Presumably it is something that perishes, presumably it needs responsibility, material, and other external forces to maintain it carefully. What is it? Maybe there is no solution, maybe there are too many solutions, so many people, every relationship, can sum up a solution. Therefore, when encountering this fantastic love, no matter how much emotion you pour into it, please squeeze out a bit of reason. Don’t be like Emma, who only sees and magnifies the beautiful side of love, but turns a blind eye to the reality behind it and becomes a failure The superior, the failed love chaser.
Of course, it is unfair to only hold Emma. Compared to Emma, Rodolph who indulges in playing with women, Leon who is cowardly and incompetent, and Lele who takes advantage of the organization should be criticized.
Emma, who is gullible in men, is sad, and a man who only wants to play and is unwilling to pay for love is shameful.
Emma in disguise in real life is sad
In real life, there are also many women like Emma who are labeled as snobbish and vain, for example, those women who are sugar daddy. But do you really hate such a woman? Or incompetent yourself? Probably because there aren't enough rich people in the world, and it just so happens that it's not you.
We need to know that there is no reason to like you purely hormonally, but there must be a reason for entering into a marriage with you and going hand in hand with a long life.
Because money is with you, because of the emotional depth that is enough to enter the marriage, with you because of your talent or infatuation with your beauty, there is always a point that makes the other party have the courage to be willing to tolerate you All flaws and bad habits are with you for life.
To a certain extent, being rich is the same as having talent and beauty, and both can be a person's advantage. It's just that money is too direct and naked in front of interests, and it is too easy to cause people to be sensitive.
Those who compromise in reality and share your hardships and sorrows are worthy of praise, but it does not mean that those who abandon love and choose a better life, leave you, or even leave you hurt, should be strongly condemned. But it's the difference between loving you a little more and loving yourself a little more. So, cherish those who stay with you, but don't hold grudges for those who leave you, because there is no right or wrong.
To put it another way, if you really love each other, you also want the other person to be better and happy. Of course, if you want to use hatred to forget the other person, it's okay to make yourself feel better, but please keep the hatred to yourself, and don't spread bad words.
In real life, there are also women who become marriage accessories like Emma.
For many men, marriage is the grave of love, but for women, marriage is not only the grave of love, but also the grave of self and dreams.
Because biological differences and reality always tend to put women at a disadvantage in marriage. Giving up career for the family, giving up economic autonomy, giving up one's own life for the children, etc., is still not understood, and it is difficult to be between various family conflicts. Those who have not given up their careers are even more in a dilemma and burdened.
Therefore, men should not arbitrarily exalt your machismo. First consider whether you have the capital and wisdom. If not, please give more love, consideration, understanding and respect. Not all women are as you imagined. of greatness.
Because those Emma in disguise in life are sad.
A simple Emma, trapped in the sorrow of the times, society, reality and ideals, can't she treat those so-called "immoral customs" lightly? In short, Charlie, the client, take it leniently.
"Madame Bovary" is a work that makes men understand women better, women understand love better, married people understand marriage better, and everyone can appreciate the sadness of the contradiction between reality and romantic ideals.
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