I wrote "Paradise Tragedy" Zhang Baotong 2016.7.30

After reading the love tragedy of "Romeo and Juliet", I will inevitably have some regrets: how good it would be if this pair of lovers who are like heaven and earth can become dependents! And "Paradise Tragedy" I wrote is an even more tragic love story caused by the marriage of two tragic characters, as if to confirm that "marriage is the grave of love". Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

In Western earthly love, this tragic story is almost as famous as "Romeo and Juliet". Anyone who has read Abelard's History of My Sufferings and his collection of letters with Eloise Whispers from the Temple, or watched the movie Whispers from the Temple, will be familiar with this tragic story. I am dedicating this story to you in the form of a novella, so that everyone can understand the profound background of the tragedy of their originally beautiful love from the society and religion of the Middle Ages, and encourage our people to cherish love more and treat marriage well.

The hero's name is Abelard, an iconic figure in the era of academic renaissance in Europe in the 12th century, the founder of scholasticism, the pioneer of the Renaissance, and one of the most individual and legendary figures in the group of philosophers, the author of "Christian Theology", "Know Thyself", "Yes or No", "Introduction to Theology" and "My History of Suffering". However, it is not his academic achievements that make Abelard known, but the tragedy of his love affair with Eloise. The heroine, Eloise, is a talented Parisian woman, gifted and beautiful, fluent in Latin, Greek and Hebrew, and highly skilled in grammar and rhetoric, a sub-discipline of classical philosophy, and who became famous in Paris at the age of 16. That year, Abelard, a teacher, fell in love with his student Eloise.

The Middle Ages in Europe were a great time. Greek, Roman, Jewish, and Germanic cultures converged at this time, and with the Great Translation Movement, Europeans, who had only been out of barbarism for only a few hundred years, were inflamed with a passion for knowledge, as much as a religious fervor. The agitation in the conflict forms an exciting spirit of the times. Many scholars believe that the intellectual revolution implicit in Abelard's work also took root in Western Europe during the High Middle Ages, and eventually bore fruit. And in the narrative of his love affair with Eloise, in those shocking words, we will find that their ideas are very close to modern ideas, but they are incompatible with medieval times. This is the main cause of the tragedy in their lives. Of all the love stories of the Middle Ages, only the tragic love between Abelard and Eloise is the strongest. They set out towards the best wishes in love, towards the most lingering ending, but in the end, they were destroyed. For this reason, in 1461, the famous French poet François Villon wrote the following poem in "Song of the Ladies of the Past": ?

Where is the learned woman Eloise?

For her sake, Pierre Abelard was castrated

He also became a monk in St. Denis

It was love that made him so unlucky

Last year's snow, now it's here??

Abelard was not only a rigorous spiritual philosopher, but also a lone wanderer who dared to love and hate. He boldly pursued love despite the traditional constraints of medieval clergy celibacy and forbidding marriage, and paid a terrible price for it, becoming a victim of medieval Christianity, but it was this catastrophe that made him great.

The Middle Ages was a time of great religious rise and fervor, and there were many stories of clergy suffering from conflicts between the spirit and the flesh, and the love that happened to them all ended in tragedy. They are victims of the ideological tyranny and asceticism of the Church. What is unusual is that of all these love stories, only Abelard and Eloise freely choose their fate in a typically existential attitude. That's why their stories are all the more tragic. In fact, among the many Christian theologians, there is hardly a theologian who, like Abelard, would have been criticized by posterity for the sake of a public case. Even many non-Christians will present him as a fighter against the theocracy of medieval Christianity and freedom through love. And the people in the church condemned him as a sinner because of his love and marriage to Eloise. While people are commenting on him, Abelard is lamented by his ill-fated and miserable life. Otherwise, Eloise will lament that "marriage is the grave of love" when lamenting life.

"Paradise Tragedy" is a novel written in the form of foreign literature, telling the story from various aspects such as the background of the times, the personality of the characters and the description of the plot, revealing the tragic character of the characters and showing the tragic fate of the characters. Through this tragedy of love and marriage, more people can deepen their understanding of love and marriage, feel that love and marriage are not easy to come from, and should be more cherished and more tolerant of love and marriage. Because love and marriage are the most profound and direct reasons for the impact on our fate and life, concealing and triggering our happiness and sorrow, just like two buttons of different natures, once pressed wrong, our fate and life will change. Therefore, we must be in awe of love and marriage, and be solemn. But fortunately, we are far from the Middle Ages, and love and marriage are no longer bound and repressed by religion. Tolerance and tolerance allow us to freely choose our love and marriage. But that doesn't mean we can be careless and casual about the love and marriage we choose.

A relationship in love and marriage is a relationship between two people, a relationship in which one person should treat another. We were moved by the self-sacrifice and dedication of the two men in the story. In particular, Eloise's sacrifice for Abelard can be described as a kind of loyalty and greatness that touches the world. That's beyond the reach of people in our time. However, this kind of sacrifice is also too cruel and a pity for us to be saddened by. This is the tyranny and helplessness of that era, and it is also the tragedy of that era.

Our lives and lives are unremarkable, but love can make our lives and lives colorful, but it can also make us sad. How can we make our lives happy and happy? How can we avoid the tragic and tragic endings of love and marriage for us? Maybe after reading this novel, you will have a deeper understanding and experience.