Chapter 398: Carmen
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The loss of all kinds of passports, documents, money, and mobile phones will bring endless troubles to yourself, studying abroad, traveling, and life.
I have a friend's daughter studying in the UK, and her boyfriend want to take advantage of the summer vacation to go to Europe to play, but the young man in love is also too happy, just out of Paris Charles de Gaulle International Airport, the wallet was stolen, passport, student card, bank card, credit card and cash are gone, it took a month and a half to complete the passport, etc., before returning to the UK.
Therefore, in the face of Ping Hanhan, who was at a loss, Ping Guo hurriedly said, hurry, first, report the loss by phone or online banking, ABN AMRO credit cards, bank cards. Second, call the police. Third, put the suitcase back in the student apartment.
Pingguo is really tired, and his waist is so painful that he can't stand up.
Ping Hanhan hurriedly used his mobile phone to call, but he couldn't get through. Internet banking, the signal is not strong, and you can't enter the system.
She said, Mom, why don't we go back to our accommodation first? It's only five minutes away from here, and the important thing is that the Wi-Fi signal in the room is strong, so I can report the loss quickly.
Boom la la ~ stabbing ~ The mother and daughter trotted along the sidewalk and even on the bicycle path dragging their suitcases.
When I got to a high-rise building, my daughter said, "Wait, I'll get the key."
A minute later, Ping Hanhan ran back with a bunch of keys, carried a bag, ran to the underground corridor, swiped the card, and the iron door opened.
Pingguo thought, hello, Spoo, I'm coming! Apartment, hello, I'm coming!
Everything is the most advanced, modern and networked new objects to make up this student apartment, which is very satisfying to Pingguo, no wonder my daughter will say that what she desires the most is: "In the most lovely, modern and comfortable room I have lived in in the ten years of wandering, I will entertain you, my mother." ”
took out his mobile phone and turned on the computer, Ping Hanhan suddenly called in surprise: "Oh, Mom, look, my Dutch bank card has not been stolen, you see, I put it in the plastic case of the mobile phone, and the mobile phone is in your backpack!"
Pingguo is also very happy, unbelievable~
With money, when you go out, you will have a sense of security, security, and happiness.
Report the loss online, and then report it by phone, ABN AMRO said: "The new bank credit card will be sent to your new address in France within five days, please rest assured!"
Then, then, the young Dutchman said, there are more people in Sburg, so be careful when you go out.
Pingguo hurriedly went to Wi-Fi and checked what a Cigang person was.
After a check, I realized that the Tsgangs turned out to be Roma, that is, gypsies.
Speaking of gypsies, Pingo immediately thinks of the two beautiful gypsy girls in Mérimée's "Carmen" and Hugo's "Notre Dame de Paris" who are warm, kind, and able to sing and dance.
Prospe Mérimée was born on September 28, 1803, and was born under the sign of Libra on the same day and month as Pingo. He was a French realist writer, playwright, and historian. His main works include the collection of plays "The Plays of Clara Gasur", the historical drama "Jacques", the novel "The Anecdotes of Charles IX", and the short stories "Golomba", "Carmen", and "The Beauty of Il".
Mérimée was born into a wealthy family of intellectuals in Paris, France.
In 1819 he entered the University of Paris to study law, mastering English, Spanish, Italian, Russian, Greek, and Latin, and dabbling in classical literature, philosophy, and mystical ideas.
In 1829, over a period of more than a year, he wrote a succession of successful novellas, the most famous of which is "Matteo Falconi", which became one of his representative works.
Carmen in the novella "Carmen" is a gypsy girl who can sing and dance, has a bewitching appearance, and has a pungent and somewhat evil personality. Under the cover of working in textile mills, fortune telling, and performing arts, she acts as the eyes and ears of a secret bandit syndicate, ignoring the laws of the authorities and taking pleasure in breaking them. She sometimes annoyed foreign officers at the port docks, and smuggled smuggled goods through jungles and canyons. She ignored chastity and morality, used hue as a weapon for profit, freely entered and exited the mansions of wealthy families, and walked the rivers and lakes, causing those rich tycoons to lose their wealth and die in her ten thousand amorous styles. She can kill the female workers who quarrel with her, and she can repay Don José for saving her. Her bohemian life gave the impression of her cunning habits and a certain cruelty and horror, and even Don José, who was obsessed with her, had to repeat: "If there were any fairies in the world, this girl would be one of them." ”
From the plot point of view, Carmen is a dissolute and evil gypsy girl, but the author's portrayal of Carmen does not stay on the surface of the life plot, but through her relationship with other characters and the relationship between the characters and society, she is improved to a deeper and more complex level, to carry out social, historical and aesthetic observation, and deeply reveal the connotation and social essence of life in many aspects, so as to confirm the value of witnesses, and on this basis, show the struggle between beauty and ugliness. The contrast between the sublime and the lowly, thus discovering and expressing the protagonist's spirit and beautiful soul who is forced to be free, thus shaping Carmen into a "flower of evil" who pursues freedom in life.
The soldier Don José was a prodigal son of a rundown aristocratic background, who was faithful to his duties, conformist, accustomed to thinking and acting according to the laws of the world, only to be forced by his fascination with Carmen's beauty to change the course of his life, and to become involved and conform to that unfettered "free" life. However, as soon as he betrayed his society, he began to regret that he had become a "villain", dishonoring the banner of the military and becoming a deserter. Committed a capital offense. buried the prospect of promotion and fortune.
He felt that since Carmen had lost everything he had, Carmen should be completely his. As a result, Don José, completely dominated by a mad possessiveness, shows increasing selfishness and domineering towards Carmen. He demanded that Carmen be completely at his mercy, that he should abandon what he considered to be a bohemian life, that he treat Carmen as his private property, and that Carmen should be submissive, dependent, and respectful to him.
Carmen did not succumb to Don José's coercion and temptation, and was finally killed by Don José in order to pursue his independence and freedom, in order to be true to his personality and ideals. In a sense, her death has a strong tragic color.
In the end, Mérimée completes the artistic image of Carmen with such an ending: Don José is the author who makes a tragic death after a mockery from Carmen's mouth, killing the person he loves the most, and then dying on the gallows of the government with nothing. He made an account of his own society that he had betrayed, and his death was disgraced by his society and spurned by the Carmen family. Regardless of which side he once belonged to, he was a "waste" to be ridiculed.
Mérimée's interpretation of the theme is finally sublimated here: Carmen can give her chastity without care in order to repay her kindness, and she can sell her hue without hesitation in order to cheat money. This is obviously not tolerated by morality and ethics. But Mérimée does not mean to criticize her, the author's real intention is to use Carmen's unchastity to show her the kind of moral sincerity and the return to the simplicity of "human nature", and to use that barbaric form to express the strength of life and self-consciousness. On a deeper level, Carmen's infidelity is different from the sensuality of capitalist civilization, she is not the kind of hypocrisy that conceals natural nature, but a kind of innocence that comes from natural nature. It truly embodies such a moral scene, that is, the increasingly strict moral law brought about by the development of civilization will inevitably constitute a stronger constraint on "human nature". And to get rid of this bondage comes at the cost of the abolition of the moral law. Truly "ethical" behavior should break the old moral order and fully safeguard the dignity of individuality and the sense of whiteness. So, when the law has become a tool of abuse, Mérimée arranges two different endings for Don José and Carmen.
When reading the novel Carmen, Pingo particularly admired Mérimée's adoption of a point of view narrative that was not common at the time, the so-called inward-focused narrative. It is divided into two narrative layers, with two characters taking on the narrator's tasks. The two narratives give the story a different tone, giving the story a double theme. When the reader looks at Carmen through the eyes of Don José, he gets the impression of not being able to grasp love, which seems to be a symbol of the meaning of life, and when the reader listens to the amateur historian's account, he sees a tragedy between a gypsy girl and a descendant of an aristocracy in the clash of two cultures.
This peculiar tension is entirely in line with the characteristics of Mérimée's time: the extreme opposition between reason and passion.
Mérimée was a French writer that Pingo loved. It can always awaken the inner sinking of human beings when it is terrifying. On the one hand, the collective interests of mankind and the public order of society need to be safeguarded by law and morality, and on the other hand, civilized people blindly restrain their desires and seek spiritual and spiritual transcendence, which fundamentally curbs life and produces countless sufferings. Barbarian ethics find a balance point, with the addition of heterogeneous cultures to activate a stable but mediocre civilization.
This is the preference for gypsies and mysteries, strange things and peculiar personalities in the romantic character of Mérimée's novels. For example, Mérimée said of the Russian writer Turgenev: "No one is so good at making the mind shudder through the hazy strangeness, and in the half-light and half-darkness of the bizarre story, let people see the whole world of uneasy, unstable, aggressive things." ”
It is for this reason that Pingo loves the mystical beauty of romanticism in Mérimée's novels, as well as Mérimée's implicit critique of the Gypsy's marginal way of being. It is also believed that divination, stealing, robbery, and other behaviors that conflict with civilized morality obviously determine that it is difficult for them to fully enjoy freedom and happiness in their wandering life. Of course, Pinggo also believes that these behavioral choices of the wandering Gypsies are also related to the discrimination and oppression of Eurocentric culture.
Only now, can it really be judged that it was the gypsies?
Pingo thinks that no. You have to be realistic about everything.