The wife was so frightened that she slipped and fell in a pool of blood in the attic, and the keys fell to the ground. She picked up the key, hurried out of the room, changed out of her bloody clothes, and took the blood-stained key to the sink to rinse.

However, then she realized that the blood stains of the little golden key could not be washed away, and when one side was washed, the blood would seep from the other side. His wife was desperate, but Bluebeard returned home and asked her to return the keys when he entered the door. ”

"Wife killed?" Bai Yi asked.

"No," Bai Ling shook his head, "and she rushed to the high platform of the castle and called out to her three brothers, who came on horseback and assassinated Bluebeard in the castle, and that was the end of the story. ”

"So, you say that people always fall in the same places, is it because ......" Bai Yi paused for a moment, "people can never control their curiosity and voyeurism." ”

"It's a pretty standard wife perspective." Bai Ling raised his eyes and said in a low voice.

"...... wife's perspective?"

"It's perfectly okay to understand it this way, after all, once the text comes out, the right to interpret it is in the hands of the reader." Bai Ling said softly, "This story was originally a bloody folklore, but it was later changed into a fairy tale about good and evil. It is not only to warn children not to have too much curiosity, or not to be seduced by the rhetoric of strange men, and the only real trustworthy person is family members, and so on.

Bai Ling smiled and shook his head,

“…… But," Bai Ling looked at Bai Yi again, "almost everyone will put themselves or the people around them into the perspective of their wives when they first hear this story. For example, the above moral is almost all about advising potential 'wives' on what you should do to save yourself from being killed by Bluebeard. ”

“…… Have it? ”

"Yes," said Bai Ling softly, "just like people who listen to the story of the wolf coming, they usually put themselves in the shoes of the child who herds the sheep, and most people think, 'Ah, I can't lie like him, or I'll be eaten,' and very few people think—'Ah, even if a child lies, I shouldn't have punished him so harshly.'" ”

Bai Yi smiled dumbly, "So what ......are you substituting in this story?" ”

Bai Ling also laughed, "Actually, if you choose to take the perspective of Bluebeard, throw away all the specific characters in this story, and treat each character and key props as a metaphor one by one, this story will become more interesting than teaching people to protect themselves."

"Don't you think it's strange that if Bluebeard really doesn't want his wife to see his attic, then why did he leave the golden key while leaving her alone at home?

In fact, he not only left the key, but also left a special warning of 'never go'...... Isn't this a guide to the wife to explore the little room in the attic? If he just wanted to kill his wife, why did he have to set up such a test, until his wife failed, and then turned into a demon to take her life. ”

Billing paused, "Speaking of people who always fall in the same places, Bluebeard is the one who repeats the wrong deeds again and again in this story, isn't he?" ”

Bai Yi thought for a moment and shook his head frankly, "...... I don't quite understand, are you doing Bluebeard's criminal motive speculation? ”

"No," Bai Ling lowered his eyes and smiled, "I just said, we can put aside the specific people and understand the characters and key props in the story as metaphors......

"The marriage of Bluebeard and the Maiden is like two strangers entering into a relationship;

"The castle where Bluebeard lives, and every room in it, is in fact his past and present;

"And what do you think it means to be on the top floor of the attic, a small room full of corpses that can't be revealed?"

Bai Yi only had some faint understanding at this time, "...... Meaning, some secrets. ”

Bai Ling nodded, "Yes, it means some secrets that can never be told to others. ”

She continued, "If we understand all the deaths in the story as the end of a relationship, then the corpses hidden in the attic in the story are easy to understand, they are grief that has not been properly handled. So the corpses were not buried in the ground, but continued to be placed in the castle where the subject lived, and was usually locked with a golden key, but the person always knew that something was hanging over his head.

"And the longer a person hides such a secret, the more secret he hides, the more he hopes that someone will be able to see it and be able to understand it."

Bai Ling said softly, "But Bluebeard is a coward, and he doesn't dare to take anyone to see his wounds—if he takes the initiative to ask, will the girl refuse?" Even if she didn't refuse, would the girl be shocked in front of him? What if the maiden could not bear all this, and after seeing this scene, she immediately ran away and revealed his secrets? ”

"So he made a very cunning decision, he left a decoy and left. In this way, he will always occupy the moral high ground - if the maiden does not keep the agreement, he can kill her according to the previous oath. In a way, this is also a kind of control that Bluebeard seeks over life. ”

"I think that Bluebeard in the story is waiting for two outcomes, one is that his wife really keeps the promise and keeps the key to the door of fear for him without prying eyes; In the second case, the wife secretly opened the door, but she was not intimidated by the contents of the room, so she did not let the key fall into a pool of blood from beginning to end, and came out very calmly...... Both of these results would allow Bluebeard and his wife to continue living in the castle. ”

However, both outcomes are against human nature.

"Again and again, he stubbornly tried to put others to the test, and in the end he could only get one corpse after another. Until one time he met a hard stubble, and then was finally killed by the other party - you can also understand the killing here in various meanings. ”

"Bluebeard threw the bait, so he couldn't blame his wife for biting the hook, because his wife was just an ordinary person like him, and it would make Bluebeard feel scared, and naturally it would make her feel scared...... It's so normal. ”

Speaking of this, Bai Ling tilted his head slightly, reached out and gently wiped his right cheek.

"So this is a guy who makes the same mistake in the relationship from beginning to end without knowing it, proposing, going to the castle, giving the keys, going out, and finally killing his wife...... This has become his inherent pattern. ”

"Many people can see Bluebeard's shadow in their stories to a greater or lesser extent, because people are so fond of putting others to the test that they don't want to face the consequences of their own hands."

Bai Yi leaned back in his chair again, he quietly recalled the story told by Bai Ling, and couldn't help but sigh, "...... When you think about it this way, the story is really interesting. It's a shame that people from your discipline don't write about it. ”

"Yes," said Boling, "to be reasonable, although Freud has been abandoned by modern psychology, his psychoanalysis is still a powerful tool for textual analysis today. It's always fascinating to look for metaphors in old stories like this. ”

Bai Ling smiled, and she held the edge of the well with both hands, and whispered to end the story.

"I'm a little curious, though, what would you do if you were Bluebeard, Bai Yi?"