Should you be alarmed or rejoiced when you find yourself able to escape the whole world and everyone, living alone, with animals as your company, and your hands on your own?
Modern life and society are so stressful that most people would be glad to have the opportunity to isolate themselves from complex social relationships and heavy responsibilities and live only for themselves.
* "The Hidden Wall" is based on the reality that although the protagonist does not live in the same era as us, the subconscious desire for freedom hidden deep in his heart is the same.
One morning,The hero suddenly finds that the country house she lives in is cut off from the outside world by a transparent wall.,She can no longer see anyone but herself.,Can't hear the radio.,Can't play **.,The whole world seems to be just herself.。
Written in the thirties and forties of the last century, the author writes in the form of a memoir about her life since she found herself cut off from the outside world, after living in isolation for more than two years.
Watching "The Hidden Wall" is like watching another version of "Robinson Crusoe". But the author's deep thoughts reflected in this book are completely different.
Robinson Crusoe is about a hapless seafarer who lives alone on a deserted island after a storm,** with a focus on overcoming the difficulties of being far away from civilization.
"Hidden Wall" depicts the story of the protagonist who is inadvertent and isolated, and uses sufficient materials and production tools to start a new life smoothly.
Robinson's longing to return to human society, while the protagonist of "The Hidden Wall" is happy to accept the status quo, reflecting the author's own inner desire for solitude.
The author found a hunting dog and a cow in the first few days after finding out that she was quarantined, which gave her companionship and food**.
Reading the context of the whole story, one has a feeling that the protagonist does not seem to have accidentally fallen into a desperate situation, but as if she has finally fulfilled a wish in her heart.
When she owned these two animals, "I began to feel like the head of our strange family. "This strange combination gave her a sense of belonging.
She later adopted a cat, and the relationship between the cat and the hound, which the author describes in the book as "like an emotional wife to her clumsy husband." ”
All this allows the protagonist of ** to find a sense of home, but the family members are not people, but cats, dogs and cows.
The author writes that the protagonist has been widowed for many years, and her two daughters have grown up**, in fact, she has long lived a life of isolation. She longs for family, for the feeling of having a master, but not for being with other people.
This feeling of the protagonist may stem from her low self-esteem in front of her relatives and friends, and the villa she lives in belongs to her cousin, a beautiful and independent woman, and her cousin-in-law, who is a wealthy businessman.
The details of the protagonist's life before he was trapped in a desperate situation are not described too much in the book, but there are various signs that she lived in the countryside with her mother when she was a child, and she was very familiar with harvesting and **, which shows that she did not live a good life.
The author repeatedly mentions in **: "The lynx (hunting dog) is the closest to me, he is not only a hunting dog, but also a friend of mine. "It's better to leave me alone. "I don't see the difference in carrying an imposed burden like all animals and eventually dying like an animal? ”
All this shows that the protagonist originally wanted to leave all people and things away and live in the forest with animals. When we read:"I love living in the forest now, it's hard to leave again, and if I can survive on that side of the wall, I'll come back. ”
The author's true intention to write this ** has been undoubtedly revealed, she is actually advocating a life away from the crowd and integrating into nature.
This life of being cut off from other people even makes the protagonist have a fear of humans, and she repeatedly mentions the death of the hound because of the significant impact it had on her life and heart. And the hound was killed by a stranger who suddenly appeared in front of her door one day, reflecting the author's belief that getting too close to someone else would only bring harm.
At the end of the story, the protagonist of ** kills the stranger who intrudes with a shotgun and continues to live a lonely and free life.
This book is like a combination of "Robinson Crusoe" and "Walden", with the conquest and transformation of nature, but also the desire to integrate with nature, and reading some of the details can feel a kind of idyllic beauty through the author's description of the hardships of life in the wild.