The French romantic writer Victor Hugo is known as the "Shakespeare of France".
Once, on a visit to Notre-Dame Cathedral, he found a hand-carved Greek word on the wall of the bell tower: fate.
The vicissitudes of life in this dark corner but powerful nicks made Hugo shudder.
Later, he used this ancient building as a backdrop to create itNotre Dame de Paris
*, Hugo uses brilliant and wonderful brushstrokes to tell the tragic story of the fate of several poor people in the collision of beauty and ugliness, and the blending of good and evil.
All this seems to be a definite fate, but in fact it is also full of variables dictated by human nature.
After reading Notre Dame Cathedral, you will understand:
Don't beautify human nature, don't belittle yourself.
Claude, Bishop of Notre-Dame, was determined to dedicate himself to God from an early age.
After the death of both his parents, he raised his infant brother alone, and later, out of pity, adopted the deformed outcast Cahimordo.
His life of self-denial is disrupted by the sudden appearance of an Egyptian girl dancing in the square, Esmeralda.
The girl was as beautiful as an angel, but in Claude's eyes, she was a devil sent by Satan to lead people to fall.
Claude was ashamed of his temptation, and deliberately cursed loudly to cover up his weakness when he watched her dance.
However, Claude, who has always prided himself as "noble", was soon devoured by **.
He led Cachimordo to attack in the middle of the night in an attempt to kidnap Esmeralda, but was unsuccessful.
After that, he tried every possible means to find out the news of the girl.
From the "dog hole" of the inn, he peeked into the girl and her lover embracing each other, and immediately became jealous, stabbed his lover with a dagger and fled.
Esmeralda was tried as a murderer, but instead of using his position to excuse the poor girl, he went to the dungeon to show his heart.
Claude tells the girl that he can save her, if she accepts his love for hell.
But the girl resolutely refused, and Claude's self-esteem was frustrated and he became angry.
Despite the heartache, he still chose to let the girl be hanged.
Casimaldo appeared out of nowhere and rescued Esmeralda to take refuge in Notre Dame.
After this, Claude abandoned his duties and locked himself in a dark room, peeking through the window every day at the girl in the vault.
Possessiveness burned and scorched his heart.
At last, he kidnapped the girl from Notre-Dame, weeping bitterly and begging her to favor her, but again refused.
He violently suppressed the girl, forcing her to choose between death and committing herself to herself, and the girl would rather die than give in.
Claude is completely insane and hangs his sweetheart who can't get it.
Claude pursued and upheld divinity for half his life, but when he experienced the pain of not being able to love, he revealed his selfish and cruel nature.
After all, we are all mortal flesh and blood, and human nature may be good, but it must also be flawed.
Crime and Punishment once wrote: "A man can torture sin out of whiteness, and he can torture out whiteness out of sin." ”
People are born to step on the boundary between light and shadow, swaying left and right according to their experiences and choices.
Some people are tormented by life, but they insist on growing for good; There are also people who fall into the abyss of evil with a little **.
It is difficult to distinguish between good and evil, beautify human nature, and trust others will bury hidden dangers for yourself.
The human heart is unpredictable, and the test of human nature is to lure the sleeping devil and eventually ignite the fire**.
Walking in the world, don't over-beautify human nature, don't test human nature easily.
Esmeralda is an orphan, and finding her parents has always been her wish.
When the ugly and savage Caimoro attacks her, the tall and handsome patrol captain Faubis rescues her.
Since then, the figure of this prince charming has been engraved into the girl's mind.
At the inn, the old Fubis launched a sweet attack on her.
The half-life wandering girl has just opened her love, thinking that love is everything.
She said fervently to Faubis, "Since you love me, you are my mother." ”
However, Claude appears and stabs Faubis, causing Esmeralda to faint in fright.
When she wakes up, she is accused of murder, and she is worried about the life and death of Faubis despite defending herself.
Finally, while she was waiting to be hanged in the square, she saw Faubis standing on the balcony of the house.
She trembled with excitement and shouted out the name she had said so many times.
However, her crush into the house with the beautiful fiancée next to her and closed the floor-to-ceiling windows of the balcony.
After being rescued by Cachimordo, Esmeralda spent her days tossing and turning in the vault.
She kept excusing Faubis in her heart, relieving herself with flawed excuses.
Later, Esmeralda was kidnapped from Notre-Dame by Claude and was once again on the verge of being hanged.
With the help of her biological mother, whom she unexpectedly recognized, she evaded the interrogation of the cavalry.
She had a chance to escape and be the beautiful and free dancer somewhere else.
At this moment, however, she heard the familiar voice of Faubis.
She lost her mind and desperately called out to Faubis, leaning out of the window to catch a glimpse of her lover.
But Faubis had already ridden away, and she had exposed her hiding place.
She ran to love at any cost, and she was destined to run to the gallows of destruction.
Esmeralda's tragedy lies in the failure to see the false love that Faubis has for her.
Love is like a box of beautifully packaged candies, but when you taste it, you realize that it is a magical box of multi-flavored beans.
Those who blindly overestimate love will eventually taste bitterness; Those who know their lovers clearly will return to sweetness.
Love is only a spice in life, not a magic against suffering.
If you have love, you get everything, that's a fairy tale; With love, give everything, that's poetry.
Blindly pushing love to the altar will only break your head in front of the cold reality.
Haruki Murakami once said: "The best state for two people to be together is probably to be affectionate and not entangled." ”
With too much hope and too much enthusiasm, it is inevitable that the accountant will be entangled and entangled.
It's better to hide the deep affection in the bottom of your heart, know how to operate, don't rely on, and fulfill each other.
Casimordo was born one-eyed, hunchbacked, lame, and later became deaf by ringing the bell.
He was born to suffer the eyes and scolding of the world, but he was docile and loyal to Claude, who raised him.
Following his adoptive father's orders, he attacked Esmeralda at night, but was captured and tied up for public display under the scorching sun.
However, no matter how much he begged for water, the people around him just kept mocking and throwing stones at him.
At this moment, Esmeralda, whom he had attacked, parted the crowd of black oppressors, and with a bright light, handed the kettle to his lips.
From his ugly one-eyed, bean-sized tears flowed, and he fell in love with this girl.
After rescuing Esmeralda to Notre-Dame, Caimaldo took care of her with care.
In order to contact his sweetheart for the girl, he endured his sadness and waited in the cold wind for half the night.
But in the end, because he didn't want the girl to be sad, he didn't expose the other party's frivolous face.
In the face of the girl's uncharacteristically sharp scolding, he disappeared from the girl's face in a funny way, hiding in the shadows to protect her.
After learning that Esmeralda had been rescued, Claude went to the refuge in the Notre-Dame Tower in an attempt to trivialize her.
Cachimordo was able to control the gangster in time, but soon he recognized his adoptive father.
He was so frightened that he retreated, allowing Claude to punch and kick him.
When his adoptive father motioned for him to get out, he knelt down at the girl's door, presented the knife to Claude, and asked him to kill himself first.
In desperation, Esmeralda snatched the knife and pointed it at Claude, who fled in a daze.
After Claude kidnapped Esmeralda from Notre-Dame, Cahemodo, who had guessed the truth, still followed Claude hesitantly, not daring to come forward to ask for an explanation.
Until witnessing the former priest, staring at the slender girl on the gallows who swayed like a fallen leaf, laughed out loud.
He froze completely, making sure that the person in front of him had already turned into a devil, so he pushed Claude off the bell tower with all his might.
Casimordo's humility certainly has an element of unfair fate, but it is also his contempt for himself that causes him to have no dignity in his relationship.
The final outbreak allowed him to break free from the shackles that bound him all his life, but unfortunately it was too late.
Despising oneself is a strange circle.
is afraid of loneliness, so he deliberately caters to the group he doesn't like, curling up in the little warmth of others' charity;
Obsessed with fame, he grovels to please the high-ranking people, and is complacent with their sarcastic smiles.
But we ignore that everything needs to be exchanged for equivalence.
If you can't provide high-level value yourself, and if you just blindly lower your profile, you will be used by others as a "tool" to gain a sense of superiority.
And living in an environment that is looked down upon by others for a long time makes it even more difficult to understand yourself correctly, let alone improve yourself.
The heroine Zhen Huan has a famous saying: "People are precious and self-respecting." ”
Firmly believing that he is worthy and cultivating hard, Ono chrysanthemum also has a blooming summer.
The curtain is lowered, and some people succumb to the **, exposing their ugly nature; Some people deliver sincerity, but they are ruthlessly disappointed; There are people who humble their lives, and even if they finally awaken, they will lose everything they love.
After reading the pain and struggle of the people in the book, I can't help but sigh at the unpredictability of human nature.
Sincere giving, may not be able to exchange for gentle treatment, you must know how to lower expectations;
Giving up self-esteem may lead to arbitrary manipulation, and you have to learn to be self-respecting and self-reliant.
A person's strength starts from underestimating human nature and overestimating oneself.
May we all be able to penetrate people's hearts, love freely, and live decently in the twists and turns of fate.