The incarnation in Notre Dame de Paris;
Under an extremely ugly body, there is a thrilling beauty. Who put two such contradictory forms together? That's quasimodo.
1, the contrast between external ugliness and spiritual beauty
Quasimodo looks extremely ugly.
"Tetrahedral nose, horseshoe-shaped mouth, eyebrows as thick as grass stuck on the left eye, a big sarcoma completely covered the right eye, teeth scattered all over the floor, missing a corner in the east and a corner in the west, which is better than the battlements of the city wall. A tusk as long as ivory sticks out a thick cocoon lip and his chin splits. "
"Such a grotesque shape shows some formidable strength, agility and courage, as well as intentional ridicule and beauty from the eternal law of harmony."
Just under this ugly body, there is some terrible power, just like a tiger waiting for the opportunity to explode. The fuse was Esmeralda.
In the image of quasimodo, Hugo contrasts the ugliness of appearance with the goodness and beauty of heart, so that readers can intuitively feel the beauty of quasimodo's soul and quasimodo's strength and strength, because he dares to challenge secular laws and despise secular evils, and a beautiful heart is wrapped under his ugly appearance.
2. The contrast between sublime beauty and tragedy.
Tragedy is a form of beauty. In Hugo's Notre Dame de Paris, Hugo brings readers strong feelings of grief, sadness, reverence and regret in this beautiful form. Hugo expressed the strong contrast between beauty and ugliness in the aesthetic form of tragedy, and exposed the evil of ugliness by destroying beautiful things, thus bringing readers a strong sense of beauty.
Esmeralda is the embodiment of beauty. Her appearance is beautiful, her heart is beautiful, and her yearning for love is beautiful, but such a beautiful person has a tragic ending. Esmeralda's love is a tragedy. In this love tragedy, Hugo's principle of contrast between beauty and ugliness is embodied in Esmeralda's loyalty to love and Phoebus's playing with love.
In Notre Dame de Paris, Hugo shows the charm brought by the writing principles of beauty and ugliness by virtue of the two forms of beauty: sublimity and tragedy, and brings readers an aesthetic feast.
3. Comparison of beauty and ugliness between man and nature
The more human society develops, the more man and nature are in opposition. Notre Dame de Paris is undoubtedly the extension and application of Hugo's aesthetic thought of beauty and ugliness in a wider scope.
4. Comparison between different categories
There are people at the bottom of society, such as Esmeralda and quasimodo, and there is also a contrast between the beauty and ugliness of individual images of opposing classes.
For example, quasimodo and Claude, Fabian, and the beauty and ugliness of the whole opposing class, such as poor beggars and nobles,
Wait, these contrasts are complex and changeable, which gives people a strong artistic shock.
Extended data:
Baudelaire's Thought of Opposition
Hugo's contrast principle of beauty and ugliness follows the logic of contrast and does not change the nature of things themselves; Baudelaire took ugliness as beauty and changed the nature of things on both sides of the contradiction.
Both aesthetics are concrete reflections of things. In fact, the application of the two principles of beauty and ugliness and taking ugliness as beauty has not changed the essence of things, but changed the original appearance of things, and they have changed the appearance of things in the opposite direction. "The contrast between beauty and ugliness widens and enlarges the distance between beauty and ugliness, making beauty more beautiful and uglier.
Taking ugliness as beauty shortens the gap between beauty and ugliness, making ugliness not as ugly as before, and also means making beauty not as beautiful as before.
"The contrast between beauty and ugliness, taking ugliness as beauty, is the correct way and effective method to reflect social life artistically." The contrast principle of beauty and ugliness advocates putting two opposing things together for comparison, which effectively highlights the contradiction between them and forms a huge contrast, thus revealing the essential characteristics of the opposition between the two things more deeply.
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