A great Frenchman has completed a lifetime journey in just 43 years, leaving outstanding works and thought-provoking paragraphs for future generations. Life has brought him more pain and suffering. He struggled in this turbulent river, and at the same time, he harvested a bay of clear water spewing out from the depths of his heart. With his pen and paper, he recorded the hard life of the middle and lower classes in France, the heroic struggle and fearless spirit of the French people during the Franco-Prussian War, and the money worship that spread in France and all capitalist countries at that time. He is the famous French writer guy de maupassant.
Mo Bosang was born in a declining aristocratic family. His poor life since childhood made him deeply understand the hardships and sufferings of the petty bourgeoisie and the proletariat, and also made him recognize the mercenary forces of the bourgeoisie.
In his portfolio, there are two works with similar names and contents: necklace and jewelry.
The Necklace is one of Mo Bosang's most famous short stories. It tells the story of Mrs. Lowasser Mathilde, the housewife of a small staff family? The story of Luo wasser. She is outstanding in appearance, unwilling to live a dull life, and is bent on pursuing the glitz of the upper class. Once, she had the opportunity to attend a party attended by high-class people. In order to show off at the party, she was still dissatisfied with her appearance and decoration after forcing her husband to spend 400 francs on new clothes. At the reminder of her husband, she borrowed a beautiful diamond necklace from her good friend. As expected, Mathilde? Lowasser became a dazzling star at the party, and his vanity was greatly satisfied. However, who knows that joy begets sorrow? She lost her necklace on her way home. In order not to let friends find out, she and her husband had to spend tens of thousands of francs to buy the same one and return it to their friends first. As a result, they were heavily in debt, so they began to tighten their belts and work hard. After ten years of hard life, they finally paid off all their debts, but what about Mathilde? Luo wasser became old and ugly. Occasionally, she met her friend, who didn't recognize her. She told her friend about her experience. The friend was surprised and told her that the necklace she borrowed was fake, and it was worth 500 francs at most. The story came to an abrupt end here, but it left us with infinite thinking space. A necklace, a vanity, ten years, a bitter life, the price of vanity is so great. The ending of the story is unexpected, but it is reasonable to think about it carefully. The novel makes people feel that vanity brings harm to people, but at the same time, we can't help but marvel at the author's superb writing art.
Jewelry tells the story of a poor shop assistant, Langdan, who died suddenly after living happily with his beloved wife for six years. When he was obsessed with his dead wife, he was in great pain, but unexpectedly found that the jewelry that his dead wife loved to show off and blinded herself as a fake was all priceless treasures without exception, and his dead wife's infidelity to this relationship can be seen. Faced with a dazzling array of jewels, this kind-hearted man with feelings and righteousness finally chose the latter under the choice of conscience and money.
Mathilde in a necklace? Luo wasser's story can be summarized as "vanity once costs a lifetime". Luo wasser reaped the consequences for his vanity, and finally lost his efforts and youth. But behind the work, the author's heart is on Mrs. Lowasser's side. She is hardworking, brave and courageous. In a sense, she is even the author's hope. Compared with those who eat, drink and are short-sighted, the heroine of this novel is more responsible for her actions and thus controls her own destiny. Even though the unexpected ending shows the author's helplessness in reality, the author always sympathizes with Mrs. Lowasser more than hates, and hopes more than disappointments.
On the other hand, the hero of the jewelry industry, Mr. Langdan. Before his beloved wife died, he was a real, dignified and affectionate husband. However, under the double blow of his wife's unexpected death and cruel reality, his mind began to degenerate, and his shame was like a broken kite. Regardless of the contempt and ridicule of the clerk and everyone, he sold all his ex-wife's gold and silver for attractive money, and even shamelessly boasted about his luck in inheriting the inheritance. There is no lack of sympathy for the poor people who fall at the feet of money, but more is to expose the cruelty of the capitalist system to human nature.
Necklace jewelry is just a mirror used to map people's hearts and illuminate the changes of human nature. Facing this mirror, we need to hold our breath, look at ourselves in the mirror and think about what our beliefs are.