/kloc-In France in the late 20th century, the social atmosphere was selfish and greedy. People are addicted to money and material desires, but they are hypocritically unwilling to admit it. Under this social background, Mo Bosang, a great "master of short stories", wrote classic novels such as Jewel and Necklace.
Whether it is jewelry or necklace, the main line is an ornament, which involves the story of the protagonist walking through the true and false world. In the writers' works, their satire is so strong that it makes people think so deeply.
In contrast, the irony of jewelry is even stronger. It didn't come to an abrupt end like a necklace, but made Mr. Lang Dan paralyzed after discovering his wife's secret and sank into the vanity world again and again.
Jewelry is a companion piece of Necklace, which mainly tells the story of Mr. Lang Dan, the chief clerk of the Ministry of the Interior, and his wife's loving husband and wife, living in harmony. Six years later, Mrs. Langdan died of pneumonia caused by a cold. She has two hobbies in her life: going to the theatre and seeing fake jewelry. After her death, due to poor financial management, Mr. Langdan was hard up. So he tried to make a living by selling his wife's fake jewels, but unexpectedly found that they were all true.
The novel Jewellery is not long, but it has shocked every reader's heart, and it has a sense of "four or two", which makes people dazzled in the real materialistic world, and at the same time realizes that immortal vanity is the initiator behind the moral decline of Langdan and his wife.
0 1 Say "real jewelry" as "fake jewelry", which means that "true love" has become "fake love"
There is a classic poem at the beginning of A Dream of Red Mansions, which is called "When the false is true, it is true, and nothing can be done." The first half of this poem is used to describe Mrs. Langdan in Jewelry, which is indeed quite appropriate.
Mo Bosang described Mrs. Langdan as an "angel", full of charm and a model of a good wife and mother. "
Therefore, readers and Mr. Langdan were deceived by her gentle and pure illusion, thinking that she really respected Mr. Langdan, and taking Qi Mei as an example. However, when the veil of the past was lifted, we realized that behind the fake jewelry was true vanity and fake love.
At first, Mrs. Langdan gave the impression of being a good wife and mother, keeping the house in good order. She treats her husband carefully and intimately, and leads a happy and orderly life. Although her husband didn't like her "love the theatre and fake jewelry", he obeyed her.
All the problems also lie in her two hobbies, because she needs to decorate the theater. So she began to dress herself up and put on a "fake" jewel.
She said to Mr Langdan:
"Dear, when a person can't buy all kinds of real jewelry for himself, he can only rely on his beauty and coquetry for decoration. This is a unique treasure. "
"You let me? What I like is this. This is my fault. I know you have a point, but people can't change their nature. Of course, I love real jewelry more, me! "
Poor Mr. Langdan didn't understand the meaning of Mrs. Langdan's two sentences at that time. He thought she was very funny.
Mrs. Landan's death was not accidental, but inevitable.
After her death, Mr. Langdan's life was in trouble. When he sold the so-called "fake collar", all the truth surfaced. All Mrs. Langdan's jewels are real, but only one thing has become fake, and that is her feelings for Mr. Langdan.
Mrs. Landan can't afford real jewelry herself. Although Mo Bosang didn't say so, the fact is self-evident.
In the face of money, it turns out that love is so fragile, and all the past of love is a mirage at the moment, and in the end it is nothing.
The biggest sorrow of vanity is to step on the cornerstone of vanity and continue vanity.
If Mr. Lang Dan has only read half of this novel, of course we will sympathize with him. However, when the ending comes to an end, all sympathy will turn into disdain.
In fact, Mr. Lang Dan is a vain person, but Mo Bosang didn't give him too much vanity at first in order to highlight the contrast of the ending.
Mr. Langdan's request to marry Mrs. Langdan is not entirely out of instinctive love, but also vanity, because this woman is quiet and gentle, pure and virtuous. People praised her. "Blessed are those who marry her in the future. We can't find a better one. "
Sometimes people's vanity is based on having beautiful things or people.
Mr. Lang Dan's greatest sorrow is not because of his vanity, but because he stepped on another person's vanity and became more vain after being fooled by vanity. Moreover, he is not willing to fall, but willing to sink.
After the jewelry store verified that the jewelry was real, he was depressed and sad. But in the face of money, these have all disappeared.
When he tried to sell all the jewels, even the shop assistants laughed at him.
When he really changed all his jewels into 196000 francs, the shopkeeper sneered and said, "This was left by a man who put all his savings on jewels."
On the contrary, Mr. Lang Dan said solemnly and without shame: "This is a way to save money, just like other methods."
From here on, Mr. Lang Dan's vanity began to escalate. He has learned to become paralyzed and regard the gift from his wife and lover as a natural heritage.
After that, Mr. Lang Dan became more and more interested in the vanity stage like an actor, preaching to people everywhere that he had inherited a large amount of inheritance, and the blurted out figures ranged from "200,000 to 300,000 and then to 400,000". It seems that the vanity stage will not end, and Mr. Langdan will continue to play.
People are like this sometimes. The more they lack in their bones, the more they want to show off. What Mr. Lang Dan just doesn't know is that what he lacks has already been buried with his dead wife, and no amount of money can make up for it.
03 conclusion
Mo Bosang's novel "Jewellery" certainly gives people profound enlightenment.
What kind of moral bottom line should we keep, and how should we keep ourselves in front of vanity humanity? These are the thoughts brought to us by this novel.
It is true that Mrs. Lang Dan, the initiator of this story, should be condemned for betraying her husband's feelings because of vanity.
However, like Mr. Lang Dan, he thought that he stepped on the money ladder to sacrifice his dignity and completed the class transition from poor to rich, but every step was like stepping on cotton, and he felt insecure at all. Is this life really meaningful?
Perhaps this story is to tell us that there is no pie in the sky, and the comfort and happiness gained by taking shortcuts may be an illusion, and the victims themselves know what is sacrificed behind them. We can make up a beautiful lie to deceive others, but how can we deceive ourselves?
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