Madame Bovary ends with this passage. This "he" is Mr. Homer, the only pharmacist in Rong Zhen where Madame Bovary Emma lives. Compared with two lovers directly related to Madame Bovary's death, Rodov and Leon, loan shark Le He and notary Guillaume, Omo can only be regarded as an occasional "Mr. Nice guy". However, any reader can see that Flaubert, who cherishes words like gold, never seems to classify him as an insignificant family, but only spends some time on his pen and ink.
Flaubert's concern for him can also be seen from a debate between Ou Mo and Father Bunyan in front of Emmanuel before his final appearance.
Benjen: Now we should just pray for her;
Omar: Now that God knows what we need, what's the use of praying?
Ou Mo: Christianity only liberated slaves and put forward a moral concept in the world;
Bunyan: No! All the scriptures;
The Bible has been tampered with by the Jesuits.
Omar: You should read Voltaire and Holbach! Read an encyclopedia;
Bunyan: You should read the letter written by Portuguese Jews and The Way of Christianity written by former civil servant Nicholas.
Ou Mo: Priests should get married. How can a man be a girl?
Bunyan: For example, how can you let a married person keep a secret?
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During this period, there were naturally attacks and blushes, and then they ate, drank and laughed in front of Madame Bovary's spirit. "Somehow, people are extremely happy, but they are both sad and happy."
This is also the consistent "image" of Omo in Flaubert's works. As the first character in the second novel, the author also arranged a long preface for him, which is also about religion. "I believe in religion and my own teaching. I dare say I believe it more than any of them. " "They are just putting on airs and playing tricks." "My God is the God of Socrates, Franklin, Voltaire and Bellevue." "Priests are ignorant deadwood, and they insist on pulling the world into the dark bottomless pit with them." ..... Just looking for the audience around me with my eyes, I stopped immediately when I found that there was only the proprietress of Golden Lion Inn. Because when he gets excited, he gets carried away and thinks he is opening a township Council.
In the eyes of the newly arrived Bovary couple, Eumer is a "good neighbor". He introduced various situations in Qirong Town, including cases and climatic conditions, and spared no effort. "It's not difficult to practice medicine here ... and the cost of seeing a doctor is quite high." He also recommended Rong Zhen's shop for Madame Bovary, and "specially invited his familiar cider dealer to taste the wine for her personally". He narrowed the distance with Bovary's family in a short time and achieved the expected goal-practicing medicine for him without a license: "If he (Bovary) finds something later, he will show mercy."
Omo is an elite figure in Rong Zhen. He is utilitarian, sophisticated and has a stable family life. He lives comfortably in this small town. He claimed to collect books by Voltaire, Rousseau, Delil and Scott, and was also a reporter of Rouen Lighthouse in Bisher, Fudge, Xincheng and Rong Zhen. The names of his four children are representative: "one is Napoleon, representing glory;" One is Franklin, representing freedom; One is irma, which is a concession to romanticism; One is Atali, who pays tribute to the immortal French drama. He wants to show that he has an enlightened political belief. "
He goes to Bovary's house for dinner almost every day. In addition to asking how many people came to see a doctor and discussing the charges, we also talked about the news in the newspaper. "He can not only tell the whole story, but also talk about it in Kan Kan, telling reporters' comments, private disasters at home and abroad and other anecdotes." The topic has also changed quietly, such as how to cook pure meat with vegetables and how to season it to be hygienic. When it comes to spices, monosodium glutamate, gravy and gelatin, it is dazzling. And it is said that Omo has more recipes in his head than bottles in the drugstore. His specialty is all kinds of jam, balsamic vinegar and sweet wine. He also knows the newly invented method of saving heat energy and the technology of preserving cheese and cooking bad wine.
Continue to look at his emotional intelligence.
At the agricultural exhibition held in Rong Zhen, he relied on his paper "On the method of making cider and its effect" written to the farmers' association in advance. With new ideas, I was accepted as a member of the fruit tree class of the agricultural group. On the rostrum, when State Councilor Luo Wanxuan read the speech, he exaggeratedly "put his hand behind his ear for fear of missing a word". Seeing the state councilor's coachman drunk and out of his mind, he let the carriage bounce back and forth and immediately suggested "no drinking!" " I hope that the city hall will hang a sign once a week and announce the names of alcoholics within one week. "Two days later, in a big article published in Rouen Beacon, he even called for" going all out "to complete various reforms. Of course, he never forgot to mention his paper on cider submitted to the agricultural association.
Bovary was fascinated by an article he read praising the new method of treating lameness. Hippolyte Totan, a cripple, went to Newcastle and invited a famous doctor, Dr. Canivet, after his orthodontic operation failed. In the face of Canibe's scolding, "How did these fools entrap a poor man to this extent?" He was "expressionless and grinning" and dared not defend Bovary a word. In fact, he was "afraid of offending Mr Carney, because his prescriptions sometimes went all the way to Rong Zhen". Because Emma took poison, she invited Canibe and another more famous doctor Revere again. After consultation, she found that there was no hope. He begged Mr. Lariviere to "come to his house for lunch and don't be too humble". As the host, he is in high spirits. "Bovary's sadness made him reflect on himself, but by contrast, he was vaguely happy."
In addition to encouraging Bovary to treat the lame for various reasons, Flaubert described another "failure" in his article. One day, he had a whim and boasted to the blind people he met on the bus side of Swallow that the anti-inflammatory ointment he prepared could cure the tuberculosis of the blind people. The result can be imagined. The blind man became his sworn enemy and told everyone that the pharmacist's plaster didn't work. He hates the blind in his heart. For the sake of his reputation, he tried his best to stab someone in the back without hesitation and made up his mind to make a quick decision. From the lace comments on "vagrancy and begging" in Rouen Lighthouse for half a year in a row, we can see that he is shrewd and ruthless. Finally, he fabricated some news out of thin air, fabricated an accident caused by the blind, and finally won a great victory, so that his "opponent" was sentenced to life imprisonment and put into a shelter.
Do you know this Mr. Ou Mo? A familiar neighbor is at most a neighbor with a story. Enthusiastic to help others, flaunt freedom and advocate new fashions; Feel good about yourself, be eloquent, write articles and speak; Vanity, intelligence, schadenfreude ... Looking around, each of us can make a list of names in our hearts. Our Omo "neighbor" only achieved great success, but finally got the cross and became the "best neighbor". Is that really the case? Flaubert seems to realize that even an ordinary person is indispensable to the development of one thing: Omo desperately bewitched the failure of lame surgery, which made Emma completely disappointed with Bovary and planned to fly away with Rodov; Emma and her husband's audience met again at Rouen Theatre at Omo's suggestion, which triggered Leon's second affair. Omo's visit to Leon destroyed Emma's complete possessiveness of Leon and caused a rift between the two lovers. Emma committed suicide by stealing the arsenic that Omo put in her house to develop some medicines. ......
1853, Flaubert once said in a letter to Ms. Gao Lai: "Ah, I began to know the fossil of the bourgeoisie! What a half-character! What a good half will! What a half-enthusiasm! Compared with such a group of people, Emma looks energetic, human and energetic. " Emma is romantic, vain, selfish, rebellious and unwilling to be mediocre, which are actually the normal contents of human nature. Omo people are typical businessmen. Contrary to Emma's pursuit of romantic love at the expense of her life, they live more realistically and can adapt to the needs of the times. Apart from money and status, they only "believe in my own teaching", even if Omo is under the banner of science. Vulgar and mediocre, respectable and humble industrialized society makes them more comfortable.
Finally, echo the opening and learn how Omo won the cross.
The victory over the blind encouraged him. From then on, whether it was a trivial matter such as crushing a dog, burning a warehouse, beating a woman in the district, or a "big problem" such as social problems, education for the poor, fish farming, rubber planting and railway traffic. He didn't know it, but he immediately made it public and attacked it. He felt that the scope of the newspaper was too narrow to display his talents, so he compiled a voluminous book, The Complete Works of Statistics and Climatology in Rong Zhen. He also felt that being a philistine was too humiliating, so he smoked cigarettes in imitation of the artist's style, bought two "fashionable" Madame de Pompadour-style figurines to decorate the living room elegantly, and tied a dazzling water, electricity and medical chain to his body.
His fame gradually increased: first, during the cholera epidemic, he was praised for his infinite loyalty; Second, publish various public works at their own expense, such as the paper "Brewing Cider"; Report on cotton aphid sent to French Academy of Sciences; "The Complete Book of Statistics", and even his thesis on the qualification of pharmacists .....; Not to mention being a member of several academic groups (in fact, he only participated in one).
One step away from his ambition: Omo began to bow to powerful people; Not showing up in the election, but helping the governor a lot; He even wrote a petition to the king, asking him to "uphold justice". He called him "our good king" and compared him to Henry IV. ......
Finally, "since Bovary's death, three doctors came to Rong Zhen successively, but none of them got a firm foothold and were soon crushed by Mr. Ou Mo." And the most important thing for him: "He got the cross after all."
Flaubert said, "I am Madame Bovary." He liquidated the romanticism in his heart, the "declining world" and the "unfashionable human heart" under the "big machine production", and pointed out that the sitcoms, stupidity and fantasies of that era only had a dead end. On his deathbed, he added, "That bitch Bovary will stay, and I will die like a dog." It's just that maybe even Flaubert himself didn't think of it. In fact, Bovary only left a microcosm of the glory of the "ignorant good man" in that era, while Omr, even the "fame and wealth" and "glitz" pursued by the bad guys in the traditional sense such as Rodov and Lehe, became the key to the "happiness door" that later generations scrambled to open.