Theme introduction The protagonist Marignan is a tall and thin priest with fanatical beliefs. In his opinion, everything in nature is created according to an absolutely wonderful logic. He hates women, but longs for love, which creates a series of contradictions in reality. The author describes his behavior and thinking patterns from the side, expresses the character vividly, and finally satirizes him with the love scene of the niece who is strictly guarded by the priest. Overview of the writer's works The French novelist Maupassant was a great moonlight poet - in In my heart, he has always lived in the world under the moonlight. On the Champs Elysées, in the Fontainebleau Forest, beside the old mills in Provence, on the paths of Tamandy's hometown, on the dark waves of the Mediterranean.
"Moonlight" is Maupassant's early work and is not eye-catching. It gave me the feeling that it was a lyrical novel written in prose style. The protagonist of this short story, Elder Mariniyang, is a devout priest. He hated all women, whom he considered a blasphemous scourge to religion. But the attitude towards his innocent and beautiful niece is an exception. He liked her and wanted her to become a chaste virgin engaged in charity. However, one day he suddenly learned that his niece had a lover, and he became furious and restless. At 10 o'clock in the evening, he walked out to see what was going on. The moonlight was like water, filling the fields. He was stunned and shocked at first. "He couldn't understand this overwhelming poetic realm at all." When his niece and lover appeared in the moonlight in the distance, he first felt his heartbeat and hesitated. Then retreated. I thought, since God uses such a good night to protect love, shouldn't we not allow love? He fled back into the house in shame.
This is a hymn to the moonlight, but also a hymn to life, youth and love. Maupassant was indeed obsessed with moonlight. Reading his novel "Life", no one will probably forget the moonlit night at the beginning when Yona came out of the monastery and stayed at "Poplar Villa", right? This passionate and imaginative girl was intoxicated in the silver moonlight of the villa, dreaming of love, and stood in front of the window until the sky turned white and the birds chirped! With his poetic brushwork, Maupassant made the girl's heart blend into the moonlight, achieving the point of "union between man and nature".
This is still in the novel. In prose, Maupassant does not have to borrow his characters, but directly expresses his poetic feelings about moonlight. "On the Water" is Maupassant's voyage diary in the Mediterranean. It is also the only prose work by Maupassant that I have seen. In Agay's diary on April 8, he devoted 13 pages to describing and singing about the moonlight, quoting poems about the moon by seven French poets, including Hugo and Musset. He said that he saw a pair of lovers holding hands and looking at the sea in the Bay of Agene under the moonlight. They listened to the waves kissing the beach and watched the moonlight kiss the waves. He felt that he was also longing for love in his heart, and he almost shouted in distress. He said: "I can only blame the moonlight for disturbing my heart; I have always believed that the moon can play a mysterious role in people's minds; a person who falls in love in a polite manner under the sun will fall head-over-heels in love under the moonlight. ." Maupassant sighed, he must have been injured when he was under the moonlight! "What charming charm does she have that can make us feel trance-like, erratic, and missing something?"
In my opinion, the question raised by Mo is an eternal mystery. It's just such a cold, dead ball, but it has such magic power. People know that they have been deceived, but they are still willing to fall for it until they die. There are so many pieces of analysis, all of which are pale and feeble! This is a topic that literary artists around the world will never talk about endlessly.
What is Mo’s Moonlight most similar to? I feel that it is Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata". The moonlight flows like water between the lines of Maupassant's words, and there are slight waves under the night wind.
Reading is a joy. I am happy that I read the poetic moonlight from Mo's prose and novels; I am even more happy that I read Mo's unique feelings about moonlight from his works. Therefore, I crowned the novelist Maupassant the "Moonlight Poet". I believe that Maupassant, the muse I have loved since my boyhood, will always live in the world under the moonlight.