Chapter 57 The novel ends like this
In this issue, let’s talk about how novel writing creates an ending that is not in the ordinary. We know that many novels and films are good-looking because of the finishing touch. Eiu Henry, Chekov, Maupassant, Mark Twain and Xing Shinichi. Most of the endings of their novels are unexpected and reasonable. Aside from the above endings, this issue mainly talks about how to rely on the endings to sublimate the theme of the novel. The answer is disillusionment.
The ending of disillusionment is usually used in literary novels, and mystery novels are rarely used, and most of them are socialist authors who are keen on using such endings. Keigo Higashino, the reasoning king who combines the original and socialist reasoning, has been very successful in using such endings in "White Night Walk".
Disillusionment is originally a Buddhist term, which means that birth is originally without birth, and death is also without death. Buddhism says that the six realms of reincarnation are not without them. However, some of them go out of the six realms, give up reincarnation, and become illusory existences, and thus become illusion. In layman's terms, disillusionment means hope that ideals and other things disappear like illusions, or beautiful things leave cruelly. It expresses the absurdity of life and the absurdity of the world.
Take "White Night Walk" as an example. Tang Ze Yukiho and Kirihara Ryoji support each other since childhood. In order to survive, the two suffering souls rely on each other and commit a series of crimes. Their greatest wish is to walk in the sun. However, in the end, the two did not get what they wished. Ryoji died for Yukiho. Faced with Ryoji's death, Yukiho remained indifferent. Readers all felt a deep sense of disillusionment. The two people who supported each other just wanted to survive were even more alienated at the end. Yukiho lost the person they loved the most in the world and the last trace of goodness left in their hearts. What did they get?
I think everyone understands it. The ending of the sense of disillusionment is not difficult to write. The focus is on the contrast between gain and loss. In the ending, the protagonist obtains more material things, such as money, power, fame, etc.; loses spiritual things, such as innocence, love, soul, etc. We can see that the protagonist is not happy. Although the protagonist's situation has improved and the protagonist is more powerful and awesome, the most sincere and precious things have disappeared. It is like the growth of a human. When a person grows from an ignorant child to an adult who has to work hard to survive, he may have to sell his conscience for some external interests. External temptation and inner wave drive him toward evil first step, and then there is the second step, the third step...
I think both have an impact on whether the social environment shapes people or personal genes shapes people, but in the end, the external environment accounts for the majority. In a good social environment, bad people dare not do evil. In a bad social environment, good people dare not do good or even have to do evil. On the other hand, it is an era of overproduction and oversupply advocating consumerism. This culture is always amplifying people's desires and creating greed. Most people do not know what they want in their hearts. They hate others and laugh at others. They want to reap the meaning of their lives from the material level. For the sake of success in the secular sense, they are all-round and so on.
In order to survive, most people have to lose themselves. The social environment takes a great responsibility. In order to survive better, most people have lost themselves actively. This is related to their human nature. Some people will repent and reflect on the so-called "putting down the butcher's knife and becoming a Buddha immediately, and being saved." Some people completely abandon their souls. They care about the floods after my death. They are so at ease that they live in drunkenness and dreams. This has completely become accomplices of the devil.
I think the first disillusionment of most people's life experience is the Wei Guangzheng education I received in school in childhood. When I was adults, I found that this society was not like the books, and even this society was unreasonable. They rely on the school's ideas to behave and do things. Most of them hit a wall everywhere. Now, there are elderly people who fall to the ground and dare to help them? Some people see the people they respect, and they are usually hypocritical, and when they encounter temptation, they all look ugly.
I also feel disillusioned. Emperor Wanli and his teacher Zhang Juzheng are a good example. Wanli was taught by Zhang Juzheng since childhood to be frugal, to be clean and to stay away from women... But Zhang Juzheng took a sedan chair carried by 32 people and took aphrodisiacs... I think Emperor Wanli must have ruined all his views when he discovered the truth. He used absurdity to deal with the absurdity, dug the teacher's tomb, raided the teacher's home, and indulged in wine and sex for decades without going to court and not believing in the words of a moral gentleman, which can be said to have ruined himself and his country.
Between reality and ideals, most people have no ideals at all. They believe in single and vulgar success, but the standard of success is not necessarily just about making a fortune in the secular sense, becoming a high-ranking official, marrying a beautiful wife... True success should be based on one's heart, striving for an idea, and spending your life in the way you like.
People who do not have ideals live by other people's ideas. Sometimes they laugh at those who have ideas. They see their humble souls in those people. They want to assimilate those people and it is really impossible to destroy them. Che Guevara is not dead because he pointed out a clear path for those who have ideals - let us stick to our ideals and let us face reality.
From ancient times to the present, those who truly change the world and promote human development and progress are those who are based on the people and have their own ideas. It is easy to walk their own path, but most people retreat because of other people's rumors and sarcasm, go the path of everyone, and become the person they want to be in the eyes of others, rather than the person they want to be. So, they live and live as they hate.
In 1993, a major Chinese-Russian train robbery occurred (you can use it for Baidu for details). Shao Xun, one of the main culprits, defrauded the trust of his fellow villagers under the pressure of robbers and robbed the money of his fellow villagers. After that, he did not dare to go home and wandered around the world. He opened a company on GX and became a monetary. He has been doing charity to make up for his inner guilt and guilt. The net of heaven is vast and unlimited. He was finally arrested in 2010. Although he has achieved success and fame over the years, he has been in panic all day long. He has gained wealth, and what he lost is friendship, family and self. There are disillusionment happening in this world every day. I hope that people will not forget their hearts when they succeed. If they lose valuable things, they will slowly find them back.
In our country, the good authors who write about disillusionment include Murong Xuecun. His works include "CD, Please Forgot Me Tonight", "Paradise to Left, Shenzhen to Right", "Most People Die from Greed"... The content is mostly about the male and female protagonists who were lovers in college, with sweet and sincere love. After graduation, the two entered society. The woman began to worship money. The man and the man pursued wealth and status by any means. The ending was that the male and female broke up. The heroine was mostly kept by the rich and the old man, and the male protagonists mostly obtained wealth and status. But both of them lost the ability to love others again. They were material satisfaction, and their souls could only walk alone in the dark night.
Kong Ergou's "Twenty Years of Underworld" has a humorous writing style and smooth narrative, which is a rare and excellent online novel. The ending of this book is also a brother who fights against each other and fights against each other. The two who once went to the world side by side killed each other at a party on New Year's Eve. They gained status and lost friendship.
The American writer Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" is a hero Gatsby who pursues a goddess who combines beauty. After getting rich, he sings every night, but the goddess uses him to make him punish him. It turns out that the person he likes is not the person he imagines in reality. The emotions in the world, wealth is just a bubble, and searching for it is nothing more than a waste. This book can be said to be a masterpiece of a novel of disillusionment.
Others such as "The Disqualification of the World" by RB writer Osamu Osamu, "The White Night Walk" by Keigo Higashino, "Red and Black" by French writer Stendhal, and "Madame Bovary" by Flaubert... I will talk about them all one by one.
The above books are just small pessimistic novels of disillusionment, that is, when a person grows up and struggles, he finds that what he pursues is not what he really wants. Instead, when he pursues these things, he loses the truly precious things he really cares about, and the individual becomes a monster in society, thus lamenting the impermanence of the world and the pain of disillusionment in life.
The books of great pessimism and disillusionment are Cao Xueqin's "Dream of the Red Chamber", Dostoevsky's "Crime and Punishment", "Insulted and Damaged", "Idiot"... Camus's "Outsider", "Plague"...
If the small pessimism is small and pays attention to the individual's feelings and destiny, the works of great pessimism have a larger mind. They pay attention not to the individual's emotions and disillusionment, but to the common emotions and destiny of all human beings in the long river of history. The small pessimism sometimes makes readers fall into the quagmire of pessimism and lose their enterprising spirit. The great pessimism is the mentality of embracing me who will not go to hell, who will go to hell, and he will save others and yourself. He tells us that the world is cruel and absurd, but there is always a glimmer of hope and a ray of light. It is an optimism based on pessimism. Knowing that life is meaningless and reality is absurd, but there is still a spirit that even millions of people will go.
Although there is a difference between the two, there is no distinction between high and low. Just like in Buddhism, there is a distinction between Mahayana and Hinayana, both can be enlightened. Hinayana Buddhism focuses on self-cultivation and self-reflection. Mahayana not only needs to realize the truth by oneself, but also help others to realize the truth. Sometimes it is difficult for others to do bad things with good intentions. It is still the wise who said it well, if you are successful, you will help the world, and if you are poor, you will be able to help others as much as possible. When you are capable, you will be able to manage yourself and not cause trouble for others when you are not at your own risk. Pure literary works use great pessimism. If you have a little pessimism in popular literature, the content of the article will be raised to a higher level."
I have said so much in the past. To sum up, the content of disillusionment is easy to write. The key is to apply it in the work. Such a popular novel will also improve its ideological level. Readers actually like to read such books that are both interesting and thought-provoking.
Finally, I recommend a few books on disillusionment and a few movies. I hope everyone can slowly understand them and understand the creative spirit and ideological connotation.
Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby is the first-class writing style of this book. What you take for granted is natural, and how many people dream of never getting it? There are many famous quotes, such as this one. When you want to criticize someone, remember that not everyone has the same conditions as you.
Murong Xuecun: "CD, please forget me tonight", reading this book late at night is enough to doubt life.
Dostoevsky: "Insulted and Injured", a person who was insulted and injured turned around and loved those who insulted him and harmed him.
Movies include: "The Life of Matsuko Despised", "The Poem of Self-abuse", and "The Godfather" trilogy
Here we will focus on the "Godfather" series. Michael Corleon had no intention of inheriting the family career, but he just wanted to be a dignified legal citizen. However, the eldest brother who took over the family was killed, his father was shot, and his second brother was ineffective, so he had to inherit his father's business and kill people to defend the family. In order to protect the family, Michael, who became the boss of the mafia, killed his brother-in-law and other relatives, and was strange to his wife. His son went away and his daughter was shot in his arms. He was old and died alone. We can see that Michael couldn't help but slid into the abyss step by step. He lost family affection, love, his ideals, and what he got was nothingness and loneliness in the second half of his life.
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