Lifetime
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The aristocratic girl Yana eagerly returns to her home at Poplar Grange from the monastery where she studied with a beautiful vision for the future and life. 17-Year-old Yana is at the age when she is in love. She is innocent, full of fantasy, and longs for love. And fate seemed to be particularly partial to her. Not long after she returned home, she met the elegant, gentle and considerate young aristocrat Viscount de Lamar, and they quickly fell in love and got married. Yana was full of hope that she was about to usher in a lifetime of happiness, but she never expected that the beautiful love she had always imagined would be the beginning of a lifetime of misfortune. After the marriage, the viscount quickly took off his gentle mask when pursuing Yana, revealing his true nature of being despicable, evil, greedy and lustful. He occupied Yana's property and had an affair with Yana's maid. Her husband's betrayal made Yana miserable. When she wanted to die, she was told that she was pregnant. The appearance of the child gave her new hope. But the happiness was too short-lived. Then a series of changes such as her husband's betrayal and death, the death of her parents, her only son running away from home, and bankruptcy, etc., Dashed Yana's hopes again and again. Yana gradually aged in despair. When her life came to an end, she said: "This life is neither as good nor as bad as you think."
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A scumbag ruins his life, betting on dogs brings down three generations
The story of the old aristocracy slowly withering away in the era of the Industrial Revolution. The heroine's life is miserable and miserable, with nothing to do and no one to rely on. This is a common state under narrow-minded thinking. The aristocratic class puts on airs, talks about nothing all day long, is hypocritical, decadent and chaotic, which is similar to the style of the Wei and Jin Dynasties. The heroine has a poor understanding of people, and Julien is stingy, hypocritical, capricious, selfish and indifferent. Paul inherited these genes perfectly, but he did not inherit his father's talent for making money, and he only lost everything in endless lies. And he also inherited the bad taste of the heroine, who only looked at appearance and fell in love with a prostitute. After ten years of squandering 300,000 francs, his wife died of illness and his daughter could not afford to support him. The last sentence of the article, life is not as good as imagined, nor is it as bad. It seems to be a sentence that inspires people to ignite hope in life, but it is actually black humor. It's hard to imagine what this child will be like when he grows up. For the heroine, it is more like a reprieve than hope. The heroine has never worked hard to pursue what she wants throughout her life, and has always lived in the words of others. She is full of emotion and lacking in reason. Everything I once owned disappeared like smoke. The emotional experience of wandering and wandering finally ended up with my aunt who had been lonely all her life. The only maid who is independent-minded and able to endure hardships becomes the only perfect character among the three people in the book. The overt thread of the whole book is the life of the heroine, and the hidden thread is the aunt's loneliness and neglect and the maid's self-reliance and her ultimate success. The heroine's mother's cheating experience is more like a foreshadowing and comparison. When the heroine is dying, she, like her mother, recalls the happiness of the past in her withering body. Maupassant made it very clear that the real hope lies not in the child, but in oneself.
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Official(1)Scraped 5d ago
A scumbag ruins his life, betting on dogs brings down three generations
The story of the old aristocracy slowly withering away in the era of the Industrial Revolution. The heroine's life is miserable and miserable, with nothing to do and no one to rely on. This is a common state under narrow-minded thinking. The aristocratic class puts on airs, talks about nothing all day long, is hypocritical, decadent and chaotic, which is similar to the style of the Wei and Jin Dynasties. The heroine has a poor understanding of people, and Julien is stingy, hypocritical, capricious, selfish and indifferent. Paul inherited these genes perfectly, but he did not inherit his father's talent for making money, and he only lost everything in endless lies. And he also inherited the bad taste of the heroine, who only looked at appearance and fell in love with a prostitute. After ten years of squandering 300,000 francs, his wife died of illness and his daughter could not afford to support him. The last sentence of the article, life is not as good as imagined, nor is it as bad. It seems to be a sentence that inspires people to ignite hope in life, but it is actually black humor. It's hard to imagine what this child will be like when he grows up. For the heroine, it is more like a reprieve than hope. The heroine has never worked hard to pursue what she wants throughout her life, and has always lived in the words of others. She is full of emotion and lacking in reason. Everything I once owned disappeared like smoke. The emotional experience of wandering and wandering finally ended up with my aunt who had been lonely all her life. The only maid who is independent-minded and able to endure hardships becomes the only perfect character among the three people in the book. The overt thread of the whole book is the life of the heroine, and the hidden thread is the aunt's loneliness and neglect and the maid's self-reliance and her ultimate success. The heroine's mother's cheating experience is more like a foreshadowing and comparison. When the heroine is dying, she, like her mother, recalls the happiness of the past in her withering body. Maupassant made it very clear that the real hope lies not in the child, but in oneself.
