Thoughts on Listening to the Opera Carmen

Hello ↓ Carmen by French Merimee touched me a lot. Merimee created a world-famous character in Carmen. This gypsy woman is bold, aggressive and unrestrained, but she is also coquettish and dissolute, and even has some evil and frivolous characteristics. This novel tells the story of Carmen, a beautiful and strong gypsy girl. She fell in love with Sergeant Jose Navarro and used her feminine charm to make Jose Navarro fall in love with her. Jose Navarro not only abandoned his former lover, gentle and kind Michella, but also was arrested and imprisoned for letting Carmen who was fighting with others lose her military post. Later, he even met his boss, Captain Dorotte, and killed him, so he had to flee the army and join Carmen's smugglers. Jose Navarro killed her husband in order to get Carmen, and robbed property desperately. But then there was a conflict between them. Jose Navarro hopes Carmen can keep her virginity, but Carmen longs for a free life and doesn't want to be interfered by others. She can't forgive Jose Navarro, and she no longer loves Jose Navarro. From then on, Carmen and the matador Lugas made a vow of eternal love. This led to Jose Navarro's strong dissatisfaction. After the matador was seriously injured in a performance, they had a fierce quarrel. Carmen never said that she still loved Jose Navarro, which made Jose Navarro unbearable. Despite threats and inducements, Jose Navarro killed Carmen. Merimee's Carmen 1847 became a classic as soon as it was published. Born a gypsy, Carmen won't regret anything. She wants to live and die freely, just like a bird flying freely in the air. She will never give up her freedom for anything, even her life. Carmen is a romantic and wild free spirit. Anyone can be Carmen, but no one can be Carmen. The novel shows Carmen's distinct and complex personality and describes Carmen's passionate and charming image. Carmen is also a female rebel with a strong spirit of personality liberation. Lu Xun wrote people's hypocritical faces in his articles. Carmen, as a real person, has never faded in the pursuit of freedom and individuality. The first time I met Carmen, it originated from Bizet's music "Carmen Overture". Many years ago, I was familiar with the word Carmen, but what really made me know and remember Carmen was Merimee's novel Carmen. Many years later, the plot of the story may not be clearly remembered, but this beautiful gypsy girl who dares to love and hate will never forget it. Perhaps Carmen was destined to die for love, so charming. When she dances, her eyes stay in everyone's eyes, making them think that they are favored by her. In fact, it is their own passion, and the proud Carmen is actually there. She didn't flinch. When she came to love, she was desperate. When she came to love, she was determined. Her love is like ice and fire, and her love is doomed to die in the hands of her favorite lover. Merimee's novel Carmen is a classic among novels, and the opera Carmen adapted from the novel Carmen has now become a classic among western opera classics. There is a passage in Carmen: "A few minutes before the evening prayer bell rang, a large group of women gathered under the high embankment by the river. No one dares to blend in with them. As soon as the bell of vespers rings, it will be dark tomorrow. At the last bell, all the women took off their clothes and went into the water. So there was laughter. The man's eyes are wide open, and he can see nothing from the height of the embankment to appreciate these girls taking a bath. However, on the dark blue river, the shadowy white figures make people think. With a little thought, it is not difficult to imagine Di Anna bathing with the fairies, and there is no need to worry about meeting the same fate as Akteon. " This passage impressed me deeply. It's like depicting a girl taking a bath, just like Sargent's painting. It is like a myth, but it is not a myth. What he said is not a fairy tale, but a myth that happened on the earth, just like Carmen's life, as if it didn't happen on the earth. This is probably the charm of Merimee's works. Carmen's character of daring to love and hate led to her tragic ending, and she died in the secular world. Therefore, in our secular society, Carmen, women can only survive if they are not used as tools by men, but simply appreciated. In today's society, equality between men and women has been achieved in most parts of China. Now many women dare to love and hate like Carmen. They pursue freedom and love and don't give in to external pressure. But in such a society, there are fewer and fewer people who pursue pure friendship like Carmen, just like a lyric in the song Sailor: Today's life is like acting, saying insincere words and always deceiving yourself with insignificant achievements. Maybe that innocent era will disappear with the cannibal society. Living environment makes a person, and Carmen's character combines children's innocence and science fiction. She is willing to sacrifice everything for freedom. She dares to do what men can do. She likes flirting, choosing her own lovers, playing with and deceiving men, and finally abandoning them. She makes her own rules of the game at will and always wins. Romantic and luxurious, free and unrestrained, dissolute and informal. In today's society, there is no Carmen in life or art, because we dare not love or hate. Carmen is the most striking female image in the gallery of French literary figures. She has a strong personality and unique moral standards. Although she is evil and depraved, she is independent and free. She would rather pay the price of her life, but also insist on her personal freedom and loyalty to herself, which makes her unable to bear any social constraints and shows her open contempt for bourgeois social moral standards. This is the most prominent and attractive feature of this character, and it is also the reason why she has become the most attractive artistic image in the history of literature. For a reader, it only takes one hour to finish reading Merimee's masterpiece Carmen. For Merimee who wrote it, it may take days or months to complete. For the protagonist in the story, Carmen, a gypsy girl, it is a complete life, love and death. Also, Carmen has been published for more than one hundred years, and it will definitely exist in the human world for dozens of hundred years, because the famous works are immortal. This is my original work,