The shackles of human nature

1. There is only one thing that can get him out of his present predicament, that is, his father and uncle will see God as soon as possible. By then, he can get hundreds of pounds, with which he can complete the whole course of treatment in the hospital. Philip gradually hoped wholeheartedly that the old man would die soon. He pinched his fingers and counted how long his uncle could stay on the earth.

2. Philip kept asking himself: What's the point of living? Everything in the world is empty. Take Cronshaw as an example, that's true. He is alive, but he is a mediocre man, taciturn; As soon as he died, he was completely forgotten.

The rest of his poems are only sold in old bookshops. His life is just an opportunity to write a review article, and other than that, it is meaningless. So Philip couldn't help shouting, "What's the point?" The answer is obvious: life is meaningless.

At this time, the philosopher summed up the history of human beings in one line, wrote it down and presented it, which read: people suffered at birth, and finally closed their eyes and died. Life is meaningless, and people live without a purpose. Life and not life, life and death are not important. Life is meaningless and death is meaningless.

Is he aware of this? Surrender to happiness may be an admission of failure, but this kind of failure is much more meaningful than thousands of victories.

5. In Philip's view, his uncle preached religion all his life, but now it is just a formality for him: every Saturday, the pastor of the parish will come to him to receive the Eucharist, and he often recites the Bible himself; Then, obviously, he still looks at death with great fear.

He believes that death is the entrance to eternal happiness in the afterlife, but he doesn't want to experience the happiness of that happy life himself. He suffers from illness from time to time and spends a lot of time in a chair like a chain, but he refuses to leave the world he knows like a child nestled in the arms of a woman he hired with money.

6. He silently endured the disability that made his life bumpy. He knew it twisted his character. However, at this time, he found that, because of this, he gained the reflective ability that brought him endless happiness. Without it, he will never acquire a keen taste, love literature and art, and be interested in the miracle of life.

7. Summer came to this world by accident as a conqueror. Every day is sunny. The blue sky reveals general pride and stings people's nerves like kicking spurs.

The garden in the center of the street is green, strong, rough and aggressive; And those rows of houses, under the irradiation of sunlight, reflect dazzling white light, stimulate your senses, and finally make you unbearable. Sometimes, when Philip comes out of Wharton, he will find a bench to sit down and enjoy the cool under the swaying trees in the street garden, and watch the bright sunshine interweave into golden patterns on the ground through countless branches and leaves, and his heart will be as happy as sunshine.

He once heard some people talk about money in a contemptuous tone, and he doubted whether these people really lived a hard life.

He knows that financial constraints will make people small, humble and greedy, distort his character and make him look at the world from a vulgar perspective. When one has to weigh the weight of every penny, money will become extremely important: one should be able to correctly estimate the value of money.