Hemingway's philosophy of life

The great writer Goethe once said: "The tree of life is evergreen, but the theory is always gray." No matter how excellent your theory is, you can't escape the contradictory and ambiguous fate in the end. The great Goethe saw through the human mind.

We always expect a certain theory to give a definite future. However, this idea conflicts with the existence of life in principle. If the future is certain, then life choices in reality are meaningless. Even the so-called natural science theory can't avoid the gray fate. Just like the familiar physics, when you want to get to the bottom of the so-called "force", you will find that it is something that no one can say clearly. Did "force" lead to movement, or did movement lead to the concept of "force"? Maybe the latter is more likely.

Milan? Kundera once quoted a similar saying from Jews: "When people think, God is laughing." So people began to rethink, always trying to analyze everything rationally, trying to judge or even solve the future by applying the so-called truth. Does it always apply like this? If you want to challenge all kinds of life with a rational attitude, is this life a little less emotional and mysterious?

Hemingway is a famous great writer, and researchers have different views on Hemingway, but in any case, he is still one of the most influential writers in the 20th century. Many critics who have a negative attitude towards Hemingway believe that Hemingway has been describing a particularly empty life despite his large living space, which is not worth taking for civilized society and people who value cultural details. People are used to dividing life into two parts: one is spiritual and the other is material. Obviously, they think Hemingway's life or works have no excellent soul depth. It seems that he only cares about the watch. Is that really the case?

In a class, Ma Yuan used two murder stories to talk about a topic at the same time: they are two short stories, Black Boy by Hemingway and Waiting by Borges. The same story is about murder, but there are essential differences between the two novels. Borges may be more concerned with the soul. The novel Waiting has almost no plot, even no characters. The novel is about a man who went to a hotel to complain and told the name of the person who wanted to kill him when he checked in. Then the whole novel describes the trivial and boring daily life of this man. He has been waiting for the moment of being killed, even in his dream. He related all the accidents in his life to his current murder. After being beaten in the cinema, he always suspected that the man was the one who came to kill himself. He mixed life with imagination, dreams with reality. Then once, in such a confused state, he was sleeping and was suddenly awakened by the noise. He saw the man who was going to kill him walk into the room with a gun and some strangers. He waved to them and said not to disturb him, so he turned over and went back to sleep. He thought that these people were only part of his daily dreams, so he finally waited for the gunshots in his dreams.

Looking at Hemingway's novels, we may see more of a form. Looking at his novel Black Boy, you have no idea what the murderer and the victim are thinking. All you know is that two people go to a restaurant and wait for the person they want to kill. After identifying the scene, the two killers began to wait in a planned way, but they didn't wait for their prey: a man named Andreessen, and then they left the restaurant as if nothing had happened. Whether they come or not seems to make no difference to them. But we saw them come to the restaurant, including the hunted Anderson, and we saw their reaction. Life is as usual, nothing has changed, but they have.

Anderson waited for the moment when he would be killed if he didn't resist. Sam, a black chef, is completely afraid to avoid this matter. When the boss George heard that Anderson was waiting to die, he was used to being noncommittal. But nick can't. He said he couldn't stand it. Seeing a man killed, he didn't respond at all, just waiting for death. Nick said he couldn't stay in this place, he had to leave. We can imagine that making this novel into a movie, these characters' personalities are really distinctive. Hemingway's characterization is really brilliant. Hemingway's way is particularly intuitive. The characters in his works are all moving, not thinking, and the characters only react immediately to events. So Hemingway can be said to be a novelist who abandoned psychology.

"Just like the difference between Hemingway and Borges, people are always divided into two types. One kind of people is always thinking, always thinking, and their main life in life is to use their brains. At the same time, there is another kind of person. Their main life is in action. They have been doing all kinds of things, seeing, listening and expressing, and making full use of various organs of the body. "

Hemingway's philosophy of life is not only embodied in himself, but also in various characters in his works.

Hemingway wrote about tough guys almost all his life, and tough guys are Hemingway's theme. He has a novel, Fifty Thousand Yuan, which tells the story of a boxer. As a famous boxer, he lost in a competition. Of course, as a boxer, he still has professional ethics and won't do waterproof or anything. Of course the opponent wants to win, so he spares no effort in the game. The final result of the game is that the hero got his wish. He was defeated, but it was tragic. After the game, he got off the ring and said to a related person, "I am devastated inside." It can be seen that it is tragic and its trauma is heavy. In fact, Hemingway never directly wrote what the characters were thinking, but he showed the characters' hearts by describing their external actions and words.

Hemingway's most familiar and acclaimed novel in his life is The Old Man and the Sea. The fisherman in the novel is an old man, and Hemingway, who wrote the old fisherman at that time, was already an old man. At this time, Hemingway himself and his characters have begun to look back on life. Only by looking back on life can we have a philosophical attitude. "It should be said that philosophical is the highest state of men. Hard work, no regrets, no shortcomings, life is complete because of philosophical views. The old fisherman is a typical example. "

Ma Yuan concluded in Hemingway's Philosophy of Humanity: "Hemingway's writing is the opposite of positive thinking. I want to put it another way. I want to call Hemingway's human philosophy "behind reason". I want to say that people who go back to rationality actually come to the beginning and end of life. This is the philosophy of life. " Yo. Talking about Hemingway's characters with these words, I think we can learn something useful from their world, that is, live hard and do hard! Don't stop thinking, take the initiative to go behind the reason, and work hard, without regret, without regret!