Reflections on the spots on the wall

Spots on the wall 1 Life is a living body full of artistic imagination. I draw different styles of works according to different backgrounds. The life I am familiar with has infinite memories, and there will be some imagination in the memories. But all the processes are linked by only one thing, that is, the troubles of life.

On holidays, we celebrate each other with auspicious words and care for each other when we get together and leave, which seems to exclude a negative thing. But as I get older, I gradually find that sometimes troubles don't mean taboo things. On the contrary, some emotions are only linked by troubles.

Life has many obstacles, just like a closed wall. When I was a child, this wall existed around us. For example, we were not allowed to take things above 10 yuan to the streets, to find things to play in adults' rooms, to greet strangers, and so on. This shallow and obvious restriction will expand little by little with age. If we don't treat it differently, we will think that life should be like this, and life should have no freedom. So I began to have a negative understanding of life.

To some extent, the wall is a negative image, as if we can't see the beauty outside because of the wall.

The city wall not only means obstruction, but also means self-protection, such as the city wall. In this sense, this wall shows its positive side, that is, it can protect itself without hurting others. I think this is the meaning of the concept left over from China's history. There is a story in China's Sun Tzu's Art of War, just like Zi once said, "If you don't attack me, I won't attack". If you want to reach my city, you should put down your weapon first and walk into my door quietly. Any thought can show a negative view in the test of history, but unfortunately, sometimes there are some mistakes in our deep-rooted ideas that we can't find, and our predecessors have pointed them out. If you don't believe it, after reading the Art of War, you will find that the successful party is the attacking party. Passive beating is protected by the inherent fence, which can't change the ugliness of being backward and self-styled, and can't change the fate of being beaten behind. China has experienced a hundred years of trauma, from which we have learned many lessons.

Therefore, the experience of life collision can give us motivation to move forward. It is precisely because of this that it can connect unforgettable memories and carry unforgettable history.

The wall gave me full imagination, and the burning spots on the wall were my thoughts carried by words. As a passer-by, I recall going back in time, as freely as the stream of consciousness.

I finished reading Spots on the Wall 2, and today I finished reading Woolf's Spots on the Wall. I started reading this work a few days ago, but I have been reading it intermittently these days, and I finally finished reading it. The spot on the wall turned out to be a snail. The most painful thing about reading stream-of-consciousness novels is that there is no storyline. All the words are written by the author according to his own ideas, which sometimes makes him feel very boring and often makes him feel unable to read. It took me four days to finish reading this article. How do you feel after reading it? To tell the truth, I have no idea how I feel, but I feel liberated at last.

The spot on the wall is only a breakthrough in the author's association. In the imaginary world, there are not many ideas about being on the spot, just like China said in ancient times that fugue is too empty, but gradually enters his own ideological world through something. Thought is a person's accumulation of long-term feelings about the outside world. What accumulates most in his thoughts is the usual feelings and touches, which is what he usually pays most attention to and represents the potential consciousness.

Our thoughts are always influenced by the things around us, and the protagonist is always looking for a quiet and comfortable life. In the first paragraph, there is such a sentence: "I stopped at the red charcoal block through the smoke of cigarettes." In the past, the illusion of flying bright red flags on the castle towers reappeared in my mind, and I thought of countless red knights riding on the slopes of black rock walls like floods. This spot interrupted this illusion and made me feel relieved. I thought it was an illusion of the past, an unconscious illusion, which may have been produced in childhood. " The red knight represents war and a turbulent life. This unconscious illusion may have been generated in the early stage and deeply rooted in my mind, but this is not what I want. I always wanted to get rid of it until I saw this spot, which made me interrupt this illusion, led me to think of something new, and made my thoughts rush in.

What I yearn for in my heart is a quiet life. A family like the old tenant hangs a small portrait of the old house. It is an interesting family, but it seems difficult to have such a life, just like the old lady and young people on the train and roadside. "I hope I can think quietly, stably and calmly. No one will bother me. I don't need to get up from my chair at all. I can easily think of that thing from this thing without feeling hostile or hindered. " What we long for is usually what we lack in our lives, because we don't have it and we really want it. Obviously, the war left a deep imprint on the hero's mind, and he was always troubled by the insecurity of war. War means death, so what is death? What about the afterlife? Does a person cease to exist after death? No, even if a tree falls, its life is not over. "This tree has a million firm and sober lives scattered all over the world, some in bedrooms, some on boats, some on sidewalks, …" People are the same, although they are dead, they will have various ways of existence. Life is mysterious, human beings are ignorant, just like spots on the wall, no matter what you think, they are just a snail.

These are my thoughts on Spots on the Wall. I don't know if I understand the author's idea, but this is the most direct feeling that Spots on the Wall gave me.

Reflections on the Spots on the Wall 3 The Spots on the Wall written by British woman writer Virginia Woolf deeply attracted me, and the philosophy revealed in the article impressed me deeply.

On an ordinary day, the author looked up and saw a spot on the wall. In order to guess what the spot was, she began to think unfathomably. The author's thinking is sometimes neat and linear: he guessed that it was a nail, so he thought of hanging a picture, what picture to hang, and then thought of the artistry of the painting; Sometimes his thoughts jump in confusion: he suspects that it is a rose petal, and suddenly he thinks of Troy and Shakespeare ... These thoughts can't touch any thoughts, but when you think about it, they are all treasures of history, civilization, art and human beings. After countless times of thinking, the author finally approached and saw the place clearly. It's just a snail. Aside from the relationship between spot and snail, how amazing the author's thinking across time and space is!

Man is a thoughtful animal, which is also the most beautiful place of man. People's thinking is boundless, regardless of time and space. 1 second ago, your mind was still thinking about a physics problem. 1 second later, you may wonder whether you will write silently tomorrow. 1 second ago, I was intoxicated by the perfect shaking action when I played basketball yesterday. 1 second later, I will guess that Steve is at Apple headquarters in California. What does Jobs think of the next IMAC? ...

Without thinking, beautiful oil paintings, touching songs, vivid sculptures and utilitarianism, you won't get 100 on your test paper.

Find a quiet afternoon, sit there, think nothing, think freely, and think impudently, and you will find how interesting life is.

The spots on the wall of stream-of-consciousness novels after reading are not a unified literary genre, and there is no recognized unified definition of spots on the wall after reading. The use of this technique is also different: some writers use this technique throughout their works, while others use it in some chapters or some fragments; Some writers focus on reappearing the outside world in this way, while others focus on thinking about problems or expressing an emotional state; Some works are characterized by assimilation, but not all people who use the stream of consciousness technique use the method of memory. Some works have both memories and visions and reverie for the future.

Generally speaking, the structure of these works is different from that of traditional realistic works. It breaks the single and linear development structure of traditional novels, which is basically based on the order of stories or the logical connection between stories. The narrative of the story is not in a straight line according to the progress of time, but is organized and implemented through free association with people's conscious activities. In stream-of-consciousness novels, the arrangement of stories and the connection of plots are generally not limited by time, space, logic or causality, but often show the jump and change of time and space, and there is a lack of close logical connection between time and place between two scenes. Time often crosses or overlaps in the past, present and future.

Virginia Woolf is a famous British novelist and the founder of stream-of-consciousness novels. Woolf's novels don't pay attention to the relationship between events and characters, but pay attention to the reproduction of characters' thoughts and emotional processes, and pay attention to the impression effect of environment and scenery. 19 19, Woolf published the first stream-of-consciousness novel Spot on the Wall, which revealed the richness and unpredictability of human inner world through the stream of consciousness caused by a woman seeing a vague spot on the wall. Like most stream-of-consciousness novels, you can't clear your mind at first reading, but after careful reading, you will find that it is not chaotic, and free association is not groundless and rambling. Fiction usually centers on what is happening at that time. Through triggering, people's conscious activities constantly diverge in all directions and then recover. After repeated cycles, they formed a three-dimensional structure of branches and vines, which can be described as chaos.

(A) "Form scattered"-"Form gathered"

The novel Spot on the Wall has no other characters and no story except the protagonist. At the beginning of the novel, that is, the protagonist sees the spots on the wall for the first time, the reader begins to enter the depths of her subconscious. In an article of about 4,000 words, we wander in the complicated stream of consciousness of the protagonist. Stream-of-consciousness novel is such an unconventional method of portraying characters with portraits, actions and language descriptions. They mainly describe the process of stream of consciousness and show their spiritual world, making it difficult for readers to see the classified objects and personalities.

The protagonist's psychological activity is an unconscious imagination and free association, and also an irrational monologue. This psychological process, jumping between countless unrelated things, or countless continuous "from here to there" connections, is chaotic in terms of imaginary content, but after careful tasting, it is not difficult to find that the imaginary clues are indeed organized. The author seems to have grasped a thread and slowly combed out the trajectory of the characters' imagination along this thread.

Breaking the boundaries between time and space, three-dimensional narration and multi-level structure are another feature of stream-of-consciousness novels. Stream-of-consciousness novels break the traditional structure of arranging plots in chronological order. Story narration is not limited by time, space, logic and causality, but centers on an event that is happening at that time and organizes the plot by arousing people's conscious activities. The arrangement of the story and the connection of the plot are generally characterized by jumping and changing in time, and there is no logical connection in time between the two scenes. The French philosopher Bergson emphasized and developed this sense of time and put forward the concept of psychological time. In the novel Spot on the Wall, the protagonist often reverses, crosses and permeates the past, present and future in the process of psychological change and consciousness flow, so that the three phenomena of vision, memory and yearning of the characters are intertwined and overlapped, and a deformed structure is created according to "psychological time", thus showing the complexity of human consciousness jumping and mutual infiltration. "Point" has become the intermediary for the protagonist to turn from one thought to another, thus making the description conform to the psychological trajectory, making the work seamless and with inherent harmony. "That Point" brought the protagonist back to reality several times, only to make her mind gallop further and jump freely between "reality-fantasy, present-future, this life-afterlife" in a jumping way. The protagonist's consciousness is a very free and unpredictable state, but it truly shows the immediacy and unpredictability of human cognitive process.

(B) "God scattered"-"God gathered"

Woolf emphasizes writing subjective truth. She believes that the task of art is to reveal the "psychological hidden songs" of the characters, dare to "put aside all factors that she thinks are foreign" and cut the heart into "dust", "together with its glory, its vulgarity, its incoherence and its lightning-fast significance". Even if it is written like this, "there is no plot, comedy, tragedy or routine. This idea is emphasized in the novel Spot on the Wall. First of all, the hero's sentence "damn war, let this war go to hell!" "Let the reader realize the hero's hatred of the war, and then suddenly an idea that seems to have nothing to do with the war pops up:" However, in any case, I don't think we should let a snail lie on the wall. "War is as disgusting as a snail." Alas! God, how mysterious life is; How inaccurate this idea is! How ignorant human beings are! To prove how we can't control our personal belongings-how accidental human life is compared with our civilization. "This is the sadness and helpless sigh brought by the war." Why on earth should people be reincarnated here instead of there, unable to move, speak or concentrate, groping between the giant toes at the foot of the grass? As for what is a tree, what is a man and a woman, or whether there is such a thing, people will not be clear in another 50 years. "What a sad sorrow." The man's point of view dominates our life, which sets the standard and Whitaker's pecking order table. According to my guess, after World War II, it has brought a phantom flavor to many men and women. We hope that soon it will be ridiculed like a phantom, mahogany cabinets, Landsell prints, God, the devil and hell, and sent to the garbage bin, leaving all of us with an intoxicating sense of illegal freedom. "This is how strong desire. A woman who lived in the world war and hated war was strongly dissatisfied with the reality of turbulence, people's poverty and lack of freedom and equality, extremely disgusted with the hypocritical and depressed social atmosphere, and full of yearning for a stable and quiet life.

In Spots on the Wall, Woolf shows readers colorful images and extraordinary imagination. The protagonist begins by imagining that the spots on the wall are traces left by nails hanging on portraits. Along this line of thought, various images followed: the former owner of the house, the suburban villa where the train passed, the young man with a tennis racket, the light blue jar for binding staples, the bird cage, roller skates, accordion, furniture and so on. The juxtaposition of these various images not only produces a montage effect, but also embodies a kind of "truth", an inner feeling of objective reality, and an "inner truth" or "ultimate truth" obtained by refining and sublimating the perceived objective truth. In this way, the role of spots is highlighted. It is not just a point, it symbolizes a kind of existence, as an object, as a concrete thing, as the outside world, it can represent a sense of reality, bring comfort and calm people's unpleasant thoughts. Through the use of symbolic images, Woolf skillfully connects the characters' minds with the outside world, and constructs an interactive model of mind-image-mind. All the images and things of "I" in the works are endowed with brand-new meanings under subtle and profound consciousness perception. The symbolic meaning of the novel is no longer an isolated image or language, but one of the important deep structures that set up the whole work. The consciousness mode of image wrapping in Spot on the Wall makes it have a perfect and self-sufficient structure, which seems to make it far from reality. However, the symbolic meaning of its deep structure makes it closely linked with reality, revealing the "big world" in this "small spot" and giving people profound enlightenment.

Spots on the Wall is Virginia Woolf's first stream-of-consciousness novel. The work describes a woman who regards the snail crawling on the wall as a spot, which causes various associations. The protagonist will have contact with the former tenant with nail prints and portraits for a period of time; Suddenly, the doubts of spots are linked with the mystery of life, the uncertainty of thought and the ignorance of human beings. After a while, the point was a convex circle, which was associated with an ancient tomb. Then I thought of sadness, bones and archaeology. Finally, I decided to take a closer look at the spot. It turned out to be a snail. Imagination can fly, it can fly freely in your mind.

Our thoughts are always easily influenced by the things around us, and the protagonist is always looking for a quiet and comfortable life. In the first paragraph, there is such a sentence: "I stopped at the red charcoal block through the smoke of cigarettes." In the past, the illusion of flying bright red flags on the castle towers reappeared in my mind, and I thought of countless red knights riding on the slopes of black rock walls like floods. This spot interrupts this illusion and may have been produced in childhood. " The red knight represents war and an uneasy life. This unconscious illusion may have been produced in the early stage and deeply rooted in the mind, which in turn led the author to think of something new and made the author's thoughts rush.

Does the flower and grass in your life remind you of anything? Maybe the pace of life is so fast that we have no time to discover some things in life. When we slow down, we will find that there are many things worth thinking about in life, and we will find the meaning of life. When I was a child, I would squat on the grass, looking for traces of grasshoppers. I liked to watch them jump. I once fantasized that I was getting smaller, going to the grasshopper country and playing on the grasshopper's back. There are too many things in life that deserve our time to pay attention. Woolf's aim is: "Life is a bright halo. Life is connected with our consciousness and surrounds us with a translucent envelope. This changeable, indescribable and unspeakable inner spirit, no matter how abnormal and complicated, must be expressed in words. " Sometimes things will give you some strange feelings, which is what life gives you.

Look at the world more, and you will find the joy and bright colors of life. It feels like traveling with a group of photographers, and they will see what you haven't found. From their photos, you will see something you didn't notice. Have you neglected the things around you?