tailieunhanh - The Man Who Laughs VICTOR HUGO PART 2 BOOK 2 CHAPTER 10

The Man Who Laughs VICTOR HUGO PART 2 BOOK 2 CHAPTER 10 Đây là một tác phẩm anh ngữ nổi tiếng với những từ vựng nâng cao chuyên ngành văn chương. Nhằm giúp các bạn yêu thich tiếng anh luyện tập và củng cố thêm kỹ năng đọc tiếng anh . | The Man Who Laughs VICTOR HUGO PART 2 BOOK 2 CHAPTER 10 An Outsider s View of Men and Things Man has a notion of revenging himself on that which pleases him. Hence the contempt felt for the comedian. This being charms me diverts distracts teaches enchants consoles me flings me into an ideal world is agreeable and useful to me. What evil can I do him in return Humiliate him. Disdain is a blow from afar. Let us strike the blow. He pleases me therefore he is vile. He serves me therefore I hate him. Where can I find a stone to throw at him Priest give me yours. Philosopher give me yours. Bossuet excommunicate him. Rousseau insult him. Orator spit the pebbles from your mouth at him. Bear fling your stone. Let us cast stones at the tree hit the fruit and eat it. Bravo and Down with him To repeat poetry is to be infected with the plague. Wretched playactor we will put him in the pillory for his success. Let him follow up his triumph with our hisses. Let him collect a crowd and create a solitude. Thus it is that the wealthy termed the higher classes have invented for the actor that form of isolation applause. The crowd is less brutal. They neither hated nor despised Gwynplaine. Only the meanest calker of the meanest crew of the meanest merchantman anchored in the meanest English seaport considered himself immeasurably superior to this amuser of the scum and believed that a calker is as superior to an actor as a lord is to a calker. Gwynplaine was therefore like all comedians applauded and kept at a distance. Truly all success in this world is a crime and must be expiated. He who obtains the medal has to take its reverse side as well. For Gwynplaine there was no reverse. In this sense both sides of his medal pleased him. He was satisfied with the applause and content with the isolation. In applause he was rich in isolation happy. To be rich in his low estate means to be no longer wretchedly poor--to have neither holes in his clothes nor cold at his hearth nor emptiness in .