Chapter 48 Reading Notes Dark Love--Reading "The Castle"

love at first sight K's love is full of strong ideal color, which does not bring light to his love life, but makes it present a dark, depressed and hopeless scene.Whenever he looks at the other party and himself in love, he is always dominated by one thing. Ideals and desires are so tightly entangled, and the two take turns taking the upper hand. Every victory of breakthrough is a defeat of abandonment.There is no doubt that K's lust is strong, but his lust permeates the smell of the castle no matter when and where, and even develops to regard ideals as life.This premise makes his love with Frieda look ominous from the beginning.

In the VIP hotel, the desperate K meets the girl Frieda, and he is deeply attracted to her at first sight.What is it about her that attracts K?From the eyes of the world, she looks ordinary and lacks charm.But K's vision is between the mundane and the castle; looking at Frieda from this perspective, she is different, superior and proud, and she is exactly the couple K has dreamed of in his heart.As soon as her confident eyes fell on K, she completely conquered the hungry K.Then they quickly entered the confirmation of the topic.What is the topic?The topic is Kramm, and Kramm is the common ideal of the two of them, and it is the premise of their lust.Frieda, the inconspicuous, thin waitress, conjures K. up to the peephole in the door of her dream lover, which is her privilege.So K saw the person he had been thinking about through the small hole.In this adventure, Frieda never talked nonsense, and her connection with K seemed to be decided in a previous life; when her gaze fell on K, K felt that this gaze "seemed to have resolved all matters related to him." up".It can be seen how deep this tacit understanding should be.As far as both sides are concerned, Frieda is of course more conscious and far-sighted than K, and K's sensitive instinct has also become the fuel for the love between them.Through the small hole in the door, K tried to find out the truth inside. He looked carefully, but everything still confused him; then he asked Frieda for details, and Frieda reminded him again that she was Klamm's mistress. Reminder in K's eyes further enhanced her own value.So lust began to run high in K's body, he became impatient, and a plan to compete also emerged in his mind.For people like K, love must be a double-edged sword.He and Frieda both fell in love because of their common pursuit, but he wants to use this love to achieve his goals, which can't help but seem despicable.From Frieda's point of view, the situation is similar, except that she is one step ahead of K in pursuit; she has long been in love with Klamm, that kind of abstract, faithful heavenly love; She has been in the position for a long time, and now she has come to a turning point, at this turning point, she wants to confirm her abstract love for Klamm with her human love with K, that is, to experience heaven, to experience the castle in the burning of carnality. will.And all of this is precisely Kram's arrangement, that is-see how high you can jump, and try your best to jump as high as you can!Did she experience it?She did experience it, her body burned faintly, and she turned into a ball of fire, which is really unbelievable.Like her, K, who was completely lost by lust, rolled on the dirty puddle and entered the state of bliss and ecstasy.This is the highest state of love. In that state, people get rid of all burdens and become free gods in a short time. The soul and body of each other become one, of course, it is only a very short moment.Immediately afterwards, his spirit and flesh began to separate.Frieda's pleasure is still going on, and she is still indulging in betrayal of Kramm (a betrayal with Kramm's tacit approval) as a stimulant.K, on ​​the other hand, is dulled by the frustrating reflection immediately after the climax.He remembered his career, the plan he had just sprouted; and his behavior just now was obviously contrary to the career and plan.His eyes were dark, and he felt that it was over for both of them, because they had betrayed Klamm and moved further from the castle.Frieda didn't see it that way, her eyes were clear, and she said: "I'm the only one who is finished." She understood the mystery of love better, and with the genius intuition that Klamm gave her, she knew that the mystery was: she had to be "finished" , to experience heaven; one must experience Kramm's will in defiance of Kramm.So she banged on the door and yelled: "I'm at the land surveyor! I'm at the land surveyor!" It was like a signal to Klamm, and Klamm answered her with silence.

What happened?Hope lost? Is K's way to the castle blocked?No, everything is normal and everything is expected.Frieda started the process of realizing the fable. She gained power from love and became stronger than ever before, so she scared the peasants away with a glance. K, despite brief regrets and worries, feels relieved after all.He breathed the fresh air out of doors, and he felt better. It seemed that the hardships of the journey became more bearable, because he changed from being alone to having an ally!This is his first stop into life as an outsider, and also his first step in allegorizing reality.

twisted heart K and Frieda began their desired love life.The passion is so hot that even in the entanglement of the two inseparable assistants, K can fall in love with Frieda again.At the same time, love itself is changing quietly, and a certain purpose is slowly and clearly intervening.Each of them is looking for something in the other, and the higher the lust, the stronger the desire to find.What they were looking for was Kram, but they couldn't find it. They used each other as substitutes. K wants to find the hope of leading to the castle and the evidence to prove himself (Kram's mistress's mistress) directly from Frieda; Frieda wants to use K's body to grasp the love for Kramm.But the illusory nature of love keeps their longings unsatisfied.After the climax passed, K fell into infinite bewilderment. At this moment, he unconsciously accepted the psychological analysis of the proprietress, which was gloomy and full of intelligent entertainment.

The proprietress has been telling the truth, but K mistook her for being arrogant (naturally unconvinced).First, she talked to him about Frieda's future situation, and K proposed to marry Frieda (the first step to really determine her identity).Frieda burst into tears immediately. She was extremely happy to be with K from now on. She wanted to fully experience the worldly pleasures of carnal desires; Worldly pleasures are eclipsed below.For her, crying is the pain of being torn apart.Her pain affected the proprietress, and the proprietress became extremely sad.The proprietress's analysis is more from Kramm's side, which makes her analysis cold and objective.Of course, it's not that she doesn't understand Frieda's lust. She takes her lust as a child's waywardness and adopts a tolerant attitude, which is exactly Klamm's tolerance.The proprietress explained K's real situation in the village in the most understandable words for ordinary people in the village, reminded him not to be arrogant, to be cautious with every step he took, and told him that it was absolutely impossible to see Kram; It's not that she wants to dispel K's hope, she just wants to tell the terrible truth and remove the veil from K's eyes.But she presented the facts in such detail that one could not help but wonder: Was she secretly teasing K for Frieda's benefit (to give Fo a successful experience)?Didn't she say something like "you're so special" to K at the beginning?Since she saw from the beginning that K was determined to go her own way anyway, and kept repeating that warning over and over again, could it be that she was afraid that K would not resist and break through according to Klamm's arrangement?Klamm is an eagle, and K is a snake that crawls around underground, but this does not mean that the snake will obediently wait for the majestic eagle to eat him.Is she engaging in aggressive tactics?The proprietress’s analysis was twisted and twisted, and K, who was also twisted and twisted, understood (seemed to object) her good intentions and suggested that it would be better to blindfold her eyes with a cloth.The most confusing of them all is the proprietress, who teases both K and Frieda, and every word she says is roundabout and paradoxical; to analyze her words is to analyze the deepest part of K's heart. part.

The shadow in Frida's heart cannot be erased. The happier she is, the more painful she is. The ideal and reality develop in parallel.In comparison, she is calmer than K.She snatched K from Olga, of course, in order to fully appreciate the emotions in the world. She wants to maximize her love for K and transform this love into love for Kram.Disappointment, pain, and depression were all things she wanted to experience; she really experienced them.This unhappy love soon lost her former luster.As for K., who lives by ideals, he indulges in his pursuit after the initial impulse has passed, and incorporates love itself into that pursuit, which sows the dangerous seeds for the continued development of love. .

conflict After the initial passion passed, a deep rift appeared in the love between K and Frieda.The rift stems from the two people's different ways of pursuing ideal love: K must go forward in pursuit, determine his identity, and meet Kram.He asks Frieda to assist him, to belong to him, while paradoxically wanting her to remain in a relationship with Klamm.But Frieda wants to experience worldly love in place, maintains Klamm's absolute authority, opposes K's arrogance in identifying her identity, and hopes that K will only focus on her.At the same time, she was conflicted: she wanted to be K's wife completely, but she couldn't be his wife completely.In short, one is to combine love and pursuit of ideals into one (K), and the other is to separate them into two (Eph).The conflict is extremely painful, and no one can convince the other, because the two people have different standpoints and their opinions are opposite everywhere.And because both are loyal to the same principle, this pain is even more inescapable.

The conflict between K and Frieda is reflected in every little thing in their cohabitation life, and their views and thoughts on all things are completely different.First of all, K wanted to drive away the assistant out of the urge to be happy and detached, and the down-to-earth Frieda got along very well with the assistant; After begging, he reluctantly accepted; after arriving at school, K was always unwilling to live in humiliation, and made things worse, so that he vented his anger on the assistant, fired the assistant, and greatly hurt Frieda's heart.Every time there is a conflict, the two are very clear about the other's love for them, but they just can't reach a real compromise, and the two people's understanding of the same thing is always misplaced.In this mutual torment, Frieda's vitality, her characteristic determination, her enchanting charm, all disappeared without a trace.It was because of her charm that K was conquered by her.Looking at the emaciated Frida, K's heart was filled with remorse.He recalled how beautiful she had been with Klamm, how beautiful she had been then!He made her leave Klamm, what did he give her?There is only endless torture.But what she asks from K, can K give her? Can K stop pursuing, stop trying to determine his identity, and run away with her?Just doing this, does it meet Frieda's wish?Obviously impossible.Frieda didn't really want K to stop pursuing his identity; if that was the case, K would lose his former charm in her eyes.So what exactly does Frieda want from K?To be honest, she really didn't know.This is the fatal pain brought about by inner contradictions.Compared with K, her love is more fanatical and deep. She even proposed to K to run away together when her lust was overwhelmed, and she even hoped to lie down with K in a narrow and deep grave, as if being clamped by pincers. Clinging close, free from all distractions.Of course, once I woke up and faced reality, these thoughts were dispelled.Not only K can't abandon everything and take Frieda to pursue it; even Frieda herself can't experience love wholeheartedly--Kram's eyes are staring at her through the eyes of the assistants.She is infatuated with these two assistants, and this kind of infatuation is intolerable to K, and K cannot tolerate the actions of the assistants contradicting the goals he pursues.Follow the love trajectory of these two people forward, and you will find that nothing, a thought, or a decision embodies a clear will; everything is in the split of contradictions, and only the instinct of life pushes this contradiction forward develop.During those lulls of respite, each side is filled with gratitude and tenderness for the other, while at the same time, a greater conflict is brewing.Such a picture is strange, the two are restrained by two opposite forces respectively, unable to move an inch and want to move, the result is that they are entangled together, let their instinctive impulses to walk out of the snow randomly and stumbling a little bit. Glyph footprints.This is the effect Kram expected!Klamm sat in the tall castle, watching the puppet-like humans perform clumsily in the mud.

We have already said that Frieda did not object to K's pursuit of ideals in her heart, and she fell in love with him at first because of K's pursuit.But once this pursuit exceeds a certain limit, for example, beyond her control, her love turns into hate.Seeing K use the little boy as a tool for his wooing, she thought of K using herself, and she was furious.Her attitude was inconsistent.Didn't she know K's use of her from the beginning?Didn't she deliberately inflate her self-worth in order to get K to use her?And she herself, didn't she fall in love only after seeing K's use value?Isn't she also going to use K to realize her love for Kram?We see that there are many gaps in her iron principles, and it is from where these gaps are that she and K enjoy the short happiness of life.The walls of principle hinder the development of love and make people nervous; but it is precisely because of these walls that this gloomy and touching swan song of love comes into being.Who else loves like an artist?The wall is the tomb of love, and the only measure by which love can be raised to heaven.So K explained to her the inevitability and rationality of "utilization".As long as the two have the same ideals, what does it matter if the means are bad or the methods are different? (Subtext: How can we achieve pure ideals without bad means?)

From K's point of view, there has been an unexpected development. K's love for Frieda was consistent with his pursuit at the beginning, but later the pursuit became unscrupulous, and the objects he used soon exceeded his fiancée, and even his lust might turn, and betrayal became inevitable.Of course, Frieda had anticipated this, and the proprietress had already told her about it.She also knew that K. would not listen to her dissuasion, because no one could stop him.The end of their relationship can only be broken.Frieda, who was one step ahead of K in everything, then took the initiative.Then it was K's turn to be angry, and the somewhat dull K lost Frieda's love in such a way.It can also be said that this dark love has finally come to an end, and our country bumpkins are going to find a new fairy who has descended to earth.

Cause of rupture The superficial impression seems to be that the relationship between the two has planted the seeds of crisis from the very beginning, and it will be a matter of time before they break up.And as soon as they entered the atmosphere of the two, they felt that Frieda didn't have to part ways with K immediately.Haven't you been stumbling here for so long?We should seek unity in the struggle.What made Frieda make up her mind?It turned out that K's attention turned to the Barnabas family, because a new opponent appeared in love.From this, it can be speculated that Frieda's retirement was hinted by Klamm.Maybe the love marathon between her and K has dragged on for too long, and the passion is no longer as hot as it used to be.What Klam wants to see must be fiery sensuality, full of challenging novelty, and unprecedented freshness, just like the night when Frieda and K fell in love at first sight.This love is getting a bit old for both energetic partners, and it's time for a renewal.So on the eve of the breakup, Frieda viciously attacked the two sisters of the Barnabas family, and even exaggerated their status in K's heart, blaming K on the surface, but who knew her real intentions?It seems that she used accusations to highlight Olga and Amalia, so that K, who was full of rebellious psychology, really turned her attention to them to complete the task Kram entrusted to her.As for her throwing herself into the assistant's arms, that was also to arouse K's jealousy and make K's already cold love become stronger for the last time.Frieda said that K "doesn't know what loyalty is."She spoke of K's true nature, which was accentuated by her emphasis.She sent two assistants to monitor K at Barnabas' house, just to ascertain K's criminal facts.And she herself, after experiencing so much distress, also needs to rest; she wants to go back to "one of her own", she wants to dissolve in reality, and return to her former position, where she takes fantasy as life, because The task that Klamm gave her has been completed. K regards the pursuit of ideals as his life, but he is not a villager, and he cannot live in abstract love like Frieda; There must be an object in reality, and this object can be Frieda or Olga.He himself has no status in the village, so he can only rely on a person who has status (even if the status is insignificant), so that his pursuit can proceed.However, even in the pursuit, his identity is always between reality and illusion. He does not seem to be a real person, but just an impulse.It just so happens that this sense of illusion is prompting him to keep rushing forward without stopping at any point.His extraordinary love life was the form of the impulse in him.It is certain, therefore, that he will soon find a new opponent, renew his strength, reestablish his real and illusory relationship with the castle, and devote himself wholeheartedly to the new pursuit. In Frieda's and K's love life, Klamm's ambiguous face is not revealed until the end.Before that, the reason why Frieda had been preoccupied and tormented by contradictions was because of Klamm's ambiguous will (to want her to love and not to love her at the same time, the two reasons are equal).As we ascend to Klamm's height, we discover that K and Frieda's ending is not a sad one.No matter what kind of suffering will pass, life will continue, the rupture of the old pattern means the emergence of a new pattern.Of course, as long as the castle exists, the pain will remain. conclusion The poet's description of love is difficult for people to understand because of its abstraction, implicitness, and esoteric connotation.Only by clarifying the inner background of the characters, can one know the origin of this form of love, and be amazed by the depth and complexity of such a strange love.This is the ideal love, everything is reasonable.The climax of this love, which develops simultaneously with the pursuit of K and Frieda, inspires and guides them to move forward bravely, greatly enriching the scenery on the way of their pursuit. Such a love like a life-and-death struggle also makes us appreciate how difficult or even impossible love in reality has become since the existence of the castle; and those who still want to love in such a situation should What a powerful impulse it has.The dark power of Klum's stunning love scene on the high castle haunts us for a long time. December 15, 1997, Yingcai Garden