Profound and great work. . . . . .
The transitions were all very well done.
Everyone talks about the metaphor of matches, but the desert also has metaphors. The curves of the desert ahead are a metaphor for Lawrence's fair and tender skin and body, while the spectacular desert sunset seems to be a metaphor for Lawrence's sodomy by a Turkish officer. When I wrote this, I remembered that the reporter asked him: what is the most attractive place for you in the desert, and the answer: it is very clean. It seems to imply something...
Lawrence is a quixotic knight who believes that fate is in his own hands. He believes that by himself, he can unite the Arab tribes and win freedom and democracy, sovereignty and glory. But after he was raped by the Turks for the Arabs, the hero no longer believed that he could rule everything. He longed for bloody revenge, and then to be a normal person. But back to reality, he was just a marginalized illegitimate son who was not normal in the eyes of the British and could not inherit his father's title. Arab and British politicians hated him, Arabs and British abandoned him, he was "homeless".
Ali is like Panza, Don Quixote's servant. From the beginning of his contempt for Lawrence's idealism to his later admiration, he began to study politics under the influence of Lawrence, hoping to establish a democratic regime. It can be said that he inherited the will of Lawrence.
I thought of a line from "The Summer Palace": "In war, you shed all your blood. In peace, you can't move an inch."
A hero is a certain person who suddenly stepped onto the stage of history at a certain period of time. Maybe he's not perfect, maybe he made mistakes, but he made a wonderful book in history, maybe not valuable, but meaningful. Even if forgotten by history, when people think of him again, it is worth pondering.
When the war is over, the heroes are forgotten, and only wily politicians are left sitting at the negotiating table gearing up, playing games with each other, and taking advantage of the fisherman. "The birds are gone, the good bow is hidden. The cunning rabbit is dead, and the lackey is cooked."
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