流利说level5,unit2,part1, psycholog

In one of China’s greatest classical  novels,  Dream of the Red Chamber,  love is presented as a state of foolishness.

A young man falls in love with a beautiful woman who  tricks and makes a fool of him.

This results in conflicting emotions of love and hate which tear him apart .

To cure him, a priest gives him a magic mirror.

The priest tells him to look into the reverse side of the mirror, but never to look into the front side.

When the young man looks into the  mirror, he doesn’t like what he sees, so he looks into the  forbidden side, the front side.

There he sees the lovely image of his love, who invites him into the mirror to be with her.

He does this several times until he is finally  dragged away in chains.

He dies  while looking into the mirror.

Perhaps the point of the story is that  all such attachments should be avoided.

A famous French writer, Simone de Beauvoir, has  another point of view.

For her, love is the desire to integrate with another, like a great friendship.

However it is important that lovers not become too dependent on the other person.

Becoming dependent on another person can lead to  boredom or power games.

Lovers should support each other in discovering themselves and developing their potentials.

In this way, romantic love can reach the world.

Falling in love  can be exciting and frightening.

Maybe we lose ourselves and maybe we find ourselves.

Will you dare to find out?