In ancient Greek mythology, Zeus, the king of gods, and Demeter, the goddess of agriculture, had a daughter named Persephone. Persephone is the goddess of seeds and the queen of the underworld. In spring, Persephone returns to the ground, representing the beginning of growth, and then everything wakes up and germinates. Once Persephone returns to the underworld, it means that everything will sleep in the dark soil and usher in hibernation. In House of the Day and House of the Night, there is also a seed goddess-Marta. Marta returned to the house in the spring and lived a normal life. In winter, she went back to the basement and began to hibernate. She is like a thing in nature, changing with the seasons, and everything is regular.
There is not much introduction to Marta in the book, and there is no resume. I don't know where she came from or what she was like when she was young. She is the neighbor of the narrator, a woman who makes wigs. She has no special status and is not a learned person. The narrator thinks she can't even read. But it is such a person that makes the narrator admire her deeply. In many stories, Marta is the existence of wisdom, which is not reflected in her erudition, but in her understanding of the world. Marta's strength lies in her finding the rhythm of the world. She is not a person who chases time, but lives in time.
Courths said: "whoever can enrich every moment with profound content is prolonging his life indefinitely."
When the narrator confided in Marta, he said, "I am always inexplicably afraid of the sudden arrival of death at night, so that I can never put things off." People are always like this. The moment of powerlessness is the most terrible, just like a seizure. When Marta heard this, she didn't comfort or ask questions. She would ask, "When did this start?" Marta doesn't have the mind of a psychiatrist. In Marta's view, the most important thing is what is happening now and in front of him. Questioning the beginning and the end will not get any valuable information.
Marta has sleep problems. She once said that all her sleep was a two-hour nap at night. At night, Marta can see the dreams of thousands of people, and millions of people are sleeping at all times. When half of mankind is awake, the other half is entangled in deep dreams. Marta believes that no moment on earth can be just bright, tense and colorful; There must be a dark, flowing, silent and chaotic moment on the other side of the earth to balance it.
Marta in the book is a kind old man. Her understanding of the world comes from life and past experiences. She deeply analyzes the essence of all kinds of things with her own opinions. Marta does not pursue age, but pursues a state of life, which may only appear in old age. This is a state of inaction, that is, you don't take action to fight for anything, but if you have already started, you should do it slowly, as if you care not about the result of the activity, but about the activity itself, the rhythm and melody of the activity.
At present, we live in a materialistic society, and impetuousness has become a synonym. We should learn from Marta's composure. This calmness does not mean that we are indifferent to anything, nor does it force us to be knowledgeable. This calmness comes more from our attitude towards life. When we study, take exams and participate in activities, we don't have to pursue a result, and we don't need to bask in it to make others envy us. What we get in this process is our own. This is intangible wealth, and the result is just icing on the cake.
"At that time, I was alone in silence. I was in a semi-existent state at that time, and I had no worries for a long time. Looking up at the clouds in the sky, I only feel dazzling. "
The narrator said, "I realized that I can only rely on imagination and fiction to understand her." I used her past and present to create a Marta. "In a sense, Marta is another" I "of the author who appears as the first-person narrator, which is not only reflected in the fact that they always appear in one picture, but also in the narrator's description of Marta's smell, which brings us into the past memory. Marta's clothes, skin and food all smell familiar and kind. These smells awaken the narrator's subconscious memory, thus creating another self. As the philosophical thought revealed in the book, everyone has two houses, the house where the narrator "I" lives during the day and the house where Marta's "I" lives at night.
Miyazaki Hayao said: "I always believe that there must be another self in this world, doing what I dare not do and living the life I want."
We may all have a "Marta" in our hearts to help us constantly switch perspectives in our lives. This existence is that when we are sad, we will be comforted, when we are happy, we will be shared, when we are frustrated, we will be encouraged, and when we succeed, we will be appreciated. Marta is a soul mate, a pioneer of thought, and exists in our hearts like a wise man.