One way to put it, especially in nineteenth-century realism which particularly interests Brooks, is all these characters are just madly making bad object choices.

一种解释的方式，用19世纪现实主义的观点来看,也就是布鲁克斯感兴趣的观点来看，就是小说中的人物在疯狂地做着错误的决定。

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Now, on Monday you're going to hear about this novel's confrontation with the idea that art could be saving, that it could somehow be redemptive, but here I think is a hint that it's something that the novel simply laughs at hollowly.

星期一我们将会将到这部小说对,艺术已经被拯救，某种程度已经被救赎这个,观点的对质，但我想提示大家一下,那只是这部小说空洞嘲笑的观点。

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Well, now maybe the important thing is to allow Brooks to comment on that so that you can see how he makes use of Freud's idea and move us a little bit closer to the application of these ideas to the structure of a literary plot or of a fictional plot.

现在最重要的事是允许布鲁克斯对此加以评论,这样一来你们就能看到他是怎样运用弗洛伊德的观点,并且进一步将其运用于,文学情节或小说情节的结构中去。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Student: I agree with her. It's disturbing how much we identify with Humbert, how we're made to see the world through his eyes, and we kind of-- even I--grew to like him a lot.

我同意她的观点，小说扰乱了我们,对Humber的理解以及我们从他眼中看到的世界，我们有点，甚至我，开始非常喜欢他。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选