This is a story about a special and unreserved woman who has been exposed to a hostile environment but continuously and fearlessly struggling for her ideal life. The story can be interpreted as a symbol of the independent spirit.
It seems to me that many readers’ English reading experience starts with Jane Eyer. I am of no exception. As we refer to the movie “Jane Eyer”, it is not surprising to find some differences because of its being filmized and retold in a new way, but the spirit of the novel remains----to be an independent person, both physically and mentally.
Jane Eyer was a born resister, whose parents went off when she was very young, and her aunt,the only relative she had,treated her as badly as a ragtag. Since Jane’s education in Lowwood Orphanage began, she didn’t get what she had been expecting——simply being regarded as a common person, just the same as any other girl around. The suffers from being humiliated and devastated teach Jane to be persevering and prize dignity over anything else.As a reward of revolting the ruthless oppression, Jane got a chance to be a tutor in Thornfield Garden. There she made the acquaintance of lovely Adele and that garden’s owner, Rochester, a man with warm heart despite a cold face outside. Jane expected to change the life from then on, but fate had decided otherwise: After Jane and Rochester fell in love with each other and got down to get marry, she unfortunately came to know in fact Rochester had got a legal wife, who seemed to be the shadow following Rochester and led to his moodiness all the time ----Rochester was also a despairing person in need of salvation. Jane did want to give him a hand, however, she made up her mind to leave, because she didn’t want to betray her own principles, because she was Jane Eyer. The film has finally got a symbolist end: Jane inherited a large number of legacies and finally returned. After finding Rochester ’s misfortune brought by his original mad wife, Jane chose to stay with him forever.
I don’t know what others feel, but frankly speaking, I would rather regard the section that Jane began her teaching job in Thornfield as the film’s end----especially when I heard Jane’s words “Never in my life have I been awaken so happily. ” For one thing, this ideal and brand-new beginning of life was what Jane had been imagining for long as a suffering person; for another, this should be what the audiences with my views hoped her to get. But the professional judgment of producing films reminded me to wait for a totally different result: There must be something wrong coming with the excellence----perhaps not only should another section be added to enrich the story, but also we may see from the next transition of Jane’s life that “Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you would get.”
What ’s more, this film didn’t end when Jane left Thornfield. For Jane Eyer herself, there should always be somewhere to realize her great ideal of being independent considering her fortitude, but for Rochester, how he can get salvation? The film gives the answer tentatively: Jane eventually got back to Rochester. In fact, when Jane met Rochester for the first time, she scared his horse and made his heel strained, to a certain extent, which meant Rochester would get retrieval because of Jane. We can consider Rochester’s experiences as that of religion meaning. The fire by his frantic wife was the punishment for the cynicism early in his life. After it, Rochester got the mercy of the God and the love of the woman whom he loved. Here we can say: human nature and divinity get united perfectly in order to let such a story accord with the requirements of both two sides. The value of this film may be due to its efforts to explore a new way for the development of humanism under the faith of religion.
大二以后的体育课,就可以自己选了,但是也不是随心所欲的,毕竟时间上不能和既定的必修课冲突。庆幸的是我选到了乒乓球课,我和我的小伙伴一块选的(小伙伴——老三,由于我们寝室有一个同学没去报到,所以被分到别的专业寝室的老三就搬回了我们这个大家庭,可能是由于我们都是外省的,所以“臭味相投”、“同病相怜”吧。体育老师教完了基本动作,剩余时间就是大家一块练球,我们每次都很积极,去得前所未有得早,顶球、扣球、接球……一项一项的训练,最后我俩都得了优秀(我小学六年级学会的乒乓球,嘻嘻,这是我体育课里得的唯一一个优秀。如此之惨,源于我的800米,说出来都是眼泪呀……不提也罢。大一和老三到图书馆借书,图书馆的老师看着我俩,说:“这长的小巧玲珑的,一看就是南方人。”我俩说不是,我说我是北方人,那老师不信,问:“你哪儿人?”“我山西的。”“那不就得了,是南方人。”后来才知道,东北人喜欢把除了东三省的人都说成是南方人,绝对不是个例我保证,是普遍都这么认为的。我也是醉了,我一个黄河以北,太行山下的华北地区人士,硬被说成是南方人。齐市的小吃真是赞,我和小伙伴们都被诱惑成了“吃货”,烤冷面、肉夹馍、炸鸡柳、炸蘑菇、鸡蛋灌饼、龙沙park夜市的臭豆腐、鱿鱼……小吃街的蜜汁鸡脖、水煮菜、鸡柳饭、油泼面、米线……齐市的烤冷面和其他地方的完全不一样的口感,齐市的肉夹馍里面的肉是鸡柳,不是猪肉,齐市的炸鸡柳香酥可口,齐市的鸡柳可以和蘑菇一块炸,齐市的……写着写着我就流口水了,不能再细细描述了,要不然整个星期都没有食欲了,请“吃货们”原谅我的“自私”……东北的雪不是一般的雪,每年冬天下的雪一直得等到来年4、5月份才能融化,下了雪大一新生就得铲雪,不然会结冰,铲到道路两边,下次下雪就把雪堆到上次铲到路边的雪上面,就这样一层一层的,大部分它是不会融化的,放寒假之前气温就已经接近-30℃了,由于冬天冷且长,所以东北的寒假是二个月,最冷的时候我们已经回家了,以免大家忍受不了“被冻死”。
2011年的冬天没下几次雪,但2012年冬天雪很大、很多,虽然我们已经大二了,但还是还了去年的债,幸运儿是没用的,导员的话才是有用的。大四的时候,有很多没怎么见过雪的大一新生,在学校堆起了雪人,我们晚上吃完饭,捡现成的,和那些雪人统统合了影。一转眼,快六年了,我和小伙伴们毕业差三天也两年整了,前几天老六也结婚了,大家也各奔东西了。我们也不是那个十八岁半的人了,但前进的脚步,我们不能不赶趟儿!脚踏实地谋发展,努力努力再努力!
201x年7月5日作于北京
有次,他们大一军训打靶,6个年轻人因为一颗走火的子弹命悬一线,一条会狼叫的拉布拉多狗救了他们,并使他们成为了密友。军训结束的那天晚上,他们激情四射,踌躇满志,对大学生活充满憧憬,
誓要在这四年内完成各自的梦想!并给那只狗取名为“SUNNY”,养在学校里。
大四比想像的来得快。如今的他们已经激情不在,自以为成熟的
屈服于现实,所谓的“梦想”早已成为笑谈,各自为烦恼而奔波。
因为“SUNNY”丢了,他们决定踏上寻狗之旅,大雄拿上了他爸爸的车,载着朋友们和寻找狗的决心出发了。在路上,他们遇到了一辆挑衅的车。他们为了追上那辆车就加快了速度,但最后不仅跟丢了,还迷路了。他们听了‘车神’盲目的指示以为可以回到主路上,但只是一直都在兜圈。在盲目的兜圈时他们又遇见了那辆挑衅的车子,原来那辆车子是带他们回主路上。他们跟着那辆车子,果然回到了主路上。但那辆车子里的人真的是好人吗?经过了这次的迷路事件,他们又踏上了漫长的路途。
开了许久,车子已经没油啦。他们只有推车,但推了一会了,大家都没有力气了。就在他们休息的.时候,车‘自动’开走了。他们一直追一直追。车终于 ‘到站’啦。也许是天意,他们到了一个加油站。加油站的老板给他们加的油似乎是水,但他们别无选择。他们给了钱,但老板没有找钱给他们。他们就去找老板要回剩余的钱,但他们看见这个老板的抽屉里全是刀,他们很怕,只好听老板的话买一些东西。老板把剩余的钱找给了他们。随后他们听见狗叫声,只见老板似乎怒气冲冲的出去了。他们带着‘家伙’冲了出去,他们看见的却是老板慈祥的在喂一些流浪狗。被老板骗去厕所的功夫女侠,终于找不到厕所回来啦。她埋怨老板骗她。接着他们出去时,看见的却是车子‘消失’了。他们一下子愣了,不知如何是好。只好先安慰自己,接着他们离开加油站去寻找车子的下落。找了好一会儿,还是没有找到。他们只好报警让大雄的爸爸去找了。自己又抱着寻找狗的决心,又继续潇洒的踏上路程。
但是表面上这么简单——只是去找只狗,如果仔细想想,他们不仅是去找狗,而且找回的是大学的回忆和朋友之间快乐的时间。所以当看完这部电影后。
我想了想:这部电影不就是告诉我们时间过得很快,我们应该珍惜同学之间的友情和这些快乐的时间吗?
I read the Chinese version of “Camille” a few years ago. At that time I was deeply moved by the main character Marguerite Gautier. “Camille” or “The Lady of the Camellias” by Alexandre Dumas, fils, is the story of Marguerite Gautier, a young courtesan, or kept woman, in Paris in the mid 1800's, and how she falls in love with a young man, Armand Duval, and then tries to escape from her questionable past. Unfortunately, it comes back to haunt her and she ends up returning to that life and dies painfully and alone, but with the knowledge that she was a noble woman at heart. When I first began to read the book, I did not care for Marguerite or her attitude or lifestyle, but as I got further into the narrative, I realized that her saucy attitude was a front to cover the lonely woman that she really was. She felt used, abused and unloved, until the gentle Armand Duval came into her life and showed her that he loved her as a person and not for what she could do for him. It must have taken great courage for Marguerite to leave the life she had lived for so long, knowing all along that it was probably too good to be true and would not last indefinitely. And it also showed that Marguerite really loved Armand Duval for she could even change herself for him.
However, happiness didn’t last for long. When M. Duval, Armand's father, came to her, pleading for her to leave Armand to save both Armand's reputation and that of his younger innocent sister, Marguerite saw a way to become pure of heart, if not in body. She felt that it was her duty, because she loved Armand so much, to do this even though it meant giving up her own happiness and hurting Armand temporarily. She reluctantly returned to her former life, knowing that.some day Armand would forgive her. Sadly, she died in debt and basically alone, except for her one female friend, Julie Duprat, who helped her during her illness. She had her journal sent to Armand after her death, explaining why she had made the choices she had. I think Dumas's last few lines about Marguerite being the exception, not the rule were quite true, and I also agreed with his view that while her lifestyle could not be condoned, we as a society assume that all of these type of women are cold and heartless, while this may not always be the case. A person can make the wrong choices in life when they are young, and try to redeem themselves, but sometimes past situations prevent them from changing their lives, even though they desperately wish to do so. This applies to both men and women in many different types of circumstances: involvement in crime; drug or alcohol abuse; gambling; prostitution; financial problems; poor marriage choices; etc. And this is the fact, which exists in the whole society.
As far as the other characters in the book, I think Marguerite was right in saying that no one truly cared about her, but only wanted something from her, the only exceptions being Armand and Julie Duprat. Of course, the Comte de G. and Comte de N. wanted her body and appearance. The
Duke needed to “wake up and smell the coffee” and realize that she could never replace his dead daughter. If he truly cared, he could have helped her leave her lifestyle without “keeping” her himself. And lastly, Prudence was a blood-sucking leech who used Marguerite almost worse than the men. I also think she was jealous of the fact that Marguerite had so much more courage than herself and someone truly loved her.
Last morning, when tiding my bookshelf, I took this book out of the shelf, and a dried flower flew away from the book. It was pale blue, very transparent, with thin fine veins. a dried flower flew away from the book. It was pale blue, very transparent, with thin fine veins. I held it against the morning light and blew on it. The soft breeze carried it away. Camille is just like the camellia, she could never escape from the destiny of withering. But it wasn’t her fault; it’s because of the evil of Capitalism and the hideousness of that society.
Suddenly, I remembered a saying: “Women are like the flowers”. Those pretty women are like those beautiful flowers; their delicate beauty makes people feel they are the miracle of life. However, even the God envies their beauty. It seems that beautiful women always have tragic endings. As we are normal persons, even we can see the hideousness of humanity that results in their fate of withering, we can at most ask quietly in our hearts: Where have those beautiful flowers gone? Where have they gone?
The Life And Adventures Of Robinson Crusoe
It seemed to be such a coincidence that the night after I finished reading The Life And Adventures Of Robinson Crusoe, I was to dine in a restaurant distinctly related to the book itself. This restaurant was no other than the famous American-styled “Friday ’s. ” The reason for mentioning this restaurant is quite straightforward to all the gentlemen, ladies and children who have read the novel and enjoyed it, which is the fact that this restaurant was, most likely, named after the American Native in Robinson Crusoe, called Friday. This restaurant offers very exceptional service, for instance when the waitresses are asked to order dishes they kneel rather than stand, which, unlike the other restaurants I have been to, makes it easier for the customers to hear them speak. Moreover, Friday’s friendly services to the customers help them to make better choices when ordering dishes. I remembered when I went to Friday ’s last time; the waitress kindly described the items on the menu with precise details. It turned out that the combo I initially wanted was designed to be shared among a large group, not to be eaten by one person. I think this restaurant shows many commendable features similar to that of Friday. Friday brought emotional warmth to the people around him with his appealing personality. I think it was this personality that affected Crusoe and made him say that he loved Friday when Crusoe didn ’t express love for his parents, brothers, sisters, or even his wife. “When he espied me, he came running to me, laying himself down again upon the ground, with all the possible signs of an humble, thankful disposition, making many antic gestures to show it to let me know how he would serve me as long as he lived.” This was what Friday did after Crusoe had rescued him from the two savages chasing him. It was easy for me to see why Crusoe had loved Friday. After sometime, Crusoe and Friday were to rescue Friday’s father. When Friday reunited with his father, the scene was easy to move anyone: “It would have moved anyone to tears to have seen how Friday kissed him, embraced him, hugged him, cried, laughed, halloed, jumped about, danced,
sung; and then sung and jumped about again, like a distracted creature. It was a good while before I could make him speak to me.” This is my favourite chapter in the whole book. It is hard to see why Friday is an ex-savage when he can have personalities more praiseworthy than many civilized people, viz. Crusoe himself. “When he (Friday went to him (Friday’s father, he would sit down by him, open his breast, and hold his father’s head close to his bosom, half an hour together, to nourish it; then he took his arms and ankles, which were numbed and stiff with the binding, and rubbed them with his hands.” Furthermore, Friday’s expression of loyalty in asking Crusoe to kill him rather than leave him is more heartfelt than anything Crusoe ever says or does.
Crusoe, on the absolute contrary, seems incapable of deep feelings, as shown by his account of leaving his family—he never shows any emotions. After a moving lecture from Robinson’s father about his future, he still decided to follow his own wandering ambition. Careless was he about the wishes of his parents to keep him alive and prosperous, as he was the only child left in the family. When he came back from the island which he had lived on for twenty eight years, he found that it had been too late to tell his parents that he was still alive, but yet again he did not feel sorry for them; he also did not feel sorry for the two people who had to live in misery for nearly thirty years under the allusion all of their sons were dead. He had the same feelings for his wife: when he was married, he said it was “not either to my disadvantage or dissatisfaction”, implying that it was also neither to his advantage nor his satisfaction. Moreover, after his wife died, Robinson did not think of looking after the three children they had, but went back to the island, which he had lived on for twenty-eight years. It was on this trip which Robinson Crusoe revisited “His Island ” as he called it. I feel that Robinson ’s indifference to his family is almost emotionally cruel.
Before had clearly shown the contrast between Crusoe’s and Friday’s personalities, as when Friday, in his joyful reunion with his father, displayed far more emotion toward his family members than Crusoe, whereas Crusoe never mentions missing his family or dreams about the happiness of seeing them again. I think Defore is very successful in introducing Friday as part of the novel, it makes the whole novel seem much more complete and gripping to the reader, as well as proving that Defoe’s ideology of racism is civilized unlike many other Europeans at that time; natives and savages are not worse than others but can perhaps even be more modern and civilized. Those are the reasons of why I like The Life And Adventures Of Robinson Crusoe and Friday.
有次,他们大一军训打靶,6个年轻人因为一颗走火的子弹命悬一线,一条会狼叫的拉布拉多狗救了他们,并使他们成为了密友。军训结束的那天晚上,他们激情四射,踌躇满志,对大学生活充满憧憬,
誓要在这四年内完成各自的梦想!并给那只狗取名为“SUNNY”,养在学校里。
大四比想像的来得快。如今的他们已经激情不在,自以为成熟的
屈服于现实,所谓的“梦想”早已成为笑谈,各自为烦恼而奔波。
因为“SUNNY”丢了,他们决定踏上寻狗之旅,大雄拿上了他爸爸的车,载着朋友们和寻找狗的决心出发了。在路上,他们遇到了一辆挑衅的车。他们为了追上那辆车就加快了速度,但最后不仅跟丢了,还迷路了。他们听了‘车神’盲目的指示以为可以回到主路上,但只是一直都在兜圈。在盲目的兜圈时他们又遇见了那辆挑衅的车子,原来那辆车子是带他们回主路上。他们跟着那辆车子,果然回到了主路上。但那辆车子里的`人真的是好人吗?经过了这次的迷路事件,他们又踏上了漫长的路途。
开了许久,车子已经没油啦。他们只有推车,但推了一会了,大家都没有力气了。就在他们休息的时候,车‘自动’开走了。他们一直追一直追。车终于‘到站’啦。也许是天意,他们到了一个加油站。加油站的老板给他们加的油似乎是水,但他们别无选择。他们给了钱,但老板没有找钱给他们。他们就去找老板要回剩余的钱,但他们看见这个老板的抽屉里全是刀,他们很怕,只好听老板的话买一些东西。老板把剩余的钱找给了他们。随后他们听见狗叫声,只见老板似乎怒气冲冲的出去了。他们带着‘家伙’冲了出去,他们看见的却是老板慈祥的在喂一些流浪狗。被老板骗去厕所的功夫女侠,终于找不到厕所回来啦。她埋怨老板骗她。接着他们出去时,看见的却是车子‘消失’了。他们一下子愣了,不知如何是好。只好先安慰自己,接着他们离开加油站去寻找车子的下落。找了好一会儿,还是没有找到。他们只好报警让大雄的爸爸去找了。自己又抱着寻找狗的决心,又继续潇洒的踏上路程。
但是表面上这么简单——只是去找只狗,如果仔细想想,他们不仅是去找狗,而且找回的是大学的回忆和朋友之间快乐的时间。所以当看完这部电影后。
我想了想:这部电影不就是告诉我们时间过得很快,我们应该珍惜同学之间的友情和这些快乐的时间吗?
Many people simply regard Pride and Prejudice as a love story, but in my opinion, this book is an illustration of the society at that time. She perfectly reflected the relation between money and marriage at her time and gave the people in her works vivid characters. The characters have their own personalities. Mrs. Bennet is a woman who makes great efforts to marry off her daughters. Mr. Bingley is a friendly young man, but his friend, Mr. Darcy, is a very proud man who seems to always feel superior. Even the five daughters in Bennet family are very different. Jane is simple, innocent and never speaks evil of others. Elizabeth is a clever girl who always has her own opinion. Mary likes reading classic books. (Actually she is a pedant. Kitty doesn’t have her own opinion but likes to follow her sister, Lydia. Lydia is a girl who follows exotic things, handsome man, and is somehow a little profligate. When I read the book, I can always find the same personalities in the society now. That is why I think this book is indeed the representative of the society in Britain in the 18th century.
The family of gentleman in the countryside is Jane Austen’s favourite topic. But this little topic can reflect big problems. It concludes the stratum situation and economic relationships in Britain in her century. You can find these from the very beginning of this book.
The first sentence in this book is impressive. It reads: “It is a truth well known to all the world that an unmarried man in poss ession of a large fortune must be in need of a wife”. The undertone is very clear: the foundation of the marriage at that time is not emotion but possession.
People always think that Austen was an expert at telling love stories. In fact, the marriage in her book is not the result of love, but the result of economic needs. After reading this book, I know the truth is that a poor woman must be in need of a husband, a wealthy man.
I couldn’t forget how eager Mrs. Bennet wants to marry off her daughte rs. If you want to know why she is so crazy about these things, I must mention the situation in Britain at that time. Only the eldest son had the privilege of inheriting his father’s possessions. Younger sons and daughters who are used to luxurious lives have no choice but marry a man or woman in possession of a large fortune to continue their comfortable lives. Thus, we can see that getting married is a way to become wealthier, particularly for women without many possessions. Jane Austen told us that money and possession determined everything, including marriage and love in her century.
In “Pride and Prejudice”, the sister of Mr. Bingley strongly opposed his plan of marrying Jane because the Bennets don’t have many possessions and their social positions are much lower than them. From this, we can see there are a lot of obstacles for a not very rich woman to marry a wealthy husband. The society, the relatives would not allow them to get married.
In modern society, although the marriages of economic needs have decreased rapidly, the concept of “money determines everything” is still rooted in some people’s mind. A lot of parents try hard to interfere their children’s marriages. Education background, possessions, jobs remains the main reason that may influence one’s marriage. Marry for money is still a big problem in our
society. We can’t help thinking: can money determine everything?
Austen left this problem for us to think. The genius of Jane Austen lies in this perfect simplicity, the simplicity that reflects big problems. Although Austen was only 21 when she wrote “Pride and Prejudice”, her sharp observation of social lives makes the style of this book surprisingly mature and lively. The plots in her works are always very natural. The development of the plot is as inevitable as a problem in mathematics. I think the depth of Pride and Prejudice is the reason that makes this book prominent and classic. Today, her book still can be the guide telling us the economic relationships both at her time and in modern time.
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