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.
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.
你否定我的现在,我决定我的未来。
梦想是注定孤独的旅行。到现在为止我离我的梦想还很遥远,为了实现它,我也后悔过,失望过,甚至怀疑我自己是否要比别人差?没有这个能力?但是谁都知道在这段旅程中少不了质疑和嘲笑。但那又怎样,哪怕遍体鳞伤,也要活的漂亮!
数学,是我学习的最大敌手!屡战屡败,在这个过程中我接受了这个事实,但我没有放弃,因为我有一个很好的战友“老师”。每次考差,老师都总结问题,细心指导,凡事都讲方法,学习不能过分劳累,更不能拖泥带水。老师并没有责怪我,而却少不了同学的嘲笑。
面对困难,我常常告诉自己:“只要活着就会有出路。”还记得刚学骑自行车时,没有人教,自己一个人慢慢滑,一只脚在踏板上,一只脚努力蹬着,车子歪歪扭扭的向前移动,累得不行,又不想骑了,觉得骑车是件麻烦事儿,但是看着那些小伙伴骑着直行车在路上飞奔,那快了的表情,那麻利的动作又激起了我学骑自行车的信心,刚回骑一点的时候我就情不自禁的加快速度,但又不会刹车又给撞到了墙上,脸直接落地,当时觉得自己毁容了坐在地上痛哭却又没有人理我,又站了起来踢了自行车一脚,心里埋怨着:都怪你!
最难忘的还是小学生活,那时候的我,周末还在为完成父母报的班而奔波,那时的父母恨不得我琴棋书画样样精通。父母总担心我输在起跑线上。却不知道我要的是什么,报班也不问我愿不愿意,只望女成凤。但我想做的事情都会被父母拒绝。那时我为自己想做的事情的勇气都没有了。但是现在明白了,年轻人应该“先做应该做的事再做想做的事”。这样才会成功!
人生总是离不开别人的赞美与批评。
我想如果我活得到80岁,那么现在我只需努力4年考上大学,而如果这四年我浪费了,那我的一生也就会毁在了这几年里,人生需要规划,但是计划赶不上变化,所以我还必须随时调整。未来本来就是未知数,即要顺其自然又要把握分寸。更你能只是口头上说而动。
明日歌明日复明日,明日何其多!我生待明日,万事成蹉跎。
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.
人生是什么?人生的目的是什么?目的不能说不重要,目的决定了人生的走向,但人生不等于目的,人生还是向着目的运行的整个过程,人生是过程!啊,这是一个最简单但又最不为人注意的错误。人生目标是我们永远的明天,我们的人生永远是今天,是此刻,是转瞬即逝的.现在!
有目标的人是活得有意义的人,能看重人生本身这一过程并把握住过程的人是活得充实而真实的人——“没白活一辈子!”应该是目的和过程两方面都有质量。目的好说,志存高远,从省事开始,人们就会得到理想的教育。然而许多人活了一辈子,到头来,还没有得到人生过程的乐趣,没有享受人生,这是一种生命自觉与自省的缺乏。沉浮动静皆人生,体悟每种境遇,不以物喜不以己悲,得失沉浮皆是人生所获的赐予。
沉浮动静皆人生。而我们却常用一种效益坐标来判别人生的状况。前进为正,后退为负,上升为优,下沉为劣。其实,人生远比这个坐标复杂,进退沉浮所含的人生情趣也远不是正负优劣的单一。
人们渴望升迁,珍爱名声,还期待到达目标的速度。这样,人生的过程越来越被忽视,人生成为一种期待回报的付出,变为目标实现的成本,甚至是电脑上可以删除的多余文件,只是因为需要提速!提速是经济社会最普通的共同行为,因为效益与速度直接关联。我们还记得“时间就是金钱,效益就是生命”,这里的生命是作为企业和社会集团的生命,而不是人!如果把社会对效益的追求变成了个人的人生过程,那就是我们常说的异化;人生过程节律的疾与缓,是另一种人生境界,当它是个体生命发射光芒的境界,疾有疾之美,缓有缓之美。王维有名句:“草枯鹰眼疾,雪尽马蹄轻。”生命闪光处,不一定是莺飞草长时;人生得意时,不一定是踏花归来处。同样道理,杜甫的名句:“细雨鱼儿出,微风燕子斜。”于平淡舒缓之中,写出了人生的怡然淡静,也写出对生命的热爱和喜悦。一生蹉跎的杜甫,生前没有飞黄腾达,而他这舒缓平和的人生感悟,却穿透了千年岁月,缓如细雨,润泽我们的心田。
小溪的目标是雄伟的大海,它们面对着炎日的考验,面对着干枯的河道,面对重重困境,它们总是怀着永不放弃的念头,因为它们有了目标,有了追求,而没有目标的小溪,它不用为将来打算、考虑,不用努力,在它们的时间永远都是那么一点,见不到波澜壮阔的大海,最终迷失方向,不知所措,迷惘的消失在河道上,可以见得有目标的重要性,给自己一个目标,就会有前进的动力,给自己一个目标,去实现美好的梦想,给自己一个目标,让它指引我前进的方向,从此不再迷惘。
在赛场上,为何运动员跑的健步如飞,因为他有一个明确的目标——冲向终点,其实如果有只狮子之类的猛兽在追捕你,或许我们还会疾走如飞,跑的比运动员都快,因为我们有个比赢得比赛更重要的目标,就是活着逃脱狮子的追捕。有了目标,努力变得更有价值,没有目标再厉害的火箭也只是个摆设,毫无用武之地。
有的人一天始终都在忙碌,而有的人一天却总是悠闲自在,这就是有目标与没有目标的本质区别,人要是没有目标的人的本质区别,人要是没有目标就会慢慢堕落,不知道每天该做什么不该做什么,就没有了理性,大脑停止思考,感觉活着没有意义,没有追求,过着平庸的一生,的确,思想有多远,人就能走多远,活着的.本质意义
就是思想,没有思想,生与死有有何不同?一个伟大的思想,造就了一个伟大的目标,一个伟大的目标,成就了一个伟大的人。给自己一个伟大的目标,来充实我的生活,给自己着伟大的目标,让遥不可即的梦想不再遥远,给自己一个伟大的目标,让我不再是一个愚者,如成为一个伟大的智者,世界上不存在成功与失败,只存在有目标努力奋斗,没目标平庸一生。
一个有目标的人和别人有不同的地方,就在于他虽然在纷纭杂乱之中,仍然不迷失方向。他可以操纵自己而不被别人所操纵。
多数人在人潮汹涌的世间,白白挤了一生,从来不知道哪里才是他所想要到达的地方,而有目标的人却始终不忘记自己的方向,所以他能打开出路走向成功。
我们要掌握自己的命运。先建立目标,然后用冷静执着坚强和乐观,来做我们的守则。
一个人活着没有目标,他就会彷徨,苦闷与不安。唯有了解了自己所要的生活所要追求的目标到底是什么之后,他才会觉得他的生命充实和有意义。
凡事要往大处着眼,要从小处做起。不肯从基本功上下工夫的人,永远也不会有大的成就。
时间与空间一样,也有它的值钱地段,也有大片的荒芜。不要说“寸金难买”了,多少人想为一口苦饭卖掉一生的光阴,也还是没有人要的。
美国人阿姆斯特朗小的时候在院子里玩。可一会儿他的母亲就发现,阿姆斯特朗在院子里蹦的满头大汗,他的母亲问他在干什么,他脱口而出的话成就了他的人生目标,也注定了他成为了第一个登月的人。他说:“妈妈,月亮多漂亮呀,我要跳到他上面去。”阿姆斯特朗便真的登上了月球。他的志向在有的人看来是想都不敢想的。
战国时期各国都安于现状,只是秦王立志要统一六国,他便成了中国第一位始皇帝,也正是他的志向,成就了他的事业。
可见,多少位名人,那一位不是心存远大志向的呢?从追求“天下为公”的孙中山和“为中华之崛起而读书”的***到辍学从商的比尔盖茨,这些人都是因为从小有了自己的目标,才会成就现在的他们。
人若无目标终生便忽忽如狂,走到哪算哪,那么他便是死亡的第一个目标。动物如果没有目标,它在食物的.争夺中便会成为猎物。
在当今,社会发展日新月异,人才的竞争越来越激烈。所以,我们必须以“成功”来武装自己。然而要得到成功,目标便是得到成功的途径,目标便是打开成功的钥匙。没有目标,那人类依旧在哪个吃生肉、穿毛皮、手里拿石头的年代,世界便不会发展。也许人类早已经灭亡了。
目标可以决定你的未来;目标可以决定你人生的成败;目标可以为你人生的航程树起一座宏伟的灯塔。
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