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.
未来,这是一个多么遥远的名词啊,里面包含了希望。改革进步,文明……。同学们说:想象未来,那还不容易,不就是先进的设备,高耸的大厦,随叫随到的服务部门和豪华的别墅吗?是的这的确是很多人眼中的未来,但这只是外在,而未来需要唯美的,不是这些在信息,更主要的是内在,那就看看我想象中的未来吧!
那是一个纯绿色环保的社会,人们都非常自觉,上下班都乘坐绿色无污染的公交车或步行或自行车,在上下班的路上,人们见面都说:你好啊,你好啊……。说到公交车,那里面可是和家里一样齐全,有沙发,有书房,油茶室,那您可就问了;那这个车得多大呀?实话告诉您吧,就是一个火柴盒那么大。等人们上下车时就会变大,等人们进去了,又会变小,你们放心,这种公交车,性能齐全,人们在里面反而会觉得非常大,很舒适。说完公交车再说人类回归时的港湾一家。
家是人们心灵的港湾,家是寒冬中一杯温暖的茶水,在未来的家居生活中,不会有过多的争吵,因为一旦出现争吵就会有一个圆形的投影器,投放出他们之前美好的瞬间,想起之前他们的美妙的话语,所以在未来,很少有夫妻会离异。而人们最担心的,还是卫生间的异味,那就请您不要担心,在卫生间内,会有一个自动除味阀门,这个阀门只有一粒沙子那样大,而散出来的臭气不会排出到外面的空气中,而是有一根直通地下的不绣钢材质的钢管,排到地下,在一个专门的池子里,发啸成沼气,为这个城市提供煤气,说完卫生间就数书房的厨房了。书是知识的.海洋,在这个书房中,书籍都被分了类,传说中的不是就那么平常的分成:童话类,科幻类,历史类,而是分为童年,青少年,少年,成年,老年,然后再一类一类的分;再说厨房了,厨房里有抽油烟机,它并不像我们平常生活中见的那样笨重,只是和一个字典一般大,在厨房有一个废物重新利用的垃圾桶都是为可回收物品,因为在未来都讲究绿色环保,而且那时候人们也意识到了,地球母亲,超负荷的呐喊,人们把不可回收的物品,都加以改造,经过大量的试验,终于成功了。
这就是我想象中的未来,即绿色环保又华丽可用,相信未来就是相信自己。
少年的我们是充满些幻想的,我们应该抛开那些无尽的琐事的困扰,舒展开那被学习、束缚得透不过气的心胸,张开你幻想的翅膀。
人,应该面对现实,但不能没有幻想。因为,无论是谁,总该有梦,总该有希望。希望是光明的,梦是七彩的。幻想是清醒的,是不管能否实现的希望。
处于绝境时的一个幻想,也许能增添一股面对困难的勇气;童年时的一个美丽的梦幻,也许能会主宰你一生的命运。
幻想是诗人的。“不敢高声语,恐惊天上人。”“我欲乘风去,又恐琼楼玉宇,高处不胜寒……”若不善于幻想,拿来这样洒脱浪漫的情调?
幻想是科学家的。要不,那有“哥德巴赫猜想”、“板块运动假说”?
文学和科学用幻想联系起来,就有了科学幻想小说。
幻想也使音乐家的、美术家的……它可以属于每一个人,只要你愿意拥有。
天地永恒,自然界瞬息万变,引起人们无穷无尽的幻想。幻想是人类智慧的表现,幻想有可能成为现实。
朋友,让你的思绪自由地驰骋吧,让你的遐想展翅飞翔吧!这样,我们会生活得更轻松,更飘逸,也会更辉煌!
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.
坐着时光机来到了1000年后,哇!3004年真是不同凡响。街道上到处是悬浮汽车,每个人都忙碌着。我走着走着,忽然看见一张海报。上面写着月球之旅。这可是个难得的好机会,此时不去,更待何时!
我立刻报了名,开始我的月球之旅。我坐上超光速飞船向月球进发,忽的一下子便来到了20.44万千米高空中,这时候电脑发出警告,离月球还有18万千米。一瞬间便来到了月球。
月球上什么时候盖起了宾馆。宾馆的招牌上刻着五个刚劲有力的大字“广寒宫宾馆”,我想,这八成是嫦娥仙子开的宾馆吧!我走进一看,有一个人影向这边奔赴,她身穿彩衣,裹着白纱,手里抱着一只玉兔,美极了!“Hello!欢迎光临!”我说了一句:“谢谢!”我走进宾馆找了个空座位坐下,叫了几盘这儿最出名的酒菜。不一会儿,一桌巧夺天工的酒菜便上桌了。每道菜都有它们自己的特色,就是不知味道如何。我怀着试一试的心理尝了尝,哇!这儿的菜不光中看,吃起来更是让人叫绝。不知是哪位神仙做的菜,我让嫦娥仙子把这儿的名厨请来。这不是灶神吗?怎么当起厨师了?这时天外来了个旅行团,他们个个都怪模怪样,天哪!我居然看见了UFO!天庭什么时候也开始了外交关系?牛郎织女正骑着牛儿向这儿奔来,你一定很奇怪他们俩怎么能在一起呢?其实王母娘娘早已下令能让众仙有情人终成眷属。这可让猪八戒和吴刚大有可趁,他俩不分昼夜的为嫦娥做义务劳动。希望讨得嫦娥的欢欣。齐天大圣驾着金斗云来了,瞧!他拿着今年以他做广告的手提电脑正在交网友。宙斯和他的妻子赫拉、儿子赫耳墨斯开着劳斯来斯在天街闲游。许仙、白素贞也在这儿吃饭。法海来了,不用当心,他们现在可是朋友了。
吃完了饭,我便来到了这儿的风景区瑶池仙境。这儿的荷花可真美,还闪着金光,五彩缤纷。听说,这里的水能治百病,我带些回去试试。随后又来到了蟠桃园,这儿的仙桃可真大,5元一个,真馋人。
天上一日,地上十年。我依依不舍地乘着飞船返回地球。
忙完之后,饥肠辘辘、如饥似渴的肚子告诉我们:吃年夜饭的时间到了。我、爸爸和妈妈一路上说说笑笑。不知不觉,酒店到了。一顿美味佳肴把我们三个吃得酒足饭饱。心满意足地回家了。
回到家后,我打电话给我的亲戚们,用优美的笛声表演了湖南民歌“小拜年”和举世闻名的作曲家贝多芬创作的世界名曲“G大调小步舞曲”两首曲子。
表演完后,我们一家三口坐在沙发上看了春节联欢晚会。晚会在舞蹈和歌声中开始。节目精彩极了!我们看得聚精会神。其中我最喜欢的`是让我们捧腹大笑的小品《不差钱》,尤其是里面的主角“小沈阳”和“鸭蛋”,这两个人物让我们家的欢笑声连绵不断。
另外,在看春节联欢晚会时,我们还忙这包饺子,因为这一天是农历戊子年和乙丑年交汇的一天,是交子,谐音“饺子”
除此之外,我还在电视上看到了“压岁钱”的来历:传说从前有个小鬼叫“祟”,每到大年三十,他就用他的魔掌去摸小孩。被摸到后,首先会发高烧,然后会晕过去,最后会变成植物人。有一年的大年三十,有个孩子的父亲,怕“祟”把他的孩子变成植物人,就拿了八块铜钱给孩子玩,孩子玩累了,就把铜钱放在枕头底下,睡了。晚上,“祟”又来到他家摸他的孩子。这时,八块铜钱突然闪出了利剑般的金光,把“祟”吓跑了。原来是八仙来保护孩子了。从那时起,就有了“压岁钱”。后来逐渐演变成了“压岁钱”。
就这样,我们度过了这个开心的不眠之夜。
一位小学生在完成一份试卷时,他遇到了这样一个填空题:“雪化了变成——”。经过思考,他在试卷的空格内写下了这样的两个字:“春天”。
返还试卷的日子到了。当这位同学拿到自己的试卷的时候,他看到在他写的“春天”两个字的上面划了一个大大的红“×”!
他去问老师。老师告诉他说:“应该填‘水’字,因为‘水’字才是唯一的标准答案。”
不知道你看到这个故事之后作何感想,反正我当时是感慨万千的。在这里,我不想评价这位老师的对与错,我只是想就这道填空题的答案做出进一步的探讨。
毫无疑问,无论是从物质形态化的角度看,还是从“眼见为实,耳听为虚”的角度看,“雪化了变成水”都是非常正确的,都是非常符合客观实际的,这恐怕就是一些人把它作为“唯一的标准答案”的重要原因。你的.答案与“标准答案”不一致,那么错误的就只能是你了。但是,“雪化了”就只能“变成水”吗就只有“变成水”这一条路可走吗我看未必!它还可以变成水蒸气的呀!从科学的角度讲,你能说“水蒸气”这个答案是错误的吗显然不能。
其实,“雪化了变成春天”这一答案并没有什么大的不妥与不当之处,“冰雪融化”、“草木发芽”,这不正是“春天来了”的标志吗随着“雪”的融化,“春天”悄悄来了,给人的感觉可不就是“春天是由雪融化变成的”嘛!如此说来,类似的答案还有许许多多:雪化了变成碧绿的小草;雪化了变成白云朵朵;雪化了变成满天的风筝;雪化了变成百鸟争鸣……显然,这些答案与“雪化了变成春天”这个答案一样,不仅都非常富有想象力、非常富有诗意,而且都是无比正确的。
许多事实证明,决定事物正确答案数量的不是“传统观念”,也不是我们的主观意志,而是我们观察事物的角度和事物本身的发展与变化,站在不同的角度去观察同一个事物,或者观察正在发展变化中的事物,你一定会得出不同的“结论”,这就是“横看成岭侧成峰,远近高低各不同”。事物的正确答案绝对没有那么简单、那么单一,答案往往是丰富多彩的。
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