Is it because I am poor, obscure, plain and short that I have no soul and no heart-you are wrong, my heart is as rich as yours, and my heart is as full!
-Jane Eyre Charlotte
In the history of literature, there are many immortal classics, but Jane Eyre has entered people's souls so deeply, attracting thousands of readers with an irresistible aesthetic feeling and influencing people's spiritual world. Even for some people, there are not many works that affect life.
Jane Eyre is a novel by Charlotte Brontexq, one of the "Bronte Three Sisters" in the British literary world in the19th century. The story is set in a remote English village in the early19th century. From the perspective of Jane Eyre, the heroine tells the story of how an orphaned child who was devastated and abused stubbornly survived in the hellish orphanage of human children and became an independent, strong, self-respecting and confident woman.
Jane Eyre, an orphan, was fostered in her aunt's house and bullied in every way. Later, I went to Lowood Orphanage, a charity school, and my soul and body were greatly tortured. Perhaps it is this that brought Jane Eyre's infinite self-confidence and indomitable spirit, and she completed her studies with indomitable will and excellent results. In order to pursue an independent life, she was employed as a governess at Thornfield Manor. The focus of the story is the bitter love between Jane Eyre, a junior tutor, and Rochester, the male host. The disparity between the social status and personality of the hero and heroine makes this love full of fierce collisions, while similar hobbies and sincere love make this love have a brilliant spark. The author speaks with Jane Eyre's distinctive female perspective and narrative style, which is true and artistic. Especially Jane Eyre's unique personality and thoughts. Love is an unattractive short woman, but she has tenacious self-esteem. While touching the noble heroes, they also firmly grasped the hearts of our readers.
As the heroine of a love novel, Jane Eyre appeared as an unprecedented female image in this19th century literary work. In the past, the heroines in love stories were all beautiful, gentle, noble and virtuous women. However, Jane Eyre is "poor, humble, humble and short", but she has a smart, strong and brave heart, which makes those external beauty overshadowed by this inner beauty. What is more commendable is that Jane Eyre did not feel inferior because of poverty and looks. On the contrary, she is brave and firm: "I am equal to your soul." "I have the same soul as you-and the same heart!" "I'm not talking to you according to customs, conventions, or even flesh and blood-it's my heart talking to your heart, as if we have all passed away, and we stand before God together, equal to each other-just like us!"
It is precisely because of this that Jane Eyre dared to love a man whose social class is much higher than her own, and even dared to confess to each other-this was extremely bold in the society at that time. Happiness is no longer the patent of a certain person or class, but belongs to everyone in the world. Only two equal souls can form a complete love, so Jane Eyre insists that her independence and the pursuit of love integrity are inseparable. Later, Jane Eyre left Rochester sadly, and for the same reason, she could never allow herself to marry a married man. It will be an incomplete love. If she is with Rochester, she is not the same independent and equal Jane Eyre. If Jane Eyre's departure is a rational choice she has to make because of the unchangeable reality, then her final return is another rational choice made out of the pursuit of sticking to her feelings.
Here, what we see is not only a pale Cinderella story of a civilian woman winning the love between a man and a noble. It was Jane Eyre who bravely and decisively walked out of Cinderella's fairy tale and started a literary road of new women and true women. Jane Eyre despises wealth, social status and religious dignity. She believes that "true happiness lies in a beautiful spiritual world and a noble heart." The strength demonstrated by her beliefs and actions deeply touched the hearts of readers from generation to generation and purified the souls of people living in a society where money is everything. Jane Eyre is a woman who has a rational understanding of her own thoughts and personality, a woman who has a firm pursuit of her own happiness and feelings, a woman who is no longer just following men and secular requirements, a woman who has made independent judgments on her own values and feelings, and a strong and independent woman. Charlotte Brontexq created an unprecedented female image; Jane Eyre issued a female voice-the persistence and pursuit of equality, independence, integrity and freedom.
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontexq is a realistic novel, which has been widely circulated in different languages and races all over the world since it was published in 1847. Jane Eyre has always been regarded as a classic of independent women. I hope more Jane Eyre will come out in the sun, whether poor or rich; Regardless of beauty or plain appearance, everyone has a beautiful heart and a full mind, and can live with an independent personality and a strong personality.
Reflections on Gulliver's Travels
Gulliver's Travels is a great satirical novel in the history of American literature. It is said that Voltaire, Byron, Gorky and Lu Xun also spoke highly of Swift's works. I deeply admire Lu Xun, who showed the young people a direction with his yellow but thin fingers, so I went in that direction and took a fancy to Gulliver's travel notes-love me, love my dog. But after reading it, shouting "cheated" didn't help. The only consolation is that you can ask others what they think of Swift to show that you are a "literary youth". More practically, you can write a nondescript review and hand it in to make up the number.
Every time I recall reading this famous book, I have a feeling of historical vicissitudes. Those days were really unsuccessful and a failure. It's only a dozen pages a day, and it's hard to lift your eyes. Suddenly, "the past is unbearable" comes from the heart!
For example, reading Fortress Besieged is a pleasant enjoyment, just like fighting the devil with tunnel warfare and mine warfare. The more you play, the more enjoyable you are. At the critical moment, Mr. Qian Zhongshu put a large sum of money, and the devil surrendered. It's also quite cool to watch Camel Xiangzi, which should belong to three major battles. * * * Army three dozen five divisions drove Chiang Kai-shek to Taiwan Province Province, and I also killed Laojin with three dozen five divisions; But reading Gulliver's travels is quite different, and it is a kind of suffering. Just like the Battle of Taierzhuang, the tug-of-war is extremely hard, not only sweet, but also sleepy. But I still won Gulliver's victory, but suffered heavy losses. Now I still have a lingering fear when I think about it.
So, from then on, when I saw Lu Xun holding a pipe in awe, I couldn't help singing "It's all your fault. You lied to me and made me unconsciously satisfy the vanity of being cheated. " ...
However, although being cheated did not affect Lu Xun's position in my heart, I still stubbornly believe that Swift and Lu Xun are not in the same breath.
Lu Xun, a great proletarian writer, thinker and revolutionary in China; Who is Swift? /kloc-a member of the evil and corrupt bourgeoisie in Britain in the 0/8th century. Their class attributes are essentially different (if only they could catch up with the "Cultural Revolution", it is very important to distinguish them). Secondly, Lu Xun is made in China and Swift is foreign (this seems to be nonsense). As for the third point, I think it is the most important. Although Lu Xun's article is difficult and boring, I can still vaguely distinguish it. Although Swift's translations are all in the vernacular, I just don't know what to say.
After some empathy, I make the following speculation: the lovely young people in Britain must not know what Lu Xun is saying, what to express, and the contradictory sentence with Lu Xun's characteristics of "maybe-that is simply certain".
They are just like me.
The reason is that we live in different countries and inherit different cultures. We have known the past and history since we were young, but others have little contact with it. Without a certain level of knowledge, it is not surprising to read such works criticizing Mulberry in a specific period and environment.
I don't know about the lingering ambiguous relationship between Whigs and Tories in the United States18th century, and I certainly can't understand the beauty of Swift's "high heel party" and "low heel party" when arguing about the "principle" such as which head to knock first and the height of the heel.
I was wrong about swift. I want to have a tolerant heart. Later, Swift gradually became understandable, giving me the feeling that he was just.
He satirized the characteristics of Britain at that time: "greed, partisanship, hypocrisy, treachery, cruelty, anger, madness, resentment, jealousy, lust, sinister and ambition." He satirically described the grotesque phenomenon of the inversion of man and beast: the horse became the carrier of reason, while man became a dirty, smelly, greedy and difficult inferior animal (yahoo, not Yahoo). When he talks about human nature, he is willing to be enslaved by money, either extravagant or insatiable. After reading Gulliver's Travels, we can't help but look at ourselves to see if there are any shadows of these stubborn diseases in us.
There is a sentence that I think is classic: exaggerating the anger of the times and denouncing the disadvantages of the times through absurdity; Behind the hatred and pessimism, there should be a bitter feeling of worrying about the world.
I didn't expect those simple vernacular travel notes to have such profound connotations.
I know Gulliver's travels need to be read again, or more. This should be in the future.
Thoughts on Reading A Dream of Red Mansions
Only after reading A Dream of Red Mansions recently did I understand its beauty.
A Dream of Red Mansions is based on Jia, Shi, Wang and Xue, with the fierce struggle between feudalism and rebels around Jia Baoyu's life path as the main line and the tragedies of Jia Baoyu and Lin Daiyu as the main content. Through the vivid description of the decline process of the feudal family represented by Jiafu, it profoundly exposed and criticized the darkness and decay of the feudal society, and further pointed out that the feudal society had reached the point of "luck"
A Dream of Red Mansions vividly describes the whole life of China feudal society in the first half of the 8th century. The book is large in scale, rigorous in structure, vivid in characters and beautiful in language. In addition, there are some obvious artistic features that are worthy of future generations' taste and appreciation.
The author makes full use of all the excellent traditional techniques of China's calligraphy, painting, poetry, songs and music, and shows a social tragedy. For example, Jia Baoyu and Lin Daiyu read the Romance of the West Chamber, Daiyu buried flowers, Baochai shook butterflies, Qingwen mended fur, Baoqin made snow, and Daiyu burned manuscripts. Such as Lin Daiyu's floating posture, poetic eyebrows, clever expression, deep smile, moving sobs, elegant taste and natural literary talent ... all these are attributed to the author. Cao Xueqin truly reproduces the complexity of the characters in A Dream of Red Mansions, which makes us feel as real as the characters in the works. Jia Baoyu in A Dream of Red Mansions "can't say that he is virtuous, stupid, kind, evil, aboveboard, bastard, wicked, intelligent and talented, vulgar and ordinary", which makes people comment. Not only Jia Baoyu and Lin Daiyu, the two protagonists who endow the author with the beauty of personality, spirit and ideal, but even the notorious Rainbow Xifeng did not write her as "all bad", but intertwined some "loveliness" and "abomination", thus presenting various contradictory and complicated actual situations and forming a "charming reality" of personality.
The author is good at revealing its unusual aesthetic significance through the artistic description of seemingly ordinary daily life, and even some unwritten and unrecorded social habits and details are vividly portrayed in A Dream of Red Mansions.
The outstanding achievement of A Dream of Red Mansions in ideological content and artistic skills has not only become an insurmountable peak of China's novel literature in China. Moreover, it has also been paid attention to and studied by scholars in many countries internationally. Some French critics praised Cao Xueqin: "Cao Xueqin has Proust's keen vision, Tolstoy's sympathy, Miao Sai's clever humor, Balzac's insight and the ability to reproduce the top-down class of the whole society."
One Hundred Years of Solitude
One Hundred Years of Solitude is regarded as the representative work of Latin American magical realism. This novel is complex in content, numerous in characters, bizarre in plot and novel in technique. Author Marquez absorbed the unique colorful culture of South America in his book. By describing the emergence, prosperity, decline and death of the small town of Macondo, he showed the amazing crazy history of Latin America. The novel was awarded as "a collection of incredible miracles and the purest real life" 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature.
The narrative structure of One Hundred Years of Solitude is different. Generally speaking, Marquez adopted a continuous and interlocking narrative structure to show the history of Macondo town. It's like circulating upward air. This interlocking structure appropriately expresses a theme of the novel: the loneliness and isolation of human beings, and the backwardness and extinction caused by loneliness and isolation. The author profoundly reveals the problem of "loneliness" with national characteristics.
The Bountia family described in the novel has been passed down from generation to generation. "Although their appearance, skin color, temperament and figure are different, they can recognize the unique and unmistakable lonely eyes of this family at a glance." Everyone cannot escape the fate of being tortured by loneliness. Wusu Na rotted in the long rainy season. Amaranta kept sewing the shroud of Rebecca, the woman she hated all her life. Rebecca stayed at home and went crazy for the rest of her life. Colonel Aureliano, who was radical and enthusiastic when he was young, began to make metal goldfish in his laboratory in his later years, but he melted them down every twenty times and redone them. This symbolizes that the modern history of Magondeau and even Latin America initiated by his father has fallen into a strange circle from the beginning.
The twin brothers Erhuo Buntia and Eraoleiliannuo also left a deep impression on me. Inherited their parents' surnames, but showed completely opposite personalities-Huo Boone Tia was as deep as Colonel Aureliano, and Aureliano was as unruly as Huo Boone Tia-so that WuSu Na often wondered if they had exchanged names since childhood. Does the name have to be the same as the personality? This is a profound irony. Finally, when the two brothers died, they made a mistake in the grave, as if this was the right place to belong. The cyclical fate of this family was once again revealed.
However, some people have escaped this fate, and that is the beautiful girl La Mediz. She is beautiful, but this beauty does not make her a plaything for men; She accepted all her fate, so it didn't fool her. She will walk around the room in a wide nightgown, and even if a man peeks at her taking a bath on the roof, her attitude is neither supercilious nor condescending. Finally, the author arranged an almost mythical ending for her-she floated into the sky in a white sheet. White sheets may symbolize noble souls. She got rid of the lonely and inexplicable "ascension" of the Bentia family, which probably means that there are no such beautiful and pure saints in the real world.
This is a novel about family, somewhat similar to China's Dream of Red Mansions. But this is similar in shape but different in spirit. The contradiction in A Dream of Red Mansions comes from the destruction of the Grand View Garden by the feudal hierarchy. The contradiction in One Hundred Years of Solitude comes from the outside.
Science, technology, politics, war and commerce have impacted the town of Magondeau again and again. When the Gypsies brought science and technology, Hoa Bontia discovered that "the earth is as round as an orange." And then with political intervention. At first, Magondeau was a happy village. "No one has died so far" is their proud declaration. Then, with the intervention of politics and the appearance of the mayor, the struggle between the two parties gradually deteriorated this peaceful town: soldiers did evil and students yearned for the battlefield. The entry of monopoly capitalism has made the town hypocritical and prosperous, and it has rapidly declined in this bubble economy.
A good young man who is enterprising and willing to bear hardships and stand hard work eventually turned into a social scum who is willing to do evil and admit defeat in gambling, which fully reflected the dirty and corrupt society at that time, severely criticized the horrible ideological atmosphere of cannibalism at that time, and criticized the incompetence of the government and the bad feudal social system at that time. Xiangzi is such an example. The great changes in her experience, thoughts and behaviors have unreservedly exposed the ugliness of human nature and the dirty side of society.
Thoughts on Reading Thunderstorm
In fact, the word "death" almost runs through the whole context of Thunderstorm. From the theory of ghosts and gods discussed by two nuns in the preface, to Zhou Ping and Zhou Xuyi's repentance and persistence in love, and finally to the favorite ignorant teenager, every setting and plot is filled with a gentle sigh of death.
His drought-striken fields' death was not an accident, or a "damn" role that I completely expected. This man's life should be considered extremely humble and down and out. He always wavers between right and wrong, and he can't forget his love affair with his stepmother in his previous life, nor can he give up his love entanglement with Lu Sifeng in later generations. He lived too affectedly, lost his dignity, abandoned his ideals and annihilated his freedom. The rest of life is only saved by one person. " I thought loving him was like giving sympathy, but in his evaluation, I can only say that it is almost disgusting.
Cao Yu once commented on his characters in the preface to Thunderstorm, but only two people were greatly praised by him, one of whom was the equally unfortunate second young master Zhou Chong. Comparatively speaking, I think Zhou Chong is a very sad person. First, he failed to pursue the four phoenixes; During the dispute, he was reprimanded by his father and realized that the majesty of independence was unshakable after all; Later, he visited Sifeng in distress with compassion similar to that of a bodhisattva, but was insulted by Lu Dahai as an uninvited guest. Finally, he was ruthlessly pulled out by Zhou, saw the cruel facts, and was finally abandoned by his biological mother in the storm. Things that shattered his dreams came one after another, and the real life left him only sadness-the rest was a feeling of falling into a black hole (reprinted from the first model network, please keep this mark. ) Despair of life. Zhou Chong is innocent. He is just a victim who has been swallowed up by social contradictions and family hatred for no reason. He is a young man condescending in dreams and reality. He finally died where the dream began, which made people feel sad and heartbroken.
The only person alive I want to talk about here is Zhou, the soul of the whole Thunderstorm. She is Mr. Cao Yu's favorite role, and also the role he thinks is the most "thunderstorm". In my opinion, Zhou is not an attractive character, but her behavior and psychological state are vivid representatives of half the sky-born to love, who is devastated by love and despairs for the world. I can give her more sympathy or more kindness. Zhou is real. Half of her life has sunk, but on the verge of emotional collapse, she suddenly becomes afraid of death, revealing her endless desire and passion for reality. So she instinctively grabbed the last life-saving grass around her and climbed wildly, but unexpectedly, all her hopes eventually collapsed in the hands of a cowardly and humble man. Sadly, however, Zhou did not get the right to escape death in the end. She will live alone in front of the graves of her lover and son with resentment and guilt until the last moment of her life.
In Thunderstorm, these characters who are on the verge of death actually have infinite yearning and pursuit for life, but they deviate from the original track in the conflict of fate. In the end, tears and pain are inevitably intertwined. However, the conflict between love and hate may be alleviated by us because of these deaths.
Blood and tears struggle in your palm.
-thoughts on reading the complete biography of the water margin
On that day, the scenery of water margin was infinite. On the one hand, it is "loyalty", on the other hand, it is "doing justice for heaven". It is said that the highest in the sky, the lowest underground, gathered in 108 places, three mountains and five rivers are outstanding people. Riding a horse under the authority of Yin and Yang turns the world into a good wind, water pushes the boat open and dries everything.
Song Jiang, who is neither male nor female, stands out from the crowd in martial arts, with dark face and short stature. But he should be a fairy, rain or shine on the water margin, with flags everywhere, and his heart is full of heroes' life-and-death struggle. A little-known person, famous for his generosity and wealth, not only became the axis of a long epic, but also interpreted a mighty peasant uprising as a shining example of China's 5,000-year-old romance novels.
Although I can't find any origin in reading Water Margin, since I fell in love with the rivers and lakes written by Jin Yong, this kind of fighting and killing has also laid a foreshadowing in my heart.
China's four classical novels were first read by The Journey to the West. Wu Cheng'en's ghosts and ghosts are lifelike, but now they are rated as "a dream of Conan in Jiajing period" by me, and their historical significance and artistic attainments can only rank second among the four books.
Then a Dream of Red Mansions,18th century classic, is intoxicating in all aspects. I evaluate it as "a lonely and sad fragrance that transcends the thought of a hundred years".
Later, I tried to read The Romance of Three Kingdoms, and found that I couldn't accept Liu Bei. I think this romance vilifies Cao Cao's beautiful image in my heart and exaggerates Zhuge Liang's cleverness, so I decided to watch it later. Before reading, it was temporarily evaluated as "Who is the master of ups and downs?"
Finally, today's Water Margin only regrets not reading it earlier. I thought it was a group of rogue men who didn't know the ending and the overall situation. Now I find that although these people are really reckless, it is also a wonderful thing to beat a corrupt dynasty and evil overlord out of the water by themselves. Unfortunately, these heroes ended badly. Liangshan Uprising, like many peasant uprisings in China's history, was ruthlessly stifled and obstructed, neither punishing those behind the scenes, nor effectively making the people's status leap forward and overthrowing such a scum of feudal regime. However, judging from the cause and effect of Xiaozhai, it just reveals the cause of some kind of failure and implies the emergence and helplessness of a tragedy.
Above Shui Bo, Dihua is just a small place. But there are elites and loyal ministers gathered there, and there is a tendency to only need the east wind. They are brothers who treat each other as brothers. They don't want mountains and rivers to be clear, but they just want to remember. It is the truth to do justice for heaven. They urged the mountains and rivers to shout "Get up-"! Here, Liangshan Rebel Army was the lion of the Great Song Dynasty. If history is rolling, no one can succeed in a spring and autumn period.
In Huang Chen's ears, there is still an oath that "the wind is rustling and the water is cold, and the strong men are gone forever". Empty Shui Bo has never seen a crowd of people who eat meat in a big bowl and drink in a big bowl and divide gold and silver in a big plate. Restaurants all around, the wine flag has long disappeared, where to find a like-minded Bole to take the top spot. I am not sad in my heart. Heroes of the Water Margin lead a tragic life. The biggest banquet in the world is finally over.
I close my eyes and want to see the past with swords and shadows. I think of the wars in Zhujiazhuang, Ma Lian and Zengtou. Geometric life, "I have seen countless fame, countless pictures and countless escapes." The big world is in front of us, and so is the cave of the small world. Failure is a lesson, and we calmly walked through that profound history. Afraid that no one can always be a hero.
Just now, I look at the words that are wet by water mist in the tea fragrance set off by Pu 'er tea, sometimes shaking my head, sometimes nodding, and sometimes staring blankly. This is another mythical war stories, flawed but imperfect.
For a book with more than 900 pages, I can only sigh that "blood and tears are struggling in the palm of my hand", which is the final evaluation.
How the Steel Was Tempered
Speaking of the book How Steel was Tempered, I think everyone is familiar with it! The book tells the story of Pavel Colta King, a strong and brave hero.
Pavel Colta King, the hero of the novel, lost his father in his early years. /kloc-when he was 0/2 years old, his mother sent him to the station canteen to wash dishes, and he suffered a lot. Later, I went to the power plant to light a fire and met Zhu. After the Red Army retreated, the Germans attacked Paul's hometown, and class struggle made people's life very difficult. When Bolshevik Zhu He was hunted, he lived in Paul's house and told him many revolutionary truths, which had a great influence on him. Later, when Zhu was arrested, Paul knocked down the soldiers who were escorting him and let Zhu go, but he was imprisoned. After he got out of prison, he lived in a house in Tonya. Tonia found Paul's older brother, Aerjiaom, and he asked Paul to join the Red Army. In a fierce battle, Paul was seriously injured in the head, but he finally survived. It was not appropriate to go back to the front line after discharge, so I did the work of the regiment and built the railway. Later, he joined the party to engage in industrial construction and border defense work. He fell ill in 1972 because of repeated injuries, almost completely paralyzed and blind, and forgot to work. In the case of enduring great pain, he is determined to help his wife Daya make progress, start literary creation and live in another way. Paul can become a hero mainly because of his pursuit and hard work. He was honest since he was a child, opposed bullying the small with the big, bullying the weak with the strong and opposed bureaucracy. He admired Zhu Zepei garibaldi. Under Zhu's education, he is more aware of what he wants to do-to combine his career with the needs of the motherland and be a revolutionary who can contribute all his strength to the motherland. For this ideal, he has withstood the test of life and war, and is indeed a strong revolutionary. In his mind, the revolutionary cause and the interests of the motherland are above everything else. In any case, his revolutionary belief is unshakable, so he can overcome death and disease and devote his life to his career. This is the noble spirit of revolutionary Paul, and steel has been tempered in this burning struggle test.
After reading the book How Steel was Tempered, I realized that a person's perseverance has a great influence on his life. Take Pavel Colta King, the hero of this book. His life is rough, but why did he keep himself alive? Perseverance gave him infinite strength, and God gave him three lives. Since meeting sailor Zhu, his heart has been attracted by the * * * production party. He finally got his wish and became a * * * party member. He fought bravely and killed the enemy. He also suffered many injuries in the war. The most serious one was that he was hit by shrapnel in the head and survived. After recovery, Paul did not forget the party, picked up new weapons, returned to the combat team and started a new life!
As a teenager, he fought bravely against the enemy and loved his motherland. On the battlefield, he was cut several times and survived. Why is he persistent? He was ill when he was young, but he always forgot his work, and he didn't want to give up his job when he had the opportunity to take a vacation to heal. Perseverance is really a spirit of perseverance!
This is a touching story. My heart seems to have lost a big stone in the water, and it can't be calm for a long time. I admire Pavel Colta King's brave and indomitable spirit. I hate the story of a little aristocrat like Livico. Pavel Colta King's shadow always appears in my mind, encouraging me to be as strong and brave as him.
Living in peacetime, it's no big deal that there are some difficulties in our life. Just face it bravely, and when it's over, you will find that you have perseverance. Pavel Colta King's spirit is always worth learning.
Perseverance also needs persistence, and it also needs firm and decisive decisions. As the saying goes, "when it is interrupted, it will suffer." Perseverance can face the test decisively from the beginning, which is also conducive to perseverance. Why persistence is also the foundation of success? Because only strong perseverance can overcome all kinds of difficulties and setbacks on the road ahead and achieve success, strong perseverance is the shortcut to success.
After reading How Steel was Tempered, I was deeply shocked. I know what I should do!
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