读简爱的读后感英语(汇总19篇)
生命只有一次,是多少钱都买不回来的,只有热爱生命,相信你也会明白什么是生命,生命意味着什么吧!下面是开学吧小编整理的热爱生命作文,欢迎大家参考!
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+ 加入清单他有着塞外大漠的壮美景象,他有着江南小桥的似水柔情;他有着韵味浓郁的国粹,他有着引人入神的诗词书画;他有着上下五千年的悠久历史;他有着勤劳节俭,谦逊有爱的优良传统;他有着艰苦奋斗永不言败的斗争精神……他是炎黄子孙心目中不可磨灭的那缕光辉,那份骄傲。他是我亲爱的祖国,他叫中华,我爱他。
1840年,侵略势力蜂拥而下,残忍的摧残着他,整整三年的压榨,让他支离破碎,不再完整……1856年,侵略势力卷土重来,相伴着的是更加严酷的剥削,5年中,他被一次又一次的蹂躏,被迫割让自己的领土与权力,以换求片刻的安宁……仅仅几十年而已,他却已是负债累累:《南京条约》、《爱珲条约》、《天津条约》、《北京条约》、《马关条约》、《辛丑条约》……一切不平等的条约压的他喘不过气来。1937年7月7日卢沟桥事变,日本在一次无耻的弹药打开了他的大门,8年间,他时时刻刻无不在忍受着煎熬,但这一部屈辱的血泪史在8年后被改写。1945年8月,日本宣布无条件投降……
我爱他,尽管他曾被侵略,支离破碎;我爱他,尽管他曾被屈辱的叫做东亚病夫……但他最终赢了。在几经炮灰沉重的压迫下,凭借着那种不屈服的抗争精神,挺起了脊梁,撑起了中华!我爱他,爱这种不屈服的气血!
烟雨朦胧,渲染出水墨般淡雅的象。他有他的柔情,他的温文尔雅。起袖而舞,舞出了那一曲唯美的山水诗画。古往今来,多少文人墨客不折服在他的俊美之下;黄沙漫天,铺陈出金戈铁马般的壮。他有他的豪情,他的撩乱边愁。拔剑而挥,挥出了那一世慷慨的戎马生涯。朗朗乾坤,多少仁人志士不钦佩他醉卧沙场的肝胆热血……他的柔美,他的壮美,无不令人沉醉。我爱他,爱他的美……
“轰隆隆……”转眼间地震山摇,数米高的大楼在瞬间化为废墟。惊慌的叫喊声,呼救声,啼哭声,房屋的坍塌声……扰乱了他的心,他急切的想要挽救这一切,可是,晚了。2008年5月12日成为了他一生都不会忘记的日子,那天所发生的一切时时刻刻震撼着他的心。然而,面对着突如其来的一切,他并没有不知所措,没有在磨难中倒下。而是以最快的速度镇静下来,冷静的处理这一切,展现出坚韧和顽强,他有自信可以重新来过。一年的时间,他成功地恢复了灾后重建,赢得了全世界的敬意和赞扬,所有人对他刮目相看!他的临危不惧,他的自信自强,无不让人刮目赞赏。我爱他,爱着他对未来执着的追求与希望……
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篇1:简爱读后感作文600字
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+ 加入清单这本书我读过多次,每次都有不同的感受。而不变的,是贯穿全文的简爱那无所畏惧的反抗。
简爱在劳沃德学校对海伦说过这样一段话:“当我们无缘无故挨打的时候,我们应该狠狠的回击;我肯定我们应该回击—狠狠的回击,教训教训打我们的那个人,叫他不敢再这样打人!”
狠狠的回击!这便是简爱具有的反抗精神。
小说一开始,年幼的简爱就和欺侮她的表哥约翰发生了冲突。简爱不畏强暴,怒斥约翰:“你这男孩真是又恶毒又残酷!你这个杀人犯—你像个虐待奴隶的人—你像罗马的皇帝!”一个瘦弱的女孩以她的勇敢的表现立即吸引了读者。作者用四个章节交代简童年生活的情节,让我们初步看到了简性格中反抗的特点。
简爱在劳沃德学校的一段确定是全书中揭露性很强的一部分。其中海伦·彭斯的隐忍与简爱的反抗形成了强烈的对比——“与其冒冒失失采取一个行为,让不良后果影响所有和你有关的人,那还不如耐住性子,忍受一个除你而外没有别人感到的痛苦来得好;再说,《圣经》上也叫我们以德报怨。”“既然躲避不了,那就不能不忍受;遇到命运注定要你忍受的事,你光说受不了,是软弱和愚蠢的。”
而就是如此乖顺的女孩,在最后竟成了劳沃德学校的牺牲品。
简爱正式登上社会这个舞台是到了桑菲尔德以后。
当她初次和罗切斯特见面,她就显示了不卑不亢的风度。在对罗切斯特还不了解的时候,她保持了一贯的反抗精神。但是他们渐渐发现对方与自己在思想上许多方面有共鸣之处,渐渐对对方有了好感。
简爱重视的是平等的地位,这正符合她的反抗的性格。在摘抄段中,简爱显示出了她在维护自己的尊严,这段话也是她的宣言。每当我读到这里,总能感到一种勇气与力量穿透了全身。
简爱那流淌着反抗的血液,总能带给人们追求自由的力量。
篇2:汤姆索亚历险记英语读后感
全文共 1647 字
+ 加入清单today, i was read the book which called “the adventures of tom sawyer.” this story is about a clever boy called tom sawyer.
this book describes the nineteenth century, the mississippi river in a small town peoples lives, it can be said at the time the united states are a microcosm of social life. small characters tom sawyer and his junior partner and seriously childish words and deeds can give us deep insight. they hate priests pack of lies, and do not like boring school of education and decently adults, and children a rival show. they smart and lively , integrity and courage, especially in some major events happened when, in a battle between justice and evil, in the moment of crisis comes, they will not hesitate to come forward.
i think tom sawyer is a brave boy. he always gives his friends courage in danger and he tries his best to help other people.
of course we know, tom is a very naughty boy, and his aunt polly is often angry with him. but i think he also is a good boy. he always can make other people happy.
people always grow, besides height, body has grown stronger, and people’s thoughts are long. your view on the world is different, sensible, and no longer childish. but people are getting better. dont like the adventures of the ruthless villains, and his quest do bad, people see people hate. but at last he still las toman, got a starved to death in the cave.
after reading the "adventures of tom sawyer," i really envy tom to have such an interesting experience. it seems this book with relish, and even sleepless nights.
in my heart, i respect tom. maybe he is a hero. and i think i should learn something from tom sawyer.
篇3:《羊脂球》英语读后感
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+ 加入清单Guy de Maupassant(18501893), one of the greatest critical realist writers in the world, is considered as one of three kings of world short story。 Maupassant created six novels and 359 medium forms during his brief lifetime, engendering a momentous effect on the later literature. And it’s his maiden work, Suet Ball that won him world-wide prestige.
In1870, with the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War, the real-based story Suet Ball happened. The heroine of the story is a humble harlot called Suet Ball. With a group of French residents of Rouen, recently occupied by the Prussian army, the 11 travelers are on their way fleeing to Le Havre in a stagecoach. In virtue of the appalling weather, the stagecoach moves rather slowly and has just covered a few miles by midday. Initially, those occupants snub Suet Ball whereas their attitudes alters with the emergence of a basket filled with scrumptious food and she caters for those hungry travelers selflessly.
The carriage doesn’t stop until they blunders into a Prussian-held territory called T?tes. A Prussian officer detains the coach with no definite reasons. In the next two days, the occupants wait with barely concealed impatience and eventually Suet Ball tells that they will be detained perpetually unless she approves of sleeping with the officer. Out of her patriotism, Suet Ball gives him a point-blank refusal. As it should be, those travelers behave furiously to the officer"s arrogance while during the next two days, they exemplify logic and morality in diverse ways to convince Suet Ball of its validity. What a kind-hearted girl! Finally Suet Ball gives up and sacrifices her body for everyone’s freedom.
The next morning, they are permitted to leave. But those "representatives of Virtue" totally neglect Suet Ball, casting scathing sights on the poor young woman while even disdaining talking to her and rejecting sharing their food with her in the same way that she did at the beginning. From their perspectives, Suet Ball turns out to be no more utilizable and should be condemned for her ashamed conduct. As the stagecoach travels deeper into the night, she seethes with rage against those hypocrites, and ultimately weeps for her lost dignity.
In this story, Maupassant highlighted the intense comparison between Suet Ball and the so-called nobles. Rapacity, hypocrisy, sexuality and nobility intertwine in the spotlight,eulogizing the underclass’ patriotism and lampooning the sham of the aristocracy. Maupassant portrays the inhabitants of the stagecoach in varied disparaging ways. The most luminous character belongs to the two nuns. At first they are portrayed as tranquil and subservient to Lord and demonstrate their fiery patriotic desire to dedicate to their motherland rather than a sordid intention like the other passengers: the nuns profess to haste to a military hospital to heal the wounded French soldiers, hence presenting the argument towards instigating Suet Ball to abandon her resistance. How absurd it is! Nuns are supposed to take strait vows and treat others benevolently. They fill Suet Ball"s head with arguments, arguing that it is not morally wrong to sleep with the officer in order to let the travelers leave, and that the longer she waits, the more young French soldiers will die as the nuns are not there to look after them. Superficially, they claim that it is for the good of the country but indeed they’re just taking advantage of her. Suet Ball"s resistance to the officer"s sexual advances again indicate her patriotism. Cruel wars have stripped all the external stuffs. In contrast to all of these is Suet Ball, a prostitute, revealed to be the most fiercely patriotic, virtuous, and morally admirable character, which Maupassant contrasts with the hypocrisy and snobbery of the others.
It is arguably Maupassant’s most famous short story. The carriage constitutes a microcosm of French society as a whole. And the narrative techniques of this story are rather sophisticated and carefully conceived. On balance, a real noble person like Suet Ball can’t be judged by the appearance or the occupation, his/ her moral quality will glitter when confronting the real ordeal. Consequently, I deem that Suet Ball is worth reading lingeringly, savoring every word.
篇4:英语读后感
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+ 加入清单Snow White
I read Snow White last week, I to this book as well as the inside master public some views and the feeling, below am my some ideas. I thought that this book is very interesting, moreover is also exciting, story plot unconstrained fluctuation, confusing. A bright side won certainly finally. inside the storys leading character is also may encircle may select. Snow White, is chaste, lovable; Seven dwarves, is friendly, good. Stepmother, is also empress, is virulent, cruel-hearted ......Inside thiss each characters have filled the unique individuality, after enabling we looked, to the character to have the nearly completely unified view. I thought I most like the character is seven dwarves, they are good, friendly, is willing to help other people, this is worth us studying, I most repugnant character is empress, she is virulent, is cruel-hearted, does not have a spot good performance, only wants to raise oneself, disparages others. the relation life, inside thiss leading character many are worth us studying actually, certainly, also has some people not to be worth us studying. Generally speaking, this written unusual good. After this is I read this book the view and the opinion.
Madam Curie
Madam Curie, a world famous woman scientist, was born into a techers family in Poland in 1867 and died in 1934. She finished her middle school at the age of 16. Eight years later, when she was 24, she went to study at Paris University. All her lige was devoted to scientific research and her efforts were rewarded. She had won the Nobel Price twice.
Today, as a famous female, Madam Curie is sill remembered by the whole world. People will remember her forever for her courage, determination and her spirit of sharing knowledge with others.
篇5:简爱读后感1000字
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+ 加入清单曾经有一份挚爱,漂洋过海来到我面前,那便是《简爱》。它通过简.爱与罗切斯特之间一波三折的爱情故事,塑造了一个出生低微、生活道路曲折,却始终坚持维护独立人格、追求个性自由、主张人生平等、不向人生低头的坚强女性。她所象征的女性理想和追求已超越了时空,成了人们心中的永恒。
《简爱》是一部带有自转色彩的长篇小说,它阐释了这样一个主题:人的价值=尊严+爱。
在这本书里渗透着最多的就是女性的独立意识。让我们试想一下,如果简爱的独立,早已被扼杀在寄人篱下的童年生活里;如果她没有那份独立,她早已和有妻女的罗切斯特生活在一起,开始了有金钱、有地位的新生活。如果她没有那份纯洁,我们现在手中的《简爱》也不再是令人感动的流泪的经典。为什么《简爱》让我们感动?——就是她独立的性格,令人心动的人格魅力
本书的作者夏洛蒂.勃朗特和《呼啸山庄》的作者艾米莉是姐妹,但是虽然她们生活在同一生活环境,和家庭环境中,性格却大不相同。夏洛蒂的性格比较温柔,很清纯,更加喜欢追求一些美好的东西。尽管她家境贫穷,从小得不到父母太多的关爱,再加上她容貌不美,身材也很矮小。但也许就是这样一种灵魂深处的很深的自卑,反映在她的性格上就是一种非常敏感的自尊,以自尊作为她内心深处的自卑的补偿。
她所描写的简.爱也是一个容貌不美,矮小的女人,但是她有着极强的自尊心。她坚定不移的去追求美好的生活。
简.爱生存在一个父母双亡,寄人篱下的环境,从小就承受着与同龄人不一样的待遇,姨妈的嫌弃,表姐的蔑视,表哥的侮辱和毒打......这是对一个孩子尊严的无情践踏,但也许正是因为这一切,换回了简.爱无限的信心和坚强不屈的精神,一种可战胜的内在人格力量.
她从不因为自己的一个地位低贱的家庭教师而在罗切斯特面前感到自卑,相反的,她认为他们是平等的不应该因为她是仆人,而不能受到别人的尊重.使得罗切斯特为之震撼的是她的正直,高尚,纯洁,心灵没有受到世俗社会的污染。并把她看做了一个可以和自己在精神上平等交谈的人,而慢慢地深深爱上了她。他的真心,让她感动,她接受了他.而当他们结婚的那一天,简.爱知道了罗切斯特已有妻子时,她觉得自己必须要离开,她这样讲,“我要遵从上帝颁发世人认可的法律,我要坚守住我在清醒时而不是像现在这样疯狂时所接受的原则”,“我要牢牢守住这个立场”。这是简爱告诉罗切斯特她必须离开的理由,但是从内心讲,更深一层的东西是简爱意识到自己受到了欺骗,她的自尊心受到了戏弄,因为她深爱着罗切斯特,试问哪个女人能够承受得住被自己最信任,最亲密的人所欺骗呢?简爱承受住了,而且还做出了一个非常理性的决定.在这样一种非常强大的爱情力量包围之下,在美好,富裕的生活诱惑之下,她依然要坚持自己作为个人的尊严,这是简爱最具有精神魅力的地方。
小说设计了一个很光明的结尾——虽然罗切斯特的庄园毁了,他自己也成了一个残废,但我们看到,正是这样一个条件,使简爱不再在尊严与爱之间矛盾,而同时获得满足——她在和罗切斯特结婚的时候是有尊严的,同时也是有爱的。
小说设计了一个很光明的结尾——虽然罗切斯特的庄园毁了,他自己也成了一个残废,但我们看到,正是这样一个条件,使简爱不再在尊严与爱之间矛盾,而同时获得满足——她在和罗切斯特结婚的时候是有尊严的,同时也是有爱的。
在这里,我看到的不仅仅是一个如何赢得了男贵族爱情的平民女子的灰姑娘的故事,而是勇敢的走出了灰姑娘的童话,迈向一个有着新女性、真女性的文学道路的起步。简·爱藐视财富,但她却认为,“真正的幸福,在于美好的精神世界和高尚纯洁的心灵”。我尊重作者对这种美好生活的理想——就是尊严+爱,毕竟在当今社会,要将人的价值=尊严+爱这道公式付之实现常常离不开金钱的帮助。人们都疯狂地似乎为了金钱和地位而淹没爱情。在穷与富之间选择富,在爱与不爱之间选择不爱。很少有人会像简这样为爱情为人格抛弃所有,而且义无反顾。《简爱》所展现给我们的正是一种化繁为简,是一种返朴归真,是一种追求全心付出的感觉,是一种不计得失的简化的感情,它犹如一杯冰水,净化每一个读者的心灵。
篇6:昆虫记英语读后感带翻译
全文共 1910 字
+ 加入清单The insects to record "is a famous French entomology French Boolean with life time and effort, through careful observation of insect life, and a detailed written record. Introduces the instinct of the insects, habits, labor, reproduction and death. The book includes 10 copies, summer vacation I have read a small part.
Through reading makes us feel truly fabre observe carefully, even a little firefly he see clearly how to hunt. He also painstakingly, tracking the maze is how to lay eggs and raise the baby spiders. In order to observe the caddis life habits, he kept some personally, tells the story of the stone of silkworm rearing room how to use the simple house might. Faber this spirit of perseverance, explore nature of how worthy of our learning!
Read the insects to record "make me grow a lot of knowledge, such as: the battle between ants and cicada, know the ants are stubborn beggar, cicada is industrious producers; Mantis is good at using the psychological tactics, is a real psychological expert, but it has since cannibalism, brutal very; And in the midst of a variety of insects, the cricket is the real philosopher, superb architectural technology...
From the insects to record "the description of this book, you can see the authors unique. , his language vivid, lively and full of fun. He put his feelings into the observation, we learned that the insects is closely related to the environment. Later I will carefully observe things around like faber.
《昆虫记》是法国著名昆虫学家法布尔用一生的时间与精力,通过仔细观察昆虫的生活,并且详细的记录编写的。介绍了昆虫的本能、习性、劳动、繁衍和死亡。全书包括10大册,暑假里我读了一小部分。
通过读书使我们真真实实地感觉到了法布尔观察得仔细,就连小小的萤火虫怎样捕食他都看得清清楚楚。他还不辞辛苦,追踪观察了迷宫蛛是怎样产卵和养育宝宝的。为了观察石蚕的生活习性,他亲自养了一些,讲述了石蚕室如何利用简易房子金蝉脱壳。法布尔这种坚持不懈、探索大自然的精神多么值得我们学习呀!
读了《昆虫记》使我增长了很多知识,例如:蚂蚁和蝉之间的斗争,知道了蚂蚁是顽强的乞丐,蝉才是勤劳的生产者;螳螂善于运用心理战术,是一个真正的心理专家,但它却自食同类,凶残的很;还有在各种昆虫当中,蟋蟀是地道的哲学家,有高超的建筑技术……
从《昆虫记》这本书的描写,可以看出作者的独具匠心。,他语言生动、活泼,而且充满了情趣。他把感情融入到观察当中,使我们了解到昆虫与环境息息相关。以后我也要像法布尔那样仔细观察身边的事物。
篇7:简爱读后感300字
全文共 371 字
+ 加入清单全书中最令我印象深刻的当属简·爱幼年时的第一次反抗了。展现了主人公简·爱强烈的自尊心和其异于常人的性格。
双亲的早逝对于简·爱来说已经够不幸的了,而在盖羨海德府的生活更是让她幼小的心灵再次受到创伤。里德舅妈的漠不关心,表兄的恶语相向和暴力让她承受了太多的痛苦,可她又有什么办法呢,谁让她已知的亲戚只有这一家呢?她默默地受着这一切,直到舅妈将其锁在红屋子中。她被视觉幻想吓得晕了过去,可舅妈仍坐视不理,还用蛮力将她重又推进屋内。于她而言,红屋子是一个深不见底的深渊,她想摆脱它,却无奈势单力薄。
简·爱看透了这冷酷无情的一家人,开始用自己的言语反抗,她用言行来表达自己对这一家人的憎恶,她要让盖羡海德府的这一家人都知道:人人生而平等,没有谁是一台没有感情的机器。
那一刻的她真正地长大了,她已有能力同那些蔑视别人的人斗争,这也是她走向成熟的重要一步。
篇8:傲慢与偏见英语读后感
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+ 加入清单Then man treat great event in ones life with punishing, Demonstrate different attitudes to the love question of the marriage of young girl of the family origin of middle class of villages and towns, Thus reflected authors oneselfs marriage view: It is wrong to get married for the property, money and position; Get married and does not consider that above-mentioned factors are unwise too . So, she objects to getting married for money , objecting to regarding the marriage as a trifling matter . She emphasizes the importance of the ideal marriage , and regard men and womens emotion as the foundation stone which concludes the ideal marriage .
The woman protagonist in the book Elizabeth comes from the little landlords family, reaches the west to have deep love for for the rich and powerful people sons and younger brothers. Reach the disparity of ignoring family status and wealth of the west, propose to her, but is refused. Elizabeths misunderstanding and prejudice to him are a reason, but a main one is the arrogance that she dislikes him. Reach the thes of the west in fact status the reflections of difference, exist this kind arrogant, Not having common thoughts and feelings between he and Elizabeth, the marriage that can not have lofty ideals . Elizabeth watches conducting oneself in society and a series of behavior of reaching the west personally afterwards, See he change the proud conceited expressions of passing by, dispel misunderstanding and prejudice to him, Thus concluded the happy marriage with him.
然后男人对待大事与惩罚一个人的生活,证明婚姻爱情问题的不同态度的年轻女孩的乡镇中产阶级家庭的起源,从而反映了作者本人的婚姻观点:结婚是不对的财产,金钱和地位,结婚不考虑上述因素也是不明智的。所以她反对为钱结婚,反对把婚姻看作一个微不足道的问题。她强调理想婚姻的重要性,认为男人和女人的情感是总结了理想婚姻的基石。
书中的女主人公伊丽莎白来自小地主的家庭,到达西热爱为富人和有权势的人的儿子和弟弟。达到西方的忽视家庭地位和财富的差距,向她求婚,但被拒绝。伊丽莎白对他的误解和偏见是一个原因,但主要的是她讨厌他的傲慢。达到西方的这些事实状态的差异的反映,存在这种傲慢,他和伊丽莎白之间没有共同的思想和情感,婚姻,没有崇高的理想。伊丽莎白手表进行自己在社会和一系列的行为达到西方个人之后,看到他改变路过的骄傲自负的表情,消除误解和偏见,从而与他结束了幸福的婚姻。
篇9:汤姆索亚历险记的英语读后感
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+ 加入清单Recently, I have read a very interesting book, the Adventures of Tom Sawyer。 And the companion volume is the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn。 This book described an American boy, Tom Sawyer’s fantastic adventure。 The author of this novel is one of my favorite writers, Mark Twain, who was honored as the literary giant and was good at writing satirical novels。 The reason that I enjoy Mark Twain’s composition is that he always brought me into a funny world by using very simple description but perfect writing skills and attractive story structures。 Nevertheless, when I finished reading his words, I would think some deeper and serious things that he wanted to convey to us。 The style of Mark Twain’s composition is humorous but actually very sharp, which exposed the weakness and the hypocrite of human nature and expressed his desiring for a perfect and ideal world。
You don"t know about me if you haven"t read a book called the Adventures of Tom Sawyer。 Mr。 Mark Twain wrote the book and most of it is true。 The heroin of this novel, Tom Sawyer, was a brave and active boy。 But he got tired of his family, his school as well as the church。 He was not satisfied with a hidebound life but dreamed of a free and venturesome life。 This naughty but clever boy lost his parents since child。 Thus he lived with his aunt who loved him very much。 He always escaped from school, and played various games with his friends。 He even fell in love with a girl and tried again and again to win her favor。 One day, Tom and his friend Huck came across a murdering。 An Indian Joe killed a doctor because of disagreement and imputed it to another partner Porter。 The two young boys were extremely frightened and decided to keep the secret。 But actually Tom was anxious all the time。 After that, Tom had conflict with the girl, he leaved at home with Huck angrily and started their adventure。 People in the town thought that they had died。 When they held funeral for these boys, Tom and his friends appeared。 Since then, Tom became hero in school, and reconciled with that girl。 Soon, the court was about to judge that murder case。 When everyone considered Porter as the murderer, Tom bravely exposed the true murderer Joe。 But unfortunately, Joe ran away, so Tom was trapped into enormous anxiety。 Once time, Tom met a partner of Joe in a haunted house。 He heard that they would go to find treasure。 Several days later, Tom went to a picnic with his friends。 But he and the girl Becky got lost in a cave。 They had suffered from hunger, thirsty, darkness and coldness for days in that cave。 Worse still, they found that Indian Joe also in that cave。 This time, all the town folk believed that they must have die。 Especially Tom’ aunt and Thatcher were in deep sorrow。 Beyond people’ expectation, Tom and Becky found the way, and was sent to their home by others。 And because of this accident, the cave was sealed。 When Tom heard that, he told the judge that Joe was still stay at that cave。 When the judge fetched someone to check it, Joe had died in the cave。 Then, Tom and Huck got into that cave again, and found the treasure that Joe and his partner were finding。 Tom got a happy ending, he became a rich man and was popular in his town。
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is a clear reflection of the child"s life is full of Children"s novels。 I have to say that clever Tom reminded me of my childhood。 We always lost something as we grow up and gradually got lost in our life。 A child would not tell lies to other, a child would speak out their feelings without hesitation, a child would care too much about other’s opinions, and a child would bravely do what they wanted。 Likewise, in that time, people were pretty reserve, and they did not dare to tell their own ideas, neither fight against the tradition。 But Tom was brave。 He challenged the tradition。 He never restricted himself into school or homework like other child, he loved adventure and different challenges instead。 He exposed the true murderer even though he might be dangerous。 So the author Mark Twain designed a good ending for Tom。
It was Mark Twain’s humor that attracted me most。 But there was not only humor, people who read his books would learn something serious。 He told us: tell the truth forever, such of words you need not record you to once say somewhat。 Someone said that Mark Twain gave pleasurereal intellectual enjoyment to millions, and his work will continue to give such pleasure to millions yet to come。 His humor was American, but he was nearly as much appreciated by Englishmen and people of other countries as by his own countrymen。 He has made an enduring part of American literature。
In a word, I gained much from this fantastic novel, and learned a lot from Tom Sawyer。 And I believe that these harvests will have great effects on my whole life。
篇10:简爱读后感800字作文
全文共 1156 字
+ 加入清单每次读《简·爱》后,总让我心情久久不能平静下来,就像平静的湖面忽悠被人扔下一块石头一样,泛起一阵阵涟漪。
简·爱这个家喻户晓的名字,留给后人的总是无尽的敬佩。赞美她能够勇敢于并顽强地追求妇人在社会的地位那坚持独立自主平等时所表现巨大的人格魅力。
我曾一度想象不出,那样一个出生低微的没有高贵的女子,究竟是怎样的富于激情?是怎样的地位的女子,始终坚持维护独立的人格,始终坚持追求个性自由,始终坚持主张人生平等。
想象不出,这样的一个自幼父母死亡,寄人篱下身无分文又受尽歧视的弱女子,究竟是这样的热忱刚烈、是怎样的不甘屈辱、想象不出当她的表兄欧打她时,她是怎样的勇于回击;想象不出当舅母嚷叫着自己的孩子远离她时,她是怎样的高傲地喊:“他们不配和我在一起!”;也想象不出,面对冷酷的校长和摧残她的教师,她是怎样的深恶痛绝地对好友海伦说:“假如她用那根条子打我,我要从她手里把它夺过来,并且当面折断它。”
也想象不出,这样一个身份低微,相貌平平的普通女子,在追求个人幸福时,究竟是怎样的朴实自信?想象不出她究竟是怎样对地位高贵的罗切斯特喊出:“你以为,因为我穷、低微、不美、矮小,我就没有灵魂没有心吗?你想错了!——我的灵魂和你一样,我的心也跟你的完全一样!……我们站在上帝脚跟前,是平等的,——因为我们是平等的!”的一番话。
是的,我想象不出。我不是幼年父母双亡,我不用寄人篱下,我并不出生低微,我也不会受人欺负,被人虐待,可以说,我比简·爱更强大,更幸运,但为什么我会如此自卑,而不是像简·爱一样坚强自信?为什么我会如此平庸,而不是像简·爱一样人生如此丰富?
我迷惑了。
“因为,简·爱有自己的追求,有自己的梦想。”不知怎的,我心底某处突然响起了这句话。
有人说,理想是一颗会开花的树;斯大林说:“有理想的人,生活总是火热的。”雨果说:“人有了物质才能生存,人有了理想才谈得上生活。”而列夫·托尔斯泰也说过:“理想是指路明灯。没有理想,就没有坚定方向;没有方向,就没有生活。”
而追求独立、自主、平等是简·爱的理想。而简·爱因为有了理想,所以纵使弱小无助,也要竭尽全力地去反抗;因为有了理想,所以纵使地位低贱,也要顽强勇敢地去追求;因为有了理想,所以纵使生活曲折,也要坚强自信地去活着。正如罗曼·罗兰所说的:“一种理想,就是一种动力。”追求独立、自主、平等是简·爱的理想,而理想是简·爱追求独立、自主、平等的动力。
就像醍醐灌顶一般,我震撼了,明白了,也羞愧了。
清风,穿过花香,掠过竹林,踪影漂漂渺渺。骄阳,跨过高山,漫过沦海,渐行渐远。我知道,从此以后我将不再自卑,不再甘于平庸,我也知道,那被我废弃于心底已久的理想种子,将被我重新播种。
我在想,如果每个人都能够像简·爱一样,把理想带在身边,那么,这个世界上会不会少了一批平庸之人呢?
篇11:嘉莉妹妹英语读后感_6100字
全文共 6013 字
+ 加入清单Having read the book Sister Carrie written by Theodore Dreiser,a very complicate feeling struck me,for the society,the people in America in the late 19th century.We can see clearly about the decadent and hypocritical moral principles of the bourgeois.They pursue only position,authority and money.Pleasure is their honest companion.
The society was developing rapidly and the people"s living standards were also improving.Yes,the prosperity appeared.But on the other hand,the gap between the poor and the rich was strengthened.While some people were playing and drinking,the other people were working,even begging.Behind the happiness,hiding much misery.Facing all of these,I am confused whether I should happy about the development of the society or I should sad about the cruel.
But I know I will give much sympathy to all of these people,no matter they rich or poor.I am sorry that the rich have lost their good morality,their sympathy and I think they are blank in their spiritThe poor,of course,are busy all the day for supporting themselves and their family,no time enjoying the life.All of them are the sacrifices of the society.
In this book,,only Sister Carrie can present us all of these.At first,she was poor.She had to work hard,but only made ends meet.She admired the pleasure, quick to understand the keener pleasures of life, ambitious to gain in material things.You know, Of an intermediate balance, under the circumstances, there is no possibility. The city has its cunning wiles, no less than the infinitely smaller and more human tempterTheir beauty, like music, too often relaxes, then wakens, then perverts the simpler human perceptions.Then, not only did Carrie feel the drag of desire for all which was new and pleasing in apparel for women, but she noticed too, with a touch at the heart, the fine ladies who elbowed and ignored her, brushing past in utter disregard of her presence. She realized in a dim way how meant for women, and she longed for dress and beauty with a whole heart.Her craving for pleasure was so b that it was the one stay of her nature.
She would speak for that when silent on all else.As a result,she left her sister,following Chas.H.Drouet,a salesman.So she has the beautiful room,has the satisfied dress and so on.For a pereid of time,she was happy and satisfied.But drived by the desire,Sister Carrie wants more. In Carrie-as in how many of our wordings do they not?
instinct and reason, desire and understanding, were at war for the mastery. She followed whither her craving led. She was as yet more drawn than she drew.When she went to the theatre with Drouet that spectacle pleased her immensely. The color and grace of it caught her eye. She had vain imaginings about place. and power, about faroff lands and magnificent people. When it was over, the clatter of coaches and the throng of fine ladies made her stare. CARRIE WAS AN APT STUDENT of fortune’s ways-of for Time’s superficialities. Seeing a thing, she would immediately set to inquiring how she would look, properly rated to it.
Be it known that this is not fine feeling, it is Not wisdom. The greatest minds are not so afflicted; and On the contrary, the lowest order of mind is not so disturbed. Fine clothes to her were a vast persuasion; they spoke tenderly and Jesuitical for themselves. When she came within earshot of their pleading,desire in her bent a willing ear. The voice of the socalled inanimate!If we can say,then she falls in love with Hurstwood,maybe pursuits something in spirit which cannot get from Drouet who seeks the enjoy all day and only cares about himself.With the developing of the story,we can see Carrie going through some difficulties,eloping with Hurstwood.But at last,in New York,Carrie became an actress by chance and turned out to be one of New York"s most popular actresses.Nevertheless,she was not quite happy but felt lonely and void.To the result,I am thinking,maybe this is inevitable.This is the fate in that society.
In the novel,too much gave me a deeply impression,especially the enormous change of Hurstwood.From the manager of a saloon to a beggary,Hurstwood had stolen money from the safe in order to elope with Carrie,but finally committed suicide.What is the reason,who is wrong.Perhaps nobody knows,we cannot say Carrie or his families leading to this.Maybe this is the so-called destiny.But still seems to some deceiving ourselves.
Let us have a look at the other people,the families of the Hurstwood,his wife and daughter,only love the vanity and seek the pleasure.They are cold and selfish.We cannot find the happiness that belongs to a family,Hurstwood cannot feel the warmAnother person,Drouet, He loved fine clothes, good eating, and particularly the company and acquaintanceship of successful men.He has vanity and ambition. He might suffer the least rudimentary twinge of conscience in whatever he did, and in just so far he was evil and sinning.He also loves women. Drouet had a habit, characteristic of his kind, of looking after stylishly dressed or pretty women on the street and remarking upon them. He had just enough of the feminine love of dress to be a good judge-not of intellect, but of clothes.
He saw how they set their little feet, how they carried their chins, with what grace ands sinuosity they swung their bodies. A dainty, self-conscious swaying of the hips by a woman was to him as alluring as the glint of red wine to a toper. He would turn and follow the disappearing vision with his eyes. he would thrill as a child with the unhindered passion that was in him. He loves the thing that women love in themselves, grace. At this their own shrine, he Knelt with them, an ardent devotee.He lost the higher dreame.
No matter the result of these people is good or bad,I will feel sorry for them.They are the sacrifices of the society.We cannot only regard these as the destiny.Something else has led these.Of course, we also cannot say it is the fault of the developmental society.Maybe what we can do is keep ourselves with our best.
篇12:《一千零一夜》英语读后感
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+ 加入清单This book is simply wonderful.The tales involved are tales of the Persian Gulf,of Bagdhad,Arabia,and tales that we as adults should revisit for some enjoyable light reading that will make us smile and wonder at the old folklore of the Arabian Peninsula.Sinbad the Sailor is in there,as is Aladdin in its original form,and the story begins of a king who is so upset by his wifes unfaithfulness that he will now only accept virgins for one night and then have them killed.A smart virgin begins her night with the infamous king by telling him stories,and she so fascinates him and enthralls him with her tales that the tales turn into folklore for readers of the ages.I wont tell you what happens in the end to the virgin princess,but you will find humor,enchantment,wisdom and fantasy for those times when stress becomes a factor in your life.I highly recommend the tale of "The Historic Fart" as a both funny and inspiring tale of human nature.Please buy this book and remember to become a nine -12 year old again as you read with curiosity and wonder at the fabulous enchanting,lively stories.I was beginning to wish my children were a bit younger so I could read these to them.Any child would enjoy these stories,and any adult will find them simply relaxing and a reflection of medieval Islam.
篇13:《失乐园》英语读后感
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+ 加入清单The success of Milton’s Paradise Lost owes much to the depiction of the main epicimage of Satan whose attributes enable him to achieve tragic status. Although Satan may be an epic machine, he is best portrayed as the tragic anti-hero of paradise Lost. The critics in the world have been concerning the image of Satan in Paradise Lost, whose complexity makes the poem more controversial.The reason why the image under Milton’s pen is so complex is that the Satan attracts the poet’s inner force, which drives him to change the people’s traditional ideas and cause resonance of all the revolutionaries.
Satan in the Bible is an image of devil. But in Paradise Lost, Satan challenges the authority of God and want to be free, he is a fighter for freedom. The poet portrayed Satan as a brave hero that went to get rid of god’s domination. In Paradise Lost, the Satan was the most successful image the author shaped.The allure of free will is where the attractiveness and power of Satan"s character lies. Stanley Fish in his essay, ‘The Harassed Reader in Paradise Lost, argues that Satan possesses a form of heroism which is easy to admire because it is visible and flamboyant and that, on that basis, Satan’s attractiveness is only initial. Milton was, undoubtedly, conscious that he was in danger of portraying Satan as too much of a heroic figure and made efforts to be little him through the use of unflattering imagery, and by highlighting his less complimentary characteristics.
Nonetheless, our emotions are still fired. Our first encounter with Satan and his rebel hosts occurs in Book I, when they are recovering from the shock of having been expelled from heaven by the Son after three days of fighting the angels of God. Despite the defeat he has suffered, Satan gains our admiration by displaying resilience in quickly coming to terms with the change in his circumstances, in remustering his forces and organizing the building of his palace, Pandemonium. At the same time he demonstrates his determination not to be defeated and shows true qualities of leadership, persuasively arguing that there is still hope for battle and victory. Satan is convincing in his first speech to Beelzebub, his chief partner in crime, as he declares: What though the field be lost? All is not lost; the unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield: And what is else not to be overcome? That glory never shall his wrath or might Extort from me. Although Satan may be an epic machine, he is best portrayed as the tragic anti-hero of Paradise Lost or, at the very least, a main character who possesses the stature and attributes which enable him to achieve tragic status. In the Greek tradition, the essential components of tragedy are admiration, fear and pity for the ‘hero’, who has to display a tragic weakness or flaw in his character, which will lead to his downfall. It might be argued that the flaws in Satan’s character are such that we should feel no admiration, fear or pity for him, yet he can be seen to inspire these emotions. Satan’s tragic flaws are pointed out in Book I. They are envy, pride, and ambition towards self-glorification. Satan’s pride, in particular, is stressed throughout Paradise Lost.
The poet condemned God through Satan’s words. On the surface, God had given human free will; in fact, he had suppressed the true freedom.Obviously, the poet"s criticism and condemnation of God were out from the social reality of United Kingdom. The tyrant was the embodiment of Stuart. Milton laid his own political tendencies in the great Satan. He portrayed Satan"s resistance as the justice resistance to authoritarian rule and a bold challenge to the violent regime.
篇14:至死不渝的爱读后感
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+ 加入清单最近一直在读书。读书读书读书。就像一天不读书就会挂掉一样地认真。
看了很久以前就想读的《呼啸山庄》。唯一的感觉就是,如果遇上了SM癖好的选手,最好还是离得远点的好。
虽然他们是活得最壮烈,最热诚,最让人羡慕的人。
即使烧尽一切的热爱,并不值得现在这样的世界嘉许。但是,能这么坚定地爱上谁,恨了谁,报复谁,这难道不是最血性地活着么。
我想,之所以那么多人喜欢作者姐姐的《简·爱》大概就是因为那是平和的温暖。这部冰与火般的情感,或许真的不适合现在的时代,估计在当时也不是什么让广大人民觉得美好的故事。但能流传到现在,定然带着属于全人类的光辉。
不能体会到那些专家们觉得文明与野蛮的冲突。我觉得这只是一个不那么复杂的故事而已。讲述一个人爱上另一个人,至死不渝的故事。
非常简单。就像大多数的古典小说。
像RPG一样在里面体会过一次壮烈的爱与恨。
篇15:麦田里的守望者的英语读后感
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+ 加入清单The hero of the story called Holden,he was a middle school student,but he didn’t like studying at all.He was tired of everything in the school. So he was expelled from school for the fourth time.
In the removed that night,Holden left school,but he was afraid to go home.In desperation,Holden lived in a small hotel.However,it was a chaos of hotel,some shady people lived there,here Holden made a lot of stupid things.Later,he and his girlfriend split up.
Then Holden to the bar to drink with an old school friend,he got very drunk,he put his head in cold water for a while,just wake up. When he walked out of the pub, be cold wind blows, the hair of his head was frozen.He thought he might die from pneumonia, always can"t see his sister, decided to take the plunge and home her farewell.
Holden secretly returned home, he said to sister his ideal, he will want to be a catcher in the rye. Later, his parents came back, Holden frighten hide in closet.When his parents went to the bedroom, he quickly slipped out of the house, to a his respected teacher spend the night in the home. Holden didn"t want to go home, decided to go to the west to make a living, but he wanted to in the face before walked bye sister, so he dated sister to the museum.But his sister, dragging a big suitcase full of her clothes, she must go with Holden to the western.Finally, for sister persuade invalid, Holden had to give up his plan to the west, then he took her to the zoo.And Holden decided not to run away.He went home shortly he had illness and was sent to a nursing home.
Part two Book Report
This is a novel about adolescent psychological problems. From the point of subject, like all young men, the hero is a liberal person, but he doesn"t handle their own problems, at the same time, he was also confused, he don"t know their future.
Perhaps everyone in a teenager have encountered similar problems, when we are at that time we offen not to talk about own confusion,so we may enter a wrong way,bringing harm to myself. So after finished reading this book, I realize the importance of mental health, when we meet with difficulties, we should actively to face, and efforts to solve every problem,can"t give up myself,we must have the courage to face the reality.
篇16:《小王子》英语读后感
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+ 加入清单Over the course of this semester,I read a moving book:THE LITTLE PRINCE.It impressed me a lot,especially,the pure but deep emotion(love) between the characters such as the pilot and the little prince,the rose and the little prince,the fox and the little prince.The book remind me of the pure and nice emotion only found in childhood.
The main character our little prince live on a planet named B612 accompany with there volcanoes an a rose who falls in love with him but can not understand each other.Consequencely,he leave his planet and his endless travelling.During this period,he come across a diversity of people. From these people he gets a conclusion that the grown-ups are very odd.Then he enter earth and found thousands of roses alike.The little prince discovers that his rose is not the only ,plenty of her kind are everywhere, but then he realizes that his rose is special because it is she that I have watered; because it is she that I have put under the glass globe; because it is she that I have sheltered behind the screen . Then he fall across the fox.She
teaches the prince It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye
What impresses me the most is the fox’s words.love is a strange stuff.Sometimes we see it but can’t grasp it.Yet, true love may be, to some extent, invisible in surface but may last permanent.Apart from love, others as well.Indeed,sometimes what we consider right turn out to be wrong,what we consider real proves fictitious,what we confused may just turn out to be the truth.The path In searching for truth may long and time-consuming,we should harbour conviction,b will and high hope.No matter what barriade in front of us,we ought to be couragous and face up to the challenge.
篇17:简爱读后感600字范文
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+ 加入清单合上《简·爱》,我长吁口气,闭上双眼,再细细品味其中的道理。我读的《简·爱》是一本颜色暗淡,厚沉破旧的书,这是我爸爸在高中时读的一本好书。之后,他送给我了,我珍惜地读着。开始,我越读越烦,因为书里面没有一丝图案或者图画,只有一堆密密麻麻的小字!之后,我才突然明白了爸爸让我看此书的用意。
《简·爱》的作者是夏洛蒂·勃朗特,高尔基曾评价她:“你似乎是一位精通读心术的女巫,你的杰作《简·爱》带着浓厚的自传气息,给读者的印象宛如一根盎然矗立的女权图腾柱。”的确,书里主要讲述了一个叫简·爱的孤女的奋斗史与罗切斯特先生的一个爱情故事,让我仿佛看到了那个独立、平等、自由的精神楷模──简·爱。
自从看完了《简·爱》,我发现简有几个特点:不甘受辱,不安现状,自尊自爱,自立自强,勇于抗争,敢于追求。而我呢,与她差不多一样,很勇敢,很坚强,有信心,很独立又不愿受欺负。我感觉自己不是简,又感觉自己像简,勇闯敢拼,又一个不平的人生。
在简有困难,被约翰欺负时,简反抗了。她一定在想:同样是人,为什么我就得被打、被骂、被欺负?我一定要反抗!那时,我一读到这儿,就鼓起掌,喊了一声“好!”可以说是志同道合!每次读的时候,我有时会愤怒,有时会大笑,有时会担忧,还有时会悲伤。有时候,读着读着就感觉很闷,就像心里堵了块石头似的;可有时,我读着就感觉心里很开阔,有一个愉快的心情。简呢,她是一个表面很坚强,内心却很脆弱的女孩,如果仔细地想一下,我好像也是如此。
人生道路总有崎岖,坚强吧,勇敢一点,不要做个懦夫!请你冲破困难,找回真实的自己吧!
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这是一篇关于《简·爱》的读后感,小作者先为我们简述书的主要内容,然后联系了自己的生活实际谈读后的感想,把“读”与“感”紧密结合,表达了自己要学习主人公的勇敢、坚强、独立,字里行间透露出积极向上的奋斗精神。语言虽不华丽,但却准确生动,情感丰富而真实,读来津津有味。
篇18:简爱读后感450字
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+ 加入清单乘着暑假这么长的日子,我把我一直很期待看却没有勇气看完的《简爱》看完了。因为这本书故事很长,我一直怕我没勇气看下去,现在想想我当初真的想多了。因为故事情节虽然有些复杂,但是很好理解,而且故事曲折,描写生动,更好的是还让我学习了很多知识。
故事从简爱小时候说起,简爱的妈妈放弃了家族而和一位无名的男人在一起,连同简爱被舅妈嫌弃。简爱的童年太黑暗了。被舅妈虐待,在学校唯一的朋友海伦受瘟疫而死。简爱来到了故事的庄园。在这里认识了罗切斯特。与之发生了很多的事,爱上了他,但是罗切斯特却有一个疯妻子。简爱逃出了庄园,遇到了圣约翰。圣约翰为了到印度传教,叫简爱嫁给他,但简爱还是选择了罗切斯特……
故事就是这样,一个自尊自立自强的女性的选择的生活的原则。她教会我,人要有自尊自立自强自爱自重的品格,就像简爱一样。
当我们遇到生活的不平生活的困难,一蹶不振绝对不是一个好办法,这不可以改变事实逆转裁判,一而再再而三的努力才是我们选择的。但是不是所有的努力都适合,我们改变不了世界。所以我们适合的时候,可以试试改变自己。选择另一种方向,选择自己真正想追求的去生活吧!
篇19:《呼啸山庄》英语读后感
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+ 加入清单Thoughts or reflections on reading Wuthering Heights
Wuthering Heights was written by Emily Bronte, it published in 1847.But at that time, it seemed to hold little promise, selling very poorly and receiving only a few mixed reviews. I found this in our school library, I chose this book because the title attracted me. Wuthering Heights is structured around two parallel love stories, the first half of the novel centering on the love between Catherine and Heathcliff, while the less dramatic second half features the developing love between young Catherine and Hareton. In contrast to the first, the latter tale ends happily, restoring peace and order to Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange. In the story, the two houses, Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange, represent opposing worlds and values.
I spent twenty days reading this book. After reading this book, I felt for Heathcliff at first. Heathcliff begins his life as a homeless orphan on the streets of Liverpool, and then he tyrannized by Hindley Earnshaw. But he becomes a villain when he acquires power and returns to Wuthering Heights with money and the trappings of a gentleman. His malevolence proves so great and long—lasting. As he himself points out, his abuse of Isabella—his wife is purely sadistic, as he amuses himself by seeing how much abuse she can take and still come cringing back for more.
Catherine represents wild nature, in both her high, lively spirits and her occasional cruelty. She loves Heathcliff so intensely that she claims they are the same person. However, her actions are driven in part by her social ambitions, which initially are awakened during her first stay at the Lintons, and which eventually compel her to marry Edgar. Catherine is free—spirited, beautiful, spoiled, and often arrogant, she is given to fits of temper, and she is torn between her both of the men who love her. The location of her coffin symbolizes the conflict that tears apart her short life. She is buried in a corner of the Kirkyard. In contrast to Catherine, Isabella Linton—Catherine’s sister—in—law represents culture and civilization, both in her refinement and in her weakness. Ultimately, she ruins her life by falling in love with Heathcliff. He never returns her feelings and treats her as a meretool in his quest for revenge on the Linton family.
Just as Isabella Linton serves as Catherine’s foil, Edgar Linton serves as Heathcliff’s. Edgar grows into a tender, constant, but cowardly man. He is almost the ideal gentleman. However, this full assortment of gentlemanly characteristics, along with his civilized virtues, proves useless in Edgar’s clashes with his foil. He sees his wife obviously in love with another man but unable to do anything to rectify the situation. Heathcliff, who gains power over his wife, sister , and daughter.
The whole story make people’s mood heavy. Fortunately, the end is happy.
The author Emily Bronte lived an eccentric, closely guarded life. She was born in 1818, two years after Charlotte—the author of Jane Eyre and a year and a half before her sister Anne, who also became an author. Her father worked as a church rector, and her aunt, who raised the Bronte children after their mother died, was deeply religious. Emily Bronte did not take to her aunt’s Christian fervor, the character of Joseph, a caricature of an evangelical, may have been inspired by her aunt’s religiosity. The Brontes lived in Haworth, a Yorkshire village in the midst of the moors. These wild, desolate expanses—later the setting of Wuthering Heights—made up the Brontes daily environment, and Emily lived among them her entire life. She died in 1848, at the age of thirty.
I like this book because it rest on the unforgettable characters. Wuthering Heights is based partly on the Gothic tradition, a style of literature that featured supernatural encounters, crumbling ruins, moonless nights, and grotesque imagery, seeking to create effects of mystery and fear. I would like to recommend this book to other readers.