英文名著读后感 (1)

Learn to love and care

（雾都孤儿）

Here I am sitting on a couch alone, thinking about what I have just finished reading with tears of

sadness filling my eyes and fire of indignation filling my heart, which revived my exhausted soul

that has already been covered by the cruelty and the selfishness of the secular world for a long

time.

It

is

truly

what

I

felt

after

reading

Oliver

Twist,

written

by

the

prominent

British

author

Charles Dickens.

The

resonance

between

me

and

the

book

makes

me

feel

not

only

the

kindness

and

the

wickedness of all the characters in the novel, but what this aloof society lacks, and what I lack

deep inside. These supreme resources I?m

talking about right now are somewhat different from

minerals, oil that we usually mention. They?re abstr

act like feelings, and some kinds of spiritual

stimulation that all of us desire anxiously from one another

——

love and care.

Those charitable figures whom Dickens created in the novel are really what we need in life. They

showed love and care to others, just as the gentle rain from the sky fell upon the earth, which was

carved into my heart deeply.

Mr. Brownlow is one such person.

The

other

day

he

had

one

of

his

elaborate

watches

stolen

by

two

skilled

teenage

thieves,

Artful

Dodger

and Charley

Bates,

and

thought

naturally

it

was

Oliver,

who

was

an

orphan

and

forced to live with a gang of thieves, that had done it because he was the only one near by after the

theft had taken place. Being wrathful, he caught Oliver, and sent him to the police station where

the ill-tempered, unfair magistrates worked. Fortunately for him, Oliver was proved innocent by

one onlooker afterwards. With sympathy, Mr. Brownlow took the injured, poor Oliver to his own

home. There Oliver lived freely and gleefully for some months

as if he were Mr. Brownlow?s own

son. One day, however, Mr. Brownlow asked Oliver to return some books to the bookseller and to

send some money for the new books that he had already collected. The thief Oliver once stayed

with kidnapped him. After that he

disappeared in Mr. Brownlow?s life. Searching for a while, Mr.

Brownlow

had

to

believe

the

fact

that

he

had

run

away

with

his

money.

But

dramatically,

they

came

across

each

other

again

a

few

years

later.

Without

hesitation,

Mr.

Brownlow

took

Oliver

home for the second time not caring if he had done something evil.

Perhaps most of us would feel confused about Mr. Brownlow?s reaction. But as a matter of

fact, this is just the lesson we should learn from him. Jesus said in the Bible. “Forgive not seven

times,

but

seventy-

times

seven.”

Why

is

that?

Because

forgiveness

is

our

ability

to

remove

negative thoughts and neutralize them so our energy may be spent on doing what we came here for.

We cannot move forward in our future if past issues cloud our thinking. Stop put Mr. Brownlow

into the list of your models. Always give people a second chance no matter what they might have

done. That?s also a substantial part of loving and caring others.

Charles Dickens said:“Love makes the world go around.” These immorta

l words have inspired

and

will

keep

on

inspiring

us

to

chant

the

melody

of

love

and

to

say

the

prayer

of

care

forevermore. Let us, therefore, enjoy life and treat other people lovingly. These principles are the

roots and foundations of beliefs supporting this article and our mission together.

Pride and Prejudice

（傲慢与偏见）

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 re

ading 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

possession

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

e

ager

Mrs.

Bennet

wants

to marry

off

her

daughters.

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 obstacle 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, possess

ions, jobs remains

the main reason that may influence one?s marriage. Marry for money is still a big problem in our