英文读后感范文

1、英文读后感范文many people simply regard pride and prejudice as a love story, but in my opinion, this book is an illustration of thesociety at that time. she perfectly reflected the relation between money and marriage at her time and gave the people inher works vivid characters. the characters have their ow

2、n personalities. mrs. bennet is a woman who makes great effortsto marry off her daughters. mr. bingley is a friendly young man, but his friend, mr. darcy, is a very proud man who seemsto always feel superior. even the five daughters in bennet family are very different. jane is simple, innocent and n

3、everspeaks 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 doesner own opitnhioanvebuht likes to follow her sister,lydia. lydia is a girl who follows exotic things, handsome man, and is somehow a little pro

4、fligate. when i read the book, ican always find the same personalities in the society now. that is why i think this book is indeed the representative of thesociety in britain in the 18th century.the family of gentleman in the countryside is jane austens favourite topic. but this littletopic can refl

5、ect big problems. it concludes the stratum situation and economic relationships in britain in her century. youcan 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 theworld that an unmarried man in possession of a

6、 large fortune must be in need of a wife”. theundertone 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 resultof love, but the result of econom

7、ic needs. after reading this book, i know the truth is that a poor woman must be in need ofa husband, a wealthy man.i couldnt forget how eager mrs. bennet wants to marry off her daughters. if you want to know why she is so crazyabout these things, i must mention the situation in britain at that time

8、. only the eldest son had the privilege of inheriting hisfathers possessioyounger sons and daughters who are used to luxurious lives have no choice but marry a man or woman in possession ofa large fortune to continue their comfortable lives. thus, we can see that getting married is a way to become w

9、ealthier,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 bennetsdont have many pos

10、sessions and their social positions are muchlower 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 decreas

11、ed rapidly,the concep t of“money determines everything”is still rooted in some peoples mind.parents try hard to interfere their childrens marriages. education background, possessions,jobs remains the main reason that may influence ones marriage. ims asrtrilyl afor moneybig problem in our society. we

12、 cant 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 thatreflects big problems. although austen was only 21 when she wrote“pride and prejudice”, her sharp observation ofsocial lives mak

13、es the style of thisbook surprisingly mature and lively. the plots in her works are always very natural. the development of the plot is asinevitable as a problem in mathematics. i think the depth of pride and prejudice is the reason that makes this bookprominent and classic. today, her book still ca

14、n be the guide telling us the economic relationships both at her time and inmodern time.Published in 1847, WUtheRING HEIGHTS was not well received by the reading public, many of whom condemnedit as sordid, vulgar, and unnatural-and author Emily Bronte went to her grave in 1848 believing that her onl

15、y novel was afailure. It was not until 1850, when WUTHERING HEIGHTS received a second printing with an introduction by Emilyssister Charlotte, that it attracted a wide readership. And from that point the reputation of the book has never looked back.Today it is widely recognized as one of the GREat n

16、ovels of English literature.Even so, WUtheRING HEIGHTS continues to divide readers. It is not a pretty love story; rather, it is swirling tale oflargely unlikeable people caught up in obsessive love that turns to dark madness. It is cruel, violent, dark and brooding,and many people find it extremely

17、 unpleasant. And yet-it possesses a grandeur of language and design, a sense oftremendous pity and GREat loss that sets it apart from virtually every other novel written.the novel is told in the form of an extended FLASHback. After a visit to his strange landlord, a newcomer to the areadesires to kn

18、ow the history of the family-which he receives from Nelly Deans, a servant who introduces us to theEarnshaw family who once resided in the house known as Wuthering Heights. It was once a cheerful place, but OldEarnshaw adopted a Gipsy child who he named Heathcliff. And Catherine, daughter of the hou

19、se, found in him theperfect companion: wild, rude, and as proud and cruel as she. But although Catherine loves him, even recognizes him asher soulmate, she cannot lower herself to marry so far below her social station. She instead marries another, and in sodoing sets in motion an obsession that will

20、 destroy them all.WUtheRING HEIGHTS is a bit difficult to get into; the opening chapters are so dark in their portrait of the end resultof this obsessive love that they are somewhat off-putting. But they feed into the flow of the work in a remarkable way,setting the stage for one of the most remarka

21、ble structures in all of literature, a story that circles upon itself in a series ofrepetitions as it plays out across two generations. Catherine and Heathcliff are equally remarkable, both vicious and cruel,and yet never able to shed their impossible love no matter how brutally one may wound the ot

22、her.As the novel coils further into alcoholism, seduction, and one of the most elaborately imagined plans of revenge itgathers into a ghostly tone: Heathcliff, driven to madness by a woman who is not there but who seems reflected in everypart of his world-dragging her corpse from the grave, hearing

23、her calling to him from the moors, escalating his brutalitynot for the sake of brutality but so that her memory will never fade, so that she may never leave his mind until death itself.Yes, this is madness, insanity, and there is no peace this side of the grave or even beyond.It is a stunning novel,

24、 frightening, inexorable, unsettling, filled with unbridled passion that makes one cringe. Even ifyou do not like it, you should read it at least once-and those who do like it will return to it again and againLearn to Livemy thoughts after reading Joan of ArcSunshine shines over the statue in Orlean

25、s. The ordinary but famous girl named Joan is riding on her horse, smilingand looking down at the land that she has loved and fought on. She is the heroine of France, the saint from heaven. Herinfluences shine over every person heart, and I am deeply impressed by her story.When Louis XIII was the ki

26、ng, the British and the Burundians invaded France and wanted to have the northern partof France. Joan helped French people coronate their new king, Louis XIV, getting almost all the invaded land back withthe help of three saints. But after that, she was caught by the Burundians and was burnt on a cr

27、oss by her enemy. This isthe famous story about Joan, the saint. From a village girl to a national heroine, she only used a few years. How couldJoan of Arc do that? I wonder.Someone says the saints have chosen her and the God has given her power. But actually the real virgin doesntexist, From the bi

28、rth of Jesus Christ in the first century, people havecontrolled the Christianity. I think the religion has become a tool between people. This kind of opinion about the successof Joan must be wrong.Someone said, Joan had this wonderful success because of her confidence and will. I quite agree with th

29、is opinion.Because there arent any virgins in the world, so I think theappearance of the saints was only in Joansomthinindg, ascpteucaiallyl hnappened to Joan.I think the things which really mattered were Joans thoughts. In my opinion, Joan musthave some military ability to lead the whole army, beca

30、use of her unusual image, Joan became more confident to thesuccess. It let Joan had the will to be successful. So the success before did not happen by accident,. After some battles,Joan said that she had lost her support from the saints, but actually this didnt mind. The more important thing wasthat

31、 she had lost her confidence and will, so she lost the battle at last.So I think confidence and will are just like the foundation of success. All the success depends on them.In the real world, confidence and will is always very important. During the XX AthensOlympic Games, Li Ting and Sun Tiantian h

32、ave won the gold medal for the womens douin the tennis game. It was the first time our anthem playing on the tennis court. Somemedium says that they have won by chance. It was only a fairy tale. But I dont thinkActually they have won because of their believing in themselves, because they have confid

33、ence and will, so they havecreated a fairy tale in Greece. Their confidence and will have made the success, not by accident.In our daily life, we must have confidence and will as well. Before the test we need to be confident to our actualstrength or well not give full play to our initiative. We need

34、 to beconfident when we are speaking in public or others will not remember you among all the speakers. We need to have willin studying or well not learn things solidly. We need to havewill in our daily life or well give up the things we are doing now. If we have caonndfidencwill in our daily life, t

35、hen I believe youll live brighter.In this story, I also have some other opinions about some other scenes. For instance, I dont like the way the saintstreated Joan when Joan forgot the birthday of Virgin Mary. I think they have to give some time for her to explain herself. Ilike the way that Joan pro

36、ved herself bravely as a female. I think the most important thing is not the differences in *, butyour views to this really matter.So learn from this story, learn Joan s braveness and her pureness, and learn to believe yourself, and get rid of allthe bad habits and personalities of the characters in

37、 this story. We can avoid to be a coward, to be selfish and fatuous.Then every good personality we learn will be a bloomin g flower in our garden of heart and well live with a life full offragrantce!old man and the sea to shape the success of a classic tough guy image. it is also the author of hemin

38、gway won thenobel prize for literature. cuba said the book is a fisher the to santiago a man fishing alone in the 84 days after nothingcaught a marlins immeasurable.this is also the elderly have never seen more than heard of his boat two feet longer a big fish. great efforts are also big fishpulled

39、the boat drift for a whole two days and nights the elderly in the past two days and two nights have neverexperienced the hardships endured the test and finally the big fish to death tied to the bow. however at this time has beenin the midst of the sharks the elderly and the sharks were life-and-deat

40、h struggle the result of a shark or a big marlinsfinished the old trailer home last only a bare skeleton of the fish.hemingways why the elderly did not let the final victory? novels in the words of the elderly: a person must not bedefeated born people do can be destroyed but can not be defeated. thi

41、s is the old man and the sea philosophy wouldlike to reveal. there is no denying that people will be as long as it is flawed. when a person is to recognize theshortcomings and efforts to overcome it and not to succumb to it regardless of the final catch of the marlins a complete oran empty frame whi

42、ch have been does not matter because the value of a persons life has been marlins in the hunt forthe process of fully embodied. have to strive for their ideals the struggle and i wonder if he is not a winner right?fisherchallenge is to own their own shortcomings and the winner of the courage and con

43、fidence. view from the secular point ofview of the victory the winner will not be the last fisher because despite his big win over the marlins but the marlinseventually let big sharks eat and he was just the bones of the dead with a big marlins shelf back to shore that is to say theshark is the winner. however in the eyes of the idealistsfisher is the winner because he has not been to the sea to the bigmarlins no compromise and surrender to the sharks. beethovens music as the master said i can be destroyed but i cannot be conquered.humanity is a power