Gone with the Wind 飘（又名：傲慢与偏见）

简介：

Gone with the Wind is a romantic drama and the novel written by Margaret Mitchell, which sets the American Civil War as the background. The novel's protagonist, Scarlett O'Hara is the daughter of a planter, who is rich and standing in Georgia USA. Father Gerald is an Irish immigrant. Arriving in Georgia, Gerald is penniless but he wins the ownership of the manor of Tarot by gambling. After that, he began the venture in this red land, weaving his American Dream. Until 43 years old, he is married with the daughter named Ellen of a French immigrant in East Coast knot. Gerald is good-natured, but bad-tempered and the young wife has a good family education and strict moral values. She manages the day-to-day affairs of the estate as a whole on her own, even sets the black slaves to the doctor. Because of these, the couples get the respects from the white manor and won the love of the black slaves. Their daughter Scarlett is grown up in this environment.

《飘》所讲述的是一个以美国南北战争为背景的爱情故事。小说的主人公斯卡雷特？奥哈拉是美国佐治亚州一位富足且颇有地位的种植园主的女儿。父亲杰拉尔德是爱尔兰的移民。刚到佐治

亚州时，杰拉尔德身无分文，靠赌博赢得了塔罗庄园的所有权。于是就开始在这块红色的土地上创业，编织着他的美国之梦。直到43岁的时候，他才和芳龄15的埃伦——一个东海岸法国移民的女儿结了婚。杰拉尔德心地善良，但脾气暴躁，而年轻的妻子则有着良好的家庭教育和严格的道德观念。她亲手操持着整个庄园的日常事务，甚至还为庄园里的黑奴看病，接生。因此，夫妇俩受到周围白人庄园主的尊敬，也深得黑人奴隶的爱戴。女儿斯卡雷特在这种环境中慢慢长大了。

经典语句摘录：

1. After all, tomorrow is another day.--Scarlett.

毕竟，明天又是另外的一天呢。

2. A glamour to it --a perfection, a symmetry like Grecian art.--Ashley

那时它富有魅力，像古希腊艺术那样是圆满的、完整的和匀称的。（艾希礼关于战前生活的阐述）

3. I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments, and new. What is broken--and I’d rather remember it as it was at its best than

mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.—Rhett

我从来不是那样的人，不能耐心地拾起一些碎片，把它们黏合在一起，然后对自己说这个修补好了的东西跟新的完全一样。一样东西破碎了就是破碎了--我宁愿记住它最好时的模样，而不想把它修补好，然后终生看着那些破碎了的地方。

4. Land is the only thing in the world worth working for, worth fighting for, worth dying for. Because it's the only thing that lasts. 土地是世界上唯一值得你去为之工作, 为之战斗, 为之牺牲的东西,因为它是唯一永恒的东西。

5. I wish I could be more like you.

我要像你一样就好了。

6. Whatever comes, I'll love you, just as I do now. Until I die. 无论发生什么事,我都会像现在一样爱你,直到永远

7. I think it's hard winning a war with words.

我认为纸上谈兵没什么作用。

8. Sir, you're no gentleman. And you miss are no lady.

先生,你可真不是个君子,小姐,你也不是什么淑女。

9. I never give anything without expecting something in return. I always get paid.

我做任何事不过是为了有所回报,我总要得到报酬。

10. In spite of you and me and the whole silly world going to pieces around us, I love you.

哪怕是世界末日我都会爱着你。

11. I love you more than I've ever loved any woman. And I've waited longer for you than I've waited for any woman.

我爱你，比我更爱任何女人。我为你等待的时间比我等任何女人都要长。

12. If I have to lie, steal, cheat or kill, as God as my witness, I'll never be hungry again!

即使让我撒谎,去偷,去骗,去杀人,上帝作证,我再也不要挨饿了。

13. Now I find myself in a world which for me is worse than death.

A world in which there is no place for me.

现在我发现自己活在一个比死还要痛苦的世界,一个无我容身之处的世界。

14. You’re throwing away happiness with both hands. Reaching out for something that will never make you happy.

你把自己的幸福拱手相让,去追求一些根本不会让你幸福的东西。

15. Home. I'll go home. And I'll think of some way to get him back. After all, tomorrow is another day.

家,我要回家.我要想办法让他回来.不管怎样,明天又是全新的一天。

感想：

Gone with the Wind, an American romantic novel written by Margaret Mitchell is a reflection of the civil war. What impresses us most is the spirit of a rebellious Georgia woman named Scarlett O'Hara and her travails with friends, family and lovers in the midst of the antebellum South, the American Civil War, and the Reconstruction period. It also tells the story of love those blossoms between Scarlett O'Hara and Rhett Butler. This is really a kind of moving story. Someone said that the most classic scene in the novel was that when Scarlett returned her ruined home, holding the earth in her hand, she promised that no matter to steal or to rob she would

never allow her family to starve. However, I would rather to choose this, the most beautiful sentence in the book, tomorrow is another day. What is called love, and what is called hate? Love and hate can like two lines which will never intersect, but a piece of sunshine can melt them. Only when people lose something they come to know how much precious it is. If you shad tears when you miss the sun, you also miss the stars, Tagore said this. You should learn to let something go, because tomorrow is another day.

小说《飘》是美国著名女作家玛格丽特?米歇尔创作的一部具有浪漫主义色彩、反映南北战争题材的小说。主人公斯佳丽身上表现出来的叛逆精神和艰苦创业、自强不息的精神，一直令读者为之倾心。这部经久不息的小说感动了无数的读者。有人说这部电影最经典的场面是思嘉在战争后回到被毁的家园，在园中手握红土发誓，无论去偷去抢都不会让家人挨饿那段，因为那时她的眼神和表情真的特别震撼人。这样说我也不反对，因为这实在是一部太经典的片子，经典的场面太多，各人有各人的偏爱。我倒是情愿选择这个：以后，明天就是新的一天了。什么是爱？什么是恨？爱和恨可以象两条永不相交的平行线，爱和恨也可能只需要一缕阳光就可以消融。珍惜拥有的人是幸福的，因为我们总是并不确切知道我们需要的到底是什么。太多的人只有在失去的时候，才知道去珍惜。泰戈尔有一句诗我特别喜欢：如果错过太阳时你流泪了，那么你也将错过星星了。历尽沧桑，你要学会忽略

过去。因为——tomorrow is another day。

 

第二篇：英文小说《蝇王》观后感

Thinkings after Reading Lord of the Flies

The novel Lord of the Flies tells us a story that happens in a imaginary World War III. A group of 6 to 12 years old English boys were shot down over a deserted tropical island.Marooned,the boys set about electing Ralph,a boy who is 12-year-old,as their leader and finding a way to be rescued.Ralph appoints Jack to be the leader of the hunters.In order to attract the attention of passing ships,the boys also use the lens from Piggy’s eyeglasses to ignite dead wood as a signal fire.

At first,the boys enjoy their life without grown-ups.They splash in the lagoon and play games,though Ralph complains that they should be maintaining the signal fire and building huts for shelter.The hunters have trouble catching a pig,but Jack becomes increasingly preoccupied with the act of hunting.One day, a ship passes by on the horizon,and Ralph and Piggy notice, to their horror,that the signal fire has burned out;it had been the hunters’ responsibility to maintain it.Furious,Ralph accosts Jack,but the hunter has just returned with his first kill.When Piggy criticizes him,Jack hits him across the face.

Ralph blows the conch shell used to summon the boys and reprimands them in a speech intended to restore order.Yet there is a larger ,more insidious problem than keeping the signal fire lit and overcoming the difficulties of hunting:the boys have started to become afraid.The littlest boys(known as “littluns”) have been troubled by nightmares from beginning,and more and more boys now believe that there is some sort of beast or monster lurking on the island.At the meeting,the older boys try to convince the others to think rationally;if there were a monster, where would it hide during the daytime?One of the littluns suggests that it hides in the sea,a proposition that terrifies the whole group.

Not long after the meeting,an aircraft battle takes place high above the island.The boys are sleeping,so they do not notice the flashing lights and explosions in the clouds.A parachutist drifts to earth on the signal fire mountain.He is dead.Sam and Eric,the twins responsible for watching the fire at night,have fallen asleep,so they do not see him land.But when they wake up, they see the enormous silhouette of his parachute and hear the strange flapping noises it makes.Thinking the beast is at hand,they rush back to the camp in terror and report that the beast has attacked them.The boys organize a hunting expedition to search for monsters.Jack and Ralph,who are increasingly at odds,travel up the mountain.They see the silhouette of the parachute from a distance and think that it looks like a huge,deformed ape.The group holds a meeting,at which Jack and Ralph tell the others of the sighting.Jack says that Ralph is a coward and that he should be removed from office,but the other boys refuse to vote him out of power.Jack angrily runs away down the beach,calling all the hunters to join him.Ralph rallies the remaining boys to build a new signal fire,this time on the beach instead of on the “monster’s” mountain.They obey,but before they have finished the task,most of them have slipped away to join Jack.

Jack declares himself the leader of this new tribe,and organizes a hunt and violent,ritual slaughter of a sow to solemnize the occasion.They then decapitate the sow and place its head on a sharpened stake in the jungle as an offering to the beast.Encountering the bloody, fly-covered head,Simon has a terrible vision,during which it seems to him that the head is speaking.The voice,which he imagines to belong to the Lord of the Flies,says that Simon will never escape him,for he exists within all men.Simon faints;when he wakes up,he goes to the mountain,where he sees the dead parachutist.Understanding then that the monster does not exist externally but rather

within each individual boy,Simon travels to the beach to tell the revelry——even Ralph and Piggy have joined Jack’s feast——and when they see Simon’s shadowy figure emerge from the jungle,they fall upon him and kill him with their bare hands and teeth.

The following morning,Ralph and Piggy discuss what they have done.Jack’s hunters attack them and their few followers,stealing Piggy’s glasses in the process .Ralph’s group travels to Jack’s stronghold,called Castle Rock,in an attempt to make Jack see reason.But Jack orders Sam and Eric tied up and fights with Ralph.In the ensuring battle ,one boy,Roger ,rolls a boulder down from the mountain,killing Piggy and shattering the conch shell.Ralph barely manages to escape a torrent of spears.

All night Ralph hides,and the following day he continues to hide while he is hunted like an animal.Jack has the other boys ignite the forests in order to smoke him out of his hiding place.Ralph discovers and destroys the sow’s head in the forest;eventually,however,he is forced out onto the beach ,where he knows the other boys will soon arrive to kill him.Ralph collapses in exhaustion,but when he looks up, he sees a British naval officer standing over him.His ship noticed the blazing fire now raging in the jungle.The other boys reach the beach and stop in their tracks at the sight of the officer.Amazed at the spectacle of this group of bloodthirsty,savage children,the officer asks Ralph to explain.Ralph is overwhelmed by the knowledge that he is saved,but thinking about what has happened on the island,he begins to weep.The other boys begin to sob as well.The officer turns his back so that the boys may regain their composure.

Many of the things in the novel used the techniques of symbol,some characters,backgrounds,stories,images and so on,all had deep meanings of symbolization.Ralph,the novel’s protagonist,a twelve-year-old English boy.Marooned on a tropical island with a group of boys when their transport plane is shot down,Ralph is elected leader of the group and attempts to coordinate efforts to build a miniature civilization on the island.He represents the civilizing instinct within human beings.Jack,the antagonist in the novel,one of the older boys stranded on the jungle island.Jack is the leader of the hunters on the island,but he longs for total power and becomes increasingly wild,barbarous,and cruel as the novel progresses.He is also adept at manipulating the other boys,and he represents the instinct of savagery within human beings.However,Simon is in some ways the only naturally “good ” character on the island.He behaves kindly toward the younger boys and is willing to work for the good of their community.Moreover,because his motivation seems rooted in his deep feeling of connectedness to nature,Simon is the only character whose sense of morality does not seem to have been imposed by society.I think Simon represents a kind of natural goodness.Piggy is Ralph’s “lieutenant”,a whinny,intellectual boy,his creative thinking frequently leads to innovation.Piggy represents the scientific,rational side of civilization.And “the lord of the flies” in the novel is actually a name given to the sow’s head impaled on a stake and erected in the forest as an offering to the “beast”after Jack’s most brutal hunt.It comes to symbolize the primitive instincts of power and cruelty that take control of Jack and his “lieutenants”.

William Golding,the author,was born in1911 in Cornwall,England.When England entered World War II,Golding joined the Royal Navy.After the war,he began writing novels,and Lord of the Flies was his first and greatest success.Although it is a fiction that tells the story of a group of English boys marooned on a tropical island after their planes is shot down during the imaginary World War III,the book’s exploration of the idea of human evil is to some extent based on Golding’s experience with the violence and savagery of human beings during World War II. In the

fiction,the boys are capable of getting along well with each other at first, but after they all encounter some troubles in their lives,they begin to blame on other boys and don’t trust on others anymore.Their desires for power and instincts of savagery gradually grow up.In the end,some of them become wild,barbarous,or even cruel,and almost forget they are humans when they kill their fellowmen. Lord of the flies reappears a fundamental human struggle vividly:the conflict between the impulse to obey rules,behave morally,and act lawfully and the impulse to seek brute power over others,act selfishly,behave in a way that will gratify one’s own desires,scorn moral rules,and indulge in violence.The first set of impulse encourage people to work together toward common goals and behave peacefully;the second set of impulses urge people to rebel against civilization and instead seek chaos,despotism,and violence.It gave readers two side of instincts,and let us to consider which way we are and which side we should choose.

Besides,the novel’s structure and style are extremely straightforward.The book manages to avoid using poetic language,tedious description,and philosophical exploration.All these made the novel meaningful that characters and objects in the book directly represent the novel’s central ideas.

What’s more, the author himself also teaches us a lesson.William Golding was an ordinary person just like us before he published Lord of the Flies,and he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature for this novel.Although he resigned his job as a teacher and devoted himself fully to writing,his following articles never again attained the king of popular and artistic success he enjoyed with Lord of the Flies,so in my opinion,if we spend all our life only to leave one works wonderful,or to do one thing well,just like William Golding,we won’t say sorry to our lives,either.Right?Only if we can have this dream well done,just focus on it,concentrate and we will succeed one day!

Indeed,I really learned a lot from this novel,it broadened my eyesight and made me think more about the society we live and the problems we will meet in the future.