Hamlet

In this summer holiday, I read Hamlet of Shakespeare the second time, and I think it is worth it. Hamlet is one of greatest tragedies of Shakespeare, also a classical representative work of Shakespeare.

Hamlet Wittenberg is the prince of The Kingdom of Denmark. When he heard that his father had died, he hurried back home from Germany to attend his father's funeral. However, he did not catch up with his father's funeral, actually witnessed his mother and Uncle Claudius' wedding ceremony. This had caused Hamm the suspicion at the heart, and soon he met in the royal palace castle with father's ghost at night. His father?s ghost told him that Uncle Claudius was the murder, and wanted him to revenge for him. Then, in order to revenge for his father, Hamlet started the difficult revenge course. Finally, Hamlet sent out the sword and killed Claudius. Sadly, Hamlet accomplished his revenge course at the cost of losing his lover and his own life. It is really a tragic drama.

In this drama, Hamlet is a man with contradictory. He is a man with wisdom and courage. In order to revenge on his uncle for murdering his father, he pretended to be mad and suffer a lot of misery to make Claudius keep a less look out on him. However, we can also say that Hamlet is rude and selfish, for he did not think twice before his revenge and hurt others, even the ones he deeply loved. Moreover, he had many chances to kill Claudius, but he just

hesitated and hesitated, which reflects the religious thought poisons.

In a word, Hamlet is a great and classical drama. “To be or not to be, that is a question.” is a very classical sentence. I believe almost everyone who is in extreme despair will think of that. In terms of this question, I think, we need to be brave and strong. No matter what happens, we can?t choose death to avoid it, for death can?t deal with anything actually.

Great Expectations

In this summer holiday, I read a book called Great Expectations, it was written by Charles Dickens, one of the most famous English writers. He wrote lots of wonderful novels. This book is one of his famous representative works.

If we never possess anything, we will not mind we lost something. Since we don?t want to be very rich, we will not feel despond because poor. The protagonist of this novel is Pip. His parents died when he was a baby. His sister had brought him up ?by hand?.(the meaning of by hand) His sister married to Joe Gargery, the village blacksmith. They didn?t have much money, and Pip never went to school to study. But he was often very happy .Because all of his friends are like him. It isn?t very

unfortunate to them, this is their lives. But by a chance, Pip helped a convict; he gave much food to him. Then he met Miss Havisham, a very strange old woman and she was very rich. Four years later, Miss Havisham wants Pip to be removed from his home and educated as a gentleman who expects inherit a fortune when he grow up.

After hearing that, Pip started to despise his poor friends. From then on, he became a gentleman without question at the price of losing everything. He even feels ashamed because he lives with the poor man. Pip?s ?great expectations? destroyed his life.

The title of this book is ?Great expectations” which make an impression on us that the character would have great expectations just as the title goes. But in fact this title has a tone of sarcastic on the other way around. People always like to compare with their friends. If other people have a

lot of money, we also want to be rich. If all the people around us are poor, we never mind that we are very poor, too.

I have learnt a lot from this novel. I believe the real gentlemen are not those who are rich; they should also be generous and kind. And, money may buy many things, but it can?t buy friendship and happiness. It is not worth gaining the money and social position at the cost of losing these precious things.

Pride and prejudice

Pride and prejudice, written by the well-known writer Jane Austen, is a great novel. It is also one of my favorite novels. Austen was regarded as the first author to realistically describe the common characters in common life.

The Bennets has five unmarried daughters. Mr. Bennet is a smart gentleman in the country. He loves his five daughters very much, and the second daughter Elizabeth is his favorite one. However, Mrs. Bennet is an impolite and vain woman who likes to show off. What she thinks about all day is how to make her daughter marry rich and the upper-class men. Jane is the eldest daughter, she has many merits, beauty, kindness,

gentleness and so on, which make Mr. Bingley, a rich young man from the north of England fall in love with her at the first sight. The second daughter, Elizabeth, is a very smart girl who likes reading and dancing. In this novel, Jane Austen mainly shows us her opinions about love and marriage through this character. The others are Mary, Kitty, and Lydia. This writing pictures four marriages in Bennet?s family, and the most impressive one was between Elizabeth and Darcy. Darcy was a single man of a large fortune, he fell in love with Elizabeth and proposed to her regardless of the gap of the wealth and class. But Elizabeth unmercifully refused him by misunderstanding his extreme pride. Fortunately, after a long-term observation of his behaviors, Elizabeth was finally loyal to her own heart.

The first sentence in this book is “It is a truth well known to the entire world that an unmarried man in possession of a large

fortune must be in need of a wife”. It tells us that the foundation of the marriage at that time is not emotion but possession. Then in this writing, the author expresses her marriage view: It is wrong to get married for the property, money and position; and also it is foolish if you do not consider the above-mentioned factures. So she objected to getting married for money as well as regarding it as something unimportant. She emphasized the importance of the ideal marriage and regarded the true love as its foundation stone.

What I like Austen most is his comedy talent. The tone of this novel is ironic and humorous. Austen laughs at those foolish first-class people and those vain ones.

Another thing I have learnt from this novel is: we should have a correct attitude towards pride and prejudice. In my opinion, they are two weaknesses which will keep us from pursuing love. We should not be controlled by these shortages.

 

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Reaction to “Pride and Prejudice”

Today, I will talk about the reaction to the book “Pride and Prejudice”.

This book is a great masterpiece of Jane Austen, a famous British writer, the theme of which is the choice people make for marriage partners, so is in Pride and Prejudice. Mrs. Bonnet has no other wish if her five daughters can get married as soon as possible with someone wealthy. At a dancing ball, Mr. Bingley can not help falling in love with Miss Jane because of her stunning beauty. Mrs. Bonnet is so excited that she can not help declaring publicly that she will have a daughter married soon, which frightens Mr. Bingley away. Mr. Collins, a distance nephew of Mr. Bonnet, comes to ask a marriage. And after receiving the hint from Mrs. Bonnet that Jane already has an admirer, Mr. Collins turns to Elizabeth without wasting a minute and to Miss Charlotte Lucas two days later after being refused by Elizabeth. At the same time, Lydia finally marries Mr. Wickham, though the marriage is built on the basis of ten thousand pounds. And when Elizabeth hears Darcy’s explanations and learned about what Darcy did for her, she dispels misunderstanding and prejudice to him, thus concluding the happy marriage with him.

This is a common story, a beautiful heroine and a handsome

hero，of course with a romantic love song. But if it just depends on this, it can’t become one of the world-famous books. In Pride and Prejudice, Jane has denounced the elements of marriage and society that she found distasteful. These are the conclusions of her observation of the people in her world. However in her writing, Jane has also reflected her own enjoyment in life among these people with and without their faults.

From the book, I prefer the characters of Darcy and Elizabeth. Though Darcy at first is in arrogance and lofty, he changes himself for Elizabeth. Personally, it is Darcy’s fault that he convinces Bingley that Jane doesn’t love him, thus causing the part of Bingley and Jane. And to some degree, it deepens Elizabeth’s misunderstanding to Darcy. But I think Bingley should bear some responsibility because it is his doubt to his love that leads to the part with Jane. And Darcy does so just for his friend Bingley though his judgment slips. But when he finds his love to Elizabeth, he can express his love courageously, though he is refused by Elizabeth. Besides, he offers ten thousand pounds, which became the basis of Lydia and Wickham’s marriage. In addition, he gives the military rank to Wickham, who once deceived his sister and persuaded her to

elope with him. Darcy doesn’t want Elizabeth to know such thing. He does so just because he loves her and he doesn’t want any requite or takes this opportunity to dispel Elizabeth’s misunderstanding to him. These all show that Darcy is a kind and humane man and his constancy to love.

I believe Elizabeth is unique. She owns her views and behaves properly. When Collins expresses his love and wants to marry her, she can promptly refuse. Furthermore, when Darcy’s aunt arrogantly puts forward her requirement that Elizabeth should reject Darcy, she firmly turns down her offensive requirement. From it, we can see that Elizabeth has her own persistence of love and never stop trying. Of course at first Elizabeth also displays significant pride. Though not influenced by economic status, Elizabeth is most proud of her ability of perception: although it is her ill perception which causes her to misjudge Darcy and also Wickham. When Elizabeth hears of Wickham's accusations of Darcy, she trusts the negative perception of him, and mistakenly views Darcy's confidence as conceit. Fortunately she finally eliminated her prejudice to him when she got an acquaintance of what Darcy did for her. Because they give up prejudice to each other, they can have a happy marriage.

From the story of Darcy and Elizabeth, I also learn that we can judge in the way he likes, like what we like and hate what we hate, but we should be objective when we meet external world. We should consider things roundly, not just partially. Otherwise, we easily prejudice others.