La dame aux CaméliasW

Recently , I read the famous book written by French writer Alexandre Dumas,fils, which is called La dame aux Camélias .It is French name of it and you also can call it The Lady of the Camellias.And I got a lot from it and I want to share my feeling about it.

The whole story is about Marguerite,who is a kept woman in Paris in the mid of 1800s . After meeting Armand Duval ,Marguerite fell in love with the young man and even tried to flee from her questionable past ,so they left Paris and led a peaceful life.But the father of Armand thought it was a insult to let his son marry with the kept woman,so he went to Marguerite and pleaded with her for the reputation of Armand and his little daughter . At that time Marguerite also realized it was the right way to love her lover, so she went back to Paris, the past life ,and at last because of the illness ,she died in heavy debts and the regret that she did not meet her lover.

Yeah , that is whole story .After that ,Armand knew the fact why Marguerite left him and he told Dumas the story. Dumas repeated emphasizing it was a true story, but as for me it just makes no difference and I really love that story .

So, at first ,I want to talk about the main role ---Marguerite.

After reading the book, you can definitely feel the preference of the author, for example “It will seem absurd to many people ,but I have an unbounded sympathy for women of this kind and I do not think it necessary to apologize for such sympathy.”And another doubtless thing is her beauty beyond words. That was also the reason she was so popular at that time. What moved me most is that her attitude toward the loved and the hated. When Comte asked her to be her lover, though she knew she could get a lot from him ,she refused. When she fell in love with Armand ,she tried her best .

The second role impressed me should be Armand. I think he should take the responsibility of the tragic ending of Marguerite. While meeting Marguerite ,he fell in love with the beauty of her. After living with her ,he did not get a real job but lived with her money---what he thought was dirty, and he even went to gamble. And when Marguerite wrote him a letter and returned to Paris ,he chose to trust his father’s words, and thought she left because she minded his poverty, and did not tried to figure out the reasons . To some degree, in that love affair, he was not just that serious, and even without the interference of his father or her illness, he would leave her after he got tired of her .He was too young to understand what love was and how to

make love work well. He thought staying with her was loving her, so he lost her.

Actually, that story remind me of a Chinese story named Du Shi niang. But Marguerite was luckier than Shi niang ,at least Armand truly loved her. But to Shi niang ,she was sold by her lover, and after knowing what her lover did ,she jumped into river and was drowned.

And this story can be regarded as Dumas’ story. The story soon became a hit and it later was adopted as a script, and the play and movie which were based on the story also won big fame.

And in that story we can find out that love was heavily affected by money , our love affairs especially marriage are largely depended on how much money you have. For example, when two people begins a relationship, they will at the first place think about his or her possessions. It is so sad and shameful to know that even a kept woman know to treasure her love. So I hope that all young people can follow their heart and find the half that they truly love rather than find the rich people that they do not love deep down.

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第二篇：茶花女 英文简介

The story is set in Paris during the mid 1800's.

The lead heroine is Marguerite Gautier, a young beautiful courtesan who is a "kept woman" by counts and dukes -- men of "Fashionable Society". She meets a young middle class lover Armand Duval who does the unpardonable thing of falling jealously in love with her and breaking all convention of what's expected between a courtesan and her admirers. He, of course, has no way of sustaining the standard of living which she is accustomed to.

In her fragile physical state (Marguerite has tuberculosis which ) she moves to the country. There in her new house, a confrontation between the jealous Armand and her rich admirers and "benefactors" takes place. For the first time she sticks up for her lover -- making a life choice -- and they are left indignantly and alone.

Armand becomes depressed, his career seems doomed by the intolerance of French society, and knowing he will never be able to support Marguerite to the level she deserves. Unbeknownst to Armand, his father comes to plead for her to leave Armand to save both his son's reputation and that of his younger innocent sister -- whom is also tainted by the scandal. To prove her love, she agrees and leaves Armand. She returns to Paris where she despairingly throws herself back into her old lifestyle. Armand can't believe she's left and searches for her -- finally finding her in Paris in the arms of a new lover.

Time passes.

The two accidentally meet again in public. Marguerite is now in the company of a another beautiful courtesan and Armand begins "paying court" not with her but with her friend trying to strike back at Marguerite out of his own sense of hurt. Deathly ill, Marguerite visits Armand one last time to plead that he stop humiliating her, and they make love again -- both unable to deny the passion for each other. But Marguerite is haunted by guilt that she can only harm Armand and remembering her promise to his father -- she abandons him yet again as he sleeps.

Armand is incensed when he wakes. Finding Marguerite at a grand ball with all society around, he approaches her and hands her an envelope stuffed full of money – "Here! Payment for your services.” She collapses as he walks out.

Abandoned by all her friends from the humiliation of Armand act, exposed

publicly for what she really is, she dies penniless, painfully and alone -- cast off by all the men that used her.