SENSE AND SENSIBILITY

The story on Sense and Sensibility happened in the late eighteenth century, telling us that two sisters of Dashwood's pursued their love and marriage. The elder sister Elinor is full of sense and could deal with everything with calm thinking. However, his younger sister Marianne always attempt to understand the world with an excess of sensibility. They had a little sister who was too young to completely understand the passion and the pursuit of love of her two sisters. Their mother Mrs, Dashwood regarded everything as sentimentality who is very much like her daughter Marianne. Mrs. Dash wood married Mr, Dashwood after his first wife passed away. His ex-wife left a son called John Dashwood. After many years, Mr. Dashwood died of the acute disease and he left his estates and most of the money to his son. Mrs. Dashwood and her daughters didn't inherit anything. Although his son promised to take good care of his step mother and younger sisters, he didn't keep his word because of the selfness of his wife.

Sense and Sensibility build a series of diverse characters, however, for me, the most and powerful figure is Elinor. Elinor, the elder daughter of the Dashwoods, was a rational and emotional girl.At the very start, Elinor showed more sense and intelligence than her mother and younger sister. She worked carefully and considerately. She was always polite and graceful no matter who she faced. Moreover, she could permanently keep

calm and sensible when she talked with others no matter the topic they talked about. It seemed that she could do anything discreetly. In addition, Elinor is also a beautiful kind girl who was clever at discovering merit of other people. For Mrs. Jennings, Elinor always mentioned her warmth, generosity and justice, although the behavior of Mrs. Jennings showed that she was a silly woman. In order that Mrs. Jennings could enjoy herself at home in London but not receive the ridicule and indifference from Marianne, and that Marianne didn't hurt herself by overdoing anything, she accepted the invitation and headed for London with her younger sister. I think, all of these showed that she is a sane person but not showed that she lacked sensibility. By contrast, Elinor was full of emotion like her younger sister, however, she was better at controlling this kind of emotion. She lost her heart to Edward and never changed her mind no matter what happened to him. She didn't abandon Edward,regardless of the fact that he wasn't good at conversation and his behavior was prim. She loved himthanks to his integrity and tolerance. Her feeling of Edward was faithful and changeless, which proved that Elinor was rational as well as emotional. She owed a clear and lucid mind to control some unnecessary emotional impulse. Sense and kindness are the proper charm of Elinor.

After reading this novel, I think, we should have unhealthy emotion but that doesn't mean emotional reasoning.As a person, if we owed the proper

emotion and personality, and at the same time we can control it with reason and sense, we could get the true happiness.

Another two novles:

GONE WITH THE WIND the author:Margaret Mitchell

ROBINSON CRUSOE

the author:Daniel Defoe

班级：10英语教育 学号：201013061140 姓名：蔡加涵

 

第二篇：理智与情感 读后感

简.奥斯汀世界里的理智与情感

——读《理智与情感》

一直很喜欢简奥斯汀，喜欢她创造的智慧，美丽又单纯的女主角，也喜欢那个绅士，专一，富有责任感的男主角，她和他，或许经历着漫漫长路，但是故事最后结局总是美好的，就如同现实中的公主与王子。很多人说，简作品中的女主角就是简自己的缩影。找来她的生平介绍，读过之后渐渐体会到，她的文字里，有她的生活，有她的希望，当然也隐隐的，有她的无奈。

《理智与情感》是一部寓于情趣与幽默的作品。它以两姐妹曲折复杂的爱情故事为主线，表达出了理智与情感的关系，以及很多情况下，理智应更胜于情感的主张。在简。奥斯汀的时代，对情感的赞美是当时文学的主流内容，许多人都认为有无法克制的强烈情感才是优秀人物的表现，而无论这种感情是否会给其自身或其家人带来痛苦。如果想要克制或隐藏，那便是错误。而简则通过两姐妹的故事对这种观点表达了不同的看法，从书中可看出，她认为诚挚热烈的感情固然重要与可贵，但仍需理智去控制与调节，毕竟情感是感性的，任其随意发展可能会带来许多不必要的痛苦，不论对自己还是家人都会有伤害。只有同时具备理性的头脑和思维，才能避免或把这种伤害降为最低，这无疑对大家都是有好处的。《理智与情感》塑造了一系列的人物形象，各有各独特的个性，然而就读者接触最多和作者想要着重表现的，那就要数达什伍德家的两姐妹了。

书中的一对姐妹一个注重情感，一个注重理智。姐姐埃莉诺感情强烈，头脑冷静，不注重外貌，看重人品，爱上了为人坦率、热忱的爱德华。后来知道了爱德华与他人订婚，尽管极为伤心，却竭力克制自己，交际应酬，行若无事，后来爱德华先生先后遭母亲与未婚妻的抛弃，埃莉诺依旧对他一往情深，最终于爱德华结为终身伴侣，得到了真正的爱情。妹妹玛丽安则情感有余而理智不足，她聪明伶俐，多情善感，对爱情抱有浪漫的幻想，一心要嫁给一个人品出众，风度翩翩的如意郎君。三十五岁的布兰登上校对她表示好感时，因为他的年纪，她不屑一顾。这时，风流倜傥的轻薄公子威洛比出现了，她当即陷入热恋之中，但是最终还是被玩弄感情的威洛比抛弃。她悲痛欲绝，自我作践，险些送命。就如同那顿她的自述：“我自己的情感造成了我的痛苦，而在痛苦的情况下缺之坚忍不拔的精神，又差一点使我送了命。我知道，我的病完全是自己造成的，当时我明知不对，但还是不注意自己的身体，假如我真的死了，那是自取灭亡。”一字一句，让人疼惜。沉痛的教训，姐姐的榜样，使她终于变得理智，最后嫁给了倾心于她，而最没有浪漫色彩的布兰登上校，和姐姐一样，也得到了幸福。

简奥斯汀在故事里对珍重感情的人物加以赞扬，尽管对那些人在理智上的欠缺也不时加以讽刺；然而对缺少感情仅有理智或是在感情上虚伪的人，却表现出极度鄙视的态度。简最赞赏的是埃莉诺，因为她即重感情又有理智。简笔下的埃莉诺就像她自己的化身，智慧，美丽，善良，对感情抱有有纯洁美好的希望，渴望真正的爱情，而又不是对现实对生活的理智。只是埃莉诺的结局是有情人终成眷属，而简就不那么幸运了。简在年轻时曾与一位律师相恋，但由于当时的律师并不富裕，但简的父母希望她嫁给贵族或是有钱人家，而律师的父母也希望他可以娶一位名门闺秀，就这样，两人分开了。埃莉诺收获了她一直憧憬的爱情，而现实中的简却终身未嫁。与埃莉诺相似，简笔下的另一位女主角——《傲慢与偏见》中的伊丽莎白，虽然也经历了坎坷的爱情，但最终还是与相爱的达西先生走到了一起。

从她们身上我看到了简的希望，只有在童话般的小说里才得以实现的梦想。简是富有情感的，年轻的她憧憬美好的爱情；但简也是理智的，虽然她与律师相爱，但是她必须考虑自己的家庭以及当时的社会环境，最终理智战胜了情感，她选择了放弃这段感情。现实中，有些我们必须面对的事实，虽然梦想很美好，我们有权利追求自己的梦想，但是现实是怎样的，我们所处的环境又是怎样，追求梦想时，我们要放弃，甚至是要牺牲什么，我们又要理智的去考虑。如果只是不顾一切地去追求情感的满足，即使是成功，失去的必定也很多，如果是这样，梦想也就失去了意义；然而一味的强调理智又或许会留下诸多遗憾，如果年轻时从没有尝试过我们想做的事情，未免活得太谨慎，也太平淡，况且，太过理智也会伤害情感。

随着年龄的增长，我们面对的问题也越来越多，理智与情感也涉及了生活，感情等很多方面。书中作者希望在爱情上人们要理智的对待自己的情感，然而生活中很多的情绪都需要我们理智的对待。在家里，也许有许多观点与家长不同，也许被指责，也许不被理解，但是我们应该理智的想到，家长永远都是为了孩子，他们只是希望我们生活得更好，只是方式或许不是我们希望的，我们应该试着去理解；在学校，和朋友可能或有这样那样的矛盾与争执，但是我们应该理智的想到，在我们最困难时，在我们伤心流泪时，是谁帮我们走出困境，又是谁为我们的成功真心感到喜悦，在下面为我们喝彩，想到这些，即使是有不同的意见又算什么呢？绝对不足以摧毁任何友谊；在公司里，工作可能不被认可，可能努力了也仍然得不到赏识，但是我们应该理智的想到，是金子总会有发光的一天，总会有成功的一天。的确，生活中我们总是会碰到各种麻烦与困扰，让我们沮丧，伤心，生气，愤怒，崩溃，这时候我们如果想玛丽安那样不顾一切地去宣泄，那么不仅不会得到同情，还会更加不利于烦恼的消除，我们应该控制自己的情感，理智的去思考问题，而而不是变成情感的奴隶，被情感左右，以至于影响了自己的判断，甚至酿成大错。