茶花女的英文读后感
Those Beautiful Flowers
---Book Review: “Camille” I read the Chinese version of“Camille” a few years ago. At that time I was deeply moved by themain character Marguerite Gautier. “Camille” or “The Lady of theCamellias” by Alexandre Dumas, fils, is the story of MargueriteGautier, a young courtesan, or kept woman, in Paris in the mid1800s, and how she falls in love with a young man, Armand Duval,and then tries to escape from her questionable past. Unfortunately,it comes back to haunt her and she ends up returning to that lifeand dies painfully and alone, but with the knowledge that she was anoble woman at heart.
When I first began to read the book, I didnot care for Marguerite or her attitude or lifestyle, but as I gotfurther into the narrative, I realized that her saucy attitude wasa front to cover the lonely woman that she really was. She feltused, abused and unloved, until the gentle Armand Duval came intoher life and showed her that he loved her as a person and not forwhat she could do for him. It must have taken great courage forMarguerite to leave the life she had lived for so long, knowing allalong that it was probably too good to be true and would not lastindefinitely. And it also showed that Marguerite really lovedArmand Duval for she could even change herself for him. However, happiness didn’t lastfor long.
When M. Duval, Armands father, came to her, pleading forher to leave Armand to save both Armands reputation and that ofhis younger innocent sister, Marguerite saw a way to become pure ofheart, if not in body. She felt that it was her duty, because sheloved Armand so much, to do this even though it meant giving up herown happiness and hurting Armand temporarily. She reluctantlyreturned to her former life, knowing that some day Armand wouldforgive her. Sadly, she died in debt and basically alone, exceptfor her one female friend, Julie Duprat, who helped her during herillness. She had her journal sent to Armand after her death,explaining why she had made the choices she had. I think Dumasslast few lines about Marguerite being the exception, not the rulewere quite true, and I also agreed with his view that while herlifestyle could not be condoned, we as a society assume that all ofthese type of women are cold and heartless, while this may notalways be the case.
A person can make the wrong choices in lifewhen they are young, and try to redeem themselves, but sometimespast situations prevent them from changing their lives, even thoughthey desperately wish to do so. This applies to both men and womenin many different types of circumstances: involvement in crime;drug or alcohol abuse; gambling; prostitution; financial problems;poor marriage choices; etc. And this is the fact, which exists inthe whole society. As far as the other charactersin the book, I think Marguerite was right in saying that no onetruly cared about her, but only wanted something from her, the onlyexceptions being Armand and Julie Duprat. Of course, the Comte deG. and Comte de N. wanted her body and appearance. The Duke neededto “wake up and smell the coffee” and realize that she could neverreplace his dead daughter.
If he truly cared, he could have helpedher leave her lifestyle without “keeping” her himself. And lastly,Prudence was a blood-sucking leech who used Marguerite almost worsethan the men. I also think she was jealous of the fact thatMarguerite had so much more courage than herself and someone trulyloved her.Last morning, when tiding my bookshelf, I took this book out of theshelf, and a dried flower flew away from the book. It was paleblue, very transparent, with thin fine veins. a dried flower flewaway from the book. It was pale blue, very transparent, with thinfine veins. I held it against the morning light and blew on it. Thesoft breeze carried it away. Camille is just likethe camellia, she could never escape from the destiny of withering.But it wasn’t her fau< it’s because of the evil of Capitalism andthe hideousness of that society.
Suddenly, I remembered asaying: “Women are like the flowers”. Those pretty women are likethose beautiful flowers; their delicate beauty makes people feelthey are the miracle of life. However, even the God envies theirbeauty. It seems that beautiful women always have tragic endings.As we are normal persons, even we can see the hideousness ofhumanity that results in their fate of withering, we can at mostask quietly in our hearts: Where have those beautiful flowers gone?Where have they gone?
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