guy de maupassant was the child of an unhappy marriage. his mother has been dessccrriibbeedd as neurotic and his father as a man who sought relief from his wife in the arms of other women. perhaps the collapse of his parents marriage engendered de maupassants pessimism, reflected particularly in his stories about infidelity and failed relationships. it certainly influenced his own attitude toward women, which, in turn, affected his creation of characters in stories such as "the necklace."

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the purpose of women. de maupassants attitude toward women was ambivalent. he was one of few nineteenth-century authors to recognize and celebrate womens sensuality rather than regard it as a sign of corruption. he was also, however, devastatingly cruel to women, whether in his own life or in his fiction. he recommended that the french academy commission a treatise on how to "break decently, properly, politely, without noise, scene or violence, with a woman who adores you and with whom you are fed up" （de maupassant in steegmuller, p. 178），he scoffed at monogamy, insisting that he could not understand how two women could not be better than one, three better than two, and ten better than three.

英文读后感作文篇2

reading the aesop"s fables, this book, so i put it down, with many feeling that their hearts are always thinking about the contents of this book, which people always come in my eyes.

aesop"s fables, the author of aesop"s ancient greek, he is a legendary figure, he has written are a phenomenon of life, criticism, inspiration and lessons learned. with everyone is most familiar with, for example several fables to you.

the wolf and the lamb in this parable is talking about: the wolf wanted to eat lamb, by all means come and lamb sophistry. to expose the darkness of society at that time.

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"the necklace" is a short story. a few strokes on the outline of a woman who was attached to the upper society, asset life, but also vividly depicted the status quo of france at that time: the upper and lower into three fault, the upper society luxurious erosion, every day to dance for fun. in order to yearn for a better upper class life, do everything possible, at all costs; the lower classes were struggling to make a living and could only live by selling their labor. and madame mathilde was the middle class, the one who pursued the upper class and ended up at the bottom.

the end of the article is laughable: madame mathilde spent 10 years paying off her debts and got a diamond necklace that was a fake. it was ridiculous that madame mathilde, after the necklace had been lost, had not the least doubt of its authenticity! and when they went to look for it, they found out that the box was from a jewelry store and the necklace wasnt, and there was no doubt!

on the other hand, madame mathilde, though not born in the upper class, did not have a particularly good life, but she also had a husband who loved her, a maid who could help with the work, and she could look at her husband affectionately after supper. if you stick to it, you may have a wonderful life. but she had never lived a down-to-earth life of her own.

looking at the full text, we find that the conclusion makes us think deeply: mathildes friend hid what kind of false truth under the appearance of wealth? that night at the sumptuous ball, glittering jewels, fighting for beauty, but who knows how much truth there, how much disguise. and what madame mathilde pursues, is not just such unreal, luxury but also on the disguise of fame and vanity? indeed, the times make a person, a false society, confused society, will give birth to such tragedy as madame mathilde.

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i think there are three themes revealed in the novel great expectations.

1.women are fragile. that is not because those women are in lack of will, but that they need surviving abilities and that of self-survival and struggle against destiny. they always turn to men. that can be called “hero saving the beauty”. this notion originated in the greek tales but is still adopted successively. the only difference between them lies in the plot and structure. estella is adopted and trained to break men?s hearts by miss havisham. havisham revenges men and marries estella to an unworthy guy though pip deeply loves estella. nothing can be bitterer than see his lover married to another guy for a man. pip really fell into the despair of losing estella. however, estella suffers a lot and begins to regret for her initial choice for her spouse and begins to treasure

2.facing destiny, women are physically and intellectually inferior to men. actually it does not mean they have an inferior intelligence, but that it seems so. or we can say that both men and women have the same potential of intelligence, but women never show a lot. god creates everyone equally, but not everyone is granted the same approaches to success or achievements. women are restricted to families, which restricts

them from showing a lot. they can cook food well, which is one standard for their excellence but not the one for male. the novel goes this way since it implies the male consciousness. the ordinary intelligence of women in marriage and love is exposed completely. havisham is abandoned on her wedding day, but she keeps the room like the day she got married, while on the other hand she tries every means to revenge men. bearing these two conflictive thoughts in mind, havisham certainly fails to live her own life out of the control or influence from male.

3.the discipline for women ]. a feminist de bufuwa says: “one is called woman because she is ?made? not ?born?.” culturally woman is the product of society and the result of its strict restrictions. those women who do not obey the disciplines are not regarded as gracious or good women by social criteria, which emphasizes on families, the responsibilities for their husbands and their dependence on men. in great expectations, estella and havisham?s misfortunes are closely attached to love and marriage. they try to revenge men and but they cannot leave men. estella leaves pip, but at last she comes back to him. and havisham keeps thinking about her marriage day and her husband. so in dickens?s novel, women are decent on surface, but failed in heart.

every period has an outstanding feature, which make descendants linger in mind. to learn this novel can help us in understanding better women?s efforts to stand up. society presses public to believe that male

plays a dominant role. havisham can symbolize a feminist but what then? she needs a male accompany. her ending somewhat is tragic but estella harvests through a long time, but anyway she wins in depending man and leading a pleasant life.

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the article "necklace" tells the story of a woman who complains about her poor life and loses the necklace borrowed from her good friend in the education party. in order to return it as soon as possible, they think of the loan. since then, they have embarked on the road of paying off the debt with bitterness. ten years later, they finally finished the loan, perhaps is the god deliberately to play a trick on them, the string of necklace borrowed at the beginning, turned out to be false, the article to this also stopped abruptly......

at first glance, this article is just a piece of intriguing tragedy, however, when we are tasting again, faintly feel the author the irony of vanity, scorn and criticism, and let our product to how sorry tale, life is so fragile, a false necklace, can turn, change, easy to destroy a good prospect.

perhaps, this woman is hypocritical, vain, but, her some qualities are worth us to learn from her not to escape the problem, but to compensate, to make up for the wrong, she resolutely decided, to pay off this terrible debt, she bravely stood up, to face their own fault.

in fact in our life and feelings of the eclipse the modern new generation thought is deep inside, also the invisible on the shackles of "money talks", how many couples because the money and go their separate ways, startup the most tough time coming, but how many single-parent families have money left, give the child caused greater psychological and ideological hurt!

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“what would have happened if she hadn’t lost that necklace? how strange and changeful is life! how small a thing is needed to make or ruin us!” this is what impressed me most in “the necklace” written by guy de maupassant.

this story is about a beautiful woman called mathilde. she borrowed a necklace from her friend to go to a party. at the party，she lose the necklace and buy another one returned her friend. she also worked to buy that necklace for 10 years. 10 years later，her friend tell her the necklace she borrow her is a fake.

i think this story tell us do not be trouble of can not have something.

英文读后感作文篇7

class one student no.10 name: anna wang great expectation was written by charles dickens (1812-1870), one of the most popular writers of all the time, who created some of the best-known characters in english literature. great expectation is similar to david copperfield in that it is the story of a boy growing up.

pip has lost his parents when he was fifteen years old. he was brought up by his sister and her husband--joe gargery, a blacksmith who takes pip on as an apprentice, teaches him his trade and makes friends with him. one day before christmas, when pip went to the churchyard where his parents were buried, he met an escaping convict-- abel magwitch. pip brought cakes for the hungry man, which touched abel deeply, although he was caught by police. after the christmas, pip was invited to play with estella, a beautiful girl adopted by miss havisham. miss havisham was the richest man in the village. but she was very strange. she was dressed a bridal veil all the whole life after her fiancé left her at the wedding day, taking her a large amount of property. so she lived in the revenge and hated all the men. she treated estella as a tool to take revenge on all man. when pip met estella, he loved her, so did estella. but estella knew she was just a tool to carry out the revenge plan of miss havisham, so she pretended to be proud, indifferent and look down upon pip- a relative of a poor blacksmith, which broke pip’s heart. as a consequence, pip was determined to become a real gentleman who is in possession of money, good manners, luxurious life and a great expectation for estella’s sake. under the help of a stranger who donated a lot of money to him, pip left joe and the village, and went to london to live a luxurious life to learn to how to become a real gentleman. pip started to waste money, look down upon other poor people, even including joe, his brother-in-law and best friend! gradually, pip lost himself in the whirlpool of money, although he has had a large number of debts. as the same time, estella has become more and more beautiful, graceful and brilliant. she walked in the crowd of men and married one of them as the miss havisham’s wish, which really tore pip into pieces. and, as the same time, the mysterious benefactor of pip came out. he is abel- the escaping convict whom pip has helped. when he escaped from the prison again, he earned much money and wanted to pay back pip in that way. but abel soon was caught by police and died. the properties he gave to pip

also were confiscated by police. pip fell from the heaven to hell. he couldn’t stand it. as a result, he had a serious ill.

after receiving a letter describing the bad situation of pip, joe came to london to look after pip in spite of the bad attitude pip ever towards him. after recovering, pip realized his wrong. he decided to be a gentleman by his own endeavor. so he came back to the small village and spared no efforts to make business with his friend--herbert. several years later, pip met estella again at the old house of miss havisham. after knowing her husband has died and the real reason why estella didn’t choose him before, pip made a proposal to her. at last, the two lovers were in together and pip found his real great expectation at the end.

when i finished reading the novel, i also take consideration to the question “what a real great expectation is?” in my opinion, great expectation not means money, luxurious life provided by others, even the benefactors are your parents. it is our own dreams that we want to realize by our own efforts. great expectation may be the further study, a respectable degree, a good job, a warm family or something else. but we must know that our future and great expectation must be mastered by our own. we should working for them, fighting for them, even dying for them, whatever. only when we got what we want by our own endeavor, can we say we have had a great expectation.

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