Emma is the youngest daughter of Mr Woodhouse, the richest man in Highbury village. She is smart and beautiful, and has been well educated by Miss Taylor, a governess since she was a child. Her father's love and carefree living environment made her develop a pretentious character.
When Emma was 20 years old, Miss Taylor married Weston, a gentleman nearby, and left Woodhouse. In loneliness, Emma met Harriet, a student from the local girls' school, and made friends with her. Harriet is an illegitimate daughter, handsome, gentle and very cute. Emma tried to fix her up with Elton, a young gentleman, and made her refuse the proposal of Robert Martin, the tenant. In fact, Elton's lover is not Harriet, but Emma herself. Emma failed to arrange a marriage for Harriet. This time, she chose Frank, the son of Weston's ex-wife. However, Frank met Jane Fairfax, the niece of Miss Bates who fell into poverty in Highbury village six months ago. They fell in love and got engaged privately. Emma's interference in other people's marriages caused her old friend George Knightley's dissatisfaction. He warned Emma that both parties in love should be allowed to handle the marital affairs independently, and other people's intervention would only make things worse. Knightley spoke highly of Robert Martin and often helped Harriet, which made Harriet admire Knightley. Emma was shocked when she found out that Harriet worshipped Knightley. It turned out that she had quietly fallen in love with Knightley. Knightley often points out Emma's shortcomings, but in fact he is genuinely interested in her.
After many twists and turns, Knightley and Emma finally confided in each other; With Knightley's help, Robert Martin finally got Harriet's love.
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Little Women
This novel takes family life as the object of description and the emotional entanglements of family members as the clue to describe the family love of the March family. Among the four sisters of the March family, Meg, who is willing to be poor for love, Joe, who became a writer through her own struggle, Beth, who is open to death, and Amy, who is committed to helping the weak, all have the same characteristics of self-reliance, although their ideals and destinies are different. Described their attachment to the family; Loyalty to love and longing for affection.
What girls of all ages have to face and experience in the process of growing up can be found in this book: the sweetness and trouble of first love, the difference between emotion and reason, the distance between ideal and reality, and the contradiction between poverty and prosperity.
The story of the little woman is simple and true, but it is very touching. Since/kloc-came out more than 0/00 years ago, it has been put on the screen many times and translated into various languages, becoming a classic in the treasure house of world literature. All kinds of emotional experiences and life experiences described in the book have happened, are happening and will happen in every girl's mature process; The book advocates kindness, loyalty, selflessness, generosity, dignity, tolerance, tenacity and courage, which are the virtues and beliefs that human beings will always respect and pursue. All these give this book vitality beyond the times and the country, which is also the charm and reason why it becomes an immortal classic.
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Sense and Sensibility
The plot of the novel revolves around the mate selection activities of the two heroines, trying to reveal the ugly fashion that women ignored women's feelings and human rights and regarded marriage as a bad habit in order to seek economic security and improve their social status. The heroines in the novel all pursue equal exchanges and communication with men's thoughts and feelings, demand equal rights in social status, and insist on men's freedom of independent observation, analysis and choice. In Britain at that time, this was almost equivalent to a cry of resistance. As reflected in the title of the book, the story focuses on the contradiction between reason and emotion. The characters represented by Marianne are irrational and emotional; The characters represented by John dashwood and his wife are more rational than emotional; The characters represented by Willoughby are very hypocritical emotionally. They look emotional on the surface, but in fact they are ruthless and selfish. In the story, the author praised those who cherish their feelings. Although he satirizes these people's lack of rationality from time to time, he looks down on those who lack feelings and are only rational or hypocritical emotionally. The author finally appreciates the heroine Eleanor because she is emotional and rational. This shows the author's ideal on this issue, that is, people can't live without feelings, but feelings should be restricted by reason. Eleanor is a young girl with strong feelings and a cool head. When choosing a partner, she paid attention not to appearance, but to personality, and fell in love with frank and enthusiastic Edward. Later, it was discovered that Edward was engaged to Lucy. Although extremely sad, she tried her best to restrain herself, socialize and act as if nothing had happened. Finally, Edward was abandoned by his mother and Lucy. Eleanor was still infatuated with him, married him all her life and got real love. Contrary to Eleanor, her sister Marianne. Although she is smart, she is too sentimental, holds romantic fantasies about love, and is bent on marrying the only thrill with "outstanding personality and charming demeanor". When Colonel Brandon, 35, made love to her, she thought he was too old, so she fired him. Later, she met Willoughby, a reckless and frivolous son, and fell in love immediately. She was quickly abandoned by the other party, and she was heartbroken. bring disgrace to oneself almost lost her life. The painful lessons and the lessons of my sister finally made her rational and finally married Colonel Brandon, who had always been single-minded and the least romantic. Obviously, the author explains such a truth through this comparative description: people can't be emotional, and feelings should be restricted by reason.
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Anna karenin.
Duke Aublanc, Anna karenin's brother, has five children and loves a French tutor, so he fell out with his wife Dolly. Anna took a bus from Petersburg to Moscow to mediate for her elder sister-in-law, and met a young officer, W Lenski, at the station. W. Lenski graduated from the noble military academy and then set foot in Moscow society. He won the favor of Dolly's sister Katie with his elegant manners, but he just flirted with her and didn't mean to marry her.
Constantine Levin, who loves Katie deeply, also came to Moscow from the countryside. He is going to propose to Katie. But Katie, who has fallen in love with W Lenski, refused his proposal. She imagined that she would live happily with W Lenski in the future. W lenski is a strong man, with a Zhang Shanliang, beautiful and unusually calm and decisive face, young, handsome and charming. His whole appearance and elegant manners attracted many noble ladies.
At the moment he saw Anna, he was captured by Anna, and he courted Anna at the dance of Duke Stalinsky's house in Cheyeba. Katie dressed up and imagined that W Lenski would formally propose to her. In W. Lenski's eyes, Anna karenin is so outstanding: "Her posture in simple black clothes is charming, her round arms with bracelets are charming, and her lively and beautiful face is charming, at the dance ..."
Katie found that W Lenski and Anna were unusually affectionate, which made her very depressed. Anna didn't want to see Katie in pain, so she comforted her brother and sister-in-law and went back to Petersburg. Then W Lenski also came to Petersburg and began to pursue Anna enthusiastically. He attended all the dances and banquets where he could meet Anna, which caused gossip in high society. At first, Anna kept suppressing her feelings. Soon, Lenski's enthusiasm awakened Anna's long-sleeping love.
Anna's husband, Alexander karenin, is ugly, but he is a prominent figure in officialdom, a figure who is totally obsessed with fame and fortune. He knows nothing about the feeling of being in love. He thinks that his union with Anna is God's will. He blamed his wife's misconduct and asked her to pay attention to public opinion and understand the religious significance of marriage and her responsibility to the children. He doesn't care that his wife is in love with others. "It is the attention of others that makes him uneasy."
One day, Anna and her husband karenin went to see a grand jockey club. In the race, Lenski fell off his horse. Anna couldn't help exclaiming loudly. Karenin thought Anna was indiscreet and forced her to leave early. Anna can't stand her husband's hypocrisy and selfishness. I love him … I hate you …. Karenin considered a duel, but was afraid of death; Divorce is damaging his reputation. After careful consideration, he finally decided that "you can't make yourself unhappy just because a cheap woman has committed a crime", so he asked Anna to maintain the superficial relationship between husband and wife.
Anna is pregnant with W. Lenski's baby. During childbirth, she became seriously ill because of puerperal fever. She sent telegrams to karenin and karenin, who went to remote provinces for investigation, and hurried back, hoping that her wife would die early. Anna called karenin's name in a coma to make up with W Lenski. Karenin was deeply moved and forgave her betrayal with W Lenski.
Because of karenin's amazing generosity, W Lenski felt so mean and insignificant. Anna's love and her future are so slim. Despair, shame and guilt made him raise his pistol to commit suicide, but he didn't die. The love between Anna and W. Lenski, who came back from the dead, became more intense. W. Florence left Petersburg with Anna and they traveled abroad.
At Aublanc's party, Levin and Katie bridged the gap and fell in love. Soon they got married. After their marriage, they returned to Levin's farm. Katie is personally in charge of housework, and Levin wrote a paper on agricultural reform. They live happily.
After traveling for three months, Anna felt extremely happy, but at the expense of her reputation and her son. After returning home, she didn't go home, but stayed in a hotel. Miss her son, she secretly went to see him on his birthday. Innocent Seryosha did not spare her mother. He said with tears, "There is no one better than you."
When they returned to Petersburg, they were given a cold shoulder. Old relatives and friends refused to contact Anna, which made her feel humiliated and painful. W Lenski could not bear the desire to return to society and the pressure of public opinion. She separated from Anna and tried to avoid meeting her alone, which made Anna feel very sad. She asked, "Do we still love each other?" We don't have to worry about others. "
At a party, Anna was publicly humiliated by Mrs. Carl Tasso. When she came back, W Lenski complained that she shouldn't go to the party without taking advice. So they moved to a farm in Lenski. W Lenski wants Anna and karenin to formally divorce, but she is worried that her son will look down on her in the future. Three months have passed and there is still no news of the divorce.
W. Lenski is getting colder and colder to Anna. He often goes to the club and leaves Anna alone at home. Anna asked W Lenski to explain that if he no longer loved her, please tell him the truth. W. Lenski was furious. On one occasion, W Lenski went to see his mother on business. Anna asked his mother if she would be his matchmaker. He asked Anna not to slander his respected mother. Anna realized W Lenski's hypocrisy because he didn't love his mother.
After a big fight, W Lenski left angrily. She thinks it's over. Anna is going to find him by train. She imagined that she was talking to his mother and his favorite lady. She recalled her life and realized that she was an insulted and abandoned person. She ran to the station and received a letter from W Lenski in the waiting room, saying that he would not come back until 10. She was determined not to let W. Lenski torture her. Finally, Anna wore a long black velvet dress and let the roaring train end her hopeless love and life in front of the railway station tracks. The final result of this extramarital affair, which is unacceptable to morality and the world, was borne by Anna independently, leaving infinite sadness.
Karenin attended Anna's funeral and took Anna's daughter away. W Lenski was condemned by his conscience. He volunteered to join the army against Serbia and Turkey, hoping to die in battle. Finally, Anna, W Lenski, Katie and Levin are compared, and the completely different endings of the two families are compared. _____________________________________________________________________
Because my personal preferences are different, I just post all the profiles to you. But I personally recommend Tess, Sense and Sensibility and Anna karenin.
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