Book Review

第一篇：Book Review

Book Review

The Count of Monte Cristo, a marvelous novel, mainly tells us how a man rewards people who have helped him while takes revenge on people who have wronged him.Edmond Dantes, the hero of this novel, was a young firstmate of the ship with very much competence, honesty and talent.Because of his talent and good quality, he was admired by other many sailors, besides, after the former captain died from disease, he was promised to become the new captain by the ship owner.The ship owner appreciated him very much and often helped Dantes and even his family.Furthermore, Danes would get married with his ravishing fiancee very soon.It seemed that Dantes was a promising man who would live a happy life forever.However, the happy time was never everlasting.Something terrible happened after all.As another sailor, Danglars hated Dantes since Dantes could obtain much more honor from others and could be made the new captain of the ship while he hadn’t received much glory, he envied Dantes’talent.And as to another man named Fernand, he lost his heart to his younger female cousin who was going to marry Dantes.Obviously, Fernand was jealous of Dantes’charm because Dantes and his cousin were about to tie the knot.So after knowing Dantes would deliver a letter from Napolen to an agent of Napolen, these two devils deliberately impeached Dantes of high treason.Unfortunately, poor Dantes was arrested on his wedding day and was imprisoned because of the procurator’s selfishness.Day by day, Dantes lived an anguishing life, luckily, he met up with an elderly priest named Faria.With the help of Faria, he realized why he was charged and imprisoned.Thus, in order to take revenge for wronging him, he learned a lot from Faria.Fourteen years later, Dantes was told there was a great deal of treasure on the Monte Cristo before Faria was dead.Then, Dantes escaped from the prison and found the treasure to help those who helped him and revenge on those who hurt him in the name of the count of Monte Cristo.In my opinion, Edmond Dantes was a true hero.Although he was very outstanding and excellent, he never felt he was more superior to others, and he always treated others with his warm heart.Therefore, he was admired and respected by almost everyone.When he was arrested and charged of high treason, at first he believed he would be released because he was innocent.In some aspects, I think he was living a life with much hope and he believed everything would be better eventually.However, when he felt very helpless in prison, he even wanted to suicide.It was the first time for him to give up and realize the society was dark.Fortunately, he met the wise priest Faria, and with his help, Dantes cheered up very fast.It seemed that he found the reason to live continuously.In my point of view, he was a man who could tolerate great pain when he had his target, it’s previous.It was because of his honesty that he never thought about other people would wronged him, so after Faria helped him analyze the reason of his imprisoning, he became very angry.But after all, when he fled from the prison and gained the treasure, he still remembered to reward people who had offered him help such as the ship owner.At the bottom of his heart, he was indebted to some people, evidently, he was still kind, and he didn’t lose his true personality.Of course, he didn’t

also forget to take revenge on those devils that had broken his former happy life, which was another true personality.Edmond Dantes endured great hardship, therefore undergoing a tremendous change from an honest and promising sailor to an unforgiving but brilliant gentleman.It was difficult, but he succeeded.

第二篇：呼啸山庄英文读后感bookreview on wuthing heights

Wuthering Heights is a , and the onlyby.First published in 1847 under theEllis Bell, a posthumous second edition was edited by her sister.The name of the novel comes from themanor on theon which the story centers(as an adjective,is a Yorkshire word referring to turbulent weather).The narrative tells the tale of the all-encompassing and passionate, yet thwarted, love betweenand , and how this unresolved passion eventually destroys them and many around them.Now considered a classic of , Wuthering Heights met with mixed reviews by critics when it first appeared, mainly because of the narrative's stark depiction of mental and physical cruelty.Though Charlotte Brontë'swas initially considered the best of the ' works, many subsequent critics of Wuthering Heights argued that its originality and achievement made it superior.Wuthering Heights has also given rise to many adaptations and inspired works, including , , television dramatisations, aby , , , and(notably thehit “").The novel is narrated by Mr.Lockwood, who also takes a subsidiary role in the action.His housekeeper, Nelly Dean, provides a secondary narrative that is embedded within Lockwood's.Lockwood relates his arrival in the year 1801 at Thrushcross Grange, a grand house on thethat he is renting from Heathcliff, also the master of nearby Wuthering Heights.Visiting the Heights to greet his landlord, Lockwood is treated rudely and coldly by its inhabitants, whose hostile relationships with one another he does not understand.Snowed in, he is forced to stay overnight, and, unable to sleep, reads the diary of a girl named Catherine Earnshaw, learning that she was a close childhood friend of Heathcliff.Later, he has a terrifying dream in which the ghost of a young girl appears at his window and begs to be let in.As he struggles to keep her out of his room, Heathcliff is awakened by Lockwood's shouts and enters.Upon hearing of

Catherine's ghost, he asks Lockwood to leave the room.Standing outside the door, Lockwood hears Heathcliff sobbing and calling for 'Cathy' to come in.The next morning, after returning to Thrushcross Grange, Lockwood asks the housekeeper,Nelly Dean, to tell the story of Heathcliff, Catherine, and Wuthering Heights.She takes over the narration and begins her story thirty years earlier, when Heathcliff, a ”gypsy“ from the streets of Liverpool, is brought to Wuthering Heights by the then-owner, Mr.Earnshaw, and raised as his own.Both Earnshaw children, Catherine and Hindley, initially resent Heathcliff, however

Catherine and Heathcliff swiftly become inseparable.Her brother Hindley continues to hate and physically abuse him, seeing him as an interloper and rival for his father's attention.When Mr.Earnshaw dies three years later, Hindley, by this time married to a woman named Frances, inherits the estate.He brutalises Heathcliff, forcing him to work as a hired hand.Catherine becomes

friends with the neighbouring Linton family who live at Thrushcross Grange, and they mellow her wild personality.She is attracted to the refined, mild, and young Edgar Linton, whom Heathcliff takes an immediate dislike to.A year later, Frances dies from ”“ shortly after giving birth to a son, Hareton.Hindley takes to drinking and becomes dangerous, at one point dropping the baby Hareton from the stairs where he is rescued by Heathcliff.Some two years later, Catherine informs Nelly that she wishes to marry Edgar Linton, as it will give her status and allow her to protect Heathcliff from her brother.Nelly disapproves of Catherine's attraction to only Edgar's physical person and status.Heathcliff overhears the conversation at Catherine's explanation that it would be

”degrading“ to marry him and leaves Wuthering Heights, before hearing Catherine profess her love for him.After realizing Heathcliff has left her, Catherine becomes desperate and is struck down by a fever.When she is moved to Thrushcross Grange so that the Lintons may care for her, Mr.and Mrs.Linton contract the fever and die.Edgar's attentions slowly return Catherine back to health, and some years later she marries him.She lives in apparent happiness for a few months, until Heathcliff returns, apparently transformed into a wealthy, respectable gentleman.Through loans he has made to the wayward Hindley that cannot be repaid, Heathcliff takes ownership of Wuthering Heights upon Hindley's death.Intent on ruining Edgar, Heathcliff elopes with Edgar's sister Isabella when he learns of her attraction to him.When they marry and return to Wuthering Heights, Edgar disowns his sister and she is abused by Heathcliff.Catherine is initially ecstatic at seeing Heathcliff again, but then becomes very ill after a harsh argument with Heathcliff regarding Isabella.They reconcile a few hours before her death,however, reaffirming their feelings for one another.Catherine dies after giving birth to a daughter also named Catherine, or Cathy.With no male heir, the Linton estate passes to Catherine.Heathcliff becomes more bitter and vengeful towards those around him.Isabella flees her abusive marriage a month later and subsequently gives birth to a boy, Linton Heathcliff.At around the same time, Hindley dies.Heathcliff takes ownership of Wuthering Heights and vows to raise Hindley's son Hareton with as much neglect as he had suffered at Hindley's hands years earlier.Heathcliff chooses to ignore paternal emotions(he identifies with Hareton's plight)so that he might continue to degrade Hareton as Hindley degraded him, thereby achieving his revenge.Twelve years later, the dying Isabella asks Edgar to raise her and Heathcliff's son, Linton.However, Heathcliff finds out about this and takes the sickly, spoiled child to Wuthering Heights.Heathcliff has nothing but contempt for his son, but delights in the idea of him ruling the property of his enemies.Cathy, accompanied by Nelly, and Linton, accompanied by Hareton, meet while Cathy is riding on the moors.Linton treats Hareton, who is , with equal disrespect and contempt as his father does, believing Hareton to be an imbecile.Nelly is appalled by the state of Hareton, remembering him as a bright, loving toddler.Cathy feels sorry for Linton, who knows his father despises him and is utterly miserable.Heathcliff uses his son to issue Cathy invitations to Wuthering Heights, but Edgar senses a trap and refuses to let Cathy go.Cathy's nature is much sweeter than her mother's and she reluctantly obeys her father.But when she receives news that Linton has fallen ill, she refuses to stay at home and hurries to Wuthering Heights to see if she can be of help.Heathcliff attempts to persuade her to marry Linton.With Linton's health diminishing swiftly, he puts Cathy under house arrest and forces the two to marry.Soon after, Edgar Linton dies, followed shortly by Linton Heathcliff.This leaves Cathy a widow and a virtual prisoner at Wuthering Heights, as Heathcliff has gained complete control of both Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange.It is at this point in the narrative that Lockwood arrives, renting Thrushcross Grange from Heathcliff, and hears Nelly Dean's story.Shocked, Lockwood leaves for London.During Lockwood's absence, events, described to him by Nelly upon returning, reach a

climax;Cathy gradually softens toward her rough, uneducated cousin Hareton, just as her mother was tender towards Heathcliff.She teaches him to read and he allows her to open up again after becoming so bitter from Heathcliff's brutal treatment.When Heathcliff is confronted by Cathy and

Hareton's love, notably Hareton's determination to protect the defiant Cathy from Heathcliff's attacks, he seems to suffer a mental breakdown and begins to see Catherine's ghost.He seemingly abandons his life-long vendetta and dies, having ”swallowed nothing for four days".Nelly

describes finding Heathcliff's corpse as lying on the bed, stiff with , with the window open and rain pouring in through it, soaking Heathcliff's body.Only Hareton mourns Heathcliff's death.He is buried, according to his wishes, next to Catherine in the graveyard, with Edgar's grave on the other side of Catherine's.Lockwood hastily leaves Nelly and on his walk home he visits the graves, noting the tranquillity of the spot, sharply contrasting with the turbulent lives of the characters.