review of the lady of the camellias茶花女读后感

My review about the Lady of the CamelliasBrief description: The heroine of the novel,Marguerite,is a poor girl who came to Paris from rural area to make her living, unfortunately,crashed into the world of prostitution, and got into the evil habit of spending money extravagantly. She reveled day after day, however,she abhorred that kind of empty lifein her inner part and kept a pure heart. Later, she met Armand and touched by his sincere love, then they fell in love with each other and lived a happy life,which was destroyed by the appearance of Mr. Duvel, Armand’s father , by whose compellingMarguerite had to leave Armand only for the sake of Miss Duval’s Cournand. Nevertheless, Armand humiliated Marguerite with all that he could think upfor her leaving without knowing thetruth .Eventually,Marguerite died with her love for Armand.Marguerite is as beautiful as a flower,which can beeasily and reasonablyconcluded from the indirect description written as followed:on her arrival at the theatre,all the viewers and even the actor turned their heads towards her. Such a party girl (I prefer to call her a party girl ratherthan a kept woman) has an evil past and an impure body buta pure heart and a respectful soul. And there is an air of distinction rare in her kind which was further enhanced by her truly exceptional beauty.She is not like her kind who display for all Paris to see the insolent opulence of their beauty,diamonds and shameless conduct. Though she does need lots of money and lose her body for it,she is not likeOlympe,a true kept woman ,who loves money simply .She wishes for true love and happy life .She hasa good insight into the society and all her lovers,who ranks their vanity and self-respect first and hers last. To Armand,she is so kind that she saves each coin and pays her debt independently without telling him.She is extremely selfless because she sacrificed her own love just for Miss Duval’s name, who is completely a stranger to Marguerite, without telling Armand the truth because she does n’t want Armand to break with his family.Armand is a kind man, thehero,who is the only man caring about Marguerite when she coughs up blood and the only man who really feels pain when Marguerite pains. He has no much prejudice on Marguerite, and doesn’t mind her dishonored past if only Marguerite could correct her conduct. And this is why Marguerite lost herself to Armand more quickly than anyone else .However ,there aredemerits cannot be neglected in Armand such as jealousy ,narrow-mind, childishness and so on .As Marguerite once said ,his jealousy is ridiculous and rude .Because of jealousy ,he humiliated her twice, and the second oneundoubtedly became the catalyst of Marguerite’s death. He always hasdistrustof her love for him from the beginning to the end.Prudence is a typical petty bourgeois of coldness,cruelty andmoney-orient-mind in the capitalist society .When Marguerite was fit and could make money , Prudence showed her very little friendship for the sake of benefit fromMarguerite ,when Marguerite was on her deathbed and cannot give her benefit ,then ,Prudence even didn’t visit her as her neighbor.Mr.Duvalhasdeep and private love for his children ,but compelled Marguerite to leave Armand simply for his daughter’s name.Juliet is the only one who accompanied Margaret until her funeral .The Count isa gentleman, keeping friendly relationships with Marguerite, and gives her helpfinancially. And he is one of the two men who was at the funeral ,the old Duck another one .The Executive and auctioneers are typical representativesof mercenaries andruthless.My understanding about the love between the hero and the heroine: on Marguerite’s side, almost all people around her are ruthless and no one really cares about her. When she came across Armand she felt that Armandwas kind who could shed tears for her pain.Just like the original puts it, "the more sincere a young girl’s beliefin goodness ,the more easily she gives herself ,if not to her lovers ,even at last to love”. So she decided to love Armand wholeheartedly, even if Armand humiliatedher, but she also repeatedly forgave him. On Armand’s side, his love for Margaret is more complicated. First of all, he did love Margaret, he didn't care about Marguerite's past, hoping to live a normal and happy lifewith Marguerite; Secondly,his love might come from his compassion for Marguerite; Thirdly , his love might come out of his vanity and pride, because Margueriteis as beautiful as a fairy in Paris, so being her lover is glorious.My understanding of Marguerite's death: the direct cause of her death is Armand’s insults to Marguerite and the last time makes Marguerite lose faith in life and bedridden; The Indirect reason is his father’s compelling for her leaving from happy time together with Armand.From my perspective, the most fundamental reason is the ruthless, selfish, mercenary, false hypocrisy caused by that capitalist society.In such a social background, the relationships between people are built on the basis of money, lacking of love.People have muchprejudiceon such anindividual ,have no sympathy, can't accept her, even if she had escaped from evil. People suspecther true love, as Mr. Duval said “people don't know yourinner part ,they only know the fact that Armand accepted a prostitute which destroyed my family’s reputation .Take the above mentioned into consideration,the novel attempts to show the humanitarian thoughts and great longing for respect ,forgiveness, friendliness. In the meanwhile, it also criticized the cruelty and coldness of relationships in capitalist society.。