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READING REPORT
A couple of weeks I have finished reading the novel The Lady of the Camellias.It tells a tragedy love story between a courtesan and a young man.Through the story it shows us the hypocrisy and cruety of the capitalism.The camellia is the representative work of the famous French author Alexandre
1.He was born in 1824 in Paris.His mother was a menial tailoress but his dumas fils ○
2at that time.He was an illegitimate father was famous as an intelligent author ○
child not recognised by his parents untill he was seven.His father Alexandre dumas made a big impact on him.He suffered a lot of pains and discrimination from his unhappy family and saw his father lived a prodigal life invovled by kinds of mistresses all his life.Thus we can find from the Ddumas fils's works that he propagated the holy of family and marriage very much and showed the sympathy to the low people.Dumas fils loved literatures when he was very young and he created many works before.But the publication of camellias made him really famous and
3and made a big won a lot of reputation.After the novel adapted into a drama ○
success on its debut, Dumas fils made himself write the drama scripts specially.4going The camellias was published in 1848, at the time of the July Monarchy ○
to collapse.The society in France was in turmoil.The governing class racked the people and intensified the class
contradiction.The nobles and the capitalists had a prodigal life while the poor and the lower people suffered a lot.The whole society turned into a base which produced the hypocrisy,coldness and crime.The camellias described a love tragedy about a courtesan called Margueritein Paris at that time.Marguerite Gautier.It was based on a real story of a courtesan○
was a poor country girl who went to Paris to make a living.She then bacame a
prodigal courtesan and devoted to the pursuit of pleasure.But actually she hated the empty life and longed for the ture love.Then she met Armand, a young, passionate, happy man who she had cried out for in her crowded but empty life.She deeply moved by his sincerity and they soon fell in love with each other.“I love you as I never believed I could love anybody.We will be happy, we'll live in peace, and I'll say goodbye forever to the old life I'm so ashamed of now.” Just as Marguerite said, she dropped the old habbits away and broke off with those old paramour.She moved to the countryside to live a normal life with her lover.Unfortunately, Armand's father, Monsieur Duval disapeared.He forced Marguerite to leave Armand in order to protect the reputation and benefits of his family.His self-fish and autocracy broke Marguerite’s dream and pushed her into a disaster--she leaved her beloved and became a prostitute again.Armand didn’t know the truth and he revenged Marguerite---he insulted her again and again.At last, Marguerite died of badly illness with several letters left,the letters which written to Armand were miserable and full of her love.From the novel I find that though Marguerite was a courtesan, she had many qualities and kept the innocence in her heart.She just like
a beautiful camellia.She sacrifised her happiness and love just for the Duval family.And though Armand'sbehaviour hurted her deeply, she forgave him.On the contrary,Armand's father, Monsieur Duval seemed like an upright,kind man, but in deed he was a hypocrite in the bourgeois society.He had many prejudices on the lower people.In the eyes of him, “every cou rtesan is a heartless, mindless creature, a kind of gold-grabbing machine always ready, like any other machine, to mangle the hand that feeds it and crush, pitilessly, blindly, the very person who gives it life and movement.” Though he knew that Marguerite did love his son very much, he still forced her to leave.And another role, Madame Duvernoy, the friend of Marguerite's, abandoned her when she found that Marguerite had no use to her.And those dukes, play-boys, which were always surrounding around Marguerite before, now ignored her when she was badly ill.They treated Marguerite just like what she once described: “We aren't human beings, but
things.We rank first in their pride, and last in their good opinion.We have women friends, but they are friends like Prudence yesterday's kept women who still have expensive tastes which their age prevents them from indulging.So they become our friends, or rather associates.Their friendship may verge on the servile, but it is never disinterested.They'll never give you a piece of advice unless there's money in it.They don't care if we've got ten lovers extra as long as they get a few dresses or a bracelet out of them and can drive about every now and then in our carriages and sit in our boxes at the theatre.They end up with the flowers we were given the night before, and they borrow our Indian shawls.They never do us a good turn, however trifling, without making sure they get paid twice what their trouble was
worth.” The creditors were only waiting for Marguerite to die before selling her up.Marguerite's unfortune was a miniature of the most poor people.Her tragedy was not caused by Armand's father but caused by the society which she lived in.The camellias impressed people by its humanitarianism, ture love and aroused a great social resonance.Its publication caused a big sensation in Paris.The debut of the drama made a great success and drew a good ter it was adapted into an
6.The script and novel were translated into opera which composed by Giusepe Verdi○
several languages and spread into the European countries.Camellias had not only made an big effect on the rise of the realism literatures, but also created agroundbreaking series of “miserable woman” in French literature.REMARKS:Alexandre Dumas fils(1924--1895),famous novelist and dramatist in France ○
in 19th century.Alexandre Dumas, père(1802—1870),the romanticist writer in France in ○
19th century.Mainly of novels and plays.Representative work: the three
musketeers, The Count of Monte Cristo.The drama made its debut in 1853 at the Phoenix phoenix opera theatre ○Venice(Teatro La Fenice, Venice),Italy.The script was adapted by Francesco Maria Piave from The Lady of the Camellias which was published in 1848.4The constitutional monarchy in France from 1830 to 1848,also called the ○
Orleanist.5Alfonsina Plessy:the prototype of the Camellias.She was a poor country ○
girl left Normandie to Paris when she was 15 and then became a courtesan.The novel was based on her real love story
with a young man.Giusepe Verdi :An Italian Romantic composer, mainly of opera.He was one ○
of the most influential composers of the 19th century.高凌云2009105027June 18th,2010。