第一篇:了不起的蓋茨比書評
了不起的蓋茨比書評
作品背景是上世紀(jì)20年代的柯立芝繁榮時期,期間美國經(jīng)濟(jì)達(dá)到了前所未有的繁榮,在金錢至上的社會里,蓋茨比追求財(cái)富顯符合當(dāng)時美國民眾的想法,我想講一下主人公的毀滅及他的愛情。
其實(shí),他只是個發(fā)了財(cái)?shù)乃骄曝湥瑓s始終無依無靠、受著所謂上流階層的蔑視、排擠;黛西當(dāng)然有對蓋茨比動心,也只不因?yàn)樯w茨比能給他提供更多的物質(zhì)享受和精神慰藉,她的確有過與湯姆分開的想法甚至勇氣,但一聽聞蓋茨比只是私酒販而非她想象的地位之人時,她吝嗇的愛瞬間蕩然無存。
蓋茨比和黛西的愛情是建立在錢的基礎(chǔ)上,但這之間我看是沒有愛的,或頂多是單向。他自認(rèn)用錢便可買到舊愛的心。鐵證是,為了掩蓋自己的罪行,黛西不念恩情,卑鄙地借刀殺死了蓋茨比。
黛西的價值觀是遺忘了浪漫和純真,麻木寄生于金錢。蓋茨比的毀滅與其說是被子彈穿過,不如說是將理想寄予錯誤的對象,最終成為被利用的玩物。
他身上能肯定的也就是他的了不起之處就是能在那個物欲橫流,拜金主義之風(fēng)盛行的時代還堅(jiān)守著自己的理想——戴西。然而他在發(fā)跡前后對理想從未動搖,從未改變。因此了不起之處就在于與別人與眾不同,他們愿意為現(xiàn)實(shí)而犧牲理想。蓋茨比則寧肯為理想而放棄現(xiàn)實(shí)。
作者以小窺大,用悲劇的愛情折射出美國夢的破滅,也隱晦地諷刺了上層社會貪婪而腐朽的本質(zhì)。一個在“美國夢”里忠于理想、被欺騙利用而不自知的小人物就是蓋茨比。
第二篇:了不起的蓋茨比 英文書評
The Great Gatsby
Reading experience:
I start to read the book about 3 weeks ago ,At first, I searched some information about the author from the Internet, then glanced the basic content of novel, When I read the several chapters ahead of the novel, I feel it was so boring , the complex relationship would kill me.When I nearly finished the novel, everything was suddenly enlightened.Information about this novel:
The novel is told us the story of Gatsby by Nick’s tone.Nick came to New York from his hometown the America Middle West, and he rent a small house nearby Gatsby’s luxurious mansion where hold a grand banquet every night.The story began with the meet between Nick and Gatsby.And Nick had an exploratory interest to Gatsby and understood that there was a lost love in Gatsby’s deep heart.Gatsby and Daisy loved each other when Gatsby was young, but because of Gatsby’s poor family they were broken up.Then G.joined the First World War.While Daisy was married to Tom who was a rich dandy, but her marriage was not happy because Tom had a mistress.Therefore, the material couldn’t satisfy her spiritual empty.Gatsby was very painful and he believed that Daisy betrayed the pure heart for the money, so he resolved to be a man of wealth and a few years later he managed it.What’s more, in the opposite direction of Daisy’s house Gatsby built a mansion.In order to attract Daisy and aroused the lost love, Gatsby spent money like water.Nick was moved by Gatsby’s passion of love, so he visited to his young female cousin Daisy and told her Gatsby’s mind.Then Gatsby made date with Daisy, often.Finally, Gatsby found Daisy’s vanity, vulgar and selfish.Gatsby’s pink dream finally broke up, but he still insisted it, still retained any illusion about Daisy, and even led to his tragedies.One day Daisy was in a drunken driving Gatsby’s car ran over and caused an accident that killed Tom’s mistress, and she planned a plot with Tom to put the crime to Gatsby.It led to the mistress’ husband shot Gatsby.Gatsby died, only his father and Nick attended the funeral.Nick witnessed the virtual mood of human reality.At the end, Nick backed to his hometown with a tragedy mood.Introduction of the author:
The Great Gatsby is written by F.Scott Fitzgerald, who was born in1896 and died in Hollywood in 1940, and grew up in St.Paul, Minnesota.He is the most important representative of the “Jazz Age”.He published the novel Tender is the Night, Paradise, the Last Tycoon and so on;and published over 160 short novels, for instance, Benjamin’s Fantasy Trip, Ice Palace, Winter Dream and so on.The twentieth century, the United States academic community selected 100 the best novels in the river of English literature.The Great Gatsby and Tender is the Night are the list.And The Great Gatsby is second.He first published The Great Gatsby on April 10, 1925, a story set in Island’s North Shore and New York City during the summer of 1922.Impression on the novel:
After reading the novel, I was deeply shocked by Gatsby’s persistence,dream, and his miserable ending,and impressed more about the “Jazz Age”.In American history, maybe“ it was the best of times, it was the worst of times, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way”.The Gates ratio is the 20's models American youth,he was young and full of passion to realize all his dreams ,which could have been a perfect character in any times.However, he was poor,and this,which made him become a tragic character, also was the focus in that age-“Jazz Age”.Gates compares in order to pursue the black eyebrow coloring alizarin red to exhaust own sentiment and the ability and wisdom, finally ruined own life.“There was a faint,barely perceptible movement of the water as the fresh flow from one end urged its way toward the drain at the other.With little ripples that was hardly the shadows ofwaves ,the laden mattress moved irregularly down the pool.”A hopeless ending indicates that the most beautiful dream in that age was eventually
destroyed by the reality,the social.We can clearly know that Daisy did not choose Gatsby although he had become much more affluent than Tom ,but choose her previous life-living with Tom,it may be a bad choise,but it was really the decision made by Daisy herself,a selfish, disingenuous and vain girl,the girl which Gastby always loved and was willing to pay everything he has for ,even she betrayed more than once,and this can be inferred when Gastby showed his love and she hesitated.Shutting the book,I am deep in thought.The author tries to describe the social,the so-called up class ,the so-called prosperous country,and certainly the shattered“the American dream”.In my opinion,the author not only wants to attack the luxury and hypocrisy of the classes,but also to appeal to people to pursue true love,not the greed of money and
hypocrisy,although this book has a desperate ending.
第三篇:了不起的蓋茨比 英文書評
The whole story of The Great Gatsby is set on Long Island in New York City from spring to autumn in 1922.With the narration of Nick Carraway, the reader is taken into the extravagant and glittering life of American upper class and dizzying, narcissistic wealth,(Guy Reynolds, 1993: VI)to encounter some typical person of that age.Jay Gatsby, the hero of this novel, represents those dream-pursuing people only finds that it is all illusion.The tragedy of Gatsby is also the tragedy of Fitzgerald as well as American society.With the realistic and even sardonic description, the novel represents us the theme of the disillusion of American Dream.Just as the Great Depression in 1930s ended the prosperous and flashy “Roaring Twenties”, the failure of Gatsby at last represents us that the so-called American Dream is a pseudo image.Although Gatsby lived a seemingly luxurious life, he never
Gatsby is a victim of his era and society.The American Dream encourages people from generation to generation to pursue physical wealth and keep spiritual purity at the same time.They consider money as a simple method and tool in one?s way to success.But the valuable things you lost during your money-accumulation progress can never be regained no matter how wealthy you are afterwards.The main contradiction of the American Dream is the difference between reality and ideality.People who want to pursue the dream must face the cruelty and ruthlessness of the society.Gatsby fails, so do most of other pursuers.Gatsby?s whole life is originate in dream and ruined by dream, it is his American Dream that makes him succeed and destroyed, died pathetically in the end.This is the tragedy of Gatsby and tragedy of the American society.
第四篇:了不起的蓋茨 書評
《了不起的蓋茨比》講訴的是一個關(guān)于執(zhí)著追求和夢想幻滅的故事。主人公詹姆斯卡茲本是北達(dá)科他州的一個貧窮的農(nóng)家子, 自幼開始模仿富蘭克林, 夢想日后做個出人頭地的大人物。他經(jīng)過一番自我努力, 終于步步高升, 成為一個有錢有勢的人, 并更名為杰伊#蓋茨比。他在肯塔基州一個軍訓(xùn)營里任青年少尉時,第一次有機(jī)會步入美國的上流社會結(jié)識了南方的大家閨秀黛西費(fèi)。自那時起, 他便夢想著娶她為妻, 卻被派遣到法國, 他的黛西嫁給了來自芝加哥的大富翁湯姆#布坎楠。蓋茨比退役歸來, 依然熱烈追求黛西,為了圓他多年的愛情夢, 在長島西卵買下了一幢豪華宅第, 與住在東卵的布坎楠夫婦隔海灣相望,豪擲千金舉辦豪華氣派的宴會, 以迎合黛西的物質(zhì)要求。然而 , 蓋茨比最終將自己葬送給了幻滅的夢想。
女主人公黛西, 人如其名,一面是個美麗魅惑如花朵般的女子,惹人憐愛;一面是個追求奢華生活的物質(zhì)女郎,外表純潔內(nèi)心貪婪。(Daisy是“雛菊”的意思,雛菊花瓣潔白而花蕊是黃色的)“她的臉龐憂郁而美麗,臉上有明媚的神采,有兩只明媚的眼睛,有一張明媚而熱情的嘴,但是她聲音甲有一種激動人心的特質(zhì),那是為她傾倒過的男人都覺得難以忘懷的:一種抑揚(yáng)動聽的魅力,一聲喃喃的“聽著”,一種暗示,說她片刻以前剛剛干完一些賞心樂事,而且下一個小時里還有賞心樂事。”小說中的出場展現(xiàn)出黛西作為大家閨秀的令人著迷的獨(dú)特魅力。但隨著情節(jié)發(fā)展,黛西逐漸顯露了膚淺、庸俗的一面,深愛她的蓋茨比看得最為清楚“Her voice full of money。”她那種對自己所擁有的一切物質(zhì)財(cái)富理所當(dāng)然的想法和物質(zhì)的欲望使他在本質(zhì)上和Tom并沒有區(qū)別,自私、貪婪、扭曲。
男主人公蓋茨比,一個勇敢執(zhí)著的追夢人,一個最愚昧的偉大者。故事的開頭,他是個神秘而慷慨的紳士,彬彬有禮,氣度不凡,在新興的富人區(qū)別墅舉行開放式豪華派對,所有人都聽過他的名字,所有人都去過他的派對,關(guān)于他的流言各式各樣,但卻好像沒有人真正見過他。直到尼克的到來,才揭開一段癡情守候的真相:“他等了整整五年,買下那座華廈,把星光施舍給那些想來就來、想去就去的飛蛾——他費(fèi)了這么多心血,只是為了能夠在某天下午,到一個陌生人家里“坐坐””。來來去去的飛蛾不僅是那些庸庸碌碌及時行樂的俗人,也是為了愛情奮不顧身飛蛾撲火的蓋茨比他自己。問世間情為何物,直教人生死相許。葬禮上父親的追憶描繪出年輕的G是如何的朝氣蓬勃,奮發(fā)進(jìn)取,他相信只要不斷努力就能夠過上自己想要的生活,但是冰冷的現(xiàn)實(shí)是殘酷的。“他第一次見到黛熙家碼頭末端的綠燈時,肯定也感到萬分驚喜。他走過漫漫長路才來到這片藍(lán)色的港灣,肯定覺得夢想已經(jīng)離得非常近,幾乎伸出手就能夠抓得到。他所不知道的是,夢想已經(jīng)落在他身后,落在紐約以西那廣袤無垠的大地上,落在黑暗夜幕下連綿不絕的美國原野上。”菲茨杰拉德這樣總結(jié)這個時代的特點(diǎn):“一切神明統(tǒng)統(tǒng)死光,所有戰(zhàn)爭都已打完,對人的一切信念完全動搖。”等級制度森嚴(yán)的社會吞沒了人性,蓋茨比終究被虛幻的美夢葬送自己,但正是他一人挑戰(zhàn)時代的精神成就了他的偉大,喚醒每個沉睡靈魂的共鳴,映射著每個時代里面每個小小的不甘平庸的我們。
小說中的尼克是個特殊的人物。書的首句就是他的獨(dú)白“每當(dāng)你想要批評別人的時候,要記住,這個世界上并不是所有人,都有你擁有的那些優(yōu)勢。我現(xiàn)在仍然唯恐錯過什么東西,如果我忘記(如同我父親帶著優(yōu)越感所暗示過的,我現(xiàn)在又帶著優(yōu)越感重復(fù)的)每個人的基本道德觀生而不同,不可等量齊觀。”在全書中,尼克像一只蹺蹺板的支點(diǎn):社會地位上,他屬于落沒的上流社會;思想品德上,他擁有未被腐壞的善良;個人追求上,他有搖擺在利益與理想之間。他既置身其中, 又置身其外。但隨著小說情發(fā)展 , 尼克最初的中立態(tài)度有所變化。尼克最后一次與蓋茨比分別時, 他喊到 :“他們是一幫混蛋, 他們那一大幫子放在一起還比不上你。”他終于說出了對蓋茨比說過的唯一一句好話。克最后總結(jié)了布坎南夫婦之流的本質(zhì) :“他們是粗心大意的人 ———他們砸碎了東西 ,毀滅了人, 然后就退縮到自己的金錢或者麻木不仁或者不管什么使他們留在一起的東西中,讓別人去收拾他們的爛攤子。”雖然尼克后來逐漸傾向于蓋茨比所代表的價值觀, 但由于人生追求各不相同 ,他們之間也有天壤之別 ,他始終游離于主要人物的恩怨之外。
在翻開書之前,我以為這是一個講述主人公如何叱詫風(fēng)云,如何情場得意。讀完后卻發(fā)現(xiàn)這種“偉大”并不是指做出的貢獻(xiàn)和表現(xiàn),而是靈魂的偉大。合上書本,最后一句話縈繞在我耳邊。“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” 無論身處哪個時代,我們都要像被命運(yùn)的潮涌不斷向后推擠,偏離我們想要抓住的綠光,在夢想幻滅的社會,當(dāng)美麗的理想被冷酷的現(xiàn)實(shí)所粉碎 , 天真的愛情被金錢所腐蝕,到底如何才能得到幸福的生活。“在甜蜜的夢鄉(xiāng)里,人人都是平等的,但是當(dāng)太陽升起,生存的斗爭重新開始時,人與人之間又是多么的不平等。”(《總統(tǒng)先生》,人身而平等卻又不平等,也許上帝對我們唯一公平的地方就在于讓每個人都經(jīng)歷不平等。而蓋茨比他是真正以夢為馬一路披荊斬棘的人,他當(dāng)然了不起。有時候,我們也只能成為索福克羅斯筆下的俄狄浦斯,經(jīng)受命運(yùn)的嘲弄,卻還不斷反抗者無法反抗的人生,也像海明威筆下的圣地亞哥,即使賭上一切奮力拼搏,也只能從**和鯊魚的夾攻下帶回一尾魚骨頭,但我們肯定能夠得到別的一些什么,所以,盡情享受沒有的答案的人生吧。
第五篇:了不起蓋茨比讀后感
《了不起的蓋茨比》〉
摘要: 《了不起的蓋茨比》是美國現(xiàn)代小說史上的經(jīng)典之作。在許多場景中,女主人公黛西的形象和性格是通過她的話語,而不是她的行為體現(xiàn)出來的。深入分析她的話語特征有助于理解這一人物形象以及她和其他人物之間微妙的關(guān)系,揭示黛西玩世不恭的人生態(tài)度是導(dǎo)致蓋茨比的愛情夢想破滅的重要原因。
關(guān)鍵詞: 《了不起的蓋茨比》;黛西;
話語《了不起的蓋茨比》是美國現(xiàn)代小說的先驅(qū)之一,弗·司各特·菲茲杰拉德的杰作。作為一部現(xiàn)代小說藝術(shù)的精品之作,《了不起的蓋茨比》自出版以來一直受到讀者與文學(xué)批評界的好評。著名詩人兼文學(xué)評論家 T.S.艾略特稱該小說為“美國小說自亨利·詹姆斯以來邁出的第一步”[1]。小說以美國二十世紀(jì)二十年代,即第一次世界大戰(zhàn)后青年一代紙醉金迷的狂歡為背景,描述了主人公蓋茨比的美國夢的破滅。在許多場景中,女主人公黛西的形象和性格是通過她的話語,而不是她的行為體現(xiàn)出來的。因此分析她的話語,對于理解這個人物以及她和其他人物之間微妙的關(guān)系具有重要意義。小說語言的一個顯著特征是尋求人物語言的個性化。語言是心靈的窗戶,讀者往往通過人物之間的對話來認(rèn)識和評價小說中形形色色的人物性格。小說中的人物和現(xiàn)實(shí)生活一樣,在特定的場合,出于特定的意圖,對特定的傾聽者說話。因此在分析小說語言的時候,不僅要注意他們說話的內(nèi)容,還要注意他們在交談過程中所扮演的不同角色關(guān)系。根據(jù)現(xiàn)代語言學(xué)理論,話語分析不應(yīng)局限于孤立的句子結(jié)構(gòu)的層面,應(yīng)將話語置于更大的語言環(huán)境中加以考察,從而闡釋其真實(shí)的話語意圖和產(chǎn)生的效果。[2]在《了不起的蓋茨比》中,女主人公黛西和其他人物之間的對話占據(jù)了大量篇幅。分析她的對話能夠更加深入地了解她的性格特點(diǎn)。小說開篇有這樣一個場景,在黛西家,小說中的四個主要人物(即黛西、黛西的丈夫湯姆、黛西的好朋友喬丹·貝克、黛西的遠(yuǎn)房表兄尼克)一起共用晚餐,他們之間有這樣一段對話:“Look!” She complained;“I hurt it.”---《了不起的蓋茨比》中黛西的話語特征□西華大學(xué)外國語學(xué)院夏萬碧棄。在生活實(shí)踐中要不斷調(diào)整心態(tài),磨練意志,優(yōu)化性格,形成熱愛生命、樂觀向上的人生態(tài)度。相信,只要鎖定目標(biāo),努力奮斗,幸福就會來敲你的門。
三、勇于擔(dān)當(dāng)責(zé)任在看完《當(dāng)幸福來敲門》,我一直在思考支撐克里斯·加納突破艱難險阻的動力究竟是什么?我想應(yīng)該是責(zé)任,對家人的責(zé)任,對兒子的責(zé)任。正因?yàn)閷鹤拥呢?zé)任,使克里斯能夠戰(zhàn)勝如此惡劣的環(huán)境,最后贏得事業(yè)的成功!在這部片子中,攝影機(jī)的鏡頭從一群坐在跑車?yán)锉捡Y在街道中的年輕人轉(zhuǎn)向了教堂門口一條長長的等待救濟(jì)的隊(duì)伍,隊(duì)伍中有克里斯和他的兒子。鏡頭從隊(duì)伍的這頭慢慢移到了那頭,現(xiàn)代化的轎車一輛又一輛從鏡頭前駛過,與人流形成了鮮明的對比,穿著西裝的克里斯在隊(duì)伍里顯得十分刺眼。他的穿著應(yīng)與那些高檔轎車和摩天大廈相匹配,而他卻如此不和諧地出現(xiàn)在待救濟(jì)的隊(duì)伍中。其實(shí),這并不是克里斯一個人的特例,而是在大蕭條情況之下一部分美國人的情況,諷刺而又令人感到心酸。攝影機(jī)總是帶有指向性的,把人們帶到拍攝者所處的場景中。克里斯在影片中有多次跑步的場
景,正如題中的“追求”所說的那樣,克里斯一直在為生活奔跑著。為了搶回被賣藝者拿走的掃描儀,他奮力奔跑;由于沒有足夠的錢,為了能逃掉出租車的費(fèi)用,他盡力奔跑;為了能準(zhǔn)時參加面試,他也不顧一切地跑;為了能爭得收容所的一個床位,他還是在跑,奔跑成了他追求幸福的方式更是他勇于擔(dān)當(dāng)責(zé)任的縮影然而你無法取笑這樣一個男人,即使他最落魄的時候,他都沒有放棄做為男人的責(zé)任,他高大的身軀永遠(yuǎn)是孩子心中一堵永不會垮掉的防護(hù)墻,“永遠(yuǎn)不要說你自己不行,也不能讓人家說你不行,那些自己不行的人才往往說你不行,”這句話如果是一個成功者向你說的可能就是做秀,但是說句話的這個人,此刻潦倒不堪,因?yàn)橥锨仿灭^的租費(fèi),剛被房東掃地出門。這樣的男人頂天立地,注定要成就一番偉業(yè),在通往成功的道路上,沒有任何可以倒下的地方,責(zé)任,至始至終都象一面迎風(fēng)招展的旗幟,指引著不肯倒下的人們奮勇前進(jìn)。余秋雨先生在一所大學(xué)演講的時候,一個學(xué)生舉手提問,魅力男士最應(yīng)具備的素質(zhì)是什么? 余秋雨回答:責(zé)任。責(zé)任讓人堅(jiān)強(qiáng),責(zé)任讓人勇敢,責(zé)任也讓人知道關(guān)懷和理解。因?yàn)槲覀儗e人負(fù)有責(zé)任的同時,別人也在為我們承擔(dān)責(zé)任。無論你所做的是什么樣的工作。只要我們能認(rèn)真地勇敢地?fù)?dān)負(fù)起責(zé)任,我們所做的就是有價值的,我們就會獲得尊重和敬意。有的責(zé)任擔(dān)當(dāng)起來很難,有的卻很容易,無論難與易,不在于工作的類別,而在于我們。在這個世界上,每一個人都扮演了不同的角色,每一種角色又都承擔(dān)了不同的責(zé)任,從某種程度上說,對角色飾演的最大成功就是對責(zé)任的完成。正是責(zé)任,讓我們在困難時能夠堅(jiān)持,讓我們在成功時保持冷靜,讓我們在絕望時懂得不放棄,因?yàn)槲覀兊呐蛨?jiān)持不僅僅為了自己,還因?yàn)閯e人。