Love at the Meeting Point - "South and North"

Velda 2022-04-19 09:02:59

I see a lot of people comparing Austen's Pride and Prejudice to this work. I have to admit that in the way of love, the two works do have many similarities. However, South and North has a more realistic setting than Pride and Prejudice. Thornton is not a rich boy like Darcy, his wealth is earned back by his hard work bit by bit. What he considers is not the income of the estate or the tenants, but the livelihood and lives of a large factory and hundreds of people.

When Margaret saw him for the first time, her angular face and incomparably determined eyes were particularly special in the factory where cotton wool was flying. The first side is always the impression of instant subversion. His indifference and cruelty make Margaret, who used to live in the mild south, be at a loss. She doesn't understand and doesn't understand.

South and North, like two sides of a coin, are so different.

Thornton of the North stood firmer than anyone else, and he had to be more assertive than anyone else. The worker could not see his hard work, and he never really walked into the worker's life. So in the end of a strike, Magnet was injured, Boucher committed suicide by jumping into the river, but the root of the problem was not solved. In the second half of the show, Thornton goes to Higgins' house, who was never a ruthless factory owner. Only under the industrial revolution, under the class contradictions of exploitation and exploited in capitalist society, he can only do so. However, Thornton gave Higgins a job and let him open a canteen at the back of the factory... Those workers fell silent when they saw Thornton come in. They used to think that Thornton was an aloof coldness. The factory owner is a mean businessman who squeezes everything they deserve. But I didn't expect that, in fact, they are all the same, the same equality.

Margaret in the South is too warm and kind. She and Thornton are by no means romantic at first sight, but the delicacy and gentleness of the south and the savageness and perseverance of the north are precisely complementary in character. The various misunderstandings among them seem to keep them away from each other and bring them closer. Thornton, who was behind the window, looked at Margaret below, and he didn't need to speak, his eyes had already revealed everything. When Margaret rejected him, he clearly said twice because I love you. But the love at that time, let alone saving Margaret's reputation, was only a shallow It was the second love, and it was definitely not as good as the phrase "Look back. Look back at me" when Margaret left the North.

It was not until she left and felt heartache that she realized who she truly loved.

Changing a position is a different experience.

Thornton in the north went to the south, and felt the sunshine, pastoral fields, country roads, and small flowers in the bushes that had never been felt in the north.

In the south, Margaret arrived in the north, but it was no longer the noisy mechanical sound and busy scene of the past.

There will eventually be a meeting point between the south and the north. They may miss it for a lifetime, but they will live together for a lifetime. That train platform, combined with the beauty of countless ifs, finally kissed at the intersection of the south and the north, and took the train home together.

There is no need to narrate the later story, it will be gratifying and beautiful.

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North & South quotes

  • Hannah Thornton: A mother's love holds fast and forever. A girl's love is like a puff of smoke - it changes with every wind.

  • Margaret Hale: I wish I could tell you how lonely I am. How cold and harsh it is here. Everywhere there is conflict and unkindness. I think God has forsaken this place. I believe I have seen hell and it's white, it's snow-white.