I don't know how to express it, so I can only use this title in the end. After watching the play, I found the original book, and found that maybe due to the limited space, the drama did not capture the independent and strong character of the heroine Margaret in the original book, and several changes were not good in my opinion, even because of the expression The ambiguity of the above (or maybe the subtitle translation I read is wrong) makes the touching love in the original book changed.
First of all, I want to say that many comments said that the original author was too idealistic, trying to reconcile class contradictions, and finally the factory owners and workers shook hands and made a class struggle unrealistic. I want to say that you guys are so unfair to the author. Marx's Das Kapital was published in 1867, the original was published in 1855 and only ten years after the first industrial revolution, sixty years after the legal revolution in 1789.
After the legal revolution, there was a collective reflection and in 1835 there was a discussion of democracy in the United States. As a country that successfully transitioned to a constitutional monarchy in the Glorious Revolution, the group sought moderate reforms under the example of the legal revolution. Author 1855 The observation and writing of this book were published around 1850, when the first industrial revolution had just passed. Although the drawbacks appeared, they were not the same as when Das Kapital was published, and there was no such guidance as Das Kapital in thinking. How could the author have a revolutionary idea of solving this problem that took place more than ten years later?
After defending the author, I would like to talk about the things that I am not satisfied with after the adaptation of the series:
1. Greatly weakened Margaret herself. Margaret in the original book is very strong. I only read the book to realize that she was sent to her aunt's house in London by her parents since she was a child. She only came home during the holidays. She moved to Milton not long after she got home, and along the way, she was the one who worried about the whole family and even the first thing her father didn't dare tell her mother to move. She was the one who did it. Mr. Hale is weak and Mrs. Hale is pretentious (not that she is bad but she seems to think she is that noble lady who is always dissatisfied with the status quo) and the tough and tough person in this book from beginning to end is Margaret. What impressed me most was that the police came to her door and she was forced to lie for her brother, and then she felt that she was dishonest, coupled with the grief of losing her mother and other factors, she fainted on the ground, but after a while she woke up and got up to wash the toilet Face as if this never happened.
Moreover, Margaret is not an arrogant person. It can even be said that she is not arrogant. It is clearly written in the book that she is always considered arrogant because of her appearance, and it is written that she does not like to show her emotions. She just returned She moved to Milton abruptly within two months of arriving home, and she didn't know anything about the North at all, so she was prejudiced at first, but she quickly listened to everyone and agreed from the bottom of her heart. In the play, the banquet at Thornton's house is especially wrong to me. In the original novel, no two people debated this part publicly, only the difference between "people and educated people" was discussed in private. Margaret didn't just support the workers, she just kept listening, reading, understanding, and came to the conclusion that both parties are equal, communicate equally, respect each other, and then reach an agreement (I think this is also the author's idea)
Although it seems ideal, it was very, very rare and rare in those days to be able to ask this question to face it and see it through the eyes of a female character.
Please don't forget, this is the 1850s
So Margaret, who I admired very much in the original book, became like an arrogant and prejudiced girl for the sake of hating her in the show... she was speechless.
2. Completely distorted their love line and getting along
The play may be in line with modern tastes, and for fear that the audience could not understand the spirit of that era, it added the plot that Mr. Thornton's migrant worker Margaret had an opinion on him at first. The consequence of this is that the entire love line is distorted, and even the personalities of the two people have changed, and then the point of contact has completely changed.
In the original book, they met normally, and Mr. Thornton fell in love with Margaret at first sight. Then the point came, because of Margaret's arrogant temperament and unobtrusive character, Mr. Thornton felt that Margaret looked down on him (actually, a little despised, but it can be seen later that Margaret quickly tried to To understand Milton and Milton's people) Then Mr. Thornton felt aggrieved that he had not been treated fairly, so he involuntarily acted as if he went to Mr. Hale's house to confront Margaret with her.
This is clearly stated in the original book, and Margaret didn't realize that Mr. Thornton was an outstanding person until she attended the Thornton's banquet and saw Mr. Thornton getting along with other people to speak, and then she thought:
"When he was a guest at her house, he was either overly enthusiastic or had a temper tantrum, which made people always wonder if he was being treated unfairly. But at the same time, he was very arrogant and wouldn't bother people to treat him. Learn more."
So the two of them often fought each other at first, not in Margaret but in Mr. Thornton. Margaret is really innocent. She just acted indifferent when she saw Mr. Thornton for the first time, and she didn't let him eat! She was only nineteen years old and knew how to love, and she never thought that such a stranger who met for the first time already liked her and felt sad that she didn't leave her to eat. (Of course I'm exaggerating here, but there's something about Mr. Thornton's grudge in that passage hhhhh
And Margaret's dullness was manifested in her rejection of Henry at the very beginning, and the author wrote this paragraph specially. Even when Mr. Thornton was found strange at the Hale's at the banquet, Margaret didn't give any thought to his love for me. She just felt weird.
Even the drama that proposed marriage did not perform well. Margaret heard the conversation between Fanny and the servant. The dialogue in the original book was ugly, to the effect that Margaret deliberately blocked the stone in order to climb up Mr. do this play. Then of course she was so angry that she felt humiliated. It wasn't shown in the play, so the next day she said that Mr. Thornton humiliated her, and it seemed that Margaret was looking down on Mr. Thornton...but not at all, Margaret felt that Mr. Thornton and Fanny were the same Idea proposed marriage because she was responsible for herself. Of course, she was so angry that her noble behavior was so degraded. Her words made Mr. Thornton misunderstand and think that she looked down on herself and began to feel inferior again...
Anyway, Margaret didn't realize until after Mr. Thornton left that he loved her, and deeply (because she saw Mr. Thornton cry) and it was only then that she re-examined and gradually found her heart.
The two of them are not arrogance and prejudice at all, but a series of misunderstandings and Mr. Thornton's own inferiority and arrogance, which caused the love to fail.
After playing so much, there are still many places in the adaptation that make me feel unhappy. The conflict that is deliberately created makes two people especially Margaret not as lovely, radiant and brilliant as the original, which makes me so sad.
In the book, Margaret is even more heart-wrenching. She is young and in love, and she has encountered so many things. If she survives so strong, she will follow the line of a big heroine, so I don't find it abrupt that the final legacy will fall. , she deserves it.
3. About Mr. Thornton
Mr. Thornton in the play plays very well, and because the focus is on him, it can be said that the shape and spirit are restored to the book, but the core has changed as I said above. It may be because the inner drama in the original novel could not be expressed, so the drama was adapted, but after his failed marriage proposal, he sent fruit to Mrs. Hale, and it was "astonishing passers-by with a basket in both hands like a deliveryman", In the play, the performance is not good and the details are not in place. Including a lot of his psychological activities, are not reflected. What a pity!
Because I think Mr. Thornton in the book is cuter but more sensible than the one in the show, a lot of what he says makes sense and most of his actions are sane, as a strong contrast is when he meets Margo When Lite was in a state of chaos, such a state of chaos is missing in the play.
Due to space limitations, there are still many emotionally blunt turns in the play that are not found in the original work. For example, in the ending, I think the original is better, but I didn't write it in detail.
In short, after reading the original book, I only felt that the author was amazing, and he could write this kind of book in that era. The TV series is good, but not as good as the original. Even so, it deserves five stars.
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