Of course, Austen's works are also classics even if they only depict the effects of class discrimination between different social classes and wealth differences on men's and women's marriages. The reason why the pot is invaluable is all because of the wonderful paintings in it. Even if she has never been married, as a woman, Austen has experienced heartbreak, ecstasy, and heartache. She has seen girlfriends waiting for word, first marriage, and having children. Just to describe these feelings, feelings, and feelings in detail is enough to attract a generation. Generations of readers read it over and over again. Humans, even if the times develop and the society progresses, those basic emotions and instinctual impulses, such as men falling in love, and women cherishing spring, remain unchanged from time immemorial. Later people, who had nothing to do to turn the book one day, suddenly found that the emotional entanglement at the time was wandering in the writings of their predecessors, and could not help but give birth to some familiarity and joy: It turns out that I am not the only one who is emotionally troubled! Continuing to turn the page, I found that Darcy looked away from the bank with his affectionate eyes and pulled him not far from the page, and how many women did not give birth to the infatuation of "travelling through mountains and rivers to see you, this love is endless"?
Austen is very smart, and perhaps due to the limitations of his own emotional experience, the banality and triviality of the post-fairy-tale era after Ever after are omitted and left to readers to experience for themselves. so what? As long as there has been a good time in the past, who can care about the things that follow? Get over it. Take "Pride and Prejudice" (Pride Prejudice), for example, Austen arranged a vulgar priest for Charlotte in his writing, although he did not worry about food and clothing, but only limited to food and clothing. It is unbearable to meet face-to-face, and it is somewhat emotional: marriage is not practical if it is not practical, nor is it too practical.
This value-laden truth about marriage applies to every age and every couple. Finding the golden section of the "real" scale, and then finding Prince Charming and My Fair Lady at this point is tantamount to winning the Mark Six. More and more people are constantly correcting the coordinates in the process of searching, in order to approach the golden section point infinitely. In the process of getting closer, sometimes it is more difficult to rely on a single force. Most people start from reality and lead the helping hand from the opposite side, in order to achieve the miraculous effect of the husband and wife working together to break the gold. It has to be admitted that the combination of common interests and goals is mostly satisfactory, both in terms of process and results. As for some practitioners who firmly believe that "the road is long and the road is long, I will go up and down to seek it out" and would rather be alone than relying on the power of others, they are destined to complete the journey of life alone. However, this is not necessarily the best choice: in the pursuit of focusing on the process and not greed for results, all that is left behind are regrets, and all that is placed in front of you are hope.
Of course, the situations mentioned above are relatively common, and each individual with the same ending is always somewhat unique. Like Elizabeth and Darcy in Pride and Prejudice, or Margaret and Thornton in North & South.
"North & South" is
different from "Pride and Prejudice" in which the noble Darcy goes from the city to the country and looks down to see the commoner Elizabeth and then a love story begins. The scene in "North and South" is experiencing the first In the small northern town of the sub-industrial revolution, the heroine has become Margaret, the daughter of a priest who is well educated and independent in the peach blossom-like southern countryside, and the hero is Thornton, a self-made factory owner who has dropped out of school and made a successful career in the northern city. The two people have different backgrounds, different preferences, and different personalities. At first glance, it looks like the South Pole and the North Pole, and there will never be a time to meet. However, with the advent of the Industrial Revolution, the world has changed, and the North and the South are connected. Machines gradually replaced pure manual labor, and railroad tracks were slowly laid in villages and towns. Steam trains transport people, passengers and goods from south to north, even if you don't know where you're going.
The symbolism of trains in North and South is very rich: on the one hand, the unstoppable tide of the Industrial Revolution (this imagery is more explicit in Gaskell's "Cranford"), and on the other hand, the unpredictability of fate and life ——Once you get on the bus, it is impossible to predict what kind of companion you will meet, which platform you will pass through, or even which train you will transfer to. Only people with strong will, independent personality, mature thinking, and clear goals can continuously transfer up and down and transfer stations during the ride to reach the destination.
Margaret and her mother didn't know what awaited them as they rode the train north to the industrial town of Milton with their father, who had given up his priesthood. Like her mother, Margaret loves the idyllic life and has no longing for life in the bustling and extravagant city of London. At that time, my mother married a poor but talented Oxford scholar for love, and both came to the countryside to create a peach blossom garden in their hearts. Today, under the influence of the Industrial Revolution, and his father's growing doubts about his dogmatic beliefs, he quit his job and went to a city with a completely different way of life to find new coordinates for life, which somewhat represented the motives of some people at that time to migrate.
Although the father assured the restless mother that survival would not be a problem, but the standard of living should be reduced, and the mother, who was used to the green mountains and green flowers, was still extremely uncomfortable in the turbid air and polluted city, and even suffered from depression. The self-blaming father made a living by teaching, and the money he earned was barely a few cents in addition to paying the rent. Life is undoubtedly a challenge for the independent and assertive Margaret: to adapt positively like a father or to resent passively like a mother, this is the question!
Fortunately, Margaret is optimistic, empathetic but also very opinionated. Curiosity about the world around her, especially her curiosity about the people around her, made Margaret take an independent step from the moment she arrived. This independence is not economic, but it is more important than economic independence, it is the independence of personality. Because of this independence, she began to come into contact with and understand the new environment she was in, even if it seemed out of place, who said that the streets and alleys of industrial towns should be crowded with unkempt and ragged poor creatures?
An open heart is enough to embrace the whole world. Margaret met Nicholas, a chivalrous worker, and his daughter, Beti, while walking through the alleys. To make friends with people of this class, for Margaret and the class she represents, the first thing you need to pay is courage, and you also need to bear the confusion and doubts from the two classes: even if you are proclaiming that "all men are created equal" In the heart of Christians, it seems natural to accept your class and stick to class boundaries—God put you in a more miserable class, that’s what God meant.
Speaking of which, it seems a little too partial to Margaret. There is only one South at the North and South poles. Thornton, the factory owner in the North, has not shown his face until now, which is too unfair. No, Margaret went to the textile factory to find Mr. Thornton, her father's student director. In the workshop where cotton wool fluttered and machines rumbled, Margaret saw Thornton, young and vicissitudes of life, stern and almost brutish. This first impression was quite bad, and in Margaret's mind it almost became the collective image of the northern factory owners.
Thornton is also very annoyed: Miss, why are you rushing into the workshop? Why don't you just stay in the office and wait for me? How can there be a girl like you here. In fact, both sides are not arrogant, but they form prejudices. The sky is sometimes and the earth is unfavorable. How can people be harmonious? The prejudice has intensified because of the little communication and great misunderstanding between the two sides. Coupled with a Thornton woman who regards her son as her life and is always worried that her son will be taken away by a woman, it is strange that the relationship does not get worse and worse.
The situation that seems to be old and dead and hopeless will also turn around. In the early stage of the Industrial Revolution, when there was no labor protection law to follow, the contradiction between labor and capital was manifested in the form of strikes, but it was easy to stimulate and deteriorate into armed struggle. Thornton's factory is no exception, but this time there is a third party, a third party Margaret who plays the role of a mediator. If Margaret assumes this role is inevitable, there are two factors that cannot be ignored: 1. Understand the representation and needs of both employers and employees, and have the necessary conditions to act as an intermediary; Represents Thornton's unconscious love.
Yes, love is expressed in abnormal forms on both sides, or in other words, both sides have become the object of each other's secret favorite, but they cannot express it happily. Fortunately, both sides paid equal attention to rationality and emotion. In the explanations and explanations of Nicholas from the lower level and Mr. Bayer from the upper level on different occasions, the two sides finally saw the other side of each other and deepened their understanding.
When Margaret, who had gotten rid of the poetic beautification of her past life, came to the platform again, waiting for the southbound train, the northbound train brought Thornton in her arms. A yellow rose found in the countryside is a piece of heart that Thornton has been searching for Margaret. On the platform where they meet, the people who love each other no longer talk to each other; when the former enemies hug tightly, everything is silent... The
whistle sounds, let those prejudices dissipate in the wind with the steam and the long sound... …
"Pride & Prejudice
" "Pride and Prejudice" is familiar to most women. After more than two centuries, the troubled marriage story of Elizabeth and Darcy is like a dream, and she became the reincarnation of Elizabeth, saying Not sure one day it will be fulfilled in myself. I have to say that Elizabeth is both knowledgeable and beautiful and dignified. Her plump figure and ruddy face are in line with the aesthetic expectations of a good wife and daughter-in-law at that time. The only competitive weakness is the wealth index, so that they are temporarily at a disadvantage in the marriage market, and a wealthy person must show up and hold hands in order to achieve a good relationship. Of course, with Elizabeth's pride and arrogance, this rich man must be handsome no matter what.
There is a market and demand, so Darcy's appearance always reminds people of high-end boutiques (of course not fancy, fancy luxury goods), once it appears in an occasion where there are more women than men in the countryside, there will be many chasers. avoid. Elizabeth is not an old-fashioned woman who waits for "hundreds of thousands of people to find her". Darcy's extraordinary handsomeness and contempt for all beings instantly aroused her enthusiasm for conquest. In the local market full of low-end and inferior products, she did not have too many glimpses. The flash, then, why not give him a try?
Darcy, who is handsome and a lot of gold, is not pretending to be cool and indifferent. Some past experiences made him have a hard resistance to the world, like a snail, with a seemingly firm shell containing the softest inside. Rejection, refusal without reason; distance, inaccessible distance is Darcy's double-edged sword to protect himself, hurting the other side and hurting himself at the same time. Elisabeth's first attempt failed and the loss was quite depressing. A pair of enemies, in this way, got acquainted with at least one party's resentment.
Come and go without indecent! Respecting the ancient teachings, Elizabeth will of course find justice, as well as dignity and face, in the occasions when the two sides meet later. Interestingly, some understandings are more suitable to be obtained in the way of opponents, and tongue-in-cheek words are more suitable for expressing inner love, hate, and sorrow than soft words. The original Darcy's arrogance and later Elizabeth's prejudice escalated step by step. The opponents pointed to the key points, and the swords went straight to the heart. Although they looked strong on the outside, they were already vulnerable on the inside, just waiting for the opponent to bow their heads and stop.
There is always an opportunity to go down the stairs. A man takes a step back and takes a step back, and fights against a woman who loves and appreciates the more he fights, and the conquest comes naturally. The rest should be to do something for her to make up for the hard injury caused by her arrogance. Now that she already knows that I am handsome and rich enough to be arrogant, let me bow my arrogant head, put away my prickly tongue, and use my wise brain and passionate heart for her—the one who is destined to be my lover in my heart. Ladies - share your worries. Since love can't be said for a while, express it with actions!
Who doesn't have a hard-to-read scripture? Especially the Elizabeth family. Almost nervously, Mrs. Bennett, who could not wait to find a suitable son-in-law for the five golden flowers, of course had her own criteria for choosing a son-in-law, which was very vulgar and practical. Like that soldier who eloped with his youngest daughter, cheating on sex and money, it would be a shame to lose face. On this side, Mrs. Bennett prayed feebly, "God, give me a capable man to help our family!", the knight-like capable man in the other side has quietly set out on the road, smearing and painting the mutilated face with money. Oily and slippery.
Everything will fall into place. Darcy told Elizabeth with action: I love you, your business is mine, your family is mine, don't be afraid when the sky falls, there is a shoulder to support it. Facing this Prince Charming who fell in love at first sight, goodbye, sadness, and love at first sight, what else could Elizabeth hesitate to do? ——The road ahead is long, Darcy, take my hand and let us walk together...
Ever after...
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