《小妇人》优秀英文读后感作文
《小妇人》的作者是美国的女作家路易斯.梅.奥尔科特，《小妇人》讲述了马奇一家四姐妹的故事。下面是小编为大家整理收集的《小妇人》优秀英文读后感作文，欢迎大家阅读!
《小妇人》读后感：Laurie or Bhaer?
1. What ‘Little Women’ Taught Me About Love
by Lilit Marcus
当我再次翻开《小妇人》这本书，开始理解乔的选择时，我真正成为了一个成年人。
How do you know when you’ve become an adult? Sure, you could say “on my eighteenth birthday, becau that is the day I reached the age of legal majority,” but being an adult and feeling like an adult are two very different things. Here’s the moment when I felt like an adult: when I reread Little Women for the umpteenth time and finally understood why Jo cho Professor Bhaer over Laurie.
Like most little girls who want to be writers when they grow up, I loved Jo unfailingly. And even though I knew the story by heart, I still cried anew every time Beth died, as if perhaps on the next reading she’d finally make it. But I also adored Laurie, his wild days in Europe only adding to his mystique, and was convinced that he and Jo were soulmates. I viewed Bhaer – old, boring Bhaer – as Jo’s Plan B. I’m pretty sure that my huge crush on Christian Bale (who played Laurie to Winona Ryder’s Jo in the 1994 film version) also had something to do with this preference.
However, when I reread the book in my early 20s, something emed to snap. I was just out of yet another relationship with a guy who was exciting but created more drama than he was worth. Bhaer appeared to me in an entirely new t of colors: he wasn’t old, he was distinguished. And unlike Laurie, who still idealized the version of Jo who existed in his head, Bhaer saw Jo as a real, live woman. Laurie is the kind of boy we love when we are young; Bhaer is the kind of man we love when we are grown up. Once I read Little Women‘s two quels, Little Men and Jo’s Boys, about the boys’ school Jo and Bhaer open and run, I saw even more that Jo and her husband had a partnership. They both co
ntributed to the marriage. Bhaer not only loved Jo as she was, he inspired her to become a fuller person – reading, learning, and growing into adulthood. Considering that Little Women was published in 1868 (that would be 142 years ago today, actually), it’s even more revolutionary that Louisa May Alcott was able to show a true marriage of equal partners.
While it may em romantic to be put up on a pedestal, it ultimately gets really hard to climb down from there once in a while. It’s wonderful to have a Laurie for awhile, but it can’t last forever. Recently, a friend of mine broke up with a guy she’d been dating who “treated her like a character in a Jane Austen novel.” While it was flattering to be treated like a delicate glass doll for awhile, it made it hard to be in a practical relationship. People in a relationship can – and should – call each other beautiful. But sooner or later they also have to talk about where they’re going to live, whether they’re going to have kids, and who turn it is to take out the trash. Having tho kinds of conversations with the person you love doesn’t make your star-crosd courtship less romantic, but it does mean that you two e each other as full, complicated people, instead of one-dimensiona
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2. On Jo and Professor Bhaer
by Jennifer R. Hubbard
One of the most controversial pairings in classic children's literature is that of Jo March and Friedrich Bhaer in Louisa May Alcott's Little Women. I often e people lamenting the fact that Jo didn't end up with Laurie, her childhood friend, but instead fell for a much older professor.
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I've pondered whether this disappointment on the part of readers is a result of some flaw in the writing, or is it just that women's expectations of marriage have changed over the decades since Little Women was first published? Or was Alcott's idea of a successful marriage just different from that of her readers?
The reasons that Jo accepts Prof. Bhaer and not Laurie are clearly articulated in the text of Little Women. While Jo and Laurie have great fun together, they also fight frequently. A
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dditionally, Laurie is handsome, accomplished and wealthy; he enjoys music and ems to enjoy the social life. Jo is more of an introvert; social obligations bore her and make her feel awkward. When Laurie propos, Jo answers, "'I'm homely and awkward and odd and old, and you'd be ashamed of me, and we should quarrel,--we can't help it even now, you e,--and I shouldn't like elegant society and you would, and you'd hate my scribbling, and I couldn't get on without it, and we should be unhappy, and wish we hadn't done it, and everything would be horrid!'"
Jo's answer should plea the modern reader to this extent: She knows herlf. She es the points of incompatibility between herlf and Laurie, how their respective needs would not mesh, and she has no desire to spend her life trying to become what she is not. This view is conded by her mother, who says, "'You are too much alike and too fond of freedom, not to mention hot tempers and strong wills, to get on happily together, in a relation which needs infinite patience and forbearance, as well as love.'"
大理古城介绍>新方法This is where I think today's audiences are disappointed: they want passion. "Infinite pati
ence and forbearance" are not nearly as exciting, even if Mrs. March is right about their necessity in a marriage. Jo and Prof. Bhaer have a quiet love. They start as friends; they have a mutual respect and enjoy each other's company. Their affection is more the tender, steady sort. As a reader, I confess that I like the Jo-Bhaer match a lot more than many other Little Women fans do. (In the interests of full disclosure, I'll say that I also married someone veral years older than I, but since we both act like teenagers a good deal of the time, it's rather different from Jo's match.) I happen to agree with Jo and Mrs. March that lifetime commitment requires more than just sparks, and I have a hard time eing Jo and Laurie being happy together beyond the honeymoon.
