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You think you know a story, but you actually know how it ends. To get to the heart of the story, you have to go back to the beginning.Charles Dickens would like to be the person who arched for the true beginning for the sake of his children. We can learn it from the title of the book. Having finished reading, we boldly suppo that the book was specialized for the children aged 13 to16. Becau it disclos large amount of bloody wars, fatuity noblemen, licentious court, ugly heart of people and so on.
In the contrast of the historical works between the west and the east, we find that ldom did Chine people dare to say the true fact about our own ancients as Dickens did. He could reduce veritable figure of the historical characters as if he had ever been their good friends. We learn from him that what we have ever known and thought would not probably true. The access of our approach to the truth is so limited that we should ek after it untiringly.
For example, Joan of Arc, who is widely believed to have helped the French prince to get th
e crown and expel English army away with God’s order, has been commemorated by French people for ages. They even esteem her as their goodness and soul-guide. Nevertheless, the fact is astonishing. She was only an ordinary 20-year-old girl from a small village. What’s more, she was actually a patient with delusional disorder, always perplexed by auditory hallucinationand illusion about God’s persuasion and order, which convinced her that she had the mission to help the prince and save the nation. She laid emphasis三文鱼头豆腐汤 on all of this resulting in the villagers’ trust. Then, they collected their money to nd Joan to Prince决定近义词’s. Thereafter, her unquestioning brave helped her win the trust and admiration of the whole army and guided them to beat their enemy. They called her “holy virgin”.
Even so, we can’t clear aware whether all above is adapted by Dickens who kept a foothold as a patriot. After all, he wasn’t on the behalf of France but England.
Another example is Henry VIII. His being big, tall, heroic, and full of valor and vigor21点玩法 couldn’t reduce Dickens劝慰的近义词’ aversion to him at all. In spite of the fact that Henry managed to
combat with the Pope even the whole Catholic Church, Dickens still gave him the worst evaluation among all the monarchs as “one of the most detestable villains that ever drew breath”. The book tells us, all of his merits and achievements were out of his own lfish motives to divorce from his first wife, Katherine of Aragon, and marry his mistress Anne Boleyn. He prevailed on this ca, but his love can never last long. He fell in love with the new and loathed the old again and again, in total experiencing six marriages all his lifetime, two of which ended up with killing the Queen by his order.
Elizabeth I, who is the only daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, as we all know, was one of most successful female monarchs in the world. Smart, beautiful, firm and persistent as she was, she was still mysterious. She hadn’t got married in her life. She was merely a woman, but she made Spain, France and Roman Empire dread活力英语 her in that her military beat invincible fleet of Spanish Armada. Dickens’ comment on her is very objective. “I think the truth is冬天怎么保养皮肤 , that she was not half so good as she has been made out, and not half so bad as she has been made out. She had her fine qualities, but she was coar, capricious, and treacherous, and had all the faults of an excessively vain young
woman long after she was an old one.”
“For almost every famous person had a nickname in tho rough days……” It emed that Dickens had known all the nicknames of the kings. And he put them into his book so that his child could bear them in mind easily. “WILLIAM THE RED” “HENRY FINE-SCOLAR” “HAROLD HAREFOOT” “EDWARD THE CONFESSOR” “RICHARD THE FIRST, CALLED THE LION- HEART” “KING JOHN, CALLED LACKLAND” “EDWARD THE FIRST, CALLED LONGSHANKS” (Chapter3~Chapter16).
迸溅的意思Another language feature is humor and irony. “Having no particular excitement on his hands after this great defeat of the Lancaster party, and being perhaps desirous to get rid of some of his fat (for he was now getting too corpulent to be handsome), the King thought of making war on France.” “It was suppod at the time that he was told to choo the manner of his death, and that he cho to be drowned in a butt of Malmy wine. I hope the story may be true, for it would have been a becoming death for such a mirable creature.”
In the whole view of the history of England written by Dickens, we find that the description of English people never shades. People always struggled in continual wartimes throughout the ages. Scarcely were there good and wi monarchs. But English people Dickens described never surrendered, even being apathetic. They were always formidable fighting for their own rights and equivalent, pro to the wi power. After thoroughly reading, we believe the writer was aimed to inform his child that being an Englishman means never meekly submitting to oppression and firmly giving our own voice. So it is the same with children all over the world. That’s the eternal theme of the book.
