高英读书笔记.docx

高英读书笔记

第一篇：高英读书笔记ATaleofTwoCitiesIboughtthe‘ATaleofTwoCities’lastsummerholidayandthenIjustputitintomybookcollectionsandnevertriedtoreaditforthewholesemester.Recently,Ifinishedreadingit---“ATaleofTwoCities”roughly.ItisoneofDickens'smostimportantrepresentativeworks,butatragicone,Ithink.Lostinthestory,Ifeltlikebeingtogetherwiththecharactersandthesameexcitingevents.ThestoryissetbothinLondonandParisatthetimeofthegreatFrenchRevolution.Itshowsthecausesofrevolutionanditseffectsonpeople'sday-to-daylifesoimpressively.ThelovestorybetweenCharlesDarnayandLucieManetteandtheirsufferingexperienceisthetinymirrorthatshowsthereallifeofcommonpeopleinFrance.“Itwasthebestoftimes,itwastheworstoftimes,itwastheageofwisdom,itwastheageoffoolishness,itwastheepochofbelief,itwastheepochofincredulity,itwastheseasonofLight,itwastheseasonofDarkness,itwasthespringofhope,itwasthewinterofdespair,wehadeverythingbeforeus,wehadnothingbeforeus,wewereallgoingdirecttoHeaven,wewereallgoingdirecttheotherway--inshort,theperiodwassofarlikethepresentperiod,thatsomeofitsnoisiestauthoritiesinsistedonitsbeingreceived,forgoodorforevil,inthesuperlativedegreeofcomparisononly.”—ATaleofTwoCities,Dickens.WecaneasilyadmitthatthewritingtalentofDickensfromthisparagraph.Thestorybeginsliketheaboveparagraph,andtellsthechaoticsetting.Itaugurssomethinguncommonistohappen.Iappreciatethisbeginningverymuch.Thebeautyoflanguageisexpressedsosuccessfully.ThefirsttimeIreadit,itarousesmyinterestatonce.Ireallywanttoknowwhat’sgoingonnext.Soitdidnottakememuchtimetoreaditover.Yes,itwasthebestoftimesanditwastheworstoftimes,butfordifferentpeople.FortheKingandaristocrats,theyhadagoodtimebytaxingandrulingthepeopleheavilyandcruelly.Asforthepoorpeople,theyhadamiserabletime.Eventhelandcouldnotbareitandproducednogoodcropsandthuspeoplehadnothingtohandover.What’sevilerwasthearistocracymadetheirwillasthelawbyusingmoneyandthepowertheyhave.Therewerenojustice,noequalityandnofairness,justlikethefollowingplot.Itwroteinaperiodofdarknessthatakind-hearteddocto