A book report of a Tale of two Cities1《双城记》英文读书笔记（推荐）

第一篇：A book report of a Tale of two Cities1《双城记》英文读书笔记（推荐）

A book report of a Tale of two Cities

By charles Dickens

A Tale of two Cities is written by the English writer Charles Dickens who was born in 1812 and died in 1870.Best known for his classic serialized novels, such as Oliver Twist, a Tale of two Cities, and Great Expectations, he wrote about the London he lived in, the conditions of the poor, and the growing tensions between the classes.He achieved international popular and critical success in his lifetime.Based on his own personal experiences of working in a factory, a Tale of two Cities is one of his later works.The story was set in London and Paris at the time of the great French Revolution.It exposed the causes of revolution and its effects on people’s day-to-day lives.Moreover it mingled two different clues, love and cruelty.Before the revolution, the King and the aristocracy treated their people cruelly.Extremely poor and miserable, the common people were lived under sanguinary policy and great pressure.The crops in the fields were poor as if even the land shared the misery of the people.And there were so heavy taxes that all the villagers had nothing to hand over at last.On the other hand, the aristocracy made their will as the law by using money and gold.There was no justice, no equality and no fairness.Just as what happened to Dr.Manette, he had witnessed the crimes committed by

the Marquis Evremonde brothers.He wrote to the Minister to disclose the crime what Marquis Evremonde had done.But as a result, he had been arrested and sent to the prison Bastille without any reason.The potential of people was tremendous.People who lived on the bottom of class such as the Defarges had prepared for a revolution.The Revolution came to break out, when the Bastille was captured and the King was caught and put to death as well as many other aristocrats.However, things didn’t go on as what they had ever expected.As a consequence, the situation was not changed at all or even worse, as the fundamental tissue had not been resolved.There was still no justice or fairness.As it was quote, in everything they did was merciless, for they had been hardened in the fires of suffering and the touch of pity could make no mark on them.Those people took the charge but their heart had been full of evilness.The only thing they wanted to do was to revenge.These former peasants murdered anyone who they felt represented the old guard.One of the characters Darnay was immediately taken into custody, though he tried desperately to explain that unlike his uncle and father-the Evremonde brothers.Actually he was not a cruel man and knew nothing about his family.He was on the peasants’ side and wanted to help them.But without reason they disregarded his testimony.Love was as pure as water, Carton had a deeply love towards Lucie, wife of Darnay that he devoted his life for her happiness.When Darnay

was sentenced to death, he used his physical resemblance to Darnay and his ability to manipulate the spy to pull off the ultimate sacrifice.As a conclusion, with the broad real background of the French Revolution, Charles Dickens told us a story about cruelty, revenge and love.

第二篇：双城记英文读后感读书笔记

双城记读书报告英文

My Opinions About A Tale of Two Cities A Tale of Two Cities was written by Charles Dickens, Portsmouth, second of eight children, Dickens had to go to work at the age of twelve to support his poor family, and he lived a difficult childhood.This troublesome time scarred him deeply substantial material for such stories as Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, and Great Expectations.Though just accepted only little education, Dickens became a famous writer through his struggling self-learning and extremely hard work, and he was the representative writer of realism in the 19th century.Charles Dickens lived in the period of transition capitalism, when the industrial revolution originated in Europe.As invaded into urban centers to earn a living, the bourgeois took advantages surplus of labor by keeping wages low.The poor thus remained poor, and often lived in a narrow and filthy environment.Dickens’ writing directions about this society, and provided a keen, sympathetic chronicle of the plight of the urban poor.A Tale of Two Cities mainly about the great atrocities compelled the violently.Doctor Manette spent eighteen years as a prisoner in Bastille because he intended to learning that Marquis Evrémonde killed a beautiful farmwife and her younger brother because of his brother’s lust.After Doctor Manette was free again, his daughter Lucie got married with Charles Darnay, Marquis Evrémonde’s nephew, but chose to live in England because he could not accept the cruel injustices of the French social system and the snobbish and cruel values of his uncle.However, Marquis Evrémonde continued his atrocities.After his crazy carriage crushed over a farmer’s little baby as if nothing happen, he was killed at night.A revolutionary storm was brewing.Mr.and Mrs.Defarge were the revolutionaries in the poor Saint Antoine section of Paris.They wanted to kill all French aristocrats, including Charles Darnay.Mr.Defarge used to be Doctor Manette’s servant, so he was kind to Manettes, while his wife’s heart burned with longing for revenge.At last, Charles Darnay was judged to death, But Sydney Carton, a lawyer who loved Lucie deeply, willing to die instead of Darnay, as they had similar appearance.From my personal point of view, the person A Tale of Two Cities described astounded me very much.Some of them were cruel, crazy and reasonless, while some of them were kind, moral and had own mind.Sydney Carton was the person I thought the most.He was a smart attorney, without his help, Mr.Stryver could not solve any cases.But he was lazy, alcoholic, and cared nothing and nobody, he even could not find any interests in his own life, it seems that he lived just for wasting life.But he loved Lucie deeply.Finally, he became a hero, because he sacrificed his life to save Darnay.I didn’t know why the author spent so many words to form such a strange guy at frist, he used his life to love Lucie, after all.But now, I caught it.Perhaps the terrible Carton symbolized the terrible old France, and his change in the end shown that everything could change, including the old France, a new and fine society would replace the violence.Then, Charles Darnay.He was worthy of esteem or respect.He displayed great virtue in his rejection of his uncle, Marquis Evrémonde.Money and power meant nothing to him, if they came from exploitation and oppression.Even though he had to inherit his uncle’s bequest, he left them to the poor and lived in London throught his own effort.When he realized that he must go back to Paris to help Gabelle, one of his servants, and make right the wrong his uncle had done, he acted without hesitation because he knew that was his duty.He even refused Carton’s help after he was judged to death.I thought, Charles Darnay was a shiny diamond in that cruel and violent society, and he was a hope, the hope of equality and peace.Third, Mrs.Defarge.How crazy this woman was.Nobody could stop her steps toward revenge, except the death.Although it said that wherever there is oppression, there is resistance, I didn’t agree with Mrs.Defarge totally.Her resistance was inhumane, insensible and endless.For just as the aristocracy’s oppression had made an oppressor Mrs.Defarge herself, so will her oppression, in turn, make oppressors her victims.In the end of the novel, her death by a bullet from her own gun.It shown the 3/4

author’s belief that inordinate retaliated lust would destroy one own self.On the whole, A Tale of Two Cities is a successful novel.It shows us oppression and resistance, violence and terror, revolution and vengeance, love and friendship.I am lucky enough to live in the 21st century, when peace and development are pursued all along.Nowadays, there also are many problems and dissensions among this world, but violence does not the best way problems are solved.Violence just creates more problems, something every sensible person knows.What we need are talks and communication.The time A Tale of Two Cities mentions has gone, we should do enough preparation to adapt the coming age.

第三篇：《双城记》读书笔记

《双城记》读后感

利用了寒假一天的时间，一口气把《双城记》读完了。些许震撼，些许愤怒；些许感动，些许欣慰，一时间充斥了我的心。我为革命群众奋起反抗爆发出的伟大力量而震撼，也为他们在革命进一步进行时不分黑白的复仇行为而愤怒；为卡顿对露西真挚无私的爱而感动，也为小说尾部卡顿的美丽憧憬，为他生命的延续而欣慰。

这部小说是狄更斯最重要的代表作之一。在法国大革命广阔的真实背景下，他以虚构人物梅尼特医生的经历为主线索，把冤狱、爱情与复仇三个互相独立而又互相关联的故事交织在一起，情节错综，头绪纷繁。虽然人物和主要情节都是虚构的，但却深刻地揭露了法国大革命前深深激化了的社会矛盾，强烈地抨击贵族阶级的荒淫残暴，并深切地同情下层人民的苦难。然而这部小说最能打动我的部分却是卡顿对露西珍贵的爱情。它虽然闪现于一时，却持久了一世。爱情，是什么？是包容，是索取？是单纯的占有，还是博大的宽容？这个话题如此陈旧却依旧没有答案。

在现在这个物欲横流的世界中，我们总是在想到底有没有长久，有没有无私？“为了你，为了你所亲爱的任何人，我愿意作任何事情。倘若我的生涯中有值得牺牲的可能和机会，我甘愿为你和你所爱的人们而牺牲。”卡顿在《双城记》中给了我们答案，给了一个人应该有的对于爱情的信念。太多的分离让我们这一代人丧失了对真爱的追求，丧失了很多信心，很多理想。然而卡顿牺牲式的死亡却给我留下了难以磨灭的记忆，也唤回了我的很多希望，很多畅想。卡顿对露西的爱是专一的，更是坚定的，在那个动荡的年代，他用自己无私的爱和生命给予了露西一个美好的未来。当他作为查尔斯的替身，平静地接受本不属于他的死亡，安详地走上断头台时，这悲剧的故事便拥有了充满希望的结尾。他崇高的爱，拯救的不只是一个生命，更点亮了自己碌碌无为的一生，在人们心中树立了他一直渴望拥有的果断、坚定的形象。露西是幸福的，她不仅拥有了父亲的爱、丈夫的爱、仆人的爱，更重要的是她还拥有卡顿那份只属于她的爱情。卡顿爱她，却并不要回报。在她生活无忧的时候，他只是默默地看着她，祝福她；在她的生活出现困境，爱人被囚时，却挺身而出，代替“情敌”走上了断头台。只要爱人幸福的活在这个世界上，自己就可以了无牵挂，正是怀着这样简单而满足的愿望，卡顿可以没有难过和忧伤的观望露西的幸福，可以离开得那么从容。相信很多女孩和我一样羡慕露西，羡慕有那么多人用心用生命来爱她。查尔斯是幸运的，从第一次法庭上的转败为胜到最后的成功逃脱，卡顿——这个本该同他针锋相对的情敌，却一次又一次的帮了他。表面上看是因为卡顿爱露西，而露西又深刻的爱着查尔斯，但事实上查尔斯出色的人品也是卡顿愿意帮他的原因之一。因为他知道露西在他身边一定能够得到幸福，一定能够在未来的日子里开心快乐，他认同露西的选择，同时也作出了自己的选择。也许会有人觉得卡顿傻，为卡顿不值，但我想，为所爱的人奉献一切应该也是世界上最幸福的事吧。爱常常比恨更为强有力得多，这话很对。

看完《双城记》，我突然醒悟，发现原来世上本没有真正的恨与爱，所有的一切都是相对的。正如这部小说的经典开篇：“那是最美好的时代，那是最糟糕的时代；那是智慧的年头，那是愚昧的年头；那是信仰的时期，那是怀疑的时期；那是光明的季节，那是黑暗的季节；那是希望的春天，那是失望的冬天；我们全都在直奔天堂，我们全都在直奔相反的方向--简而言之，那时跟现在非常相象，某些最喧嚣的权威坚持要用形容词的最高级来形容它。说它好，是最高级的；说它不好，也是最高级的。”所有的事都没有固定的性质，无所谓好，也无所谓坏。重要的不是这件事本身怎么样，而是一个人应该用什么样的心态去对待身边的人和事。就像卡顿对于查尔斯，本该是恨的，因为是他使得卡顿失去了拥有露西的机会，是他使得露西眼中再无他人。但卡顿却选择用博大似海的爱来化解这种恨。也许在他眼中查尔斯已经不是查尔斯，而是露西的一部分，是他所爱的人的一部分，因此也是他所爱的一部分。

从另一个角度说，如果没有查尔斯，可能还是会出现查三斯、查四斯、查五斯的，卡顿如果选择了恨，岂不是要恨很多人，要恨一生、恨一世、恨在每一天了么？卡顿是聪明的，所以他没有选择恨，而是将恨升华成了一种最最伟大的爱。即使他死了，即使他不能再亲眼看到露西的幸福，相信他也能在天堂感受到爱人的笑，感受到爱人的快乐。卡顿会活在每个人的心中，不止是露西、查尔斯，还有更多的读者，更多的后人。他的精神会永存，他会得到永生！

有人说爱情是自私的，爱别人甚于自己的人都是傻子。但在狄更斯的《双城记》中，我感受到的却是一种超脱世俗的最纯洁、最崇高的爱。这种爱纯得像冰、热得像火，是人性中最美好的、最悲壮的行为，是一种理想化的美。它可以默默的悄无声息，也可以爆发出无限的力量和勇气。为了情人的幸福牺牲自己的生命，哪怕这种牺牲是因为拯救自己的情敌。这样的故事不可思议，也超出了一般人的承受能力。但它传递给我们的却是作者对于人性、对于爱情的思考。爱一个人，就是要给他（她）幸福，哪怕这种爱会伤害自己，哪怕这种爱会让自己消失„„ 卡顿的牺牲是一种重生，他之所以能够坦然得面对死亡，正是因为他看到了希望，看到了未来。他知道自己的离去可以带给所爱的人更多的快乐，也可以换来更多人的幸福。他没有怨恨革命者，也没有埋怨任何人，他所做的只是尽自己最大的能力完成自己爱露西的心愿，实现自己的誓言。常听人说：“爱一个人要爱他（她）的全部。”爱她的好，她的坏，甚至是她的爱。爱上情敌，不可思议，但卡顿却诠释得很好。对于一般人来说那么恐惧的死亡，在爱情面前却是那样的微不足道。活着也许会美好，但如果看着所爱的人每天伤心流泪，相信那便会变成一种巨大的煎熬，所以卡顿选择了欣慰的去死，那是一种安详的无畏，一种沉静的离开。

同卡顿相比，当今的爱情似乎被强加了更多的东西。金钱、权力、地位、利益„„这些本不该成为爱情的影响因素的东西却占据了越来越重的份量。人们不是为了爱而爱，而是为了生存而爱。很多情况下，虚伪代替了真诚，物质凌驾于精神。也许我们是一群理性的动物，也许我们所做的是最好的选择。但我们是否应该感到惭愧，是否应该正视自己的每一段感情呢？难道人活着只是为了吃好喝好睡好么？媒体上报道出的一个个为情仇杀的事件，应该为当今的人们敲响警钟了，大家应该仔细想想，他们，究竟是为爱而杀还是为恨而杀呢？如果我们不能博大的活着，世界就会了无生趣，失去色彩。转而回到《双城记》，卡顿的伟大赋予了他太多的光芒，但就这个人物本身来讲，他还是有悲剧的性格。他太小看自己，可以说是有些自卑，因此放任了自己，又因为放任而感到绝望。最终他没能尽力的追求露西，而只是把对她的爱隐藏在内心，默默地承受着煎熬，无私地付出，却不求一丁点儿回报。这种爱凄美而崇高，但却过于低调。如果卡顿能够努力，如果卡顿愿意争取，露西未必不会选择他，而他同样能给予露西很好的幸福。总之，《双城记》带给了我们太多的思考和感悟。关于爱，关于恨，关于复仇，也关于重生。当小说尾部卡顿看到希望的时候，我仿佛也从整部书有些阴郁的情绪中看到了点点星光。所以，卡顿的存在不仅仅是作者对爱的渲染，更寄予了狄更斯对未来的信心。

不错，当人与人之间没有了恨，当所有的恨都升华为爱的时候，没有复仇，没有血腥，有的只会是幸福的欢笑，灿烂的阳光。再次感动于狄老的良苦用心，感动于卡顿至死方休的梦、沁人肺腑的情，更感动于这份人世间最崇高、最永恒、永不退色的爱，那么难得，那么美好，也必将永存！

第四篇：双城记读书笔记

《双城记》——读后感

有人说《双城记》是一部伟大的爱情小说，着眼于卡顿对露西的博大的单恋，为了后者的幸福，前者不惜牺牲自己去搭救后者的丈夫。不过如果从情节和人物关往中，比较难以感受到卡顿怎么会深深爱上露西，在单恋的前提和基础似并不牢靠的情况下。

我想《双城记》并不重在写情，露西与达奈的相爱结婚，卡顿对露西的单恋其实比较概念化，个人认为《双城记》是狄更斯对革命和人性痛苦深思所交的答卷。

革命是社会阶级的矛盾的产物，当体制失去了自我调节的能力后，下层积累的仇恨最终会大爆发，冲垮旧的体制。由于下层的仇恨缺乏构筑合理的新体制的能力，革命往往会演变成单纯的毁灭性的暴力，而最终建立的体制可能与旧体制相距并不遥远，但这个宣泄仇恨的过程付出的社会成本是相当惨重的。在这个过程中，维系过程中维护人的起码生命、尊严、道德、法律，都被当成旧体制的一部分被否定了，因此种种人间悲剧也就不可避免了。革命政权的官方意识形态倾向于认同为革命的理想可以不择手段也并非全部，也有相当的一部分人只不过将革命作为改变个人命运的机会，也不排除有些人，包括革命领导在内将革命作为宣泄个人仇恨或是争权夺利的工具，而革命这种形式制度上的缺陷，更是使一部分人大有可为。可以说包括法国革命在内的一切革命概莫能外。所以人道主义作家对革命无不抱着矛盾的态度，它们一方面赞同改善民众处境的革命理想，另一方面又痛苦于血腥而非理性的革命现实，如果它们非要坚持个人观点，那么在不宽容，不允许中间路线的革命时代，它们个人命运往往是凄怜的。

狄更斯在《双城记》中即从人生角度对以上的部分观点作了生动的阐述。《双城记》的两个主角应该是厄尼斯和卡顿。酒馆老板娘厄尼斯是受压迫的劳苦人民的代表，她的弟弟和妹妹都被贵族艾弗蒙害死，她因此形成了疯狂的仇恨，表现为要利用革命的混乱杀掉每一个和艾弗蒙家族有关的人，包括其有人道主义思想的管家，其外甥达奈，以及达奈的妻儿。革命就是报仇雪恨，而且是不受限制的滥杀，这是相当一部分受残害的普通民众的态度。甚至有些人道知识分子在深受迫害的时候，也会丧失理智，产生这一想法。莫奈特医生被艾弗蒙陷害，在巴士底狱关了18年，在狱中身心具残，变成了精神病人，狱中他即写到要向艾弗蒙讨回血债，直至他这个家族中的最后一个人。当然当他出狱神志清醒时，其人道思想占了上风，他能够分清敌我，可以接受敌人的亲戚作为女婿。而正是疯狂的仇恨使他付出了代价，他在狱中偏激言论最终使女婿上了断头台，差点断了他女儿的幸福。仇恨使人疯狂，疯狂的仇恨造成疯狂的革命，疯狂的革命最伤害疯狂的革命者，作者通过这两个人的命运丰满的阐述了这一观点。

而卡顿则寄托了狄更斯关于人性的理想，书中无卡顿自暴自弃的原因，我想这是人道主义者反对现实人性的种种丑陋而造成了理想的失落，卡顿从事法律工作，他才华横溢，但看到了太多的尔虞我诈，民众堕落，他看不到光明，看不到出路，又不想同流合污，争取那些易如反掌的利益，于是不如自暴自弃，甘于被庸才利用。狄更斯通过对这个人物的歌颂告诉我们仇恨对抗仇恨只会使人疯狂，而自己牺牲

利益，它才会带来福音。当然这也是理想主义的想法，绝大多数人都会达到这种境界。所以这种理想主义，也只能是寒夜中的星光。

狄更斯在全书最后回到了基督教，“主说，复活在我，生命也在我，信仰我的人虽然死了，也必复活着；凡活着信仰我的人，必永远不死”。这句话在托尔斯泰的《复活》中也被引用，看来基督教的道德思想一直被这些人道主义作家奉为圭臬。

第五篇：《双城记》读书笔记

《双城记》这部历史小说的创作动机在于借古讽今，以法国大革命的历史经验为借鉴，给英国统治阶级敲响警钟；同时，通过对革命恐怖的极端描写，也对心怀愤懑、希图以暴力对抗暴政的人民群众提出警告，幻想为社会矛盾日益加深的英国现状寻找一条出路。

在这部作品里，我看到了很多很多不同的人。正直善良却惨遭迫害的马内特医生，美丽温柔的露西，优雅高尚的查尔斯，忠厚老实的洛里，外表冷漠、内心热情，放荡不羁而又无私崇高的西德尼，扭曲了人性的德法日太太，豪爽忠诚的普罗斯小姐，残忍阴险的艾弗勒蒙德兄弟„„复杂的仇恨纠缠不清，残忍的复仇制造了更多仇恨，爱在地狱的边缘再生，却是以生命为代价。这错综复杂的一幕幕，活生生的展现在面前，仿佛重现了那个失去理智的时代。总的来说，这部小说塑造了三类人物。

一类是以艾弗勒蒙德侯爵兄弟为代表的封建贵族，他们“唯一不可动摇的哲学就是压迫人”，是作者痛加鞭挞的对象。

另一类是德法日夫妇等革命群众。必须指出的是，他们的形象是被扭曲的。例如德法日的妻子狄安娜，她出生于被侮辱、被迫害的农家，对封建贵族怀着深仇大恨，作者深切地同情她的悲惨遭遇，革命爆发前后很赞赏她坚强的性格、卓越的才智和非凡的组织领导能力；但当革命进一步深入时，就笔锋一转，把她贬斥为一个冷酷、凶狠、狭隘的复仇者。尤其是当她到医生住所搜捕露西和小露西时，更被表现为嗜血成性的狂人。最后，作者让她死在自己的枪口之下，明确地表示了否定的态度。

第三类是理想化人物，是作者心目中以人道主义解决社会矛盾、以博爱战胜仇恨的榜样，包括梅尼特父女、代尔纳、劳雷和卡尔登等。梅尼特医生被侯爵兄弟害得家破人亡，对侯爵兄弟怀有深仇大恨，但是为了女儿的爱，可以摒弃宿仇旧恨；代尔纳是侯爵兄弟的子侄，他大彻大悟，谴责自己家族的罪恶，抛弃爵位和财产，决心以自己的行动来“赎罪”。这对互相辉映的人物，一个是贵族暴政的受害者，宽容为怀；一个是贵族侯爵的继承人，主张仁爱。他们中间，更有作为女儿和妻子的路茜。在爱的纽带的维系下，他们组成一个互相谅解、感情融洽的幸福家庭。这显然是作者设想的一条与暴力革命截然相反的解决社会矛盾的出路，是不切实际的。

《双城记》有其不同于一般历史小说的地方，它的人物和主要情节都是虚构的。在法国大革命广阔的真实背景下，作者以虚构人物梅尼特医生的经历为主线索，把冤狱、爱情与复仇三个互相独立而又互相关联的故事交织在一起，情节错综，头绪纷繁。作者采取倒叙、插叙、伏笔、铺垫等手法，使小说结构完整严密，情节曲折紧张而富有戏剧性，表现了卓越的艺术技巧。