book report of The Lady of the Camellias-茶花女的英文读后感(578字)

第一篇：book report of The Lady of the Camellias-茶花女的英文读后感(578字)

The Love between Marguerite and Armand

——The Lady of the Camellias

“The Lady of the Camellias” was written by Alexandre Dumas, fils.It’s a story of Marguerite Gautier, a young courtesan, in Paris in the mid 1800's;it’s a story of how she fell in love with a young man, Armand Duval, and then tried to escape from her questionable past;it’s a story of how she ended up returning to her former life and died painfully and lonely.I had been thinking that it was Armand Duval’s father who strangled Marguerite’s love, while after reading the book I realized actually it was Armand’ s vanity and suspicion did it.There are two ways in pursuing a courtesan: money and sentiment.Armand’s 8000 franc was absolutely insufficient.Therefore he could only use “sentiment” to pursue Marguerite.Finally after several years of effort, Armand not only made Marguerite his lover, but also won her true love.A courtesan sells her body and soul for living, but she also has love which one is not willing to sell.Perhaps it is because she has seen too much hypocrisy that she treats love more carefully, and also longs for true love.When mistaking Armand’s admiration for the true love, Marguerite devoted all to him without hesitation.However, Armand actually did not believe that a courtesan knew true love, therefore Armand sent Marguerite a letter asking for rupture just the third day after winning her heart.Whereas, when he realized that Marguerite, an attractive lover, could save face for him, for vanity he sent her a letter requesting forgiveness.To Armand, it’s much more satisfying to possess a famous courtesan than to possess Marguerite's love.It means that what he wanted truly is the vanity of possessing a famous courtesan, not a woman's love.True love sublimes human beings.Armand became even more degenerate, while Marguerite turned truly lofty.Armand enjoyed the vanity all day long.He never considered about giving Marguerite a normal life.In the light of his behavior, Armand’s love to Marguerite is not worth mentioning.On the contrary, Marguerite firmly abandoned his past, and turned over a new leaf.Although they had lived a happy life, Armand never believed in his subconscious

that Marguerite was truly willing to escape from her past life.So when Marguerite left him and reluctantly returned to her former life because M.Duval, 's father, pled for her to leave Armand to save both Armand's reputation and that of his younger innocent sister, Armand denied Marguerite’s true love entirely and immediately.What is more pitiful, instead of thinking over why Marguerite left him unexpectedly and trying to retrieve Marguerite, Armand crudely and despicably carried on all sorts of shameless retaliation.Finally, Marguerite died in debt and basically lonely.We cannot deny that Armand truly loved Marguerite.However, he never believed that Marguerite also truly loved him.He didn’t know how to love selflessly without receiving value in return.Vanity may satisfy one who haven’t encountered with love, but once did, vanity may become vulgarly.So when Marguerite fell in love with Armand, she was eager to get rid of vanity, but Armand didn’t give her the chance.He just wanted to maintain the sumptuous life and enjoy being the envy of all the other men.Marguerite is just like the camellia, she could never escape from the destiny of withering.But it wasn’t her fault;it’s because of the vanity of that society.

第二篇：茶花女读后感英文

The Reading Report of Camille

Dumas Alexander fils was a French playwright and novelist, he was one of the founders of the problem play—that is, of the middle-class realistic drama treating some contemporary ill and offering suggestion for its remedy.Dumas fils, the illegitimate son of Alexander Dumas pere, possessed a good measure of his father’s literary, but the work of the two men could scarcely be more different.His first success was a novel, La Dame aux camelias(1848), but he found his vocation when he adapted the story into a play, known in English as Camille, first performed in 1852.Among his most interesting plays are Le Fils natural and Un Pere prodigue, a dramatization of Dumas’s interpretation of his father’s character.I read Camille this semester.I was deeply moved by the main character Marguerite Gautier.Camille Camille or The Lady of the Camellias by Alexander Dumas, fils, is the story of Marguerite Gautier, a young courtesan, or kept woman, in Paris in the mid 1800's, and how she falls in love with a young man, Armand Duval, and then tries to escape from her questionable past.Unfortunately, it comes back to haunt her and she ends up returning to that life and dies painfully and alone, but with the knowledge that she was a noble woman at heart.She felt used, abused and unloved, until the gentle Armand Duval came into her life and showed her that he loved her as a person and not for what she could do for him.It must have taken great courage for Marguerite to leave the life she had lived for so long, knowing all along that it was probably too good to be true and would not last indefinitely.And it also showed that Marguerite really loved Armand Duval for she could even change herself for him.However, happiness didn’t last for long.When M.Duval, Armand's father, came to her, pleading for her to leave Armand to save both Armand's reputation and that of his younger innocent sister, Marguerite saw a way to become pure of heart, if not in body.She felt that it was her duty, because she loved Armand so much, to do this even though it meant giving up her own happiness and hurting Armand

temporarily.She reluctantly returned to her former life, knowing that some day Armand would forgive her.Sadly, she died in debt and basically alone, except for her one female friend, Julie Duprat, who helped her during her illness.She had her journal sent to Armand after her death, explaining why she had made the choice she had.When I first began to read the book, I did not care for Marguerite of her attitude of lifestyle, but as I got further into the narrative, I realized that her saucy attitude was a front to cover the lonely woman that she really was.I think Dumas's last few lines about Marguerite being the exception, not the rule were quite true, and I also agreed with his view that while her lifestyle could not be condoned, we as a society assume that all of these type of women are cold and heartless, while this may not always be the case.A person can make the wrong choices in life when they are young, and try to redeem themselves, but sometimes past situations prevent them from changing their lives, even though they desperately wish to do so.This applies to both men and women in many different types of circumstances: involvement in crime;drug or alcohol abuse;gambling;prostitution;financial problems;poor marriage choices;etc.And this is the fact, which exists in the whole society.As far as the other characters in the book, I think Marguerite was right in saying that no one truly cared about her, but only wanted something from her, the only exceptions being Armand and Julie Duprat.Of course, the Comte de G.and Comte de N.wanted her body and appearance.The Duke needed to “wake up and smell the coffee” and realize that she could never replace his dead daughter.If he truly cared, he could have helped her leave her lifestyle without “keeping” her himself.And lastly, Prudence was a blood-sucking leech who used Marguerite almost worse than the men.I also think she was jealous of the fact that Marguerite had so much more courage than herself and someone truly loved her.Camille is just like the camellia, she could never escape from the destiny of withering.But it wasn’t her fault;it’s because of the evil of Capitalism and the hideousness of that society.Suddenly, I remembered a saying:” Women are like the flowers”.Those pretty

women are like those beautiful flowers;their delicate beauty makes people feel they are the miracle of life.However, even the God envies their beauty.It seems that beautiful women always have tragic endings.As we are normal persons, even we can see the hideousness of humanity that results in their fate of withering, we can at most ask quietly in our hearts: Where have those beautiful flowers gone? Where have they gone?

第三篇：茶花女英文读后感

I read the Chinese version of “Camille” a few years ago.At that time I was deeply moved by the main character Marguerite Gautier.“Camille” or “The Lady of the Camellias” by Alexandre Dumas is the story of Marguerite Gautier, a young kept woman, in Paris in the mid 1800's abouthow she falls in love with a young man, Armand Duval, and then tries to escape from her questionable past.Unfortunately, it comes back to haunt her and she returns to her old life for her lover’s future which makes her die painfully and alone, but with the knowledge that she was a noble woman at heart.I realized that her luxury life shows her lonely and empty spirit.She felt used to being abused and unloved, until the gentle Armand Duval came into her life and showed her that he loved her unconditionally and not for what she could do for him.It must have taken great courage for Marguerite to leave the life she had lived for so long, knowing all along that it was probably too good to be true and would not last indefinitely.And it also showed that Marguerite really loved Armand Duval for she could even change herself for him.However, happiness didn’t last for long.When M.Duval, Armand's father, came to her, pleading for her to leave Armand to save both Armand's reputation and that of his younger innocent sister, Marguerite saw a way to become pure of heart, if not in body.She felt that it was her duty, because she loved Armand so much, to do this even though it meant giving up her own happiness and hurting Armand temporarily.She reluctantly returned to her former life, knowing that some day Armand would forgive her.Sadly, she died in debt and basically alone, except for her one female friend, Julie Duprat, who helped her during her illness.She had her journal sent to Armand after her death, explaining why she had made the choices she had.I think Dumas's last few lines about Marguerite being the exception, not the rule were quite true, and I also agreed with his view that her lifestyle could not be condoned, we as a society assume that all of these type of women are cold and heartless, while this may not always be the case.A person can make the wrong choices in life when they are young, and try to redeem themselves, but sometimes past situations prevent them from changing their lives, even though they desperately wish to do so.This applies to both men and women in many different types of circumstances: involvement in crime;drug or alcohol abuse;gambling;prostitution;financial problems;poor marriage choices;etc.And this is the fact, which exists in the whole society.Camille is just like the camellia, she could never escape from the destiny of withering.But it wasn’t her fault;it’s because of the evil of Capitalism and people’s coldness and cruelty of that society that destroy the happiness and life of this beautiful girl.From this story, I do not draw the conclusion that all women of Marguerite’s sort are capable of behaving as she did.But I have learned that one such woman, once in her life, experienced deep love, that she suffered for it and she died for it.How much courage and braveness she needs!Suddenly, I remembered a saying: “Women are like

the flowers”.However, it seems that beautiful women always have tragic endings.Everyone has the equal right to pursue their love.And we can not judge how the love is by people’s social statues but by what they have done for love.Although Marguerite is a kept woman, what she has done for love is noble.I appreciate her very much.

第四篇：《茶花女》英文读后感

---Book Review: “Camille”

I read the Chinese version of “Camille” a few years ago.At that time I was deeply moved by the main character Marguerite Gautier.“Camille” or “The Lady of the Camellias” by Alexandre Dumas, fils, is the story of Marguerite Gautier, a young courtesan, or kept woman, in paris in the mid 1800's, and how she falls in love with a young man, Armand Duval, and then tries to escape from her questionable past.Unfortunately, it comes back to haunt her and she ends up returning to that life and dies painfully and alone, but with the knowledge that she was a noble woman at heart.When I first began to read the book, I did not care for Marguerite or her attitude or lifestyle, but as I got further into the narrative, I realized that her saucy attitude was a front to cover the lonely woman that she really was.She felt used, abused and unloved, until the gentle Armand Duval came into her life and showed her that he loved her as a person and not for what she could do for him.It must have taken great courage for Marguerite to leave the life she had lived for so long, knowing all along that it was probably too good to be true and would not last indefinitely.And it also showed that Marguerite really loved Armand Duval for she could even change herself for him.However, happiness didn’t last for long.When M.Duval, Armand's father, came to her, pleading for her to leave Armand to save both Armand's reputation and that of his younger innocent sister, Marguerite saw a way to become pure of heart, if not in body.She felt that it was her duty, because she loved Armand so much, to do this even though it meant giving up her own happiness and hurting Armand temporarily.She reluctantly returned to her former life, knowing that some day Armand would forgive her.Sadly, she died in debt and basically alone, except for her one female friend, Julie Duprat, who helped her during her illness.She had her journal sent to Armand after her death, explaining why she had made the choices she had.I think Dumas's last few lines about Marguerite being the exception, not the rule were quite true, and I also agreed with his view that while her lifestyle could not be condoned, we as a society assume that all of these type of women are cold and heartless, while this may not always be the case.A person can make the wrong choices in life when they are young, and try to redeem themselves, but sometimes past situations prevent them from changing their lives, even though they desperately wish to do so.This applies to both men and women in many different types of circumstances: involvement in crime;drug or alcohol abuse;gambling;prostitution;financial problems;poor marriage choices;etc.And this is the fact, which exists in the whole society.As far as the other characters in the book, I think Marguerite was right in saying that no one truly cared about her, but only wanted something from her, the only exceptions being Armand and Julie Duprat.Of course, the Comte de G.and Comte de N.wanted her body and appearance.The Duke needed to “wake up and smell the coffee” and realize that she could never replace his dead daughter.If he truly cared, he could have helped her leave her lifestyle without “keeping” her himself.And lastly, prudence was a blood-sucking leech who used Marguerite almost worse than the men.I also think she was jealous of the fact that Marguerite had so much more courage than herself and someone truly loved her.Last morning, when tiding my bookshelf, I took this book out of the shelf, and a dried flower flew away from the book.It was pale blue, very transparent, with thin fine veins.a dried flower flew away from the book.It was pale blue, very transparent, with thin fine veins.I held it against the morning light and blew on it.The soft breeze carried it away.Camille is just like the camellia, she could never escape from the destiny of withering.But it wasn’t her fault;it’s because of the evil of Capitalism and the hideousness of that society.Suddenly, I remembered a saying: “Women are like the flowers”.Those pretty women are like those beautiful flowers;their delicate beauty makes people feel they are the miracle of life.However, even the God envies their beauty.It seems that beautiful women always have tragic endings.As we are normal persons, even we can see the hideousness of humanity that results in their fate of withering, we can at most ask quietly in our hearts: Where have those beautiful flowers gone? Where have they gone?

第五篇：茶花女 英文 读后感

她从来只带茶花。一个月中，有二十五天她带白色茶花，另外五天带红色茶花。没有人知道这颜色变幻的原因。在巴尔荣夫人的花店中，她被人称作茶花女。这名字就叫开了。”

玛格丽特，一个在巴黎混迹与烟花柳巷的风尘女子，一个身染重病沉疴的女子，一个过惯了穷奢极侈生活的女子，似乎是不应该有真正的爱情的。他似乎只应该有商业的感情，而不应该从中解脱出来，去收获真正的爱情，灵魂上的慰藉。而一旦获得，似乎就预示着一个悲剧的开始。她们这样的人平时只能沉醉在纸迷金醉的物质生活中，尽力掩饰和逃避真情的流露，而一旦确定了真爱归宿，便会毅然去追寻争取。玛格丽特就是这样的女子。

阿尔芒，似乎十分喜欢玛格丽特。实际上，他也确实十分爱着那个女人。可是他那多疑的性格（或许每个男人都具有），却让他实际上造成了这场悲剧。他貌似很坚定地追求着这段爱情，却实际上很软弱。他未能最终说服和反抗父亲的逼迫，尽管他做了努力。尤其是当玛格丽特离开他后，做了N伯爵的情人后，他那糊涂的判断力和可耻的侮辱行为，让我恨不能把他撕下来痛扁一顿。他自始至终没有拿出果断的勇气来追求他们的幸福。他没有在玛格丽特放弃时候强迫她重拾起爱情的信心，而这种强迫我可以肯定玛格丽特是很愿意接受的这段爱情自始至终就没有一个坚实的经济基础，似乎注定了他们的悲剧。但我认为这并不是主要原因，因为玛格丽特最后已经放弃那每年十多万法郎的生活，而跟随阿尔芒去过那田园的平民的生活。而此时，经济已不再是问题了。还是阿尔芒不果断地去强迫她，离开巴黎，去另外一个环境去忘记过去。而实际上，他有很多机会可以这样做。

The Lady of the Camellias

She always wears only camellia.A month, there are twenty-five days she wearing white camellia, red camellia with another five days.No one knows the reason why the color change.In Mrs.Bally"s flower shop, she was called La Traviata.Marguerite Gautier, a prostitute lives in Paris, she had a bad body, accustomed luxury life, seems there should be no true love.She seemed only have commercial relationship and couldn”tget true love.They indulge in the luxury of material life, trying to hide and escape from theof ture feelings, but once they met ture love ,they will strive for it.Margaret is such a woman.Armand seems very like Margaret.In fact, he love the woman very much.But his paranoid

personality let him to the t tragedy last.He seems very firmly pursue the love, but actually very soft.He failed to convince and force against his father.Especially when Marguerite left, and become others”lover, his Confused.sense and bad action made me very disappointed.He didn't have the courage to pursue their happiness all the time

This paragraph of love from beginning to end without a solid economic foundation, seems to be doomed their tragedy.But I think this is not the main reason, the most important reason is Armand”scowardly character