染雾Moon and Sixpence: Reflections after Reading (Part 1)
After reading "Moon and Sixpence," I couldn't help but feel a whirlwind of emotions and thoughts swirling within me. The novel, written by W. Somerset Maugham, delves deep into the complex and fascinating life of Charles Strickland, an unconventional artist who abandons his comfortable life in London to pursue his passion for painting in Paris.
One of the main themes that struck me while reading the novel is the pursuit of one's true calling in life. Strickland's decision to leave his family, career, and social standing behind to pursue his art is both admirable and perplexing. While many people in society would consider him a fool for abandoning a life of comfort, Strickland's unwavering dedication to his passion is something to be admired. It made me question the choices I've made in my own life and whether I have truly pursued my own passions or settled for a life of mediocrity.
Another aspect of the novel that resonated with me is the idea of sacrifice. Throughout the story, Strickland sacrifices everything for his art, including his marriage, family, and financial stability. His single-minded pursuit of his passion is both awe-inspiring and tragic. It made me ponder the sacrifices I am willing to make for my own dreams and whether I am truly dedicated enough to see them through.
Furthermore, the novel explores the dichotomy between society's expectations and the individual's desires. Strickland's decision to abandon his comfortable life and societal expectations in pursuit of his art challenges the conventional norms of society. It raises questions about the true value of societal approval and whether it is worth sacrificing one's own happiness and fulfillment for the sake of fitting in. It made me reflect on the pressures I have felt from society and whether I have compromised my own desires in order to conform.
Additionally, "Moon and Sixpence" delves into the complex nature of artistic genius. Strickland's talent as a painter is undeniable, yet his unconventional approach and disregard for societal norms make him an enigmatic figure. It made me question the true nature of artistic genius and whether it is something that can be taught or acquired, or if it is an innate quality that some are simply born with.
In conclusion, "Moon and Sixpence" is a thought-provoking novel that raises important questions about the pursuit of one's true calling, sacrifice, societal expectations, and artistic genius. It made me reflect on my own life choices and whether I am truly living in alignment with my passions and desires. The novel serves as a reminder to embrace the unconventional and to have the courage to pursue our dreams, even in the face of societal judgment. It is a story that will stay with me long after I have turned the last page.
Moon and Sixpence: Reflections after Reading (Part 2)
Reading "Moon and Sixpence" by W. Somerset Maugham has left me with a mix of emotions and thoughts. This novel tells the story of Charles Strickland, a man who abandons his comfortable life to pursue his passion for painting in Paris. While the novel raises thought-provoking questions about the pursuit of one's calling, sacrifice, societal expectations, and artistic genius, it also left me with some reservations and concerns.
One aspect of the novel that troubled me is the portrayal of Strickland's relationships, particularly with women. Throughout the story, he leaves a trail of broken hearts and shattered lives in his wake. His obsession with his art leads him to disregard the feelings and well-being of those around him, including his wife and children. While I understand that the pursuit of one's passion often requires sacrifice, I found it difficult to sympathize with Strickland's actions and the pain he caused to those who loved him.
Furthermore, the novel seems to romanticize the idea of the tortured artist. Strickland is portrayed as a misunderstood genius who is willing to sacrifice everything for his art. While I appreciate the dedication and commitment that artists often possess, I found it troubling that the novel seems to suggest that this dedication justifies immoral and hurtful behavior. It made me question whether the pursuit of art should come at the expense of basic human decency and empathy.
Additionally, the novel's portrayal of colonialism and exoticism left me with a sense of unease. Strickland's decision to abandon his life in London and settle in Tahiti is presented as a romantic escape from the constraints of Western society. However, the novel fails to fully explore the complexities and consequences of Strickland's presence in Tahiti and the impact it has on the local people. This portrayal of exotic locations and cultures as mere backdrops for the protagonist's self-discovery felt shallow and lacking in depth.
Despite these reservations, "Moon and Sixpence" still raises important questions about the pursuit of one's true calling, sacrifice, societal expectations, and artistic genius. It serves as a reminder to reflect on our own lives and whether we are truly living in alignment with our passions and desires. However, it is crucial to approach the novel critically and to question some of the problematic elements it presents.
In conclusion, "Moon and Sixpence" is a thought-provoking novel that raises important questions about the pursuit of art and the sacrifices it may require. While it left me with some reservations and concerns about its portrayal of relationships, the tortured artist trope, and colonialism, it still serves as a valuable exploration of the complexities of human nature and the pursuit of one's true calling. Reading this novel has prompted me to reflect on my own life choices and the importance of living authentically.
月亮和六便士英文读后感 篇三
Mid-Autumn festival after two days of vacation for three days, the moon and sixpence finished maugham, the moon and sixpence of maugham's journal entry. First shows the book doesn't have anything to do with the moon or p at all, as I read at night, should be a time of the month circle person circle, sky and surrounded by empty.
The plot of the story is more complex, a British stock exchange's agent, the existing stable career and position, a happy family, is more than the middle, but infatuation with painting, like "was the devil body," suddenly leave home, to Paris to pursue the ideal of painting. He is in a foreign country is not only the body endure poverty and hunger, spirit also endure suffering. After some bizarre story, the hero, the last to leave the civilized world isolated from to Tahiti. He finally find the soul of the atmosphere of peace and is suitable for their own artistic temperament. He same native women live together, to create a picture and a picture of a shock to the later work. Before he contracted leprosy blind in their own home four murals performance a great work of the garden of Eden. But before death, he has ordered the indigenous women put the painting after his death.
The wonderful degree is far from the author of this story the story itself. A dream, abandon all family wife and children work, to pursue the dream. Such people, especially the Strickland in the story, is selfish, irresponsible, escape dare not face reality, and even some cold-blooded and secular values absolutely against the alien society, gave his all chains, he wants to get rid of society to find their own way of life, even if it is to endure hunger and tortured by suffering, complaint or regret. So let a person feel hate, because if everyone like Strickland, the society or thoroughly mixed, or communism is realized. But such a person to let a person admire, envy, even he is strong, have the courage and perseverance. No matter what the end result is, he can find his or her own dream or live in the dream world, he has been a success. Do your own dream, let others say! Maugham, in the process of storytelling from the perspective of all kinds of people, occasionally some of his comments, will her incisively and vividly. His pen as the knife, carving out the phenomenon of rich and vivid.
The story of the some of the cool, then it seems to me is the flavor of the fairy tale. Strickland is lonely, "we each life in the world is lonely. Everyone was jailed in a tower, can only rely on symbols to convey their ideas with others; and the value of these symbols is not common, so their meaning is vague and uncertain. We are very poor to send his wealth in the heart to others, but they didn't accept the wealth ability. So we can only walk alone, though the body next to each other but not together, doesn't know someone else and not for others to know, we like to live in a foreign country, for the language of the country know very little, even though we have all kinds of wonderful, esoteric things to say, but only limited to the session on the manual on the banal words. Our mind is full of all kinds of thoughts, and we can say is just like a 'gardener aunt has an umbrella in the house' this kind of words." His this kind of loneliness is illusion, illusion cannot touch. Some detached attitude, his life can't imagine a realistic social life in the more than 40 years, live a "normal" life, can give up everything overnight. He reflected his sense of values to the evaluation of love: "I don't need to love. I have no time to make love. This is the weakness of human nature. I am a man, sometimes I need a woman. But once I got the lust of the meet, I'm going to do something else. I can not overcome their own desires, I hate it, it held my spirit. I hope to one day in the future, I will no longer controlled by the desire, no longer subject to any block up the whole heart into my work. Because women in addition to love won't do anything, so they leave love see very important, almost to the point of ridiculous. They also want to persuade us, that we also believe that the person's whole life is love. In fact part of love is trivial in life. I only know lust. This is normal, healthy. Love is a kind of disease. The woman is a tool for my pleasure, I proposed to them what career assistant, these requirements are very hate life partner."
These words the eccentric, such as a heresy. "Sexual hunger on strickland's position is very small, is not very important, or rather, let him feel aversion. His so
ul is another thing. Sometimes desire seize him, drove him indulge4 themselves, but for the deprived him quiet self sustaining instinct he is very tired, he even dislike him the indispensable partner in the ministries, indulgence, after him to control his, see the lust to vent his woman, he even with a shudder. His thoughts at this time will quietly floating over nine days, and for the woman felt disgust and terrible, maybe it felt like a fluttering and dancing in the flowers of the butterfly, it successfully shedding body out of the dirty puparium." So that he can throw his wife, when he met the second woman has lost.
He is out of step, finding neverland, "I think some people are born at a certain place may say it is not. Chance casually throwing them into an environment, and they have been thinking of a themselves don't know where is located in the hometown. Born in place; they seem to be a passer-by since childhood is very familiar with the shade of green alley, with the friend of the populous JieQu game, for they are a night stand for the trip. The people in his family and friends may lifetime and widowhood, also in their only familiar environment away always be alone. Maybe it was in May this strangeness to force them to travel, looking for a permanent resident of the apartment. Maybe still concealed in their deep heart how many generations ago ancestors habits and hobbies, called back to those who wanders had left the land of their ancestors in ancient. Sometimes a person accidentally came to a place, will feel this is mysteriously his shelter, is home to he has been looking for. So he in these never specially scenery, never met the crowd to settle down, but everything here is familiarity since he was a child. He finally found the peace here."
The novel, to the pursuit of spiritual freedom, but have no strength to practice, or comfort or hit, in short what can be harvested.
Finally, the origin of the title. According to the explanation of the translator, the moon, on high, such as the ideal; P, is the smallest currency unit, as reality. Reality and ideal conflict, is the eternal theme in humans.
月亮和六便士英文读后感 篇四
I remember that night， holding the Moon and Sixpence， and looking out the window at a bright full moon， I thought， is it worth pursuing such a moon？
"The Moon and Sixpence" is a story that seems close to madness to ordinary people. A middle—aged successful banker abandoned his wife and daughter to pursue his dream of being a painter. But he didn't want to be famous， he just wanted to paint， and he ended up burning all his pictures.
Why is he doing this？ He could live very well， very well， and live on sixpence， because the moon in his heart， has been guiding him forward， the moon should be pure， she also wanted to be like the moon， so he raised his head. He began to pursue his dream of being a painter， was stigmatized， abandoned his wife and children， he ignored. It takes a lot of courage.
But few people in reality have the courage to pursue their dreams like this banker. Dream， just like the bright moon is out of reach， someone wants to fly into space， but when he sees the tedious astronaut training， he lowers his head to pick up the sixpence； There is a man who wants to make a name for himself， and when he sees the dull and difficult facts in a book， he looks down and picks up the sixpence； A man wanted to be a doctor， but when he saw the doctor's hard work， he looked down and picked up sixpence. I think six is to refer to the ordinary and vulgar people， those people saw the moon， but flinch， in the heart want to do a vulgar people how？ They live in such an ordinary way， but， no dream of life is meaningful？
The pursuit of courage is valuable， so successful people are few and far between. But courage is not enough， you also have to have wisdom， morality， and a pair of eyes to see through the world. A banker is one of those people who， like the Buddhists， pursue only his dream and drive out all other distractions. There are many temptations， fame， money， success in the eyes of others. Even fewer people put distractions and temptations to the back of their minds.
Therefore， those who pursue their dreams are happy people； Truly pursue the dream of the people is qinghuan； He who gets his dreams is the successful one.
People in the world have different spiritual levels， but everyone has different pursuit， I hope that everyone in the world can live a successful life in their heart.
月亮和六便士英文读后感 篇五
Repeatedly picked up repeatedly put down, knock knock drag drag, finally read the friend recommended this book, good book! Ground was bowed their heads and can be picked up six pence, he -- strickland, stubborn aloof to like looking up at the round moon stands on a tall dark obelisk, between heaven and earth picked up six pence whether see or didn't see it all have to toward the obelisk bow bend over, whether it's a bad respect and admire or unconscious behavior, They all made obeisance to him.
Isn't that funny? Heaven loved Strickland and filled him with passion and talent; heaven hated him and brought him untold suffering. I've been thinking about a sentence recently: "Everyone, all his life, lives in his own prison. Forbearance is a line, energy is a line, the Angle between forbearance and energy is our living space.
The place where your eyes fall is the wall of your prison in this life!" If that were true of Strickland, he was free. There were no walls around strickland, for his eyes were on the moon. However, he also paid a high price for this freedom, abandoning his wife and children, his privileged life and stable future. But, on the other hand, they seemed to Strickland nothing at all. Compared with his dreams, they were trivial and dull.
As for me, I admire him and admire him, because what he does I long for but I can't do it. When making decisions in everyone's mind, material life and the pursuit of ideals all hold different weights. No matter what kind of decision we make, we have no way and no right to stand on our own point of view to make evaluation. If there is a judgment, let it be given to time, to history, to posterity. Now we, the most need to do, is to do the real yourself! I want sixpence, but I also want the moon.
There was no mine in my house, and I knew I was worth a pound, so I had to pick up my sixpence and survive. Only if I live can I have a chance to look up at the bright moon that only belongs to me. Because, I know, in my heart there is a mine, is burning day and night! Raise a glass to ask the moon, drunk to see the world, dance shadow wandering; Looking out of the sky, the fog disperses the cloud to open, holds the moon into the bosom!
月亮和六便士英文读后感 篇六
This book has always been recommended by a book friend. I read it once before, but I only read the first few chapters, probably because it was too slow to enter the story and I didn't understand the literature in front, so I abandoned the book! Many people recommended it later, so I read it patiently again and fell in love with the book as I slowly entered the story. First of all, I really appreciate the translator, who has such a strong language foundation, and it's really great!
Story from what I see, hear and feel to describe the "genius of the lunatic" painter Strickland, his verbal chan may be "get lost" "you and I have no twopence" "I don't care!" He selfish, poor communication, he doesn't care about anyone, he doesn't even care about himself, he can be indifferent to abandon the eyes of others "wife" "for the lovely children, can in order to their own lusts and his rescuer wife seduce, can also be for the sake of money and love, in his mind, as long as painting, other hairy relationship with me, He lives in his own world, just like the article said: he may be possessed by evil spirits, he only wants to achieve the goal, his own behavior is estimated that he is not clear! He is in the pursuit of "moon beauty" on the road, go too extreme is also very hard!
The article also tells the stories of people around him, such as the unbelievably kind but sympathetic Strove, who says he respects genius rather than being nice to everyone. Is such central air conditioning really good? I think people should have their own bottom line, their own principles, blindly good may not be recognized by others, but also be despised by others! The love his wife to a moth, abandoned the eyes of others "safe", the pursuit of the so-called "moon" in the heart, have no who to who wrong, remembered that resulted from a set of questions is "when you are married, met you this life love, what do you do", everyone choose different, whose behavior, we can't go to evaluate because we're not story! In fact, TO tell the truth, I quite envy that captain. I forget what his name is. He and his wife created their own happiness with both hands.
In fact, we are all artists, but some people express the way of art, and some people express the way of life! Whether it is the moon, or sixpence everywhere, I feel very meaningful! As long as it is created by their own hands, as long as it is obtained by their own efforts, I think it is meaningful and valuable! But I think no matter which road you choose, stay true to your original aspiration and you will always be the best! To maintain a good heart, but can not have no bottom line without principles!
