one of the most interesting questions about gullivers travels is whether the houyhnhnms represent an ideal of rationality or whether on the other hand they are the butt of swift's satire. in other words, in book iv, is swift poking fun at the talking horses or does he intend for us to take them seriously as the proper way to act? if we look closely at the way that the houyhnhnms act, we can see that in fact swift does not take them seriously: he uses them to show the dangers of pride.

first we have to see that swift does not even take gullver seriously. for instance, his name sounds much like gullible, which suggests that he will believe anything. also, when he first sees the yahoos and they throw excrement on him, he responds by doing the same in return until they run away. he says, "i must needs discover some more rational being," even though as a human he is already the most rational being there is. this is why swift refers to erasmus darwins discovery of the origin of the species and the voyage of the beagle-to show how gulliver knows that people are at the top of the food chain. but if lemule gulliver is satirized, so are the houyhnhnms, whose voices sound like the call of castrati. they walk on two legs instead of four,

and seem to be much like people. as gulliver says, "it was with the utmost astonishment that i witnessed these creatures playing the flute and dancing a vienese waltz. to my mind, they seemed like the greatest humans ever seen in court, even more dextrous than the lord edmund burke" . as this quote demonstrates, gulliver is terribly impressed, but his admiration for the houyhnhnms is short-lived because they are so prideful. for instance, the leader of the houyhnhnms claims that he has read all the works of charles dickens, and that he can singlehandedly recite the names of all the kings and queens of england up to george ii. swift subtly shows that this houyhnhnms pride is misplaced when, in the middle of the intellectual competition, he forgets the name of queen elizabeths husband.

swifts satire of the houyhnhnms comes out in other ways as well. one of the most memorable scenes is when the dapple grey mare attempts to woo the horse that guenivre has brought with him to the island. first she acts flirtatiously, parading around the bewildered horse. but when this does not have the desired effect, she gets another idea: "as i watched in amazement from my perch in the top of a tree, the sorrel nag dashed off and returned with a yahoo on her back who was yet more monstrous than mr. pope being fitted by a clothier. she dropped this creature before my nag as if offering up a sacrifice. my horse sniffed the creature and turned away."

it might seem that we should take this scene seriously as a failed attempt at courtship, and that consequently we should see the grey mare as an unrequited lover. but it makes more sense if we see that swift is being satiric here: it is the female houyhnhnm who makes the move, which would not have happened in eighteenth-century england. the houyhnhm is being prideful, and it is that pride that makes him unable to impress gullivers horse. gulliver imagines the horse saying, sblood, the notion of creating the bare backed beast with an animal who had held mr. pope on her back makes me queezy .

a final indication that the houyhnmns are not meant to be taken seriously occurs when the leader of the houynhms visits lilliput, where he visits the french royal society. he goes into a room in which a scientist is trying to turn wine into water (itself a prideful act that refers to the marriage at gallilee). the scientist has been working hard at the experiment for many years without success, when the houyhnmn arrives and immediately knows that to do: "the creature no sooner stepped through the doorway than he struck upon a plan. slurping up all the wine in sight, he quickly made water in a bucket that sat near the door" .

he has accomplished the scientists goal, but the scientist is not happy, for his livelihood has now been destroyed. swifts clear implication is that even though the houyhnhmns are smart, they do not know how to use that knowledge for the benefit of society, only for their own prideful agrandizement.

throughout gullivers travels, the houyhnhms are shown to be an ideal gone wrong. though their intent might have been good, they don't know how to do what they want to do because they are filled with pride. they mislead gulliver and they even mislead themselves. the satire on them is particularly well explained by the new born houyhnhm who, having just been born, exclaims, "with this sort of entrance, what must i expect from the rest of my life!"

飘的英文版读后感篇2

pride and prejudice ", a novel a pleasure to behold, a beautiful and moving story. the article describes a number of daughters bo nate story. ji-an eldest daughter, gentle kind-hearted, beautiful keren, bentley and rich kids at first sight, but at the crucial moment has brought a twist. second daughter, elizabeth, qingli intelligent, ambitious, assertive, consistent with the property of the nobility million youth met darcy. can be as arrogant darcy eccentric, elizabeth for his prejudice are serious, they love but refuse to recognize the obvious, but also continue to hurt each other with words, but fortunately dispelled the last mistake, married lovers. reading this novel, i have benefited greatly. in our people, there are many very modest, but there are some arrogant people. these arrogant people who sometimes annoying, they have eyes in the head long, others are dismissive. indeed, the arrogance is a shortcoming in the environment to develop a character.

chinese children from an early age by their parents as holding typical "little emperors." if so has been from small to large, how could it not arrogant? so i think that we should not be arrogant people who have prejudices, but the more soul-searching myself, to see if they have not arrogant, after their own things to learn to no longer allow parents to worry about, tired. as the book said: "heart of pride in everyone. as long as we have so a little bit of strength, they will feel especially great. but pride and vanity while the same meaning, but in real terms in different kinds of self-pride is a feeling,vanity will need to involve other people overestimate their own, so people have a pride without vanity, which is justifiable.

飘的英文版读后感篇3

世界名著到底是不一样于一般的作品，读得时候能完全的融入到故事的情景中去，虽然他的语言情节，甚至结局都很平淡，故事也逃不出世俗的套路，以读者期盼的方式发展。

?简爱》让我阅读越喜欢，它不催我一滴眼泪，或一丝个性的感动。但那种心里淡淡的愉悦灌入我的身体。像早起喝了一杯纯牛奶，很淡但牛香味久久不散。

我读过许多关于感情的诗和小说，大多心灵震颤，感动得一塌糊涂，也很向往那样深刻的感情，那样浓烈的感觉。以前有过，于是越细读简爱的心理描述，越能体味她对恋人的深情。她的一切心理，脆弱，伤感，多疑，幻想，甚至过于敏感的患得患失。我都能理解，并深刻的感叹作者的描述是多么形象逼真啊。

我一向很佩服明晓溪的《泡沫之夏》描述的唯美入微，《红楼梦》里黛玉的心思细腻感人，此刻感觉到简爱的丝毫不比她们逊色，甚至更贴切，更贴合一个普通女孩坠入爱河时的表现，至少是与我相贴合。

回想起来，我真和她读过的那一段时间很像，每一天想的都是那么复杂的东西。呵，多伤神啊，可却从没有停止想过。生命的平淡却所以消失，代之以丰富的东西。很少有人能在心中划下印痕。简爱太冷淡，生活也很灰暗，罗彻斯特便是上帝带给她去改变生命的人。而简爱也在他心中激起永远无法平息的涟漪。我想他们对于彼此而言都太特殊了，以至于一辈子都没办法忘掉或不爱，如果失去了彼此，那该是怎样的荒芜啊。

好在他们有相对愉快的结局，只要两情相悦，还是能够在一齐的，可总感觉作者结局火灾部分的安排有些……，虽然有她的道理。

如果他们没有在一齐会怎样呢？这是不可能的，按照小说的铺垫。现实中就不一样了，就是心灵相通也未必。人的追求多了，欲望也一样。难免最终各奔东西。

简爱是个个性的人，她不求什么，也不被现实的枷锁所累，无欲则刚，她能够一心持续特立独行的她。或许这正是我该学习的，想太多，难免会陷入牢笼之中。倒不如简单淡薄的好。

飘的英文版读后感篇4

说：“饭可以一日不吃，觉可以一日不睡，书不可以一日不读。”培根说：“读书补天然不足，经验又补读书之不足。”所以，我们要“多读书，读好书，好读书”。

我最喜欢的一本书是《汤姆索亚历险记》，他讲述的是一个名叫汤姆斯？索亚的小男孩，在遇到许多困难的时候，英勇面对，最后回归文明社会的故事。

我最喜欢的是第二十三章——《出庭作证》，讲述的是因为墓地惨案后，波特被人认定为杀人凶手，而汤姆因为自身的正义感让他无法坐视不管，主动站出来告知所有事情真相的故事。

在看这一章时，我能感受到汤姆其实很害怕英琼？乔，但是他的良心使他无法坐视不管，而后便勇敢的站出来解释这一切，从这里可以看出汤姆的善良、正义、英勇，也可以从中体会到马克？吐温耗费了几年时间才塑造了这么一个充满正义、勇敢有担当男孩的不容易。这也让我想起前几天班上发生的一件小插曲。

那天上午，班上几个女生在一起玩时打翻了课桌上的一瓶墨水，而她们却看都不看就走了，但是有一名同学没有走，她在班上虽然默默无闻，但是心地可是极善良的。她看到后马上拿起扫把去把墨水渣打扫干净，再用拖把把地拖得干干净净。墨汁瓶的主人看见她这样做，便没再说什么。第二天，这位女同学把一瓶新墨水送给了他，老师看到后，夸奖道：“你做得很对，做人就应该有担当！”老师严厉的目光看向其他几个犯错的女生，她们都低下了头。

虽然人物不同，但他们都一样地有担当。我相信，一个有正义感和担当的人，他们的精神也一定是值得我们学习的。

飘的英文版读后感篇5

everyone in the world, whether he or she is rich or poor, will encounter a lot of difficulties, even hardships. different people may have different ways to deal with them. after reading the little princess, i am deeply impressed by sarasquo;s way to deal with difficulties. the little princess was written by frances hodgson burnett, a famous novelist and dramatist. sara, the heroine of the novel, was born in a rich family. in order to get a better education, her father took her from india to london so that she could go to the best school. because sara was kind-hearted, generous and most of all—rich, she was loved by everyone. all went well until her father died in an accident.

everything changed completely. she didnsquo;t understand why the teachers and classmates treated her so badly. even the principal who used to be fond of her, made her work 16 hours a day. sarasquo;s miserable life began...

when i finished reading the book, i was shocked by what the unimaginable pain sara had suffered after her fathersquo;s death. she used to be a happy, worriless, and rich princess, but now she was a lonely and poor servant. she had to work very hard without any rest but only had little food. besides she had to endure the unfriendly and even rude ways that her classmates treated her. all teachers and students in the school looked down upon her. the most important fact is that sara had lost the love and care of her parents.

what a mighty pain! if you were sara, could you stand such pain? needless to say， an 11 years old girl, even if it were an adult， he might not put up with it. but to my surprise, sara faced it bravely. despite of the torture of the principal and all those pressures above, she still was optimistic towards life.

by reading this novel, i felt inspired and think much. when we meet such difficulties, what should we do? some people always complain that the fate is unfair to them. some people cansquo;t sustain the hardships and choose to give up. few of them even try to commit suicide because they lack the courage to overcome it. compared with sara—an eleven years old girl who can treat the pressure of life with optimistic spirit, these peoplesquo;s performances are sounded so lamentable. why cansquo;t they make it?

however, what impress me most are her characteristics and the thought of her being a real princess. this real princess does not mean luxury palaces, beautiful clothes and the apple of the otherssquo; eyes, but being kind, generous and having good manners. it is unnecessary for a real princess to be strong in body, but she must be strong in will. sara is a real princess in my heart all the time, whether she was rich and wore beautiful clothes in the classroom or she was cold and hungry in the attic, just because she had the good characters and kind heart.

the story went on. fortunately, a friend of sarasquo;s father found her and told her that her father left a great sum of money to her. i pray and believe that every good person in the world deserve a good result. so does sara.

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