To Regain the Nature of Goodness
-- Review of ‘Oliver Twist’
Oliver Twist one of the most famous works of Charles Dickens’ is a novel reflecting the tragic fact of the life in Britain in 18th century.
The author who himself was born in a poor family wrote this novel in his twenties with a view to reveal the ugly masks of those cruel criminals and to expose the horror and violence hidden underneath the narrow and dirty streets in London.
The hero of this novel was Oliver Twist an orphan who was thrown into a world full of poverty and crime. He suffered enormous pain such as hunger thirst beating and abuse. While reading the tragic experiences of the little Oliver I was shocked by his sufferings. I felt for the poor boy but at the same time I detested the evil Fagin and the brutal Bill. To my relief as was written in all the best stories the goodness eventually conquered devil and Oliver lived a happy life in the end. One of the plots that attracted me most is that after the theft little Oliver was allowed to recover in the kind care of Mrs. Maylie and Rose and began a new life. He went for walks with them or Rose read to him and he worked hard at his lessons. He felt as if he had left behind forever the world of crime and hardship and poverty.
How can such a little boy who had already suffered oppressive affliction remain pure in body and mind? The reason is the nature of goodness. I think it is the most important information implied in the novel by Dickens-he believed that goodness could conquer every difficulty. Although I don’t think goodness is omnipotent yet I do believe that those who are kind-hearted live more happily than those who are evil-minded.
For me the nature of goodness is one of the most necessary character for a person. Goodness is to humans what water is to fish. He who is without goodness is an utterly worthless person. On the contrary as the famous saying goes ‘The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose’ he who is with goodness undoubtedly is a happy and useful person. People receiving his help are grateful to him and he also gets gratified from what he has done and thus he can do good to both the people he has helped and himself.
雾都孤儿英文读后感 篇1
Oliver Twist is written by Charles Dickens.
Charles Dickens is one of the greatest writers in the England. He was born in a poor family, but later he became famous and rich. The famous novel --A Tale of Two Cities is written by him, too.
This novel shows us the cruelty and crime of London. Oliver Twist, the hero, is a poor orphan. He lived in a life filled with taunts. Nobody loved him. With visions of his future, he decided to go to London. He thought a new life was coming, but he was wrong, a group of thieves were waiting for him.
The author created a group of bad men.
Fagin, an old man, with a horribly ugly face and red hair, was the head of those thieves. He tried to make Oliver be a criminal.
Bill Sikes was a cruel and evil man in the group. He had a bad temper.
Monks, Oliver’s brother, did bad things to hurt Oliver. He wanted to get the legacies left by his father alone. He paid Fagin to trap Oliver into a life of crime. In fact, they were all afraid of being put into prison and being hanged. They can’t live happily.
Nancy, a poor girl, loved a bad man. She had to help Bill Sikes perpetrate, because she loved him. She had to be loyal to the criminal group, because she loved him. Actually, she was kind. She helped Oliver at the risk of her life. If she hadn’t fell in love with Sikes, she would have a happy ending.
The author showed these ugly things to us, he described an ugly world. But there are more kind people in the novel.
Mr. Brownlow, an old friend of Oliver’s father, took good care of Oliver.
Mrs. Maylie, Harry Maylie’s mother, saved Oliver of his life.
Miss Rose is the aunt of Oliver, in fact.
They all protect Oliver from hurt.
Oliver was unlucky to meet so many evil people, but he was luckier to get help from so many kind people.
In the end of the novel, all the evil people were punished. Oliver got what he should get. Rose married Harry Maylie and they lived happily. All the kind people have a happy ending.
Righteousness can always beat evil. I think this is what the author wants to tell. Although there are many ugly things in the world, we must believe that righteousness can always beat evil.
We must store kindness even though we are in ugly situation. One is poor if he doesn’t have kindness. One is rich if he has kindness. So please store your kindness in your mind.
What’s more, the novel also tells us to be brave. Oliver was brave enough to overcome all the problems he had met. No matter how difficult the problem is, we can’t give up, we must try our best to solve it.
From Oliver Twist , I have learnt a lot .It’s really a good novel.
雾都孤儿英文读后感 篇2
The author who himself was born in a poor family wrote this novel in his twenties with a view to reveal the ugly masks of those cruel criminals and to expose the horror and violence hidden underneath the narrow and dirty streets in London. The hero of this novel was Oliver Twist, an orphan, who was thrown into a world full of poverty and crime. He suffered enormous pain, such as hunger, thirst, beating and abuse.
While reading the tragic experiences of the little Oliver, I was shocked by his sufferings. I felt for the poor boy, but at the same time I detested the evil Fagin and the brutal Bill. To my relief, as was written in all the best stories, the goodness eventually conquered devil and Oliver lived a happy life in the end.
One of the plots that attracted me most is that after the theft, little Oliver was allowed to recover in the kind care of Mrs. Maylie and Rose and began a new life. He went for walks with them, or Rose read to him, and he worked hard at his lessons. He felt as if he had left behind forever the world of crime and hardship and poverty. How can such a little boy who had already suffered oppressive affliction remain pure in body and mind? The reason is the nature of goodness.
I think it is the most important information implied in the novel by Dickens-he believed that goodness could conquer every difficulty. Although I don’t think goodness is omnipotent, yet I do believe that those who are kind-hearted live more happily than those who are evil-minded.
雾都孤儿英文读后感 篇3
One of Dickens most enduringly popular stories is Oliver Twist, an early work published 1837-8. Like many of his later novels, its central theme is the hardship faced by the dispossessed and those of the outside of tolite society. Oliver himself is born in a workhouse and treated cruelly there as was the norm at the time for pauper children, in particular by Bumble, a parish council official or eadle The story follows Oliver as he escapes the workhouse and runs away to London.
Here he receives an education in villainy from the criminal gang of Fagin that includes the brutal thief Bill Sikes, the famous artful Dodger and Nancy, Bill whore. Oliver is rescued by the intervention of a benefactor - Mr Brownlow - but the mysterious Monks gets the gang to kidnap the boy again. Nancy intervenes but is murdered viciously by Sikes after she has showed some redeeming qualities and has discovered Monk sinister intention.
The story closes happily and with justice for Bumble and the cruel Monks who has hidden the truth of Oliver parentage out of malice. Accusations were made that the book glamorised crime (like the ewgate Group of the period) but Dickens wisely disassociated himself from criminal romances. His achievement was in fact in presenting the underworld and problems of poverty to the well-off in a way rarely attempted previously.
雾都孤儿英文读后感 篇4
Oliver Twist this world famous tells a moving story. The book of master is an orphan,his name is Oliver Twist. He was born in a workhouse,was born near his mother died. He was sent as an item sent,tortured. He finally met a kind old gentleman; brown Mr. Luo,he kindly took him,he lived a good life. But good times dont last long,Oliver unfortunately caught a thief in the second cave,Sykes stressed he participated in an expedition to steal,ended in failure,dying,or merry lady saved Oliver and kindly took him. After a period of time,Oliver live a happy life.
After reading this book,my heart a long time can not quell. The poor Oliver,in the pain of losing family members also received so much. I dont know his emaciated body,with what will make him,unremittingly,make him hungry,cold,lonely,suffering under the tenacious struggle,advance to a better life!
We live in the honeypot,the Fu nest,but always plaining,always satisfied. But we have thought,in the world,there are many children,are suffering great pain and hunger,disease; operation; facing the loss of loved ones,lead a wandering life. They are full of the desire for life,love of life,but suffering and against them. So,we have to cherish their own happiness,with our hands and brain,to do a useful person for the motherland,to return the society.
雾都孤儿英文读后感 篇5
Here I am sitting on a couch alone, thinking about what I have just finished reading with tears of sadness filling my eyes and fire of indignation filling my heart, which revived my exhausted soul that has already been covered by the cruelty and the selfishness of the secular world for a long time. It is truly what I felt after reading Oliver Twist, written by the prominent British author Charles Dickens.
The resonance between me and the book makes me feel not only the kindness and the wickedness of all the characters in the novel, but what this aloof society lacks, and what I lack deep inside. These supreme resources I’m talking about right now are somewhat different from minerals, oil that we usually mention. They’re abstract like feelings, and some kinds of spiritual stimulation that all of us desire anxiously from one another —— love and care.
Those charitable figures whom Dickens created in the novel are really what we need in life. They showed love and care to others, just as the gentle rain from the sky fell upon the earth, which was carved into my heart deeply.
Mr. Brownlow is one such person.
雾都孤儿英文读后感 篇6
How can such a little boy who had already suffered oppressive affliction remain pure in body and mind? The reason is the nature of goodness. I think it is the most important information implied in the novel by Dickens-he believed that goodness could conquer every difficulty. Although I don’t think goodness is omnipotent, yet I do believe that those who are kind-hearted live more happily than those who are evil-minded.
For me, the nature of goodness is one of the most necessary character for a person. Goodness is to humans what water is to fish. He who is without goodness is an utterly worthless person. On the contrary, as the famous saying goes, The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose’， he who is with goodness undoubtedly is a happy and useful person. People receiving his help are grateful to him and he also gets gratified from what he has done, and thus he can do good to both the people he has helped and himself.
To my disappointment, nowadays some people seem to doubt the existence of the goodness in humanity. They look down on people’s honesty and kindness, thinking it foolish of people to be warm-hearted. As a result, they show no sympathy to those who are in trouble and seldom offer to help others. On the other hand, they attach importance to money and benefit. In their opinion, money is the only real object while emotions and morality are nihility. If they cannot get profit from showing their ‘kindness’， they draw back when others are faced with trouble and even hit a man when he is down. They are one of the sorts that I really detest.
Francis Bacon said in his essay, ‘Goodness, of all virtues and dignities of the mind, is the greatest, being the character of the Deity, and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing, no better than a kind of vermin.’
《雾都孤儿》是狄更斯第二部长篇小说 。这位年仅二十五岁的小说家决心学习英国现实主义画家威廉·荷加斯(WilliamHogarth,1697一1764)的榜样，勇敢地直面人生 ，真实地表现当时伦敦贫民窟的悲惨生活 。他抱着一个崇高的道德意图：抗议社会的不公，并唤起社会舆论，推行改革，使处于水深火热中的贫民得到救助。正因为如此，狄更斯历来被我国及前苏联学者界定为“英国文学上批判现实主义的创始人和最伟大的代表”。对此，我有一些不同的见解：文学艺术 是一种特殊的社会意识形态，它必然是社会存在的反映。但是，我们决不能把反映现实的文学都说成是现实主义文学，把“现实主义”的外延无限扩展。事实上，作家运用的创作方法多种多样，因人而异，这和作家的特殊气质和性格 特点密切相关。狄更斯的创作，想像力极为丰富，充满诗的激情，他着意渲染自己的道德理想，处处突破自然的忠实临
奥利弗——一个孤儿，他被投入了一个充满贫困与犯罪的世界，忍饥挨饿，挨打挨骂，从来没有人关心他。邪恶的费金，残暴的比尔?赛克斯，以及一大群窃贼强盗。他们把奥利弗训练成一个神偷手，然后利用他去骗取钱财。可是奥利弗不愿去干这些事情,费金就对他拳打脚踢，迫使奥利弗到处流浪。幸运的是，他遇到了一群善良的人，对他无微不至的关怀，让奥利弗感到非常温暖。
当我想到一个九岁的孩子 ，在伦敦被迫加入罪恶累累、堕落不堪的小偷、强盗、亡命之徒的行列之中。但他并未放弃，在他的心中仍向往着一个美好的生活，多次在好心人的帮助下，终于过上了自己所想往的生活。我真觉得奥利弗真勇敢、真坚强 。而我们生活在蜜罐里，福窝里，却总是抱怨，总是不满足。但我们可曾想过，在世界上，还有许多孩子，正承受着巨大的痛苦;正和饥饿、寒冷、疾病作战;正面对着失去亲人，飘泊流浪的生活。他们需要别人的帮助，但更需要不屈的精神、勇敢的精神。
我要学习奥利弗的坚强不屈的精神、勇敢的精神。
我们也要学习善良的布朗洛，是他伸出了援助之手帮助奥利弗的。
看了《雾都孤儿》，让我受益非浅，让我懂得了社会的冷酷与人的性格的残暴。我们
要行动，帮助他们，挽救他们。
我向大家推荐的书是这《雾都孤儿》，这里面突出了一个典型人物，可怜、凄惨、悲苦的南希，她生活在一个残忍的世界中，却挣扎着要忠实于她所爱的人。她为了帮助奥利弗，而背叛了她所爱的人，最后遭到了坏人的毒手……经过这一连串的事奥利弗却坚强不屈，勇于斗争，所以我向大家推荐这本书。
《雾都孤儿》读后感
我最近读了狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》.
书中的主人公奥立弗是个私生子，他妈妈 刚生下他就死去了，可怜的奥立弗在济贫院里艰难地生活 了9年，而后又被送到棺材铺里当学徒，晚上就睡在棺材堆里，每次吃饭时都把他打发到最冰冷的角落里吃那些发霉的食物，。难以忍受的饥饿、贫困 和侮辱，迫使奥立弗逃到伦敦，却误入贼窝。小偷费根想把奥立弗训练 成扒手，奥立弗无论怎样都不肯屈服，他一次次地逃脱，又一次次被抓回来。
读到这，我真的被奥立弗的善良、正直、勇敢深深地感动 了，他向往美好 的生活，虽然历尽艰辛，但他宁愿去流浪，也不愿意成为一个小偷，他才10岁呀!真不知道在他瘦弱的身躯下有着怎样顽强的毅力,书中我最喜欢的人物 是两次帮助奥立弗的布朗娄先生，因为他的善良，奥立弗才得救，从此过上了幸福 的生活。最痛恨的人是费根，他想把奥立弗训练成扒手，也就是说，他想让世界上多一个坏人，少一个好人 ，不过让我高兴的是，最后坏人都得到了应有的惩罚。
读了这本书，让我受益匪浅，我们的生活和奥立弗比起来，简直是一个天堂一个地狱，我会更加热 爱 这美好的生活，好好学习 ，同时在生活和学习中遇到困难也会永往直前，绝不退缩!
雾都孤儿英文读后感
To Regain the Nature of Goodness
—— Review of ‘Oliver Twist'
Oliver Twist, one of the most famous works of Charles Dickens', is a novel reflecting the tragic fact of the life in Britain in 18th century.
The author who himself was born in a poor family wrote this novel in his twenties with a view to reveal the ugly masks of those cruel criminals and to expose the horror and violence hidden underneath the narrow and dirty streets in London.
The hero of this novel was Oliver Twist, an orphan, who was thrown into a world full of poverty and crime. He suffered enormous pain, such as hunger, thirst, beating and abuse. While reading the tragic experiences of the little Oliver, I was shocked by his sufferings. I felt for the poor boy, but at the same time I detested the evil Fagin and the brutal Bill. To my relief, as was written in all the best stories, the goodness eventually conquered devil and Oliver lived a happy life in the end. One of the plots that attracted me most is that after the theft, little Oliver was allowed to recover in the kind care of Mrs. Maylie and Rose and began a new life. He went for walks with them, or Rose read to him, and he worked hard at his lessons. He felt as if he had left behind forever the world of crime and hardship and poverty.
How can such a little boy who had already suffered oppressive affliction remain pure in body and mind? The reason is the nature of goodness. I think it is the most important information implied in the novel by Dickens-he believed that goodness could conquer every difficulty. Although I don't think goodness is omnipotent, yet I do believe that those who are kind-hearted live more happily than those who are evil-minded.
