圣洁的山茶花

——读《茶花女》有感

无论古今，“妓女”这个词都是被人唾弃的，有多少恶毒的词语被人们用在这群可怜的女人身上，人们认为妓女都是肮脏的、下贱的。但小仲马告诉我们，凡事无绝对。莲尚可“出淤泥而不染”，为什么就不能有这样的人呢？而本书的女主人公——玛格丽特，就是一朵生长在阴暗里的纯洁山茶花。

玛格丽特是一名巴黎名妓，每天都过着奢侈的生活，数不清的有钱人们在她身上掷重金，只为满足自己的虚荣心。玛格丽特她将身边的这一切都看得很清楚，知道自己或许一辈子也逃不开这个职业了，所以她只好疯狂的贪享欢乐，挥霍金钱，用这种方式来补偿自己。而在这时，上帝似乎在怜悯她，派了一位男子——阿尔芒，将一缕微薄的阳光撒在她身上。

她是单纯的。当阿尔芒为她不注重自己的身体而流泪时，她的心就被感动了，轻易的就被感动了，因为从来没有人会去留意这些，她的朋友们对她咳血的事习以为常，不加以理会。但阿尔芒却因为这点而撒下热泪，这怎能让她不倾心呢？或许，玛格丽特就是从这时候开始对阿尔芒动心。

她是悲观的。无论阿尔芒怎样对她诉说心中的爱意，她都当他是在说孩子气的话，她对他的微笑就像年轻的母亲对自己的孩子说傻话时露出的微笑。尽管最后玛格丽特答应的阿尔芒的追求，但她仍然说：“即使我活不多久，我活的时间也要比您爱我的时间长些。”

她是高尚的。终于，她和阿尔芒离开的繁华的巴黎，去到了一个宁静的地方，过着她渴望的，却从来都不敢奢求的生活。可是，阿尔芒的父亲的到来，打破了她的美梦。阿尔芒的父亲用自己儿子和女儿的未来做借口，让玛格丽特离开阿尔芒，这样残忍的对待那个好不容易才得到一点幸福的可怜的玛格丽特，只是为了他能保住自己的面子，不让人笑话。而她，也接受了。那一番漂亮的话，重新燃起了她为自己的身份的自卑，于是，她离开了阿尔芒，用最伤害阿尔芒，也是最伤害自己的方式离开了，回到了那个用奢侈堆砌而成的囚牢。最后，在阿尔芒误解的心灵虐待下，玛格丽特真正的离开了，解脱了。

玛格丽特，一个具有多么高尚情操的女子！正如作者所说：“她像最高尚的女人一样冰清玉洁。别人有多么贪婪，她就有多么无私！”她是一朵神圣高贵、永不凋谢的山茶花，用最美的姿态，盛放在上帝的后花园里。

第二篇：茶花女英文读后感

Those Beautiful Flowers

---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?