爱华网Human Nature
DavidCopperfield waswritten by Dickens and it is a long piece of fiction.The story is told almost entirely from the pointof view of the first person narrator, David Copperfield himself.When reading this novel, I was totally attracted by not only theexciting plot but also the author‘s sprightly smooth and thehumorous charminglanguage.
Themain character, David Copperfield is a diligent person who is goodat observing. His father passed away in his early time, and hismother departed later, which made him make a livingindependently. At first, he wassent to do the child laborer. Latter, because cannot bear the maltreatment, he ranaway to his aunt’s home. His aunt sent him to school, aftergraduate, he become a lawyer and marry his teacher’sdaughter Dora. But soon, Dora died of disease and Davidleave for Australia with deep sorrow. After returning to homeland, he hadbecome a writer and married Agnes, and from this time he starts thehappy content life.
The novel plot isjust like this,though there are not manysoul-stirring scenes and imposing heroicachievement,lets me feel that Iwas appreciating a freshpicture.
David’s complexcharacter allows for contradiction and development over the courseof the novel. David experiencedmany things whichwere difficult and dangerous, when he was in trouble, his friendscame to help him. Among those people, there were men and women,elders and children. Though they were different, all can renderoneself in one's power assistance at difficult time. Due to havethese truly friends, David can turn danger into safety and bepulled in the death edge by the companion again and again. What canlet he pass the danger is the great humannature.
Ithinkthe human nature passes through this book. In thenovel, there are many art characters, in myopinion,these are theactually living character in the real life. These characters arenot only lived in 19th century, but also liveinthe present age.The human nature isdivided into two parts, elegant and ugly.The eleganthuman nature should always be remembered by us and not be dilutedby the time’s change. We should develop and let it lead the entirehuman nature for it has a great significance for our society. Theugly human nature should be forbidden and not appear in thesociety, it is not only does no significance to our society, evenalso can tow the hind leg which weprogress.
The good servant Peggotty was kind all the time.She does not like to show herself in front of people, her kindnesscomes from her heart, and then I associate others in the world,some of them are hypocritical and unctuous. Which they can’t getrid of is their own interest. No matter what they do, they firstthink is that whether their interest will be destroyed or theirpurpose will be completed. They are selfish, and their mind shouldbe corrected with the standard ofPeggotty’s.
In our actually society, many people are similarto Steerforth, he is very cunning, he made friends with David thencheat his friends. At first, they pretended very gentle oroutstanding to their friends, in fact, they had their own purpose.After having their friends confused, then the evil plan started.Taking advantage of other’s trust to cheat and running away whenthey completed the purpose. Their human natures are ugly andhateful.
But the man who was most hated is Uriah Heep.Uriah serves a foil to David and contrasts David’s qualities ofinnocence and compassion with his own corruption. Uriah and Davidnot only have opposing characteristics but also operate atcross-purposes. For example, whereas Uriah wishes to marry Agnesonly in order to hurt David, David’s marriages are both motivatedby love He always displays very much base and low in front ofothers, as if he want to win others sympathy, he likes to do thisat any time. Actually, he has other goal, when he cooperation withDavid, he want to make him breakdown and cause him to stain theexcessive drinking abuse, he embezzled public funds and try to buyhis office. I think there are many people who are similar to Uriahin the market, they always like to enjoy the process of destroyingothers to accumulate their own wealth. Sometimes they even cheattheir closed person. In front of the family members, they are verysuccessful and splendid, but no one know that they receive these bybetrayed their own human nature. They obtain the splendid whileharvested the evil. I think ordinary people will not want this kindof splendid.
We should inherit and carry forward the eleganthuman nature, make up for the discount mind. But for the ugly humannature, we should say firmly “no”, and defeats it with theelegant human nature. Only do this can our society become morebeautiful andpeaceful.
