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| A907下- ENGLISH LITERATURE – A TREASURE OF WESTERN CIVILISATION JCW 2010/08/15. NoDerives (ND) Creative commons Copyright. ▽ External Link ▽ (1). My forum: https://city.udn.com/61613/forum (3). It's fun: http://blog.udn.com/jctheoldman (2). My blog: http://blog.udn.com/jcwang00/article (4). Relay Story: http://blog.udn.com/JC00 ---------------------------Translate多語言翻譯器 ---------------------- 偶然見到這個介紹英國古典文學的網站 (續前) Traditional Family Values In Sense and Sensibility, Marianne Dashwood, seriously hurt by her experience with passionate rousseauian naturalism finds refuge in religious principles, conventional standards and traditional family values. She marries “with no sentiment superior to strong esteem and lively friendship” settling for much less than she had once hoped for. However, having seen where her blindness to the cold, hard facts of human nature had almost taken her, she recognises how much worse it could have been. Such as in the case of the already seduced, pregnant and abandoned other girl who was in love with her almost lover. The Victorian reaction to the excesses of Romanticism were also seen in the writings of Alfred Tennyson, Robert Browning, Matthew Arnold, George Meredith, Gerard Hopkins, the Brontes, George Eliot and Charles Dickens. CHARLES DICKENS Charles Dickens was a crusading social reformer against the debtors prison, the workhouse and other abuses in Victorian society. However, as an astute observer of human nature, Charles Dickens exposes the faults typical of new liberal thinking as well. A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens’ monumental “A Tale of Two Cities” about the French Revolution, not only exposed the decadence of the pre-Revolution French Monarchy, but was such a devastating exposé of Revolutionary ideology, that Margaret Thatcher presented French President Francois Mitterrand with a copy. Unintended Consequences Charles Dickens’s novels illustrate the unintended consequences of liberal actions. Every set of choices set in motion a complex chain of events that no one could have foreseen, let alone control. Good and evil deeds have long shadows. Actions Have Consequences The ultimate effects of our actions are determined more by the intrinsic character of the acts themselves than by our motivation at the time. Deeds of greed and cruelty have devastating consequences. The end does not justify the means. It is never right to do evil that good may come of it. Hard Times In his “Hard Times” novel Dickens not only depicts the conditions of factory workers, but exposes the destructiveness of the radical modern experiments in education as well. Bleak House In Dicken’s “Bleak House” Mrs Jellyby loves the Africans so much that she neglects her own family, even persecuting her own children in pursuit of her high and compassionate ideals for strangers. Her children become casualties of the Revolutionary era in which large projects for the betterment of the human race crowd out traditional individual responsibilities and absolute moral standards. Non Art Evelyn Waugh points out that “art”, the only aim of which is to annoy and upset it’s audience, isn’t really art at all. Without Faith Civilisation Crumbles Waugh observes that without the Christian religion human beings are disgustingly selfish and shallow. The loss of the Christian Faith means death for western civilisation. This may explain why so many politically correct “Englishprofessors” today have stopped teaching English literature. “Finally brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy – meditate on such things.” Philippians 4:8 Dr Peter Hammond Sources: The Politically Incorrect Guide to English and American Literature by Elizabeth Kantor The Reformation Society === EOF === 請幫我鼓吹我的政治理念 A810CN★- 未 來 世 界 之 聲 2010-06-20 ☆ 謝謝你的支持 ☆ . . . . |
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