圣诞颂歌英文读后感
圣诞颂歌英文读后感
This past December, I read Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol for the first time. Of course, I ha一ve seen the story done on stage a number of times （mostly as a child）， and the various movies are a yearly Christmas tradition. （My fa一vorite is Albert Finney's portrayal in the early 1970's British musical version "Scrooge."） But despite being very familiar with the story itself through stage and film, and despite ha一ving bought a copy of the book some years back, I had never taken the time to sit down and read the story.
So, ha一ving bought a new edition of the book after Christmas last year, I finally sat down in December and began the original story.
It was absolutely sublime!
As much as I love the film and stage adaptations of the story, the book was just wonderful. So full of color and imagination and description - you could fairly feel the 19th century London cold, the piles of apples and oranges on the street carts, the hawkers calling out to passers-by bundled head-to-toe in woolen coats and boots.
This really is the quintessential Victorian Christmas story. I suppose I'm only about 170 years late in determining that, but now that I ha一ve read the story, I can see why it was such an instantaneous hit with readers. It was so successful during his lifetime, in fact, that Dickens began a tradition of writing Christmas stories every year. The edition of A Christmas Carol that I purchased last year has two other Dickens Christmas stories in it as well, although I ha一ve not yet dived into those two.
So I highly recommend this book. If you ha一ve seen any or most of the various Scrooge movies that ha一ve been made over the years, much of the book will be familiar, but there are a few scenes here and there that I ha一ve never seen re-enacted in a play or a movie, including a trip out to a mining colony on the coast of England, and a hovering ride over the English Channel to view Christmas on a Na一vy ship.
Even after all these years of watching movies and plays based upon this story, I was still moved, emotionally, while reading this book, particularly during the scenes with the Cratchit family. And at the end, I almost felt a tear well up when Scrooge showed up on his nephew's doorstep for Christmas Lunch.
To end, let me quote one of the more poignant passages from the book. The Ghost of Christmas Present has just reminded Scrooge of his harsh words about how if the poor are going to die "then they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population." The Ghost quoted the same phrase after Scrooge expressed concern about whether or not Tiny Tim would die. The Ghost goes on to say the following:
"Man," said the Ghost, "if man you be in heart, not adamant, forbear that wicked cant until you ha一ve discovered What the surplus is, and Where it is. Will you decide what men shall live, what men shall die? It may be, that in the sight of Hea一ven, you are more worthless and less fit to live than millions like this poor man's child. Oh God! To hear the Insect on the leaf pronouncing on the too much life among his hungry brothers in the dust."
That last line, in particular, strikes a powerful chord. How relevent, 170 years downstream, and in another country, for the self-righteous protestations of the wealthy American!
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