Oh, my girls, no matter what you are doing in the future, I think, nothing can bring you great happiness like this! —— Louisa May Alcott
When writing this sentence, Alcott has completed the last part of the novel "Little Women". More than one hundred years later, "Little Women" has once again entered people's field of vision. Time has proved that stories from life can move people's hearts most.
Introduction:
"Little Women" has been remade into a movie many times because of its influence beyond the times and national borders. The 1994 edition was directed by female director Gillian Armstrong and was regarded as the best quality edition. Its starring Winona Reid has also been nominated for an Oscar heroine. Now, revisiting "Little Women" again, and new ideas.
The original English name of the film "Little Women" (little women), Douban score 8.3 points. The film tells the story of the family life and growth of the four sisters of the March family during the Civil War. Four sisters with different personalities, showing different attitudes towards life and love, are a true portrayal of family warmth in the warm winter sun.
Next, I will take the first protagonist Joe’s free growth as the main line, and analyze the enlightenment of "Little Women" to modern women from the perspectives of family relationship, marriage and love, and independent women: listen to the inner voice and live up to love And freedom.
01, honest Joe, used his actions to explain to us that mutual love is the true meaning of sisters getting along well. The beginning of the story of
starts with the creation of the second daughter, Joe, in the house. Joe likes to read and wants to be a writer; the eldest daughter Meg is generous and longs for a free relationship; the third daughter Beth is a good girl at home and likes to be immersed in music; the fourth daughter Amy is noisy Nao, my sisters want to participate in everything they do. They are talented in painting.
The outbreak of the Civil War put the March family in embarrassment. The mother relied on simple female labor to barely maintain daily food and clothing. However, it is such a family that always exudes the light of kindness, and often uses food to help the more aggrieved neighbors, the Hanmer family. The four sisters
snuggled up next to their mother, reading the letter from her father
Joe is a brave girl, she is a bit weird in the eyes of adults, this is a manifestation of her free growth, but she is not as gentle as her mother. When Amy was refused to go to the theater, she burned Joe's manuscript. After returning home, Joe found that the manuscript was missing, and was furious and insisted to punish Amy. On the second day of skiing, Joe did not accept Amy's apology. But when Amy stumbled and fell into the river, Joe desperately ran to rescue her and forgave her.
Laurie and Joe gradually developed a good impression in the process of getting along. Joe was not willing to be like this in her life. She was a perfectionist and rejected Laurie's confession. Although Laurie and his sister Amy became lovers in the end, Joe did not resent Amy for taking away his former lover.
"At least we are all a family, as before." Joe said to Amy.
has no grudge against his sister's fault and marriage. She chooses to forgive and understand, because she knows that mutual love is the essence of family harmony, and also let us understand the value of family affection.
02, Joe, who is not bound by the outside world, listens to the guidance of the heart, and is worthy of affirmation.
Joe who refused Laurie's confession is also painful and entangled in his heart. She is obsessed with her own feelings and eager to pursue a perfect self. She knows that she and Laurie's personalities are not suitable, and they often quarrel. In order not to let herself fall into the prison of wealthy people, she chooses freedom and listens to her heart. When
was a tutor in New York, Joe met Professor Frederick. They were all the same, and they were all pursuing their perfect self.
Their hearts meet in the poem where the poet Whitman crosses the street and roars against the roaring traffic: "Leave your silent forest, oh, nature, leave your silent world of rivers and my peaceful Manhattan Street." Joe finally chose the professor, without being restricted by the outside world. Joe's choice expressed a kind of feminist consciousness, which is a guide for girls now.
Faced with life, Joe made his own choice
Schopenhauer said: “Only those who have firm and unshakable confidence in their outstanding talents and unique values are called pride.” does.Like Joe, it is not an enviable emotional attitude to follow the guidance of the heart and pursue perfection in love.
A friend of mine had a relationship when he was in college. The boy's family was relatively ordinary. However, his friends' parents were unwilling and insisted on forcing their friends to have a blind date and marry the boy in their parents' relationship. Later, when my friend was uncomfortable, he ran out of the house secretly and lived the life he wanted. Now there are not many girls who are as courageous as Joe. Joe's story gives most girls the courage to actively pursue their lives.
Today's young people add a lot of additions to love, fall into self-entanglement and predicament, and have no courage to resist unhappy real life. We have limited time. Why should we be influenced by the dogma of others in our lives to what we desire most? The important thing is to face the love in your heart bravely, everything else is not important.
In the rain, Joe and the professor express their hearts to each other
03, Joe, who yearns for freedom, shows the advanced consciousness and independent consciousness of modern women. To be rich, the only chance for the March family to change poverty is for their daughter to join a rich family. No one can truly be themselves, at least no woman can do it. You'd better marry better."
But the society at that time did not There is no way to make money for women, so no one can live according to their own will.
There is another very important reason why Joe refuses to accept Laurie, the rich son, that is, Joe hopes that he can live well without relying on men. This kind of independent woman is not acceptable to Laurie. What he needs is a gentle and well-behaved Joe, which Joe does not want.
's yearning for freedom reflects Joe's dissatisfaction with loneliness and fear from the side. Even if she is alone in New York, she bravely faces the depression brought by life. In the United States in the nineteenth century, patriarchy was unacceptable to Joe, and she longed for women to be independent in life.
is weak or brave. Joe is thinking about
. In my opinion, Joe’s behavior shows the advanced consciousness and independence consciousness of modern women. However, most people do not seem to be so clear about the true meaning of women’s independence.
Independent women is a concept with elements of the times. From Joe and modern women, I understand that independent women have three characteristics:
① insist on one's own ideas and opinions. They will arrange their next affairs in an orderly manner, have their own unique views on certain things, and dare to express their opinions.
② knows how to refuse, has its own principles and bottom line. Once someone crosses their principles and bottom line, zero tolerance is their attitude, and they can even turn their faces away from being friends or lovers.
③Hope for equal and self-esteem treatment of people around. The abundance of their inner world, perseverance and self-confidence, optimistic attitude, so that they do not need to rely on men to survive very well.
We often refer to independent women, such as strong women or men. However, truly independent women are neither strong women nor men, but the self-confidence, self-love, courage and perfectionism that exudes from Joe. The
doll symbolizes the March family
04, from Joe’s growth experience, talk about my views on growth and freedom
A person’s growth experience is determined by external and internal factors, and the external is the parent’s Family education is the inner self-growth perception of the child.
①From the standpoint of parents: If you want to raise a sensible and independent child like Joe, you cannot do without the love and company of your parents.
Joe’s mother said to her daughter: “Time will corrode all the beauty on the surface. What time cannot erase is the beautiful operation of your soul, your humor, your kindness, and your moral courage. These are what I have in your heart. Treasure things.”
Without the care of his father, Ma Qi's family was not in a mess. Under the patient and gentle education of the mother, the four girls established a correct outlook on love and life, and knew how to care for and protect each other. In a sense, Joe's mother is also an independent woman, but she is embodied in Joe, and she wants to treat her four daughters fairly.
in the play, whether it isWhen a child makes a mistake, the mother is not ruthless verbal abuse and whiplash, but gentle and reasonable, so that the child can feel love from the heart, so as to learn to love and learn not to make mistakes. This approach is worth learning from many of our parents. Children’s hearts are fragile and we need our parents to slowly protect them with love and company.
②From the standpoint of children: If you want to have a beautiful life, you must be brave to listen to your inner voice. You can have both love and freedom.
Apple founder Steve Jobs once said: “Listen to your own inner voice and do what you want to do.” Jobs used a lifetime experience to tell us that only we can understand our true inner thoughts and act according to our inner thoughts. Will feel smooth and satisfied.
From a child to an adult, we can all feel what we want in our hearts, on the one hand to love, on the other hand to be free. Brave children will break the rules of the world, talk to their own hearts, and realize that the value of life lies in listening to their inner thoughts. A life with love and freedom is a beautiful life!
Listening to his inner voice, Joe wrote his feelings about life
Conclusion:
"Little Women" adopts the continuation of time and space, let us see the process of the Ma Qi family’s four sisters from their naive childhood to mature women. Their emotional experience and life experience allow every girl to see her own shadow on the way to maturity. The value of
is as "Entertainment Weekly" once commented: ""Little Women" is like a blanket that keeps you warm in the cold world, and the spirit praised in it-courage, kindness, rigidity and softness Thanks to this, I still feel that I am ahead of the times."
Author: Three-twos
Thank you for reading, thank you for your attention~
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