Genre

1.Novel

To regain the nature of goodness—Review of “Oliver twist”

Oliver Twist, one of the most famous works of Charles Dickens, is a novel reflecting the tragic fact of people’s life in Britain in 18^th century.

The author, who was born in a poor family, wrote this novel in his twenties to reveal the ugly mask of those cruel criminals and to expose the horror and violence hidden under the narrow and dirty streets in London. The hero of this novel is Oliver Twist who is an orphan. He was abandoned into a world that full of crimes and poverties. While reading the tragic experiences of the litter Oliver, I was shocked by his sufferings. I felt bad for the poor boy, but at the same time I detested the evil Fagin and the brutal Bill. As what was written in most stories, the goodness eventually conquered devil and Oliver lived a happy life at the end. One of the plots that attracted me most is that after the theft, little Oliver was allowed to recover in the kind care of Mrs. Maylie and Rose and began his new life. He wandered with them, or Rose read to them, and he worked hard at his lessons. He felt as if he had left behind forever the world of crime and hardship and poverty.

How can such a little boy who had already suffered oppressive affliction remain pure in mind? The reason I think is the nature of goodness, which is the most important information implied in the novel by Dickens. He believed that goodness could conquer every difficulty. Although I do not believe in god, yet I do believe that those who are kind-hearted live more happily that those who are evil-minded.

For me, the nature of goodness is one of the most necessary lessons for a person. However, to my disappointment, nowadays some people seem to doubt the existence of the goodness in humanity. They rarely believe in people’s honesty and kindness. They thought they were smart; however they have not noticed yet that the most beautiful thing in the world which is “Trust between hearts” is gradually gone. In their opinions, money and authority are everything. It is fearful when you find yourself become a slave for evils.

Francis Bacon said in his essay that “Goodness, of all virtues and dignities of the mind, is the greatest, being the character of the deity, and without it, man is busy, mischievous, wretched thing, no better that a kind of vermin.” It shows that a person without goodness is destined to lose everything. Therefore, I really wish those “vermin-to-be” to learn from the lovely Oliver and regain the nature of goodness.

The novel form of is the original view of the author, which endows audiences a biggest space for imagination to build up their own understanding of what the author trying to express.

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2. Music Drama

Phantom of the opera is one of the most famous music drama is the world. It describes a love story happened in the French Paris opera house in 19^th century. In 1882, there is an ugly guy, who is also with a mask and has brilliant endowment in music, live in the cave deep place of the opera house. Throughout years, he used his frequent mysteriously appears and disappears to avoid vision which common people alarmed and afraid despises. That is the reason that he is being called “The demon shade”. He frequently makes each kind of posture of by the ghosts and demons, drives those singers that he does not like away, even influencing the authority of the lead candidate in the opera house. By accident, he found a singer named Gram Li Silk, who has an uncommon talent beautiful sound. He decided to train the young lady to be the chief soprano no count all prices. However, actually he gradually found himself transforming the feeling towards Gram Li Silk from music to external desire. He tried to remove every possible potential element that may pull her down, by even using extreme artifices and methods. Afterwards, theater investor Lowell recognized the Gram Li Silk was his childhood plays partner, two people fell deeply in love. This accident love almost made “the Demon shade” crazy and bad tempered. His crazy behavior and desire to destroy things gradually transferred the fear to his sentiment from love. After half years, Lowell had secret engagement with Gram Li Silk, demon shade suddenly appear in the opera house masked ball, then he forced opera house to perform the his opera “the Tang Semi-annular jade pendant”, this crazy actions drove Lowell realize that a duel is the only way the end demon shade’s annoyance. On the date that “the Tang Semi-annular Jade pendant” first performed, the demon shade secretly replaced the actor by killing in order to perform with Gram Li Silk. Unexpectedly, she took off his mask in the performance during the play, which made Demon shade extremely angry. He was ashamed and forced Gram Li silk to his secret room underground. Lowell traced to the room and announced a duel with demon shade. However, he could not beat demon shade at all. In order to protect Lowell, the gram Li silk agreed to lean her body resolutely by kissing demon shade. The demon shade left the two lovers in the room and stepped to the prison, the mask left on the ground annotated the deplorable feeling in the heart of demon shade.

The theatric and stage effects endow the music drama a direct vision to express the meaning of it. Using songs to express sentiment is the most important characteristic in music drama, audiences can perceive the feeling through watching actors’ emotional and fantastic performances. The scenario of music drama is always not as complicate as novels or other forms of literacy, however, the special stage effects is making music dramas more and more popular.

3. Photo

On the photo, we can see two hands grasping closely, however we are not saying something like friendship and cooperation, what we are concerning about is poverty and hunger. A big white hand stands for those people who are having normal living condition, we do not need to worry that if one day we are going to die because of the lack of food. We study, we work, we eat, we drink sometimes we even travel, and we are enjoying our lives. We live in heaven, don’t we? However there are always some people that do not even have the ability for even just surviving in the world. They do not have house, they do not have a chance to go to school, they do not have enough food, and they do even have pure water to drink. When looking at the black and dry hand in the photo, we should have imaged what kind of life those poverty people are suffering. Fortunately, more and more people start to realize the problem which is an unfair distribution of the world’s welfare. They go to Africa, in where the most poverty people are considered to be. They donate clothes, foods and money with every possible ways. Schools and hospitals are set up by organizations to solve education and health care problems. What they are trying to do is to let those people who are poverty know we are caring about them. High criminal rate and unstable society are becoming a symbol of these areas. By struggling for survivals, people in these areas try to go to an outside world. They don’t care about becoming a slave, what they aim to is to get rid of poverty and hunger or say what they are trying to do is searching for foods and survivals. When looking at the photo, my tear can not stand falling down. I feel shame about my luxury behaviors and waste in daily life. I start to realize how good the life I am having. How come I still complaining about some unfair experiences which sounds stupid in front of this picture. We should try our best to help those people with poverty, not only donating things and moneys, but also to build up the confidence in their deep heart of struggle for goodliness. As if one day the world is fulfilled of love, we would not see poverty anymore.

Photo is such an amazing media that remind people of something by a visual way. Through a still of menu and picture, people can perceive things that may not be noticed and observed in daily life. This is the reason that photo is becoming one of the most frequent use media in current life.