Human Shackles

Young people who feel particularly good should watch it. Young people should do something when they reach a certain period of time, and should not be ambitious and aim too high. As big a mouth as you have, you will eat as much bread as you want. The most important thing is to stay away from bad people. In life, be a kind-hearted ordinary person; in study and work, be a hard-working, smart and down-to-earth person; the most important thing is to stay away from low-quality or immoral people when making friends and choosing a partner.

Reading the protagonist's ups and downs in prosecution is like reading about myself. Everyone is so real, just like the people around me, and they make no secret of the protagonist's character weaknesses. The content is profound. I am ready to read it again.

Human nature is inherently selfish and greedy. In the sea of ​​desire, very few people can swim ashore alone. Humility and introspection are the only ways to improve yourself!

Maugham's writing style is very concise, and all the techniques are just right. When reading this book, I was really immersed in it. I felt happy or sad about what the protagonist Philip experienced. What impressed me most was the profound understanding of life in this book.

Five stars. It's so gratifying to see Philip win the heart of the healthy, gentle, hard-working and beautiful Sally in the end. Philip is kind, upward, gentle, and emotionally sensitive. Although he is not rich, he has decorated his residence very warmly and lives an orderly life. He is a very exquisite man. He has many advantages and is worthy of the title of gentleman! No matter what kind of encounter you encounter, don't lose your kind nature. I believe that through unremitting efforts, you will eventually get better.

Everyone will encounter various obstacles in life, and we ourselves will also have innate limitations. These are the shackles we encounter in life. Don't be afraid of them. Open it bravely, and in the end you will find that every shackle you open will make your life more calm and magnanimous!

This book has beautiful language, clear logic, and vivid descriptions of life and human nature. It can trigger readers to think about life, soothe the pain of the soul, and accept their own mediocrity. As the book says, life is inherently meaningless. We are just passers-by in the universe. Accept the present moment. Every experience is a stroke in the blueprint of your life. Love the world and be an honest and kind person.

From a book, I saw the shadow of myself for half my life: pity, poverty, loneliness, frustration, rebellion, arrogance, despair, madness, pursuit, love... In the end, everything returned to peace: embracing dreams, loving life; looking up at the moon in a sixpenny world. Maugham is really a great writer. Each paragraph of description can find the refraction point of life, and finally gives a loving ending. I think this book gave me sobriety, great power. His summary of the philosophy of life is simply immortal. When I read it again, I have to excerpt and recite it at the same time.

At the end, I was stunned for a moment and realized that it was over, and burst into tears. Seeing Philip's drastic change, we all imagined going back to the past to make a better choice, or to break free from the shackles we had put on ourselves, to love, to hate, to be indifferent, and to pursue boldly. There will always be dissatisfaction in life, and we have made the choice we thought was best at the time. The shackles of human nature are the ones that make us feel pain. There is no essential difference between the pursuit of pain and the pursuit of happiness. The shackles of human nature are also the nirvana of human nature. When the shackles are broken, there may be buildings and cages, or there may be extraordinarily thick south walls. Is it meaningful to break the shackles? It is unknown. Giving up meaning is both nirvana and death. Finally, I hope you can meet your own Sally, and your love will never fade away.

Philip's love is like a sacrifice, including the friendship he had with that boy when he was young, constantly giving, waiting, waiting to be loved but not getting it. Looking at his relationship with the waitress, I feel that he is the opposite of the male protagonist in "The Unworthy of the World". The male protagonist in "The Human World" is surrounded by people who treat him well and try hard to be good, and then he himself becomes bad and completely bad. This is because he has always been tolerant of love, to the point of being coquettish and losing himself. They are all paranoid about love and self-centered, but self-centeredness is rooted in everyone's life.

Philip took off his shackles again and again, and put on new shackles again and again. I think life is like this, there will be insights and shackles. Be sincere but restrained, and carry out the self-perception and self-transcendence from beginning to end. May we be able to take off our shackles again and again like the protagonist Philip.

Human nature is shackles everywhere, including inferiority, loneliness, jealousy, indifference, selfishness, philistinism, arrogance, hypocrisy, cowardice, irritability, stubbornness... People are imprisoned by various shackles and are also trapped by other people's shackles. Only by breaking free from the shackles can we have a calm, peaceful and happy life. The protagonist Philip is disabled, lost his mother when he was young, is dependent on others, and is lonely and sensitive. After going through a long period of schooling, I came into contact with a series of people who were kind, conceited, honest or selfish, and encountered failed and unforgettable love. I finally recognized myself, broke free from the shackles, reconciled with myself, and gained my own happiness. You can see all sentient beings and yourself in the book, so be patient and experience it!

I wanted to give up reading countless times, but persisted countless times because Maugham's writing was too real. The confusion, vanity, impetuosity of young people, and the sedimentation after experience. Although he was shocked by Philip's love brain and disgusted with the reality of his view of his lover's identity, it was precisely because of these experiences that he was able to grow, rather than being a cookie-cutter Wei Guangzheng character. I hope that I can also obtain and accept ordinary happiness.

The author's writing style is delicate, and the characters in the book are rich and colorful. The characters are portrayed from shallow to deep, from appearance to nature, especially the weaknesses and beauty of human nature are deeply portrayed. The plot of the whole book is full of ups and downs. There is no magnificent life in it, only an ordinary world. The protagonist goes from being pragmatic to pragmatic. I think this should be the path that most of us take. The philosophy and questions raised in the book are worthy of our dialectical examination and reflection.

A very good book, which effectively relieved my mental internal friction.

Accepting the faults of others, accepting your own mediocrity, and accepting everything that may happen may be the tolerance that life teaches us.

Thanks to Somerset Maugham, I can't understand Philip's bad love in the middle, but I actually encountered the same experience as him. What I saw from it is that love seems to have nothing to do with both parties. He is more about one person's self-satisfaction. Philip asked her at the beginning, then indulged him later, and then despised him later. But what has remained unchanged is love, not the love between them, but Philip's own fantasy of love. We ask each other to do this or that in order to satisfy our own desires, but there are two people in love. If you are happy, the other person will definitely be unhappy. In a relationship, both parties must make choices, but generally it is more boys, because society has always required this. You are destined to have a big picture, and you are destined to guide girls. In love, you will know whether it is suitable or not after seeing clearly. This is my reflection on myself. The whole book is so wonderful. What changed for me is that I was unwilling to read this plot at first, but later I actually enjoyed it. I expected what fate would do to Philip, but I also felt scared because we are all teased by fate. But later when Philip felt that life was meaningless and the shackles of the entire life were untied, I also had some inspiration. It is precisely because it is meaningless that I can do anything. It is precisely because it is meaningless that I can not care about anything, because everything has its end. We are so miserable in this life. We are trapped because of our own habits and scaring ourselves. Therefore, I should have less illusions and be more calm. I should respect everything, because everything is meaningless, they are just fools teased by fate. This is the truth of life. I should respect everything, because we are all poor people who cannot control our own lives. When you think about it, as Cronshaw said, everything in the universe is mobilized to promote the development of things. You are no longer in control. All you can do is go with the flow and find the best answer that meets your requirements. I also saw the brilliance and ugliness of human nature during the period when my uncle died, because I also had such a moment in my life. I was deeply shocked, because this is human beings, he is complicated. I don't understand others, but I know what I think. When comparing Philip's experience in the book with my own, I was so Everyone has their own ugliness, but for the sake of happiness, I have to give up my own interests, and I have to look at the advantages and shining points of others. In everything I do, others may think I am big, but in fact I know that I am just for happiness. Thank you again, Mr. Maugham, for providing me with such a great work.

Many things have two sides, just like Philip felt that his disability distorted his character, but it cultivated his ability to often introspect. Everyone in the world has disabilities to a greater or lesser extent, some are physical and some are psychological. For example, some people have heart disease, some are lame, and some are addicted to alcohol or other things.

I'm glad that Philip finally met the right person. I like Sally the most in the book, and I even think that Philip is not worthy of her. When I saw Mildred smashing her furniture to pieces, I didn't know why I was laughing and crying. Philip once loved her so wholeheartedly, but ended up like this. It was really heartbreaking. I will definitely read it again if I have the chance in the future.

A great book about thinking about life and worth reading. Because of his dependence on others from childhood to youth, Philip has a sensitive personality. But the kindness and sincerity in his heart guided him to be unable to extricate himself from the emotional whirlpool. But it was his sincerity that allowed him to gain simple and confident feelings. It has a great impact on my thinking about life and how I deal with some things. Sincerely recommend

A person will have many dissatisfactions and restrictions while he is alive. Just like Philip, he originally had parents who loved him, but they were taken away by God and became an orphan or a disabled orphan. Learn about yourself through other people's lives. Everyone has too many dissatisfactions. Some people's flaws are visible, some people's flaws are invisible, and some are given by God and you can't choose. Wisdom can make people awaken, and knowledge is the prerequisite. So read more books, get wisdom from books, feel other people's lives, and be able to find a little bit of beauty from the difficulties of life, make life itself less boring, and enjoy the beauty that belongs to you. Only then is it worth our time to come to the world. .

This book tells the story of Philip's life experience from childhood to middle age. Through repeated choices and difficulties, he gradually found the creed of life: life is inherently meaningless. The so-called success and failure are just a process experienced in life. After death, the world will also erase the memory of its own existence. He slowly accepted his shortcomings, his inferiority complex and everything that troubled him. From wanting to travel freely to finally wanting to settle down, although he gave up the life he longed for, what he gained was the happiness he wanted. There is no such thing as right or wrong, as long as it is what you really like and want, it doesn't matter even if everyone doesn't understand or oppose it, because you can't meet everyone's expectations, you are just yourself and should not be restricted by anyone. Look within and lower your expectations. Everyone has their own way of living. If you can't see the way forward, just do what you can do at the moment.

Finished reading at 09:15 on September 30, 2025. Compared to The Veil, this book is a little boring. The most interesting thing in the whole book, but also the one that makes me uncomfortable to read, is the story of Philip and Mildred. It surprises me every time I read it. I never thought that Mildred would hurt Philip's feelings like that, and he would help her again and again. But the ending is very happy. Philip and Sally are together. I believe they have lived a happy life [Sending Hearts]

This is the book I have been reading for the longest time. I didn't read it because I was busy opening a store. When I picked it up, I felt like giving up. Now after reading it, I found that I didn't give up. Just like Philip's life, he survived so many difficulties. I admire his courage and know that life is not smooth sailing, or even meaningless. Success or failure is not important. The important thing is to leave a lasting mark in your life!

The book is really good, I kept reading it till the end. It's just a bit confusing. The book describes that the love pursued by the protagonist seems to be just physical desire, and the freedom he pursues is just the imaginary freedom given by others. What a person wants throughout his life is nothing but what he doesn't have and what others happen to have. Could it be said that this is human beings constraining themselves, and as long as they break this, they can gain true spiritual freedom? It feels like more than just. Could it be that the author made this point in his lengthy essay? Disappointment

When he opened the shackles of family, friendship, and love, he also started a new life.

I like this passage in the article the most: People are born into the world, suffer, and finally die. Life has no meaning, and living has no purpose. It doesn't matter whether a person is born or not, alive or dead. Life is insignificant and death is insignificant.

Finally, I found that the meaning of life is meaningless. Just imagine that Philip and Sally will live a happy life, and he will be very lucky to meet Sally later. Although he gave up his dream of sailing, everything is worth it.

Life has no meaning or definition, just do whatever you want without being defined, experience, feel, live the way you want, and weave a Persian carpet that is unique to you.

The end of the story seems to be a continuation of another book. I forget whether it is Maugham's work, but I vaguely remember that there is a similar plot in the book "How Steel Was Tempered". Exclusively for the follow-up to the ending of this story. As for the previous story, it nakedly shows the good and bad of human nature. I vaguely see some shadows of Somerset Maugham in Philip. Perhaps the end of the story is Maugham's fantasy about choosing another path, which is also the fantasy he had about family life after experiencing loneliness. But no choice in life will be perfect! !