In the countryside of Kent, England, at the end of the 19th century, Bertha, the eldest daughter of a declining family, fell in love with Craddock, the son of a tenant farmer. She pursued love wholeheartedly and married him regardless of the disparity in status and the obstruction of others. The happy newlywed life makes Bertha feel that "the world has just begun."
However, soon after her marriage, her ideals of love began to encounter setbacks. She was disappointed again and again. When she put her hope in her soon-to-be-born child, new misfortune befell her...
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A girl who has just begun to fall in love has a mutual affection for the son of a servant who was her childhood friend. Even though there is a huge gap in family status, the girl is still desperate to be with him like a moth to a flame. The girl is independent, passionate and has independent thoughts, but her husband does everything in an orderly manner in her married life and is recognized by everyone but has no love for his wife. On the way to recovery, the story also comes to a tragic end. Maugham created a vivid image, but because of his unique soul, he met a tragic ending.
After reading this book, I remembered that sentence: Men marry life, women marry love. We cannot base our interest entirely on the person next to you. We must have other interests and hobbies, such as music, painting, flower gardening, exercise, reading... The heroine in the book finally finds her own rhythm, being alone, reading, pleasing herself and enjoying loneliness.
Believe me, separation is the only way out. I love you too deeply and am not satisfied with the cold treatment you give me. Oh, sure, I'm picky, outrageous, and mean. Now, I can admit all my faults; my only excuse is that I am too unhappy. I ask you to forgive me for all the pain I have caused you. We might as well break up peacefully, and I will readily forgive you for all the suffering you have caused me. Now, I can tell you generously that I almost couldn't make up my mind at that time. Yesterday and this morning, I could barely hold back my tears. It seemed too difficult to be separated. I felt like I couldn't live without you. If you beg me not to leave, or show even the slightest regret that I'm leaving, I think I'll give in.
Maugham used his delicate and profound writing style to depict Mrs. Craddock's inner world, showing her struggle and resistance in love, marriage and social roles. The novel presents an image that thinks and questions traditional concepts and moral constraints, and explores women's status and pursuit of free will in the society at that time. Through the image and story of Mrs. Craddock, Maugham reveals the complexity of human nature and the pursuit of freedom and happiness. He explores themes such as social pressure, marriage concepts and gender roles in depth, causing readers to think about self-identity, the meaning of life and social concepts.
In life, we will see many similar incidents that eventually lead to the breakdown of marriages. As expected, men and women have very different thoughts and perspectives on issues. For the rest of your life, you should develop your own hobbies and seek happiness inward, so that you can gain inexhaustible motivation and satisfaction. It would be best to abandon the unrealistic idea of finding sustenance and comfort in others as soon as possible.
After reading it, I felt mixed emotions. This work mainly describes the growth history of a woman. The heroine is arrogant, sensitive, and suspicious. She is passionate when she is in love and puts all her happiness on her husband. However, her husband is sincere and simple and lacks romance, so her love will never be reciprocated, and she begins to become irritable and restless. Later, she became pregnant and suffered a more serious blow when she gave birth to a stillborn baby. She put all her resentment on her husband. She began to become mean, sharp, and hysterical. Later, she ran away from her family again and again, and met romantic love outside. However, she stopped at the cliff and finally returned to her family. From then on, she became desireless and gradually came out of her depression. She found her lost self through reading and studying. Even after her husband died, she became extremely strong because she knew that her backing was herself!
Delicately describes Bertha's psychological transformation process from her desire, fantasy, and enthusiasm for love as a moth to a flame as a girl, to her disappointment, numbness, indifference, and even disgust towards her husband's charity in middle age. This is also the psychological transformation process of most women from enthusiasm to indifference when their love is not responded to. Men and women have completely different ideas. Women want love, while men pursue career. As the book says: Husband and wife do not understand each other, no matter how passionately they love each other, no matter how close their relationship is, they can never become one. This is the fundamental reason why most married lives are unhappy.
Describes the true side of human nature. Love is not everything in life. The male and female protagonists are all genuine people. But they are in different classes, have different educations, and have different pursuits in life. Although their first love is so beautiful, the ending must be tragic.
The text of this book is beautiful, the protagonist Bertha is beautiful and independent, and the pastoral scenery around Rye House is also beautiful, so when I read it, I hope that the ending of the story it depicts is also beautiful. However, things got worse... After reading the book, I felt a touch of sadness and regret: Alas, a woman who should have been happy! Although I understand her, I don't quite understand her misfortune. It seems that she is different from most women in the world, too flashy and obsessed. In comparison, I prefer Craddock. In this way, Craddock seems to be even more unfortunate... Fortunately, "time has given them an irresistible nostalgic charm. They are genre paintings... Faithfully reflecting life in a certain place in England at the end of the nineteenth century." - As the preface says, this is a wonderful feeling and experience reading it.
Through an in-depth portrayal of Mrs. Craddock's rich and complex inner world, Maugham demonstrates the complexity of human nature and the impact of social background on individual destiny. This is a classic work by British writer Somerset Maugham. The novel uses the life experience of the heroine Mrs. Craddock as a clue to depict the ethical concepts and moral dilemmas of British society in the early 20th century. "Mrs. Craddock" is a literary work full of thinking and emotion, suitable for readers who like classic novels and are interested in human nature and social issues.
Love is always a woman's imagination
Nowadays, many people are not like Bertha. Maybe I'm still young and don't understand why she can continue to live with Craddock after she doesn't love him anymore. But if you say you don't love anymore, in fact, you don't. When there is love, there is hatred, and when there is hatred, there is love. Maybe you will understand it better when you come back and read this book later.
Maybe no one is right or wrong, it's just that two inappropriate people meet together, and the ending can only be a tragedy.
The reality of Craddock's life is in sharp contrast to the fantasy of his wife, and it is destined to have a sad color. [Wronged]
Bertha and Craddock are people from two completely different worlds, a declining aristocratic girl who is addicted to love fantasies and regards love as her only goal, and a hard-working, pragmatic, mediocre and somewhat arrogant tenant farmer who got married because of so-called love. In the peaceful married life, they drifted apart due to their different ideas. No matter how passionate the love was, it was consumed by daily neglect and inequality. Time wasted until Craddock's unexpected death brought an end to the relationship. Bertha was free. She recalled the past and shed tears, for the beautiful love, for the tomb-like marriage life, for her struggle to escape, and for the brief moments of beauty and happiness. I felt the same when I saw this, and couldn't help but feel sad, for the heroine in the book, and for myself. This is the charm of reading.
Knowledge is like a group of flexible and pedestrians. Even if you are still away from it, you have to go through a tiring journey. Only after reading thousands of books and traveling thousands of miles can an ordinary person understand his own theory. He thinks that there is nothing in the world that he needs to understand, so it is easy to satisfy him by thinking that he cannot know her happiness and that the moon is made of fresh cheese. This sentence is both a description of the so-called thing called knowledge and a description of stupid people.
Anyone with a love brain should read this book!
This book depicts Bertha's love story in a delicate way. She bravely pursues true love regardless of worldly opinions, but her married life is not what she expected. The characters have distinct personalities and the plot has ups and downs, making people feel the complexity of love and the cruelty of reality. Well worth reading!
Only later did I realize that it was a political satire. Very exciting
The complexity and reality of love are clearly written
Such is life, love cannot always be full of passion, we should enjoy peace!
I always like Maugham's works, they are real and delicate [like][like][like]
It's so real, my heart ached after watching it💔
Maugham really understands human nature and women so well, and his writing is penetrating to the bone!
A good book that accurately expresses the moodiness and loneliness of life. The thoughts of a hundred years ago are very advanced.
Real married life
It's so well written, Bertha is my model.
Well, it's probably better to watch it when you're in love.
Maugham's works are delicate and directly penetrate human nature. His writing style is brilliant and colorful, and everyone will consider it a masterpiece when reading it in different years.
Amazing, admirable, as precise as a scalpel, peeling off humanity layer by layer
This book tells the story of Bertha's emotional experience and Edward's wonderful life
The psychological description of a couple with completely different personalities and hobbies in their marriage and the various collisions in their life together is very accurate and real, and it is worth savoring and learning.
Is this really the case in real life?
A girl who has just begun to fall in love has a mutual affection for the son of a servant who was her childhood friend. Even though there is a huge gap in family status, the girl is still desperate to be with him like a moth to a flame. The girl is independent, passionate and has independent thoughts, but her husband does everything in an orderly manner in her married life and is recognized by everyone but has no love for his wife. On the way to recovery, the story also comes to a tragic end. Maugham created a vivid image, but because of his unique soul, he met a tragic ending.
After reading this book, I remembered that sentence: Men marry life, women marry love. We cannot base our interest entirely on the person next to you. We must have other interests and hobbies, such as music, painting, flower gardening, exercise, reading... The heroine in the book finally finds her own rhythm, being alone, reading, pleasing herself and enjoying loneliness.
Believe me, separation is the only way out. I love you too deeply and am not satisfied with the cold treatment you give me. Oh, sure, I'm picky, outrageous, and mean. Now, I can admit all my faults; my only excuse is that I am too unhappy. I ask you to forgive me for all the pain I have caused you. We might as well break up peacefully, and I will readily forgive you for all the suffering you have caused me. Now, I can tell you generously that I almost couldn't make up my mind at that time. Yesterday and this morning, I could barely hold back my tears. It seemed too difficult to be separated. I felt like I couldn't live without you. If you beg me not to leave, or show even the slightest regret that I'm leaving, I think I'll give in.
Maugham used his delicate and profound writing style to depict Mrs. Craddock's inner world, showing her struggle and resistance in love, marriage and social roles. The novel presents an image that thinks and questions traditional concepts and moral constraints, and explores women's status and pursuit of free will in the society at that time. Through the image and story of Mrs. Craddock, Maugham reveals the complexity of human nature and the pursuit of freedom and happiness. He explores themes such as social pressure, marriage concepts and gender roles in depth, causing readers to think about self-identity, the meaning of life and social concepts.
In life, we will see many similar incidents that eventually lead to the breakdown of marriages. As expected, men and women have very different thoughts and perspectives on issues. For the rest of your life, you should develop your own hobbies and seek happiness inward, so that you can gain inexhaustible motivation and satisfaction. It would be best to abandon the unrealistic idea of finding sustenance and comfort in others as soon as possible.
After reading it, I felt mixed emotions. This work mainly describes the growth history of a woman. The heroine is arrogant, sensitive, and suspicious. She is passionate when she is in love and puts all her happiness on her husband. However, her husband is sincere and simple and lacks romance, so her love will never be reciprocated, and she begins to become irritable and restless. Later, she became pregnant and suffered a more serious blow when she gave birth to a stillborn baby. She put all her resentment on her husband. She began to become mean, sharp, and hysterical. Later, she ran away from her family again and again, and met romantic love outside. However, she stopped at the cliff and finally returned to her family. From then on, she became desireless and gradually came out of her depression. She found her lost self through reading and studying. Even after her husband died, she became extremely strong because she knew that her backing was herself!
Delicately describes Bertha's psychological transformation process from her desire, fantasy, and enthusiasm for love as a moth to a flame as a girl, to her disappointment, numbness, indifference, and even disgust towards her husband's charity in middle age. This is also the psychological transformation process of most women from enthusiasm to indifference when their love is not responded to. Men and women have completely different ideas. Women want love, while men pursue career. As the book says: Husband and wife do not understand each other, no matter how passionately they love each other, no matter how close their relationship is, they can never become one. This is the fundamental reason why most married lives are unhappy.
Describes the true side of human nature. Love is not everything in life. The male and female protagonists are all genuine people. But they are in different classes, have different educations, and have different pursuits in life. Although their first love is so beautiful, the ending must be tragic.
The text of this book is beautiful, the protagonist Bertha is beautiful and independent, and the pastoral scenery around Rye House is also beautiful, so when I read it, I hope that the ending of the story it depicts is also beautiful. However, things got worse... After reading the book, I felt a touch of sadness and regret: Alas, a woman who should have been happy! Although I understand her, I don't quite understand her misfortune. It seems that she is different from most women in the world, too flashy and obsessed. In comparison, I prefer Craddock. In this way, Craddock seems to be even more unfortunate... Fortunately, "time has given them an irresistible nostalgic charm. They are genre paintings... Faithfully reflecting life in a certain place in England at the end of the nineteenth century." - As the preface says, this is a wonderful feeling and experience reading it.
Through an in-depth portrayal of Mrs. Craddock's rich and complex inner world, Maugham demonstrates the complexity of human nature and the impact of social background on individual destiny. This is a classic work by British writer Somerset Maugham. The novel uses the life experience of the heroine Mrs. Craddock as a clue to depict the ethical concepts and moral dilemmas of British society in the early 20th century. "Mrs. Craddock" is a literary work full of thinking and emotion, suitable for readers who like classic novels and are interested in human nature and social issues.
Love is always a woman's imagination
Nowadays, many people are not like Bertha. Maybe I'm still young and don't understand why she can continue to live with Craddock after she doesn't love him anymore. But if you say you don't love anymore, in fact, you don't. When there is love, there is hatred, and when there is hatred, there is love. Maybe you will understand it better when you come back and read this book later.
Maybe no one is right or wrong, it's just that two inappropriate people meet together, and the ending can only be a tragedy.
The reality of Craddock's life is in sharp contrast to the fantasy of his wife, and it is destined to have a sad color. [Wronged]
Bertha and Craddock are people from two completely different worlds, a declining aristocratic girl who is addicted to love fantasies and regards love as her only goal, and a hard-working, pragmatic, mediocre and somewhat arrogant tenant farmer who got married because of so-called love. In the peaceful married life, they drifted apart due to their different ideas. No matter how passionate the love was, it was consumed by daily neglect and inequality. Time wasted until Craddock's unexpected death brought an end to the relationship. Bertha was free. She recalled the past and shed tears, for the beautiful love, for the tomb-like marriage life, for her struggle to escape, and for the brief moments of beauty and happiness. I felt the same when I saw this, and couldn't help but feel sad, for the heroine in the book, and for myself. This is the charm of reading.
Knowledge is like a group of flexible and pedestrians. Even if you are still away from it, you have to go through a tiring journey. Only after reading thousands of books and traveling thousands of miles can an ordinary person understand his own theory. He thinks that there is nothing in the world that he needs to understand, so it is easy to satisfy him by thinking that he cannot know her happiness and that the moon is made of fresh cheese. This sentence is both a description of the so-called thing called knowledge and a description of stupid people.
Anyone with a love brain should read this book!
This book depicts Bertha's love story in a delicate way. She bravely pursues true love regardless of worldly opinions, but her married life is not what she expected. The characters have distinct personalities and the plot has ups and downs, making people feel the complexity of love and the cruelty of reality. Well worth reading!
Only later did I realize that it was a political satire. Very exciting The complexity and reality of love are clearly written
Such is life, love cannot always be full of passion, we should enjoy peace!
I always like Maugham's works, they are real and delicate [like][like][like] It's so real, my heart ached after watching it💔
Maugham really understands human nature and women so well, and his writing is penetrating to the bone!
A good book that accurately expresses the moodiness and loneliness of life. The thoughts of a hundred years ago are very advanced.
Real married life
It's so well written, Bertha is my model.
Well, it's probably better to watch it when you're in love.
Maugham's works are delicate and directly penetrate human nature. His writing style is brilliant and colorful, and everyone will consider it a masterpiece when reading it in different years.
Amazing, admirable, as precise as a scalpel, peeling off humanity layer by layer
This book tells the story of Bertha's emotional experience and Edward's wonderful life
The psychological description of a couple with completely different personalities and hobbies in their marriage and the various collisions in their life together is very accurate and real, and it is worth savoring and learning. Is this really the case in real life?