《双城记》读后感
那是最美好的时代，那是最糟糕的时代；那是智慧的年头，那是愚昧的年头；那是信仰的时期，那是怀疑的时期；那是光明的季节，那是黑暗的季节；那是希望的春天，那是失望的冬天；我们全都在直奔天堂，我们全都在直奔相反的方向--简而言之，那时跟现在非常相象，某些最喧嚣的权威坚持要用形容词的最高级来形容它。说它好，是最高级的；说它不好，也是最高级的。
这是整本书的开头第一章，将全书的基调定上了悲剧色彩，然而就在这矛盾的时代中，也确实存在过光明。
这本书叙述了法国大革命时期围绕在医生马奈特一家周围的事，这本书颠覆了我对自由，权利以及善恶的看法——法国人民不堪重负，推翻了波旁王朝，然而新政权建立之后朝他们走来的难道是他们心驰神往的自由吗？不，仍然是以往的提心吊胆，稍不留神明天就会被送上断头台。得势之后的德发日太太滥用职权，将死敌们个个置于死地，最后却落得个惨死的下场。正如那句话所说的：“自由啊，有多少罪恶是假借你的名义干出来的。”大革命并不如想象中的那么美好，而是以暴易暴。它没有拯救人民，而是将人民推入了另一个火坑。
再来看看另外一位大革命的牺牲品——达内，革命前，他放弃了国内的家业，只身来到英国谋生，在他看来，压迫人民是一件极不人道的事，然而，革命爆发后，他反而无辜地成为人民的敌人，人们不分青红皂白地要将他领上断头台。不过相信在九死一生之后，他依然是原先那个善良的达内。
而卡顿——一个才华横溢却自甘堕落的律师，他与达内有着相同的长相，却有着不同的命运，在面对活着还是让自己心爱的人得到幸福的抉择时，毅然决然的选择了后者，在他看来，生命在爱的面前是微不足道的，即使在断头台上，他也表现出了令人难以想象的沉着冷静。因为在他的心底，一直有一个信念在支持他：“耶稣说，复活在我，生命也在我，信我的人，虽然死了，也必复活。凡活着信我的人，必永远不死。”他用死完成了自我救赎，他用死来反抗虚伪的革命者，他用死来诠释对露丝的爱。生命，成了他最后的武器，爱，成了他唯一的支柱。
可以么

从双城记吧转帖过来的一篇，好不好见仁见智，但是绝对是作者原创：
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这是我看完《双城记》后写的两篇英文读后感，并作为英语周记发给了我的English teacher，现在拿出来share一下
A tragedy of the history
Crazily,but truthfully,I finished reading the most part of the novel "A Tale of Two Cities" in just one day.Lost in the story,I felt like being together with the characters and experiencing the same exciting events.Soon it came to an end.To tell you my feelings,it's infinite sadness and a strong emotion that can drive me to cry.
The story is set in London and Paris at the time of the great French Revolution.It shows the causes of revolution and its effects on people's day-to-day lives.Before the revolution,the King and the aristocracy treated their people cruelly in France.The common people were extremely poor and miserable.The crops in the fields were poor as if even the land shared the misery of the people.And there were so heavy taxes that all the villagers had nothing to hand over at last.On the other hand,the aristocracy made their will as the law by using money and gold.There were no justice,no equality and no fairness.Just as what happened to Dr Manette,he wrote to the Minister to show the crime what Marquis Evremonde had done,resulting in himself being arrested and sent to the prison Bastille without any reason.
Then this situation of darkness was needed to be changed.As people such as the Defarges prepared and arranged,at length the Revolution came to break out.When the Bastille was captured and the King was tried and put to death as well as many other aristocrats,things didn't go on as what they had been expected.The sistuation stayed the same,or even worse.The prisoners from the Bastille were set free while more prisons were filled with people who had done no wrong again.People who once lived on the bottom of class took the charge now and their heart had been full of evil.The only thing they wanted to do was to revenge.And these so-called "patriots" would like to see more and more innocent prisoners going to the guillotine and that's their joy.As the novel wrote,"In everything they did were merciless,for they had been hardened in the fires of suffering and the touch of pity could make no mark on them".
Equality and fairness is what people seek,which led to the French Revolution.As a consequence,neither equality nor fairness was got after the revolution.And that's the tragedy of the history.I was heavyhearted when reading what Sydney Carton said before death and I burst into tears finally.
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2 回复：我来晒一下自己写的英文读后感
第二篇
Miss Pross VS. Madame Defarge
From the first minute I read A Tale Of Two Cities forward,I have been in love with this book.The chapter which impressed me most is neither "The Great Escape" nor "Revolution",it's "The Knitting Is Finished",which I'd like to call Miss Pross PK Madame Defarge.
As Mr Lorry had driven a carriage in which lay Darnay and his families to escape from Paris,Miss Pross and Jerry Cruncher,the ones who were left because the carriage couldn't be overloaded,had to order another carriage for themselves.When Miss Pross was preparing things alone in the house,a figure appeared unexpectedly,making her cry out.It was Madame Defarge,who came here aiming for Lucie and the child.Madame Defarge knew well that this woman was a trusted friend of the family and Miss Pross knew that the other woman was the family's enemy.Then the combat between two woman began.
Miss Pross was one of those woman who thought nothing of their own needs and who,through pure love and admiration,are ready to make themselves slaves to youth when they have lost it,to beauty which they have never had,and to bright hopes that have never shone upon their own dark lives.As Mr Lorry said,"there is nothing better in the world than the honest service of the heart".Since Miss Pross had become like a mother to Lucie and would have given her life for her,she would do everything she could to keep Madame Defarge in the house so that the carriage carrying Lucie could run farther.
Madame Defarge was a woman with a very keen eye,a strong face and a great calmness of manner.When the French Revolution broke out,it was her who led the woman and cut off the head of the governor of the prison.She had a strong,fealess and a kind of beauty that called attention to her qualities.She had grown up with a deep sense of wrong and a powerful hatred of the arisyocracy;any pity that she once may have had was now dead.To her,Darnay's family must be destroyed,the wife and child must follow the father.
Both were determined woman in their different ways.Hatred had made the heart of the Frenchwoman hard;love now filed the Englishwoman's with coyrage.It's very intereing to see that each woman spoke in her own language and neither understood a word of what the other said while each knew well the other's intention.
As a result of the combat,Madame Defarge died lying on ground and Miss Pross could hear nothing for the rest of her life.That's another tragedy in my heart.
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狄更斯：
查尔斯·约翰·赫芬姆·狄更斯，1812年2月7日生于朴次茅斯市郊，1870年6月9日卒于罗切斯特附近的盖茨山庄。19世纪英国批判现实主义小说家。狄更斯特别注意描写生活在英国社会底层的“小人物”的生活遭遇，深刻地反映了当时英国复杂的社会现实，为英国批判现实主义文学的开拓和发展做出了卓越的贡献。他的作品至今依然盛行，对英国文学发展起到了深远的影响。主要作品《匹克威克外传》《雾都孤儿》 《老古玩店》《艰难时世》《我们共同的朋友》《双城记》等。
双城记：
《双城记》是英国作家查尔斯·狄更斯所著的一部以法国大革命为背景所写成的长篇历史小说，情节感人肺腑，是世界文学经典名著之一，故事中将巴黎、伦敦两个大城市连结起来，围绕着曼马内特医生一家和以德法日夫妇为首的圣安东尼区展开故事。小说里描写了贵族如何败坏、如何残害百姓，人民心中积压对贵族的刻骨仇恨，导致了不可避免的法国大革命，本书的主要思想是为了爱而自我牺牲。书名中的“双城”指的是巴黎与伦敦。
可参考文献
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双城记解读——乔治 纽林
狄更斯三部小说《雾都孤儿》《大卫·科波菲尔》《双城记》的浪漫主义色彩研究
《双城记》:历史拐点处的记忆——再论狄更斯笔下的大革命描写
查尔斯·狄更斯的革命观——解读《双城记》
从《双城记》看狄更斯人道主义思想
新历史主义视角下的《双城记》
论文—解读狄更斯《双城记》
谈狄更斯在《双城记》中的人道主义思想

After reading "A tale of two cities"
双城记读后感
"A tale of two cities" is one of Dickens's most important representative works.The novel profoundly exposed the society contradiction before the French Revolution,intensely attacks the aristocratic social class is dissolute and cruel,and sincerely sympathizes with the depressed classes.The novel also described many magnificent scenes like the revolt people attacked Bastille and so on,which displayed people's great strength.
双城记是狄更斯最重要的代表作之一。小说深刻揭示了法国大革命之前的社会矛盾，强烈抨击了贵族阶层的贪婪和残暴，和对最底层人民表达诚挚的同情。小说也描写了很多宏伟的景象，像人民起义摧毁巴士底狱等显示了（法国）人民的自强不息的（精神）
The novel has portrayed many different people. Doctor Manette is honest and kind but suffers the persecution actually ， Lucie is beautiful and gentle ，Charles is graceful and noble，Lorry is upright and honest ，Sydney is semblance of indifferent, innermost feelings of warm,unconventional but also selfless and lofty，Miss Pross is straightforward and loyal，Evremonde brothers are cruel and sinister......The complex hatred is hard to solve, the cruel revenge has made more hatreds, loves rebirth in the hell edge,but take the life as the price.
小说中描写了各式各样的人物。诚实善良但却遭受迫害的马内特医生（Manette) ，美丽温柔的露易丝（Lucie)，礼貌绅士的查尔斯（Charles），正值坦率的劳瑞先生（LORRY)，外冷内热，放荡不羁却又自私傲慢的锡尼（Sydney)，直率忠诚的帕罗丝笑小姐（Pross)，残忍阴险的Evremonde兄弟。。。复杂难解的仇恨，残忍的报复使仇恨更加严重，再绝望中重生的爱情，却以生命作为代价。
As an outstanding writer,in Dickens's work,the language skill is essential.Each kind of rhetoric technique,like the analogy,the exaggeration,the contrast,the humorous,and the taunt are handled skillfully,and the artistry of the work is also delivered the peak.
作为一代杰出的作者，在狄更斯的作品中，语言技巧运用是必不可少的，各式各样的修辞手法，比如推理，夸大，对比，诙谐和讽刺被熟练地运用，作品的艺术性质也达到了巅峰。
"A tale of two cities" has its difference with the general historical novel, its character and the main plot are all fictionalizes.With the broad real background of the French Revolution,the author take the fictional character Doctor Manette's experience as the main clue,interweaves the unjust charge, love and revenge three independences but also incident cross-correlation stories together,the plot is criss-crossed,and the clue is complex.The author use insert narrates,foreshadowing,upholstery and so many techniques,causes the structure integrity and strictness,the plot winding anxious and rich of
theatrical nature,it displayed the remarkable artistic skill.the style "A tale of two cities" is solemnity and melancholy,fills indignantion,but lacks the humor of the early works.
“双城记”与其他历史小说有很大差别，小说中的角色和故事情节全部是以历史事件描写成小说形式。在法国大革命的宏大真实背景下，作者以虚构角色马内特医生的经历作为主线，将不公正的指控，爱情，报仇三个独立又相互关联的故事交织在一起，故事情节错综复杂，作者利用穿插故事，预示，修饰，等众多手法使故事结构完整严谨，故事情节曲折，扣人心弦，极具戏剧效果。充分显示了作者不同寻常的写作技巧。“双城记”的写作风格是严肃悲观，充满了愤慨，但缺少诙谐的（狄更斯）早期作品。
PS. 双城记读过几遍，中学时候读过中英双语缩写版，大学时读过牛津分级英文版，后来又读了原著。 确实写的不错，不过原著的看不太懂。