In On the Search for Knowledge, Bacon said: "The nature of man is like wild flowers and plants, and the search for knowledge and learning is like pruning and transplanting." It can be seen that the pursuit of knowledge can change people's destiny, in our life is quite important.
In "On Friendship", Bacon said: "If you tell a friend of your happiness, you will get two happiness; and if you pour out your sorrow to a friend, you will be divided into half sorrow." This shows that friends are an indispensable role around us and can add color to our lives.
Among these dozens of essays, the one that impressed me most is "On Beauty". This is a classic work on "beauty", simple language, profound connotation, full of philosophy." Beauty" itself is a very wide range of issues, this article focuses on how people should deal with the external and internal beauty of the problem. No one in the world is perfect, so do not complain about their own external defects, only the inner beauty is eternal beauty. Virtue is more important than beauty, the combination of beauty and virtue is the only way for beauty to shine. There is a sentence in the article: "The beauty of form is better than the beauty of color, and the beauty of elegant behavior is better than the beauty of form." Physical form is a person's overall image, physical shape. Color refers to the appearance of the five senses, mainly the face, is partial. And the beauty of behavior, refers to the hands and feet of the action of the demeanor, is acquired, is the refraction of the inner beauty of the performance, the highest of the three.
Nowadays, some people only pay attention to the beauty of the outside, but ignore the inside, although they have a beautiful face, but because of the lack of beautiful cultivation and do not deserve to be praised. Therefore, a man who is not richly dressed, but is dignified and virtuous, is to be respected.
Therefore, combine beauty with virtue. Only in this way will each radiate its true splendor.
"Gulliver's Travels" is an outstanding travelogue satire by Jonathan Swift, which expresses the author's ideological concepts in a more perfect art form, and the author y analyzes the social reality of the English society at that time with rich satirical techniques and bizarre plots of fictional fantasies.
Jonathan Swift, the author, served as a public relations officer for the Tory party of Robert Harley and Henry St. John from 1710 to 1714, when the Whigs came to power and the Tories were liquidated. Born in Dublin, the capital of Ireland, he attended Kilkenny School and was a satirist and political commentator in the early 18th century.
The idea for Gulliver's Travels originated at a party with a friend, where Swift spoke of the greed and impudence of the political world of the time with great excitement and playfulness, and began work on the first volume with his pen. After maturing, it was published anonymously in 1726 and immediately caused a great deal of controversy in British society. 200 years, it was translated into dozens of languages and widely circulated around the world.
I envy the main character of the article is fortunate to be able to Huiyin country, Huiyin country is the ideal place we pursue and aspire to, where you do not need to worry about the truth of what others say, and in the real world, there are too many things we do not want to see often happen: some people with flowery language to cheat other people's hard-earned money, some people abducted and trafficked children for profiteering, and some people even abandoned their own parents for the sake of money. It is no wonder that our teachers and elders have taught us from childhood to be vigilant and not to be deceived. It is hard to unify with our advocacy of helping and loving others. When I meet someone in trouble and want to lend a helping hand, I hesitate; when someone relieves me, I dare not accept it. All these make me feel painful, contradictory and at a loss as to what to do. I'm not sure how much I'm going to be able to do this, but I'm sure I'll be able to do it, and I'm sure I'll be able to do it.
I do not know the 18th century United States of America, Whig, Tory two parties entangled, ambiguous relationship, of course, there is no way to understand Swift's argument about eating eggs should be knocked which head, the heel of the shoes of the height of the "principle" of the "high heel" and "low heel party" of the beauty of the issue. I was wrong about Swift. I need to have a big heart. And then Swift became understandable, and I got the impression that he was righteous.
He sarcastically characterized England at the time as "greedy, partisan, hypocritical, faithless, brutal, angry, mad, resentful, envious, lustful, sinister and ambitious." He sarcastically describes the grotesque inversion of man and beast: the horse becomes the vehicle of reason, while man is transformed into the dirty, smelly, shit-faced, greedy and spiteful inferior animal, Jehu. He talks about man's nature, which is to be willingly enslaved by money, either by extravagance or greed. After reading "Gulliver's Travels", we can not help but examine ourselves, we have the shadow of these stubborn and inferior roots.
There is a sentence, I think the comment is very classic: exaggerated rendering of the anger of the times, through the absurd denounce the shortcomings of the times; in the hate and pessimism behind, should be a kind of bitter sadness of the world sentiment.
I didn't realize there was such a profound meaning in those simple vernacular travelogues.
I look forward to the day when our society will be like Hyein's country, when there will be no more doubts in the eyes of children, and when education and reality will be unified. I would like to work hard for this, and I hope that you will join me in making this society a little more sincere and a little less hypocritical, starting from yourself and from now on.