Goldsmith's The Vicar of Wakefield
📖 Özet
Oliver Goldsmith's 'The Vicar of Wakefield' is a classic 18th-century sentimental novel that follows the trials and tribulations of Dr. Charles Primrose, a good-natured, somewhat naive country clergyman. The story begins with the Primrose family living an idyllic life of modest comfort and domestic bliss. However, financial ruin strikes when their fortune is lost due to the fraudulent actions of a supposed friend, the merchant Wilmot, and the collapse of a business venture. Forced to abandon their parish, the family relocates to a much poorer, rural living on the estate of the wealthy, charming, but morally ambiguous Squire Thornhill. As the Primroses attempt to adapt to their drastically reduced circumstances, they face a relentless cascade of calamities. Squire Thornhill courts and seduces the Vicar's eldest daughter, Olivia, leading to a disastrous mock marriage that brings public shame upon the family. Meanwhile, the younger daughter, Sophia, is abducted, and the family's eldest so
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💬 Önemli Alıntılar
"I was ever of opinion, that the honest man who marries and brings up a large family, does more service than he who continues single and only talks of population."
"The hero fears no more than the coward; the man of the profession at forty-five is the same hero at seventy-five."
"The right of is a maxim in morals as well as in law; and whoever raises a house without a foundation must expect it to fall."
"When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away?"
"Man little knows what calamities are beyond his patience to bear, till he tries them: as in ascending the heights of ambition, which look dim in the distance, every step we advance opens up a new and wider prospect."
"Our trials are all titheable; when our losses go near our heart, we can yet look down with humility, and be thankful."
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✅ Artılar
İnsan kibrini ve duygusal mecazları nazikçe alaya alan, büyüleyici derecede esprili bir satir.
Unutulmaz, sevimli karakterler; özellikle harika bir şekilde eksantrik ve kararlı olan Dr. Primrose.
Derin trajediyi keyifli ve iç ısıtan bir çözümle dengeleyen yürek ısıtıcı bir anlatı yayı.
⚠️ Eksiler
Hikaye, son bölümlerinde büyük ölçüde yapmacık ve olasılık dışı tesadüflere dayanmaktadır.
Modern okuyucular temposunu yavaş, vaazcı kısımlarını ise zaman zaman ağır bulabilir.
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