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The Moon and Sixpence tells a story about a middle-aged man of upper middle class to forsake everyhting to persue his artistic dream in the southern island of Tahiti. During the following years of his life, he met many obtacles along the path, his own body, his desire and the material world. Actually, before he went to Tahiti, he had first gone to Pairs. Athought he had given up everything in London, and he was totally dedicated in painting, he still couldn’t have a satisfying piece of work. He was in anguish but kept on fighting. It was not until in Tahiti did he found his Utopia of art, and acquired spititual freedom. There he produced many materpieces. It is a moving story about fight of one man against himself, his body, his desire, and the whole material world to gain freedom and beauty.
Charles Strickland’s selflessness and obcession in art are very valuable today because that’s what we lost and need. Nowadays people are living in a hustle and bustle world, we are bonded tightly with the outside world, we can not forget ourselves and fight against ourselves. We are losing the msot precious characteristic of hunman beings, the creative thinking. As the author mocked at the young people: “It may be that among them a more fervid Keats, a more ethereal Shelley, has already published numbers the world will willingly remember. I cannot tell. I admire their polish -- their youth is already so accomplished that it seems absurd to speak of promise -- I marvel at the felicity of their style; but with all their copiousness (their vocabulary suggests that they fingered Roget's <i Thesaurus> in their cradles) they say nothing to me: to my mind they know too much and feel too obviously; I cannot stomach the heartiness with which they slap me on the back or the emotion with which they hurl themselves on my bosom; their passion seems to me a little anaemic and their dreams a trifle dull. I do not like them. I am on the shelf. I will continue to write moral stories in rhymed couplets. But I should be thrice a fool if I did it for aught but my own entertainment.
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