Ashurts Two Loves Essay - 1007 Words

TWO LOVES OF ASHURT Love is no strange to human and human are born to love and to be loved. Our love poet Xuan Dieu used to say, How can we survive without falling in love with another? Therefore, no matter when and where we live, love is still beautiful with its myriads of senses ranging from sadness to happiness. Reading the Apple Tree by John Galsworthy, the readers once again have a chance to comprehend and to perceive different senses in the loves, which Ashurt devoted to Megan Davis and to Stella Halliday. Megan Davis was a country girl who Ashurt met when he and his friend was making way to Charfolk. Right at their first meeting, our Ashurt was attracted by the natural beauty of this girl. And Ashurt, who saw beauty†¦show more content†¦He did realize that Megans shoes were split and her hands rough, but these things were of no importance, even the fact that she had Celtic blood, to him she was still a lady born, a jewel though probably she could no more than just read and write. Although he knew that Megan was so simple, so defenseless, and not of his world, he did not care about that, he only knew that all he had to do at that very moment was to become her protector. Ashurts love for Megan was much different from all his loves in the past. Never before had he had such a new sensation and a sense of completed manhood like this time. Ashurt was madly in love with Megan. Stella appeared when Ashurts love for Megan was still passionate. She was a pretty and sensitive girl who stole the heart of this idealistic man. John Galsworthy did not describe her beauty as much as he did with Megans beauty, which does not mean that he had little affection for this character. It seemed to me that he was using the same technique, which our Nguyen Du used to do some centuries ago, using the beauty of Megan as a ground to rocket the beauty of Stella. Since meeting Stella, Ashurt, who was planning a scheme of running away with Megan, always feared that the Hallidays and Stella particularly discovered his plan. If they knew what was in his mind- if they knew that this very night he had meant! Well, there would be a little sound of disgust, and he would be alone in the cave. Why did