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The Forsyte Saga
by John Galsworthy
"... treat other people as you'd like to be treated yourself."
I watched the series instead so it might seem a little bit awkward to write a review for a book over the movie.
Anyway, back then I loved reading classic novels but thanks to the shortage of time -for reading such books- I discovered a new image of myself & i.e. I probably lost the taste of English classics but now am fond of watching the movies based on them.
This book, as far as I can tell by the movie, is about… Well… Imagine that life is an axis; on one side lie all the positive precious things, & on the other, the contrary. We see ups & downs, love & hatred, friendship & betrayal, pleasure & guilt; and above all, the beauty of authority; and how a society can transform itself little by little through the change of some strict superficial laws like family connections & relationships where & when there’s no emotion, nor respect, but one is condemned to still hang around.
One thing is obvious: There’s always two sides for every story: A lonely girl who marries a man who’s madly in love with her; the man blinded by love that never get the girl didn’t love him back from the very first kiss. A man who leaves his wife & daughter because he found love and respect -which he never felt being shown nor given by his wife- with someone else; The wife who is so dictated by the tradition that cannot see what’s really going on on her man’s mind. A father who is never grateful unless he loses. A lover who doesn’t have even a drop of self-esteem before it’s too late. The familiar story of people who don’t know how to talk when it is time; when the only thing has left is speaking out loud, listen, & be listened to; which the opposite leads to fallacious judgements & dangerous decisions. The one negative point that came to my notice, was that it was like there’s no equilibrium, no middle point; one was so bad or so good; so gentle or so bad-tempered; even when there was a chance to change, one changed form evil to angle (with exaggeration), & that’s exactly the opposite point of what I’m trying to learn & practice nowadays: Never lose the track of equilibrium -I searched for it in this story. Never found it.
Long story short, sometimes it IS good to break some habits/rules. It might be a hidden blessing somewhere in between. We never know...
I watched the series instead so it might seem a little bit awkward to write a review for a book over the movie.
Anyway, back then I loved reading classic novels but thanks to the shortage of time -for reading such books- I discovered a new image of myself & i.e. I probably lost the taste of English classics but now am fond of watching the movies based on them.
This book, as far as I can tell by the movie, is about… Well… Imagine that life is an axis; on one side lie all the positive precious things, & on the other, the contrary. We see ups & downs, love & hatred, friendship & betrayal, pleasure & guilt; and above all, the beauty of authority; and how a society can transform itself little by little through the change of some strict superficial laws like family connections & relationships where & when there’s no emotion, nor respect, but one is condemned to still hang around.
One thing is obvious: There’s always two sides for every story: A lonely girl who marries a man who’s madly in love with her; the man blinded by love that never get the girl didn’t love him back from the very first kiss. A man who leaves his wife & daughter because he found love and respect -which he never felt being shown nor given by his wife- with someone else; The wife who is so dictated by the tradition that cannot see what’s really going on on her man’s mind. A father who is never grateful unless he loses. A lover who doesn’t have even a drop of self-esteem before it’s too late. The familiar story of people who don’t know how to talk when it is time; when the only thing has left is speaking out loud, listen, & be listened to; which the opposite leads to fallacious judgements & dangerous decisions. The one negative point that came to my notice, was that it was like there’s no equilibrium, no middle point; one was so bad or so good; so gentle or so bad-tempered; even when there was a chance to change, one changed form evil to angle (with exaggeration), & that’s exactly the opposite point of what I’m trying to learn & practice nowadays: Never lose the track of equilibrium -I searched for it in this story. Never found it.
Long story short, sometimes it IS good to break some habits/rules. It might be a hidden blessing somewhere in between. We never know...