Ashurt's Two Loves

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 without wondering how it could take advantage, thought "How pretty!." Slowly, Ashurt could not remove Megan's face out of his head and her face stuck firmly in his memory. Looking at her face gave him pleasure like when he looked at a wild flower or at some pretty sight in the Nature.

Ashurt's love for Megan was presented in several details. One of those details can be his talking with his friend- Carton. When Carton told him that Megan was "a very subtle study psychologically", he seemed to go up the wall, and at that very moment Carton was no more than an ass in his eyes. It is common knowledge that whenever one is in love, his lover must be the most beautiful and perfect in the world. No mistake can be found in that person and even if she has some shortcomings, those shortcomings can become sweet ones. Ashurt here was no exception, to him, Megan was a work of nature. "She was a wild flower. A creature it did you good to look at." Even her simple reply, "yes" can become so "crisp and gracefu...

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...or Megan and Ashurt to live happily together? Nobody can answer this question, and could neither Megan nor Ashurt.

The God granted Megan to Ashurt so that he could sense a purely wild love, and he granted Stella to Ashurt so that he could have a life-long love.

"Love can bring both joy and pain to human", may that be the message which John Galsworthy wanted to send us- the readers. By using the technique of narrative skillfully, John Galsworthy explored thoroughly the psychology of the characters. Under his pen, appeared lines writing about the wildly passionate love Ashurt had towards Megan, the new sensation internalizing this man when he met Stella and the inner conflict that Ashurt had to experience. When I read this story, I found my own image sometimes like Ashurt, sometimes like Megan, and sometimes like Stella. That is the talent of this Nobel winner!