像鲁滨逊一样在逆境中创造精彩 [2]
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关键词:adversityhopeinnovationperseverancesplendor逆境希望创新坚持精彩
s the adversity. It is showed in the following aspects:
A . Learning to Lose in Adversity
Robinson is not a person who was born with courage to confront the adversity. He is not a man who is eager to live stably. But owing to his rebellious thoughts about sailing, he is always faced with various adversities. Why can he deal with the adversity well? It is his attitude that is the most important factor.
When the adversity comes, is he happy? No. Just as he said, he had a dismal prospect of his condition. It is easy to see that Robinson also felt miserable. Though the adversity came unexpectedly, and Robinson also complained about his condition in the beginning, he can convert his thought to another one:
But something always returned swift upon me to check these thoughts, and to reprove me; and particularly one day, walking with my gun in my hand by the seaside, I was very pensive upon the subject of my present condition, when Reason, as it were, expostulated with me t’other way, thus: “Well, you are in a desolate condition, ’tis true, but pray remember, where are the rest of you? Did not you come eleven of you into the boat? Where are the ten? Why were not they saved and you lost? Why were you singled out? Is it better to be here, or there?” And then I pointed to the sea. All evils are to be considered with the good that is in them and with what worse attends them. (Daniel Defoe, 49)
It is his transposing thoughts that changed his attitudes towards life. When he felt miserable about his condition, he thought of his companions’ misfortunes. He understood that his condition is not bad compared with them. As he said: “All evils are to be considered with the good that is in them and with what worse attends them.” It is just the same as the truth that to lose is another way to gain. There is no doubt that Robinson lost many things, such as his companions, his comfortable life…But he got more. He was survived, which is the most important for him. That is enough. Life is everything. Where there is life, there is hope.
Besides, Robinson knew how to set the good against the evil to enjoy the comforts.
EVIL
I am cast upon a horrible desolate island, void of all hope of recovery.
I am singled out and separated, as it were, from all the world to be miserable.
I am divided from mankind, a solitaire, one banished from human society.
I have not clothes to cover me.
I am without any defense or means to resist any violence of man or beast.
I have no soul to speak to, or relieve me.
GOOD
But I am alive, and not drowned, as all my ship’s company was.
But I am singled out, too, from all the ship’s crew to be spared from death; and he that miraculously saved me from death can deliver me from this condition.
But I am not starved and perishing on a barren place, affording no sustenance.
But I am in a hot climate, where if I had clothes I could hardly wear them.
But I am cast on an island, where I see no wild beasts to hurt me, as I saw on the of Africa. And what if I had been shipwrecked there?
But God wonderfully sent the ship in near enough to the shore that I have gotten out so many necessary things as will either supply my wants, or enable me to supply myself even as long as I live. (Daniel Defoe, 52)
It is just as Robinson said that upon the whole, here was an undoubted testimony, that there was scarce any condition in the world so miserable, but there was something negative or something positive to be th
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