Jamaica Hotel: This is a work of "female power" and full of "suspense"

It is a hotel, but guests are not allowed to drink alcohol.

The inn, called jamaica inns, stands on a 21-mile road between Bodming and Launceston.

I've never heard of a hotel banning alcohol, but Jamaica has such a clear rule.

Why?

Perhaps the answer can be found in the book "Jamaica Hotel" by the British writer Daphne Dumourier.

"Floating Dream" makes people feel the madness in love and the indifference of human nature, then "Jamaica Hotel" makes me feel the strength of women and the struggle of dissatisfaction with reality, while the disobedience and struggle of evil forces.

Daphne Dumoullier, a giant of contemporary British literature, whose works have been borrowed more than Shakespeare in the British Library and have been known in the international literary world for nearly a century. He is a member of the Royal Society of British Literature and a contemporary and influential writer of the world.

Born into a literary family, she was influenced by literature and drama from an early age. Her father, who had three daughters, wanted to be a son to meet her father's expectations, and intense repression and conflict ran through her entire life and literary works. The heroine she portrays is both gentle and delicate, but also brave and strong. Mary, the heroine of "Jamaica Inn", is such a woman who is born different, she loves freedom, is bold and rebellious, and has an awakening consciousness that transcends the times.

01 This is a "suspense" novel

Jamaica Inn, the surrounding residents are full of fear of it. As the carriage passes, it accelerates, as if delaying for more than a second would put its life at risk.

When the people around them heard about the owner of the inn, their hearts were full of fear.

This is the heroine Mary's initial influence on it, the coachman heard that the address she was going to was the Jamaican Hotel, the first time was to refuse and hope that she would not go, when he knew that he could not stop her from going, the coachman changed his attitude of indifference before, sent her to the hotel, did not say a word, and left as fast as he could, as if something was chasing after her.

This is the fear of the people around us for this hotel, but why is it so afraid?

Because the owner of the hotel, Joss Merlin, in the hearts of the locals, the Merlin family is an evil person, Jos is even more evil, and everyone is afraid of him.

In the face of such a terrible person, mary, who has just arrived, is full of fear of the unknown, and how to win this battle will be what everyone wants to know.

Joss was an evil man, cruel and tall, who could crush the throats of others with one hand.

Mary is a little girl who has just left her hometown and gone to her aunt and uncle, who should be an innocent and romantic age, but has entered a place that everyone fears.

Whether it is physical strength, or force, or experience, the gap between the two people is very large, and how Mary can win in such a situation where there is almost no chance of victory, which is also the attraction of everyone in the story.

Therefore, through various descriptions, the text reveals Mary's disobedience and stubbornness, and then advances the plot and attracts our interest.

02 This is a novel with "feminine power"

Mary's father died very early, and her mother raised her with hard work and never thought of remarrying, and her mother believed that women could support themselves and have the fruits of their labor with their own hands.

In the context of the circumstances, this mother was great, and her behavior set a good example for her daughter Mary.

When she died, Mary followed her mother's advice and went to the Jamaica Hotel to find her only living aunt.

But things did not go as she thought, she thought that her aunt's life was happy and happy, that her aunt was bright and beautiful, and that she was married to someone worthy of love.

Contrary to her wishes, her uncle was an immoral, murderous and evil man.

In such a situation, in the hotel where even men are afraid, she maintains the justice and goodwill in her heart, unwilling to follow in her aunt's footsteps, resisting the viciousness of her uncle's darkness, and she tries her best to expose her uncle's crimes.

Sometimes it was hard to walk on the road under the heavy rain, just to tell the truth to the people who trusted at that time.

Sometimes in order to chase her uncle's walking route, she would track in the swamp, and even the next second she would fall into the swamp and never see the sun the next day.

I like a person, but I don't cling to him, and I am determined to find a way out on my own.

In the face of the terrible uncle, she plucked up the courage to fight again and again, in the process of confrontation, she also knew the weakness of the uncle, at that time she was happy, the person who had made people so terrible, in fact, it was not scary at all, she caught his weakness, she could take him down.

In this book, no difficulty after another has brought Mary down, she is strong, kind, optimistic, and unwilling to be in the company of evil, which is exactly what the book wants to express.

As it reads on the cover, "Some girls are born different, and they don't have to change themselves for anyone."

Mary lived freely, freely, not changing herself for others, and she knew exactly what kind of life was right for herself, what could be done and what could not be done.

Such a character is exactly what we should all learn, whether it is a man or a woman, we must be clear about what can be done and what cannot be done, and do not do things that harm others for the sake of profit.

03 This is a novel with some bugs

Any novel has good things and bad things, and this book also has them.

There are many wonderful places, whether it is the ideas that this book wants to express, or the author's portrayal of language, which makes me feel wonderful.

But there are also deficiencies, and the only place that makes me wonder is the love of the heroine.

The uncle was the one she hated, and the uncle's family was a misbehaving person in everyone's heart, and in fact it was the same.

The uncle's brother was a horse thief, a thief, not a righteous, good man.

However, the heroine actually fell in love with this horse thief, and only met twice to fall in love.

Why will I fall in love, the author did not write in particular, but I feel that the heroine looks at his appearance.

Does this show the idea that "men are not bad, women are not loved"?

This relationship really made me feel inexplicable and incomprehensible.

No novel is perfect, without flaws, and it is this imperfection that makes this book a classic, and we can comment on it and express our opinions, both good and bad.

Overall, it's a good novel.

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