《月亮与六便士》既是对爱德华七世的讽刺，也是一部高更的传记..._BEC初级作文

《月亮与六便士》既是对爱德华七世的讽刺，也是一部高更的传记...

思特里克兰德是一位活跃在19世纪末或20世纪初中间的伦敦富裕的中产阶级股票经纪人。在小说的开头，他离开妻子和孩子去了巴黎。作为一名画家，他在那里过着贫困而又满足的生活，住在破旧的旅馆里，饱受疾病和饥饿的折磨。思特里克兰德竭力用他的艺术来表达他内心似乎一直占有并强迫着他的东西。此时，他并不在乎身体上的不适，也不在乎周围的环境如何。一位在商业上取得了成功的荷兰画家德克·施特略夫也一直支持他，帮助他。施特略夫承认思特里克兰德是一位天才画家。在帮助思特里克兰德从一场危及生命的疾病中康复之后，施特略夫却受到了报应：他的妻子布兰奇为了思特里克兰德抛弃了他。思特里克兰德后来抛弃了布兰奇，因为他真正想从布兰奇那里得到的只是一个画画的模特，而不是认真的陪伴。从小说的对话中可以看出，他向她暗示了这一点，而布兰奇还是冒了这个险。然后布兰奇自杀了——这是思特里克兰德一心追求艺术和美的过程中又一个牺牲品——第一个受到伤害的是他自己的优越生活，以及他妻子和孩子的人生。

After the Paris episode, the story continues in Tahiti. Strickland has already died, and the narrator attempts to piece together his life there from recollections of others. He finds that Strickland had taken up a native woman, had two children by her, one of whom dies, and started painting profusely. We learn that Strickland had settled for a short while in the French port of Marseilles before traveling to Tahiti, where he lived for a few years before dying of leprosy. Strickland left behind numerous paintings, but his magnum opus, which he painted on the walls of his hut before losing his sight to leprosy, was burnt after his death by his wife per his dying orders.