The story tells the story of Mary Lenrocks, a little girl with an eccentric personality who lives in her uncle's mysterious and gloomy big house after her parents die. A magical experience makes Mary break into the house where she has been confined for a long time. Deserted garden. Mary, the farm boy Dickon and the morbid young master Colin, who has been locked in a dark room for many years, found the key to happiness and experienced a poetic resurrection with the garden.

In the novel "The Secret Garden", the author Burnett uses the "resurrection" of the Secret Garden as a foil to delicately depict the character development of the main characters Mary, Colin and Mr. Craven. The huge transformation from loneliness and pain to health and happiness aims to tell us that on the road of life, when facing setbacks and pain, we must learn to open the secret garden of the soul, open our hearts, face life with a smile, defeat ourselves and overcome hardships .

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Creative background:

The Romantic trend of thought, which originated at the end of the 18th century and reached its peak in the first half of the 19th century, has had a profound impact on the ideas advocated by the Enlightenment. Rationalism is greatly dissatisfied and deeply worried about mankind's conquest of nature.

Romantic writers take nature as their aesthetic object, and use imagination, exaggeration, metaphor and other writing techniques to describe harmonious scenes where man and nature are integrated and mutually responsive, expressing the natural and ecological views of the unity of man and nature. , calling on humans to return to nature through bold exaggeration, fiction, and imagination.

The praise and closeness to nature are the most common themes in romantic literature. Romanticism initiated the later ecologicalism in the view of nature. In modern times, the alarm bells of environmental crises have sounded frequently. Human beings have begun to realize the serious consequences of anthropocentrism, and ecological holism has emerged as the times require.

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