Jeffrey Archer's "Old Love" is a unique story between two English students from Oxford University. Archer explores the theme of love from a totally unusual perspective. The show was very honest, and he portrayed the long-term ambiguity and competition between two oathed competitors at Oxford: William Hatchard and Philippa Jameson. Initially, their radical opponents made their mentor Simon Jakes feel uneasy. In their constant intellectual debate, Philip faced her deep, confident voice with her proud courage. Mutual hatred is absolute. Their keen insight and analytical ability refuse to obey each other. In fact, this intense sense of competition allows them to surpass everyone else in the field. Given the background of the 1930s, she was "the stupid woman" to him and he was "the arrogant man." However, the strange thing is the way of fate, an unusual love story should bloom between the most fierce academic competitors!
When the two performed well in the final degree exam, the competition became unacceptable. Charles Oldham Shakespeare's prose writing contest provides obesity for this passionate smoldering fire and becomes a matter of life and death for everyone to defeat each other. The contempt marks between the two have changed freely and fluctuated. However, when William unwittingly discovered that Philippa's father [who was a parish priest] died of cancer, things changed dramatically, and his secret dream was to let his daughter learn and win in Oxford. from
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prize. His proud and powerful opponent sobbed silently, arousing his sudden sympathy. He overcame his tentative suspicions and proposed to accompany her to her village for funeral. They shook hands for the first time and found a new bond of friendship as they began to travel to her village. They spontaneously communicated with each other when they returned to Oxford, which restored Philip's normal competitive spirit. She slowly discovered her strong attraction for William's new discovery. The latter secretly enjoyed this interesting transformation of the pastor's daughter.
Turning hatred into love itself has always been a fascinating theme, and Archer made the situation interesting by using shiny tact in conversation. They visited Stratford and ate together. But their first date is far from normal: it is a unique blend of warmth and intellectual confrontation! If this instinctive confrontation sparked a strong sense of hatred before, it will bring them closer now. In fact, this killer instinct becomes a source of entertainment for both. If intense hatred can indeed express hidden appeal, will Archer make readers doubt?
Anyway, when returning from Stratford, the situation became weird. On the way back to Oxford, Philippa and William had to spend the night in the car because the fuel gauge showed a void. The former apparently did not miss the opportunity to express her doubts about the brain power of a person who could not even read the fuel gauge! The next day, William told her why he let the car run out of gasoline: he said with a rare sense of humor: "My father told me that if I spend the night with a barmaid, then I should simply have a beer but if I spent the night with the pastor's daughter, and I had to marry her." He said, "If I win Charles Oldham, will you marry me?" Philippa replied, "Because it will never I am worried that this will happen, so I can say for sure..." When William announced his love for her, she told him not to show up in Somerville if he didn't win. from
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The reader wondered if the writer revealed Philip's secret wish that she could marry Jimmy at the expense of Charles Oldham! Otherwise why did tears flow to Philip's eyes when she told her that she had won? For her, this is a crisis moment, because there is a conflict between her inner ambition and love, the latter won, and the proud girl once admitted, "I don't have any love for the world, just like You are the same; this is not strange?"
However, when she discovered that William was a common winner, her naughty spirit came back because she said, "I take you mercy," and William replied: "I am very convincing to produce... "They were excited in their arms, and then they never separated for more than a few hours." Curiously, their honeymoon in Athens ended a fierce debate about the relative importance of Doric and ion buildings!
Later in life, this constant war of wit gradually became boring and mediocre before their romance. Despite their careful research work and creative activities in different fields, they keep them in close contact. Three years later, "the widely accepted D. Phils", they continued to teach at the university together. But their fierce encounters are still going on, and their sharp wisdom will flash at the Oxford table. However, those who understand their love will feel envious of their unique relationship! They have no children, but their lives are not tasteless.
After returning home after the gala dinner [declared as a joint professor], their heated debate over the commemorative work of Proust took such a daunting change. A nearby policeman asked Philippa, "The couple are all good. "No, it is not", William declared that "this lady has attacked me for more than 30 years. So far, the police have done very little protection for me." However, under the apprenticeship of this apprentice, their Relationships are constantly growing every year. Interestingly, their strong love is inseparable from their passionate intellectual confrontation, which brings a special aura to their relationship. When Philippa became a lady of the British Empire, William was called the "old lady" she must now live with. It is this bitter sweet love that defines their marriage.
The most annoying habit of Philippa to William was that she decided every morning to finish the "Times" crossword before he reached the breakfast table. On a sunny morning in June, William was studying the clue and filling out the eight incomplete boxes left by Philippa. Philippa immediately retorted that there was no such thing. What makes Philip happy is that from
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Not found in the shorter Oxford Dictionary. William assured her that the word could be found in the OED on his desk and made for scholars like him. William left the breakfast table and made a sharp comment on Philippa's limited English language, and when she read the work collected by John Skelton, she would have to eat an inconspicuous pie at Gaudy Feast in Somerville...
William sighed and kissed his wife's cheek, hoping he would lose Charles Oldham. Philippa replied that he really did it because it was a good time to declare women as the only winners in those days! Closing the front door, when she entered the kitchen, Mrs. Phillipa suddenly suffered her only heart attack. She shouted to William in a hoarse voice, but in vain. It conveys the news of her death. The story ends with the black humor in the suicide note of Sir William [shooting himself with a pistol]: "Forgive me, but I must let her know." The work of John Skelton opened in one of his hands, which read " from
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Neat and underground, his fingers are stiff and cold. Such a strange ending subtly hints at the nature of the special relationship shared by the couple so that they can transcend the great marriage vow "TILL DEATH DO US PART". Archer's love story is good, because death can't be Sir William and Lady Philippa! Even as he followed his wife to her grave, William felt the need to disguise the inseparable ties they shared, and the loneliness that she would not feel unbearable... he did it with a humorous sense of humor. !
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