篇一 :《苔丝》英文读后感

All about Woman

When I read the novel Tess of the D’Urbervilles ten years ago for the first time, I was merely shocked by Tess’s miserable and tragic fate. What a lovely and kind girl! She did nothing wrong but she had to bear all these adversities that she didn’t deserve. At that time I was just a naive little girl in junior high school.

Now reviewing this famous novel again, I realize that there is still much to be found and thought about in it. Great as Hardy is, he definitely wanted to tell readers more than a tragic story purely.

Tess was the eldest daughter of her family and she had no choice but to bear the responsibility of rallying her family and repaying the debts. She was beautiful, innocent and pure without big ambition or desire for things that didn’t belong to her. Nobody ever doubted that she deserved happiness and peace.

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篇二 :苔丝读后感英文版

Thomas Hardy was a famous critical realistic writer at the turn of the 19th century in England, and Tess of the D’Urbervilles is the most influential one of all his works.When I read the novel Tess of the D’Urbervilles several years ago for the first time, I was merely shocked by Tess’s miserable and tragic fate. What a lovely and pure woman! She did nothing wrong but she had to bear all these adversities that she didn’t deserve. At that time I was just a naive little girl in junior high school. Now reviewing this famous novel again, I came to realize that some deep reasons behind the tragic.

Tess’s tragic life is caused by that society and it’s the result of that time. Except this, it can’t be separated from her own weakness in character, because she obviously has the dual nature of the society character---resistance and compromise. As a common person, Tess fought with the society helplessly. In the end, she turned out to be the sacrificial victim of society like all other things which disobey the morality and ethic.At the other hand Tess has shown a powerful womans image to common people with her unyielding spirit of revolt. She, to the moribund society, traditional old morals, hypocritical religion, capitalist marriage system, has carried on the strongest revealing and criticism. Her kindhearted enlightenment, noble emotion, strong personality, and her resistance in imbuing all rooted in the hearts of the people forever, worth savoring.

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篇三 :德伯家的苔丝读后感(英语)

The Impression of Reading Tess of the d’Urbervilles

In most works of Thomas Hardy’s ,he almost entirely concerns his native West Country—Wessex . For Hardy, nature was the primary fact in life. He felt that nature was good because it represented free life in its honest, basic form. Nature was also harsh and demanding, punishing those who did not live in tune with it. For most of his major character, life is a struggle to regain the simplicity and truth of natural living. Most of them are sensual women like “Tess” in Tess of the d’Urbervilles , they are the common villains in Hardy’s novels .The Wessex novels are similar in mant other ways. All of them rely heavily on sensational incidents and their plots are overloaded with exciting climaxes.

Of all the Wessex novels, Tess of the d’Urbervilles is one of the most typical one. The other one is Jude the Obscure. Wessex raised a storm of controversy because of their “indecent” subject matter. Today, their subjects would be considered harmless, even dull, but the Victorians were outraged by his gloomy outlook and lack of sweetness.

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篇四 :苔丝读后感英文版

Book review of Tess of the D’Urbervilles

Tess of the D?Urbervilles, published in 1891, is Thomas Hardy?s most influential work. The novel tells us a tragic story of a beautiful country girl, Tess D?Urbervilles. In her youth, Tess was seduced by Alec. She confessed it on the wedding night and was then abandoned by her husband Clare. At the end of the story, Tess murdered Alec in despair and this led to her final execution.

Tess?s tragedy is inevitable and unavoidable since she represents the sacrifice of that age. This article attempts to reveal some features of British political, economic and social development in Victorian age as this novel unfolds.

1. The social transformation

Deliberating the whole novel, we can draw such a conclusion that Tess sacrifices herself for her poor family. So what strength, we have to ask, was impelling her family move towards poverty?

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篇五 :德伯家的苔丝读后感(英文版)

A TRAGEDY OF A WOMAN

She was seduced by a so-called gentleman—Alec, and from then on her life totally changed from this loss of innocence. People looked down on her and respected her no more. Actually she did nothing wrong because before she was seduced she knew nothing of men. She was just a girl when she first met that terrible man.

She was forced by the gossips and the church to blame herself for this

accident, so she thought she deserved nothing good. In order to get rid of the past she decided to go to a distant dairy farm but was still saying to herself that she was wrong. Maybe God didn’t aGREe with that, because the Lord gave her someone she loved with her whole heart and life—Angel Chare. Angel popped the question to her but she refused him without saying why. She said she loved him deeply and perhaps no one in the world could love him more than she did but she could not marry him for some unspoken reason. Angel wasn’t satisfied with this vague answer and did his best to win Tess. Somehow she agreed and they soon fixed the wedding day. Soon after their wedding Angel confessed the crime he committed to a woman long time ago and asked for Tess’s forgiveness. Tess was not at all angry and forgave Angel at once; in fact she was rather happy and excited for she also had things to confess.

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篇六 :苔丝英文读后感

Impression of the Tess of the D’Urbervilles

In general, the book Tess of the D’Urbervilles tells us a story about the life of the heroine named Tess. We can say that Tess’s life is greatly influence by two men: Alec D’Urbervilles who seduces her and Angel Clare with whom she really fall in love. The first person appearing in the book is Tess’s father who happens to know from a parson that he is a direct descendant of the ancient and noble family of the D’Urbervilles. He is very happy and proud of his descent, despite that he is still very poor. And he wants Tess to go to the house of a rich “relative” and want to get help from them. From this we can see the vanity of people and the social hierarchy. At first, Tess does not want to do so. But after the only horse in their house died, she has no choice but to seek help from the relative. The situation is caused by the social environment at that time. In the first half of the 19th century, Britain experienced great changes in the politic and economic areas. The industrial revolution bringing up at the end of the 18th century was flourishing in the 1830s. In 1846, Repeal of the Corn Laws was carried out and it became the symbol of the decline of agricultural labor force and the increase of urban labor force. Tess and her family are the representatives of rural labors. They work very hard to make a living, being exploited and oppressed.

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篇七 :苔丝英文读后感

Tess of the D’Urbervilles

Introduction

The novel was written by Thomas hardy (1840-1928). He is an outstanding writer in British. And he is the representative of realist writer in 19 centuries. In his family, although his father is a stonemason, his parents paid attention to the education of hardy. As results, he performs excellent when he was in childhood.

When he grew up and left school, he was an architect. He left for London in 1862 as a architectural draftsman. At the same time, he engaged in language in London University and began his literary creation. In a time, he returned home due to the health of physical. At first, he wrote poems, but there was no chance to publish. So he change his aim, he paid all heart to novel creation. Later, he became famous for his forth novel Far away from the madding crowd in 1874. Since then, he published Tess that is his best novel. Tess was written with fatalism of tragedy and reflected the tragic fate of the women in English rural town. Heady witted the suffering of rural people when capitalism came to the British countryside. And the capitalism brought the robbing to laboring people. This made them suffering a lot. These experience makes Hardy?s poems always deep, concise and modern minded. Summary

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篇八 :苔丝英文读后感

Tess’s tragedy

The heroine of Tess of the Durbervilles is a ideal of the modern female writed by Thomas Hardy. In Hardy's world, Tess is the symbol of beauty and love . She is representing all the best aspects of Wessex: beauty, purity, kindness,modesty, kindness and tolerance. As a pure and kind girl, Tess was destroyed by bourgeois decayed ethics,hypocritical religion and unfair law. However, I think this is the main reason as to the character of Tess. To a certain extent, Tess wanted to turn against the traditional morality, but in a certain sense, she had become the defenders of traditional. On the one hand, this shows the traditional moral persecution of Tess. On the other hand, this shows Tess obedience to the male society is the cause of the tragedy.

Tess’s father wanted to get rid of the financial distress, so he asked Tess to have a relationship with the old lady Mrs.Durbervilles. The burden of the family and her own sense of responsibility had cast a shadow on her fate. In the face of Alec,she was feared. But she was so young ,ignorant,poor and helpless,so that Tess did not know how to avoid Alec,and finally her pure body was sullied by Alec. Tess is the victim of violence, she is innocent. She understood this point, but at the same time,

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