This is a book of grievous mood. A beautiful young girl’s life was destroyed gradually and really---not by her energy, but by the people who said love to her. What kind of this love is? What make the love destroy its lover? Tess could be a happy girl though her family was very poor. But “noble, status, and money” were strongly in her father’s mind, just because of the discovery that a parson said to him. Without their horse’s carrying load, life became rather difficult. Tess blamed herself completely, and she wondered what she could help her parents. Then Tess obeyed her mother’s idea, to work at the d’Urberville’s home, and met her cousin, Alec d’Urbervilles. This then was the beginning. Tess had to meet the wrong man, and one who was so strongly attracted to her. Yet to the right man, she was only a half-forgotten impression from an evening’s dancing party in a country field. This mistake was to have tragic results. Alec used his clever brain to help Tess’s parents, and this made Tess feel grateful to him. Because of her slackening vigilance, Alec’s intention came true ---Tess would be maiden no more. As the people of her village said, “It was to be.” And from now on, Tess’s life was to be completely different. Tess left Alec’s home, returned her village. But all had changed, Tess wouldn’t be happy, people in village wouldn’t see her as before. After her baby’s death, she had to leave her home, went to a far place. Perhaps at that time we should thank Alec, thank baby’s death, or Tess wouldn’t leave her home and met Angel Clare, her right man in the dairy. Tess was a so lovely girl that Angel was soon crazy for her. At last, they conquered many difficulties and got married. But Tess’s experience was still her mortal wound, Angel couldn’t accept the truth and left her. The story came to its turning point again. When Angel realized his mistake and went back to look for Tess, all was too late, the poor girl again dropped into Alec’s trap. With the intertwine of love and hatred, Tess had to end herself with a tragic results. God played with Tess so much. When her right man appeared, God yet didn’t give her happiness. Tess’s parents loved her, but it was just an instinctive love; Alec said love to her, but it was a evil love; Angel said love to her as well, but it was a immature and selfish love. He wanted Tess to forgive him, but he couldn’t forgive Tess. Tess didn’t make any mistakes, but at last, she born all punishments and sufferings. At first, God had let the two persons miss each other. A tragedy was

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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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BOOK REPORT OF TESS

I have just finished some parts of the book called ‘Tess of the d’Urberville’, so I just talk about the characters appearing in these chapters which I have read.

In these chapters, I think that Tess, a kind and beautiful girl, didn’t want to rely on her “relative”, Mrs.d’Urberville. However, because of her responsibility,she still stood for her family to ask d’Urberville for help. As for her parents, her father wasirresponsible and foolish about the vanity of family honor. What’s more, her motherwas like a child sometime and eager to claim relationship with herrelative who had a great fortune. And then, in my view, Alec never cared about others what they thought，otherwise，Tess`s chastitywould not lose away.

I was impressed on a paragraph: in life, the right man to love hardly ever comes at the right time. Nature doesn’t often answer a call for love, until the caller is tired of calling. In this case, as in millions, it was just one of stories about encounters which were erroneous. A missing half wandered somewhere else, arriving much later. This

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《德伯家的苔丝》读后感

前一段日子，读完了《苔丝》——流着眼泪读完的。

这是我第二次读这篇小说了，可从次数上来看虽是第二次，实质上只能说是第一次，或者说是一次多一点点。我第一次看这篇小说的时候才只是一个小学生，对文学作品的理解能力有限，而且读得也很粗略，那时，我对《苔丝》的唯一印象就是挺好看的，苔丝这个人物挺可怜的，除此以外便所剩无几了，根本没有把自己融入整个情节中去，根本没有对苔丝这个悲剧性的人物作过任何有意识的评价，根本没有想过苔丝一步一步走向毁灭是与其性格，与她所处的环境是如此密不可分。这一次阅读，我不敢说我已经看懂了，但我对整个情节有了比以往更深刻的了解。

《苔丝》的作者托马斯·哈代在这篇小说中体现出了他悲观的宿命论，主人公苔丝陷入悲惨境地，但她无论如何挣扎都无济于事，改变不了命运的安排与戏弄，最后走上绝路。但她走上绝路，绝不像某些低俗小说那样一味追求情节曲折而硬让主人公死去，而是有其一定的必然性。在故事的开端，当苔丝的父亲约翰·德比被告知自己这样一个贫穷小贩竟是古代德伯家族——一个十分高贵显要的家庭的后裔后，她的父母要她去有钱的德伯太太家攀亲戚，她天性纯朴，厌恶趋炎附势，不同意去，但后来，她由于担心喝得酩酊大醉的父亲半夜外出送蜂密进城会出现意外，才与弟弟一起替父亲跑一次腿，然而途中却出现了意外——她家唯一一匹赶车的马被轧死了，失去一匹马对他们这样一个贫困的家庭来说就是失去了用以维持生活的工具。在埋葬这匹衰老枯瘦的马时，几个孩子们都放声大哭，苔丝没有，“他脸色苍白，没有表情，似乎认为她自己是谋杀者”，书中是这样描写的。然后她带着一种负罪感――是她自己的疏忽大意才使家庭的生活出现了危机，和她对父母的孝顺，对弟弟妹妹们的关爱，以及她强烈的责任感——必须使家庭摆脱困境的责任感，去了德伯太太家攀亲戚，也导致了她被亚历克·德伯玷污，给她日后的生活蒙上了一层抹不去的阴影。她的孩子在死前，她坚持要让这个不清白的小小的肉欲的产物受洗礼，也是强烈的责任感趋使她这样做的。如此说来，苔丝性格中最不容忽视的一点便是她强烈的责任感了，正如苔丝坚决地要把与亚历克·德伯的那一段不快的往事告诉她所深爱，并且也深爱她的丈夫安吉尔一样，她原本可以完完全全地把这件事隐藏起来，说像她母亲教她的，然而，苔丝没有，她把这件事原原本本地告诉了安吉尔，书里这样写道：“她说得很轻，但很坚决。”苔丝把这件事告诉了安吉尔，而不愿意隐瞒事实，致使安吉尔承受不住打击而与她分居，也正是源于她那责任心，不是吗?现在看整篇文章中给我印象最深的一段吧，就是苔丝杀了亚历克后追上安吉尔的时候：“??克莱尔停住脚步，以询问的目光望着苔丝。‘安吉尔’，苔丝说，好像她一直等待着他们停步时克莱尔会这样看着她，‘你知道我为什么要追你吗?我要告诉你我把他杀了!’她这么说的时候脸上露出令人同情的惨淡微笑。”“令人同情的惨淡微笑”，你能想象一个人在杀了人后所露出的这种表情吗?如她自己所说的“我杀了他——也不知道是怎么把他杀死的。不过，安吉尔，为了你，也为了我自己，我非这么做不可。”显然，苔丝把杀死亚历克看成是她应尽的责任，是她必须完成的任务，为她自己，也为她丈夫。亚历克是笼罩在她心头的阴影，亚历克死了，她只觉得如释重负，只觉得自己是完成了任务，所以她急着要告诉她丈夫，这大概也就是她脸上会露出微笑，而不是杀过人后的慌乱、惊恐无措。因而在她生命的最后五天——与安吉尔在一起的五天——一生中最幸福的五天中过的生活是恬静的，她的心情也是平静的，她对待死亡的坦然也感染了逮捕她的人，“她站起身来，整了整衣服向前走去;那些人还一个也没有起步。‘我准备好了’，她平静地说。”我想，苔丝或许是带着幸福，甚至是带

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Tess----a tragedy of the times

Tess Durbeyfield, a tragic character was created by Thomas Hardy who was deeply impacted by the tragic view of Arthur Schopenhauer, Greek tragic view and Shakespeare’s tragedies. He held the idea that no matter how great the human civilization developed, we can do nothing when fate wants to play tricks on us. Due to this kind of believe, all of his novels have such a character: when the hero are going to access the happiness, the adversities befall them inevitably, like the destiny has settled and make fool of people, and so does Tess Durbeyfield’s fate.

In this novel, it reveals the shackle of convention explicitly, and Tess Durbeyfield was the victim of that era though she had courage to pursue the true love and rebel the decadent ideology. However, it was not enough for her to break the fetters of traditional moral standard. When she was raped, she was extremely guilty that she felt she did not pure anymore; she even dared not to go to church. However, when we consider about this, is it really her fault? Does she have to bear the catastrophe by herself? The answer is definitely no. She always in a state of auto- accusation ascribed to the traditional idea of chastity, she measured herself whether decent and pure only according the very concept, it was this that made the “humiliation” was engraved in her heart. The feudal ethnical code at Tess Durbeyfield’s time was just like the Three Cardinal Guides and the Five Constant Virtues at ancient China, which forfeited many ladies’ happiness, and became a heavy yoke upon all the people (especially women) at that time, but there were a few people to go against it.

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Tess of the d’Urbervilles

In Tess of the d’Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy has directly satirized nature. This novel revealed the tragedy of lower classes’ destiny and flayed hypocritical gentlemen and morals. In this novel, Hardy demonstrated his deep sense of moral sympathy for England’s lower classes, particularly for women. The novel, which indicated the tendency of anti-religious sentiments, against feudal morality and the laws of capitalists, was warmly received by the reading public though British upper class was bitter against it.

In the novel, Thomas Hardy succeeded in portraying an artistic image- Tess. There were sensitivity and beauty to her that have nothing to do with looks. Her beauty is not kind of stunning beauty, but the more you approach to her, you will be more likely to indulge in her beauty. Although she is not an orthodox believer, she has her own pure pursuits of life and living criteria. Her integrated image of kindness and tenderness, tough-minded and plainness should own her a happy life. But it seems that God leaves her out.

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德伯家的苔丝的读后感

苔丝是一个美丽善良的农村姑娘,由于家境贫寒,不得不到富人家攀亲,不幸被亚雷·德伯诱奸而蒙羞回家。

由于不堪忍受乡里邻居的风言风语,苔丝到远离家乡的奶牛场打工,在那里她与牧师的儿子安琪·克莱尔相遇、相恋,并决定结婚。在新婚之夜,苔丝坦白了自己过去的不幸遭遇,然而克莱尔无法忍受这个现实,抛弃她远走巴西。

为了贫困的家庭,苔丝被迫再次沦为亚雷的情妇。经过一番痛苦的挣扎,克莱尔从巴西回来请求苔丝的谅解。在愤怒和绝望中苔丝杀死了亚雷,和克莱尔一起度过了短暂的幸福时光,最后由于谋杀罪而被绞死。我认为造成苔丝悲剧的原因有很多：

苔丝的悲剧源于苔丝性格的妥协性，表现在她和安琪儿的关系上。恋人之间本是平等的，而苔丝却一味贬低自己,抬高安琪儿，这是多么浓烈﹑炽热却又卑躬屈膝的爱。她悲惨的过去,得不到安琪儿的宽容，面对安琪儿无情的抛弃,苔丝没有做丝毫反抗。安琪儿离去了,苔丝对他的爱却从未削减，一封封热情洋溢的信,却唤不回安琪儿冰冷的心，在爱情面前,苔丝失去了自我,失去了尊严，正是这种盲目的﹑不平等的爱,使苔丝放弃了一个妻子争取幸福的权利,深化了苔丝的悲剧。

苔丝的悲剧也是由她异常低下的社会经济、政治和阶级地位造成的,没有任何社会地位的破落家庭直接导致了悲剧的发生。她虚荣的父亲一心想恢复昔日显赫的德伯维尔家族的荣耀;她无知的母亲一直梦想让漂亮的苔丝嫁入豪门,成为阔太太,借此解决日益严峻的家庭危机。苔丝从来不考虑个人的忧患得失,一心关注家人的生活。家中老马的意外死亡,也就是苔丝悲惨命运的开始,她认为自己应该对家庭负责,照顾好弟弟妹妹,所以她向冒牌本家求助,亚雷·德伯利用苔丝的天真淳朴,无耻地诱奸了她。新婚丈夫抛弃她以后,她凭着坚强的意志自力更生,屡次抵制亚雷的物质诱惑,但是父亲去世后,为了让家人有栖身之处,她再次委身亚雷,过着“行尸走肉”般的生活,此时她的精神世界已经崩溃了。

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