《德伯家的苔丝》读后感
班级：09机械4班 姓名：姜伟杰 学号0915020011 《德伯家的苔丝》是英国著名作家托马斯·哈代的代表作，整部小说是以乡村为背景，通篇描述的是一位乡村少女一生的悲惨经历。小说的副标题中说到女主人苔丝是一个纯洁的女人，这是一种超前的思想，也是作者对当时的维多利亚时代的批判和不满。
所谓的维多利亚时代，就是英国工业革命的时期。维多利亚时代当时的社会崇尚的是道德修养和谦虚礼貌，也是科学文明飞速发展的时期，在小说里面非常多的情节中都有提及到有牧师在街道上布道也体现了这几点。但正是因为这种崇尚道德修养和谦虚礼貌的社会风气，许多暴发户也为提升自己身价进入上流社会而纷纷模仿贵族们的习惯。文中的亚雷就是其中之一，他家也是一个暴发户。正因没有受到正确的道德修养和礼貌的教育，才导致了后来奸污苔丝和后来一系列诱逼苔丝与他同居等惨剧的发生。
《德伯家的苔丝》写的就是在当时社会的迫使下，一名纯真、朴素、勤劳的农村姑娘苔丝走向堕落。作者托马斯·哈代笔中的苔丝正是当时社会上正义、纯真、勤劳、向往美好未来的女人的一个缩影，她身上充满着爱和对他人的信任。文中写到苔丝被亚雷奸污了以后便毫不犹豫的选择了离开了亚雷回到家中，体现出了她内心的纯真，她不愿迫使自己与一个自己非常憎恨的人在一齐生活一辈子，她那种对未来美好生活的追求的迫切希望。回到家中的苔丝得知自己已经怀孕了以后，不但没有把对亚雷的憎恨转移到这孩子身上，反而不顾家人
和朋友的责备，义无反顾的生下了孩子并悉心照顾他，但最后这孩子还是夭折了。这体现出了苔丝非常有爱，她的灵魂是高尚的，她的道德也是高尚的，但却被社会所唾弃，被当时的社会所否认，认为她是一个伤风败俗、罪业深重的女人。在这里作者表面上写的是苔丝作为一个弱智和受害者非但没有得到同情，反而被社会所批判的惨状，但其实作者真实想反应的是当时社会的一种虚伪的道德标准和当时社会丑陋的风俗的一种批判。作者托马斯·哈代批判的不仅是当时社会虚伪的道德标准，还有当时以克莱为代表的资产阶级的封建传统的道德伦理准则，而苔丝则是当时这种社会陋俗中的牺牲品。作者托马斯·哈代通过苔丝的悲惨经历揭示了这种社会陋俗社会风气的弊端和卑劣的一面，把它残酷血性的一面完全的揭示出来。苔丝是社会的悲剧。
我认为苔丝的一生都是充满着戏剧性的，小说全文通篇都在写苔丝走向末路的悲惨经历，但从中也经常会发现一些看似偶然，但却又像是冥冥中早注定命运安排的情节。如苔丝被侵犯前在舞会结束后与亚雷家的女仆争吵的小插曲，还有苔丝在开篇与克莱的相遇但却不相识到后来再次与克莱相遇并相爱到后来的互相产生爱慕之情并结为夫妻。都充满着戏剧色彩，也正是这样才能更好的体现出作者的真实感受和真实想反映的社会背景风俗习惯和社会陋习等，也为以后对苔丝悲惨经历的描写和小说的结果作了一个完美的诠释。整篇小说是以苔丝父亲得知自己是当地著名武士后裔到让苔丝去认亲和之后所发生的一切悲惨事情的经历为主线的，这样更好的体现出了造成苔丝的
悲剧的成因不仅是社会的因素，还有苔丝她自己本身的一种性格错误的原因。
不过，《德伯家的苔丝》还是一部非常有意义的小说，从中也了解到了许多很重要的东西。
第二篇：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.
She sat and told everything to Angel, hoping he would forgive her as he was forgiven but she was wrong. She was not forgiven, not as she thought she was. The woman pays.
Without Angel’s love, nothing meant anything to her. The result wasn’t
important now. Tess was arrested for her murder of that so-called gentleman. Why? She still loved Angel and when he finally went back to her and asked for HER forgiveness, after he reGREtted what he had done unfair to Tess, she was desperate. That was too late—Alec had always told Tess that Angel would never come back so he won Tess’s trust. Unluckily Angel did come back and found Tess.! Everything was too late!
Tess was deceived and she lost Angel for the second time! The strengh of her love was so strong that she had forgotten the difference between right and wrong. Before that she had done nothing wrong but when she killed Alec, everything really changed! She became a criminal! How could it be? She was as pure and innocent as the good wife in the Bible. Her whole character was honest and faithful. Angel figured out at last that a person should be judged not only on what he has done but also on what he wanted to do!
Tess didn’t want to be seduced by man and she had no power to defend herself so she lost her innocence and that’s all! Angel also did the wrong thing and it was even more serious than Tess’s crime but HE was not blamed for it.
Why it is always the woman who pays? Why they are always hurt? Why was Tess’s girlish purity lost? Why does the wrong man take the wrong woman? Why do the bad often ruin the good? Why is beauty damaged by ugliness? Women are too weak! Thousands of years of history have shown us that women have always been treated unfairly!
In old China there was a culture, which didn’t think of women as human beings. If you asked one if he was the oldest in his family, he would probably answer “the oldest one” even if he had some elder sisters. If you asked why then he would say, “Ha, they are not included!”
People gave birth to many girls in order to have only one boy to keep the family name going. They thought girls had no use for the family. They would be married and go to live with their husbands’ home and be their wives some day sooner or later. So they were extremely hard on girls.
Girls should be hard working, faithful, loyal, intelligent, and virtuous and the most important thing was she must be a maiden! If her husband was the first man who touched her then she was a good girl, a good wife no matter how she thought. If she wasn’t, then she would gain a very bad reputation and nobody would dare to go near her. What about men? People did not care whether he was an experienced man or not, nor did they care about his character. They thought man equals power and power equals rights…
Now let’s not be so bitter. Nowadays women’s situations have become much better. Some are because of the change of society and some are because of civilization. Just let those poor painful women like TESS be just a memory.