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

The host of Tess is a girl named Tess, and Tess just a 16-year old simple girl in countryside. One day, his father D?Urbervilles walked along the road at night, one person told him that he is the descendent of the warrior aristocracy; he should be rich and honorable. After he got the discovery, he learned a nearby relation soon. After a while, in order to improve life condition by relative, he asked his oldest daughter Tess to find his relative although he didn?t know them. When Tess arrived there, Tess met Alec who is son of wealthy. Alec was attracted by Tess because of her pour and simple. However, Tess was awful to Alec. There mouths later, Alec raped Tess. Tess returned her home with sorrowing. Something worse, Tess realized that she had been pregnant. Later, she found a job in milk? factory. She had a period of nice life. There, she met 26-year Angel Clare. Angel came from a wealthy family. Then Tess fell in love with him. When Angel?s parents suggested that he 1

should marry a rich girl. He refused immediately. Eventually, Tess married to Angel with sorry and sin, because she didn?t told Angel her past. After the wedding, Tess and Angel should tell their past to each other. Angel told the truth about his black deeds at first. And Tess forgave him with pleasure. When Tess told her past, Angel became angry for Tess had child with another man. Furthermore, Angel went to Brazil and left Tess

Later, Tess left home again and went to another town with broken heart. Perhaps, she had been used to pain. Afterwards, she went to Angel? home for the address of Angel?. Something happened, she encounter with Alec. When Alec saw her, he was struck dumb. Alec followed her all the time and asked her to marry him. Tess refused him with a strong attitude. She wrote a long letter to Angel Clare, in which she ask him come back to protect her. When Tess returned home, her father had dead and her house was confiscated too. She became homeless. The burden of life had on her shoulder immediately. However, Alec told her that Angel would never return, which made her sadder.

At last, Angel Clare returns from Brazil. Meanwhile, he regretted leaving Tess. When Tess melts with Angel Clare, she was confronting Alec. In desperation, she killed Alec and run away with Angel. They spent a few days that were filled with joy and happiness in the dessert. Finally, Tess was arrested. Angel Clare obeyed the wish of Tess, and he started a new life with Tess?s sister.

Comments

Tess grew up in the countryside. Despite the burden of family life, Tess was bright and cheerful when she was in childhood. She loves life and has the courage to face the difficulties. She is the example of the women of the country who is miserable. Although Tess was raped, she is also the symbol of beauty. She always has the characters of pour and simple. Her heart contents a strong will and warm feelings. Meanwhile, Tess?s tragedy reflects the life of rural area in 19 centuries.

On the other hand, Alec does all kinds of evil deeds in countryside relying on his father?s money and power. His characters exposed when he met Tess at the first time. On contrary, Angel Clare is a younger who has a lot of knowledge. He dares to pursue his love 2

and go against with class and bias. He is not afraid of hardship and enjoys nature. But to my disappointed, he is also defeated by society ethics and causes great paint in Tess?s heart. 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!”

As a matter of fact, people give birth too 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 someday sooner or later. So they were extremely hard. 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 was 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…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.

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第二篇：苔丝感想 英文

Tess of the D’Urberwilles

I think Tess must be a kind-hearted girl.

She endured so much pain, but she never complained about others. When she was young, she missed her best love. Then fate began to play jokes with her. A so-called gentleman cheated her and took away the most important thing of an un-married girl. No matter Tess was regretted or not, people around her, contained the church, all of them thought that she was a bad girl. She couldn’t get married. She couldn’t stay

home to wait for her parents’ order to get married. She ran away and met her best love. Since she thought that she wasn’t innocence, she stood her deep love of Angel, and put the opportunities to other girls, those who can never compared to her.

At last, she got married to Angel, but the fact of her history made her husband angry and bad-tempered. She tried her best to make her husband happy, but he didn’t care what she had done, how sad she was. Until Angel found that he loved Tess very much, Tess had come back to the disgusted man. True love was a power. Tess killed the man, ran away with Angel, lived in others’ house, and be caught by the police. Although Tess would be in prison and be killed, she wouldn’t regret at last. After all, Angel really loved her at last.

Everybody will day dream sometimes. But we won’t care it any time. Tess’s father was a dreamer. We must think about ourselves. When somebody tells us a thing which is far away from our daily life, we must think about it carefully and investigate the fact. We are not fools. If what they say, what you believe, our world will become a mixture. We all know that we are just citizens of China, and students of Kashgar Teachers’ collage. Life is life. How can we fall into a hole of imagination? This imagination led Tess to death. That was the result.

In the old times of China, people also had a conception of innocence of girls. But did they think about men? Yeah, at that time, men were the host of world. Women just needed to give birth to babies, teach them, and do housework to their husband. That was a duty. Even though at present, we don’t have a judge on men either. We also meet problems on finding jobs. Because those companies think that our women are terrible. We can’t do many things but men can, we will give birth to babies but men don’t, every month we have several days of mental problems but men don’t. That’s unfair. We do so much, so it is right to give more opportunities to us.

At the ball, Tess missed her love. Nowadays, we need to be brave. And when the opportunity is coming, we must catch it in time. If we lose, we can hardly meet it again. The chance is given to the people who get the ready to. So we should prepare and chance will find us. And we need to learn refusing. If Tess refused to made friends with Alec, maybe she could avoid this disaster. In present times, many children know the relationship between women and men earlier. And also many of them don’t know. Actually, our society need to teach them in order to know what will happen or what they should do to protect themselves. Although most parents think that this is a bad thing beyond virtue, but it tends to the young to learn that. We need forgiveness. We can see that Tess lived in a religion place, but those

people didn’t get the thought of kind-hearted and forgiveness. As we are students who have the relief on Marxism, we have learned to be kind-hearted, but how about them?

So we should be an atheism. We learn science, not ghosts.

After Tess went to the farm, she met her love again. She was afraid, was under pressure, and was shy on her first feeling of love. Why should we have a crime feeling after making a mistake? Just correct our mistakes, we are good persons too. Of course, we can not make mistakes if we know they are wrong.

We can not avoid problems either. Tess daren’t to tell Angel the truth. When Angel knew that, he couldn’t accept at once. In our daily life, we can meet many difficulties. And we may make mistakes. At that time, we must think highly of it and face it but not to avoid. Fact will come out unless you don’t do it. Most of us can not accept our relatives’ or friends’ betray. So face it earlier, maybe we can get forgiveness earlier. Another important thing was that Tess’s family had many children. The poor environment made her have to approach to Alec. Should the poor do like this? There are many poor men in our country, but they find jobs for themselves, although the job is very hard to do. They make their own money and endure pains.

I just think of my family. I am the only child of my parents. They love me very much. And most of my life, they had a correct way to teach me. And I have

grandparents. When I was young, four of them taught me to do housework. They said that I would be a good girl if I listened to them. And I always listened to them,

contained other things, which might be wrong now. This winter vocation I went home. I found that they had many wrong conceptions. So I think that if I was as clever as now when I was young, maybe our family would be a good family. But when I think about the development of our society, my parents and grandparents did a good job already. So I regret a little that I love them not so much. And sometimes I quarreled with them. I should talk to them, right? That is to be a good daughter and

granddaughter. Their thought may not catch up with the society. So it’s necessary to us to tell them the right or advanced thing.

Women’s reputation is higher and higher. It is quite different now. Men become good husbands who always listen to their wives. Maybe we must make this situation fairer. Two persons must respect each other, and then life will be better. My parents quarreled in winter vocation. It was a small thing. I don’t know why they quarreled. It seems that if you think more highly of another, you will have more words to say.