高中英语读后感
he story takes place in rural Dorsetshire, England, during the Victorian period.
Its events are set in motion innocently enough when a clergyman, Parson Tringham, has a conversation with a si-mp-le farmer, John Durbeyfield. Tringham is a local historian; in the course of his research, he has discovered that the "Durbeyfields" are actually descended from the d'Urbervilles, a noble family whose lineage extends to the time of William the Conqueror. It is useleknowledge, really, as the family lost its land and prestige when the male heirs died out. The parson merely thinks Durbeyfield might like to know his origins as a passing historical curiosity.
Unfortunately, Durbeyfield immediately becomes fixated upon the idea of regaining his lost nobility, and using it to somehow better his family's fortunes. To this end, he sends his daughter Teto seek employment with a family named d'Urberville living in a nearby manor house. Alec d'Urberville is delighted to meet his beautiful "cousin", and he seduces her with strawberries and roses. But Alec is no relation to Tess; he has gotten his illustrious name and coat of arms by purchasing them. Alec falls in love with Tess, eventually seduces/rapes her, and she leaves, pregnant; back at home, the baby is born sickly and dies.
Some time later, Tegoes to a dairy farm and begins work as a milkmaid. There she meets her true love: an aspiring young missionary from a respectable family, named Angel Clare. Angel believes Teto be an unspoiled country girl, and completely innocent. They fall in love, but Tedoes not guiltily confeher previous relationship with Alec until their wedding night. Disillusioned, Angel rejects her and Tefinds herself alone once again.
Deserted by her husband, Temeets Alec d'Urberville again. At first, she angrily rebuffs his advances. But after her father's death, the Durbeyfield family falls upon desperately hard times, facing starvation, eviction and homelessness. Teis forced to resume her torrid relationship with Alec, becoming his mistrein order to support her mother and siblings.
Shortly afterward Angel Clare returns from travelling abroad. A disastrous missionary tour in Brazil has ruined his health; humbled, and having had plenty of time to think, he is remorseful at his treatment of Tess. He succeeds in tracking her down -- but leaves heartbroken when he finds her cohabiting with Alec. Terealizes that a second time, allowing Alec to manipulate and seduce her has ruined her chances at happinewith Angel. She suffers a mental breakdown and murders Alec in a rage.
Running away to find Angel, Teis able to reconcile with him; for he can finally accept and embrace her as his wife without passing moral judgment on her actions. They consummate their marriage, spending one night of happinetogether before Teis arrested, tried, and executed.
Hardy's writing often illustrates the "ache of modernism", and this theme is notable in Tess. He describes modern farm machinery with infernal imagery; also, at the dairy, he notes that the milk sent to the city must be watered down because the townspeople can't stomach whole milk. Angel's middle-clafastidiousnemakes him reject Tess, a woman whom Hardy often portrays as a sort of Wesse-x Eve, in harmony with the natural world and so lovely and desirable that Hardy himself seems to be in love with her. During his visit without her to Brazil, the handsome young man gets so sick that he is reduced to a "mere yellow skeleton." All these instances are typically interpreted as indications of the negative consequences of man's separation from nature, both in the creation of destructive machinery and in the inability to rejoice in pure nature.
Another important theme of the novel is the se-xual double standard to which Tefalls victim. Hardy plays the role of Tess's only true friend and advocate, pointedly subtitling the book "a pure woman faithfully presented" and prefacing it with Shakespeare's words "Poor wounded name! My bosom as a bed/ Shall lodge thee." However, although Hardy clearly means to criticize Victorian notions of female purity, the double standard also makes the he-ro-in-e's tragedy possible, and thus serves as a mechanism of Tess's broader fate. Hardy variously hints that Temust suffer either to atone for the misdeeds of her ancestors, or to provide temporary amusement for the gods, or (with a nod to Darwin) because she possesses some small but lethal character flaw inherited from the ancient clan.
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