苔丝书评

Book report of Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Thomas Hardy was famous for the poetical novels. "Tess of the D’Urbervilles" is one of these kinds. The novel is so fresh that it is nearly like a poem. For nearly a century, it has been popular with the people all over the world.
After reading this book, what cause me to deeply think is that Tess’s tragedy is a result of lots of factors.First of all, Family background caused Tess’s Tragedy. Secondly, Tess’ personal characteristics were also the cause of her tragedy. At last, it was the morality and ethic in the Britain's Victorian era that caused Tess’ tragedy. Of course, there were some other factors that caused Tess’ tragedy, but some factors are beyond my understandings. Maybe I don’t have a deep understanding of capitalism in the 19th century, some behaviors of Tess seems unreasonable to me.
Love is great and selfless. If you love a person, you should accept her past, because her past is also a part of her life and is a part of her soul. If you can not accept her past, you will never be able to enter her heart world just like Angel. If he can accept Tess’s past, he would not abandon her. Of course, Tess would not come back to Alec, and she would lead a happy life. Being a man or a woman, I suppose we should be tolerant when facing love. There is no doubt that Tess’s love far greater than Alec’s and Angel’s. Alec thought Tess was just a toll. He hurt Tess so deeply partly because his nature of being a upper class person and partly
because he was a playboy.
Having read this novel, I like the heroine very much because of her purity, warmness, nobility and the spirit of devotion, she dared to fight against the evil, bravely seek and struggle for the rights of love.I think 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.Nowadays women’s situations have become much better. However, in today’s society, we can see that woman is no longer an attachment of man. Though study and working, woman can have a right to choose their own lives, as a housewife or as a career woman．It is a symbol of the development of our society. On the other hand, some class consciousness still exists. 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.
In short, as a girl, we should be self-loved and strong.。