Tess of D'urbervilles 赏析

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❖ It seemed to be of solid stone, without joint or moulding.
❖ A colossal rectangular pillar
❖ At an indefinite height overhead something made the black sky blacker, which had the semblance of a vast architrave uniting the pillars horizontally.
❖ Tess’s last words run like this: “Angel, I am almost glad---yes, glad! This happiness could not have lasted. It was too much. I have had enough; and now I shall not live for you to despise me!”
❖ “A very Temple of the Winds”
❖ The heathen temple
❖ In paragraph 32 “And you used to say at Talbothays that I was a heathen. So now I am at home.” How do you understand it?
❖ What are paragraphs 13-16 about?
❖ Tess and Angel are disturbed and decided to go on with their escape.
❖ What are paragraphs 17-19 about?
❖ Once again on their way and their pass of the city Melchester during night.
❖ Whenever he suggested that they should leave their shelter and go forwards towards Southampton or London she showed a strange unwillingness to move.
Tess of D’urbervilles
Thomas Hardy
❖ What are paragraph 1-paragraph 9 about?
❖ Five days pass, and Angel and Tess slowly lapse back into their original love. They make little mention of their estrangement. For a brief period, Tess and Angel remain at the empty mansion as husband and wife, yet this happiness is a nearly grotesque one, for the couple essentially has their honeymoon as they travel as fugitives.
❖ How do you understand Tess’s repetitive mentioning “I shall not live for you to despise me”(para.7,para. 56)?
❖ She thinks she is unworthy of Angel’s love.
❖ 10th line from the top of P128 ❖ Her story, then was true! ❖ How do you understand this sentence?
❖ In the previous chapter when Tess tells Angel that she had to kill Alec because he wronged Angel. At first Angel thinks she is delirious. So when she begs Angel’s forgiveness, he tells her he loves her. At last he realizes she is serious, though he still does not believe she has actually killed Alec. He agrees to protect her. It is at this moment that he believes what she tells him.
❖ Did Tess want to leave the deserted mansion?
❖ No.
❖ How do you know about it?
❖ “I am not going to think outside of now. why should we? Who knows what tomorrow has in store?”
❖ “Why should we put an end to all that’s sweet and lovely!” she deprecated.
❖ “What must come will come.”
❖ “All is trouble outside there: inside here content.”
❖ Hardy offers no such possibility. Though the readers may sympathize with Tess’s actions, they know that Tess must not flee and live the life of a hunted criminal.
❖ Despite the tragic conclusion to Tess d’Urbeyfield’s life, both Tess and Angel accept her fate , for this is a final end to her suffering. Having experienced pain and hardship almost entirely since leaving home for Trantridge, Tess can only expect more difficulties, even after reuniting with Angel. The only option that Angel has before Tess’s demise is to ensure that her end is not protracted.
❖ What are the descriptions of Stonehenge in the text?
❖ Vast erection, rising sheer from the grass
❖ The wind, playing upon the edifice, produced a booming tune, like the note of some gigantic one-stringed harp.
❖ By nature Tess is tender-hearted. She does not want but is driven to be crazy to kill Alec.
❖ What are paragraphs 10-12 about?
❖ The old caretaker discovered Tess and Angle while arriving the house to air it.
❖ How do you understand them?
❖ Both Tess and Angel realize that they might not escape England to another place where Tess might go unpunished.
❖ This emphasizes the theme that Tess is unable to escape her fate.
❖ “And-and,” “I fear that what you think of me now may not last---I do not wish to outlive your present feeling for me. I would rather not. I would rather be dead and buried when the time comes for you to despise me, so that it may never be known to me that you despised me.”
❖ Why did Tess not want to leave the deserted mansion?
❖ Tess is reluctant to leave tபைடு நூலகம்eir shelter and go toward Southampton or London, for she wonders why they must put an end to all that is sweet and lovely. She says that what must come will come.
❖ The place was roofless.
❖ The place was all doors and pillars
❖ What do you know about Stonehenge from the text?
❖ Size, location, material, height, age and function
❖ Angel calls Tess a heathen, and Alec treats her like one. Tess is religious though not in a conventional way. She believes in being good and charitable but refuses to believe that God---if there is one---would care more about the letter than the spirit of the Bible. She takes tender care of the wounded animals left in her charge.
❖ She is afraid of what might happen if they leave their present situation---what if Clare changes his attitude towards her---from love to despise.
❖ How do you understand “But considering what my life has been I cannot see why any man should, sooner or later, be able to help despising me… how wickedly mad I was! Yet formerly I never could bear to hurt a fly or worm, and the sight of a bird in a cage used often to make me cry.”?
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