德伯家的苔丝读书报告

宁波大学答题纸

（20 14 —2015 学年第一学期）

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Tess of the D’Urberville

1、About the author

Thomas Hardy is the last of the great Victorian novelist and the most pessimistic novelist of that age.Most of his works were tragedies. He was also a prolific writer.His novels were almost divided into 3 groups.First it was about character and environment; Second it was about the romances and the fantasies and third it was about novels of ingenuity. He also wrote short stories and post-Victorian poetry. Hardy’s writing styles almost lie in his deterministic

stance on the nature of the life and the customs, his sharp sense of the humorous and absurd and his love and observation of the natural world with strong symbolic effect. And Tess of the D’Urbervilles is the most famous novel of Hardy’s.

2、 The suffering of the Tess

After reading this novel,I felt I was deeply attracted by Tess,by her personality charm.Her whole life was so suffering .It seems that in time man doomed to dominate women. She came from a farmer’s family and her mother urged her to claim kinship with the remaining D’Urbervilles which was wealthy. She had no choice but to visit them . And then her tragic life had just begun. Alec managed to seduce the girl and made her pregnant. Returning home, she gave birth to a child, but the baby died soon .Here Tess was just like a doll and had no right to control her own life.She cannot resist her families’ order and also had no ability to go against Alec.What’s more, the god also would like to play jokes on her and took away her child.She was really the most miserable and tolerant woman in the world.She didn’t give up her life.Then she chose to leave for another village . She escaped from the old environment and wanted to make a new start. She feared a romantic love, at the same time, strongly looked forward to it. Anyway, she was only 21years old, she had the right to enjoy the pleasure that love can bring to her. However,angle still didn’t give a happy life and she return to Alec and live like a dead person.When angle come up again, she

sacrifice herself to purse the love.

3、What is the true love?

Angel Clare is the son of a clergyman who considered himself as a freethinker and intended on becoming a farmer and marrying a milkmaid and gave up the chance to study abroad.Somehow ,I had thought he was a person who bared the advanced ideas and can give happiness to Tess.However,I was so disappointed with what he had done to Tess on their wedding night when they admitted all their past.Tess forgave all his past while he Angel leaved her in disgust.Here I comes some questions ,the love that Angle to Tess is really true love?and what is true love?and how can angle be so cruel to Tess?In my opinion,love should be selfless and equal.The person with deep real love will accept the past his or her lover,no matter how bad it is.Because they can understand the past is one part of their lovers which cannot be erased.Tolerance is one element of lasting love. Without tolerance, the relationship will become more and more narrow and no extra air to breath.That will mean the ending of love.So everyone in love should learn to understand each other,maybe a small mistake can take over your all relationship.Tess comes over the contempt of others,but she is defeated by the man she loves most.It is so ridiculous! I have guessed that if Angel has not abandoned her, all things may be totally different.Angel does not like his name means.He is not the angel that god sent to save her.

4、The release of Tess

After Angle’s leaving,Tess was not in a good condition and meanwhile Alec took advantage of the Durbeyfields’ poverty and continued to tempt Tess. At the end of hope, the girl jumps into the trap of the shameless man.She can not fear love or happy anymore ,and just lived like a dead person everyday.She thought she would live that way till she died. However, Angel Claire, who is remorseful for his mercilessness, came back.And his arrival broke down her “peaceful” life.She could not control herself and stabbed Alec in the heart and killed him.Tess and Angel had spent the last five happy days, her life was ended in revenge for love. But she was quiet when she faced the people coming to arrest her. She said,” I was ready.” I know that Tess was happy and got relieved at the last moment of her life. Because it’s her hope to be with the man who she loves sincerely and there is no need for her to worry about Angel’s despise.She is so brave.She was dead in body but she got the succeed in spirit and her own love which were most valuable in the world.

5、Conclusion