Tess读后感

Tess - a poor woman with a double character

Tess is the main character of Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy. This novel describes her poor tragic fate which makes the readers quite sympathize with her. Her whole life is consisted of one after another tragedy and that’s why I decide to write down this article.

The heroine Tess was born in a poor family and she had a little of sisters and brothers. Her parents were hawkers so they could not support a whole family’s lives. Her father always believed he was a descendant of the noble. He imagined to be a noble instead of working hard. Tess’ s mother just wanted to find a good husband for Tess in order to revive family. But Tess preferred living with her poor family to finding her rich relatives. Tess’ s parents urged her to meet the old rich women to close their relationships. At her house, she was seduced by Alec, the son of rich women, a cunning lewd guy. Tess was in shame so she left home and worked in a milk farm. At that new place, she fell in love and engaged with Angel Clare, a well-educated lovely young man. In the wedding night, she revealed her former misfortune experience to her husband, but his husband expressed that he could not forgive her because he ever thought her of a holy angel. Clare went to Brazil and Tess was abandoned just after the wedding day. Tess kept working in the farm just as before.

At that time, Alec still pestered her after they met each other again. Unfortunately, her father died of heart attack, the relatives refused to rent house for them. Under the hopeless desperation, Tess had no choice but to live together with him. After several months, Claire came back from abroad and he had already forgiven his wife due to the enlighten words of others. He was surprised to find Tess living with another man. In this case, Tess painfully think Alec made her lost Angel for the second time, so she killed him angrily. She found Angel and spent last five happy days with him. In the end, she was arrested and hanged, her tragic career finally ended.

Tess is a poor girl whose destiny is filled with ups and downs. Her family

conditions resulted in her inferiority character, and the surroundings could not afford her superior life, so she always did hard work in order to support her family. In this way, she is a sensitive and carefully girl who were not willing to find her rich relatives. Under the deep pressure of her parents, she embarked on the road to lament. Tess was surrounded by Alec when she working at rich relatives’ house. During the process of getting on, she was too naive to escape from his control and Alec’s desires became more and more intense. Finally, Alec made use of his employer identity and exerted his high social power to seduce and rape Tess. This is one point to show her character of cowardly. What’s more, when she met with Angel and fell in love with him, she could have many chances to reveal facts to him, but she was in the hesitate for a long time. Although she put an envelope into the door, it was hindered by the carpet. She lost the chance to reveal, so that Angel could not forgive the ripe things and finally abandoned her. That’s another point to show her weakness point. In the end, when her family was expelled from old house, she had no choice but to accept Alec’s ideas which living with his as a lover. And this also lead to her another tragedy which she killed Alec in dispirited and discouraged and finally been crushed. Actually, the cowardly points in character resulted in her poor life.

On the other hand, Tess is a hesitant person. At beginning, when she came to the party where she first met with Angel, she did not grasp the chance to talk with him. So this section also indicates that she would miss him for the whole life. Furthermore, when she was ripped by Alec, she even gave birth to his baby. Although she hated him, she paid much attention to his baby. When the little baby died of illness, Tess felt sad and buried him as well as pray for him. And then, she is also a person who without enough determination. When Alec came back to find her, Tess was hesitant to know whether she will respond or not. Finally she agreed to live with him because she had to support her family. That’s why her whole life is dramatic enough and make readers sympathize with her fate. If Tess ever refused to Alec strongly, her destiny may change to another end.

At the last section of whole book, Angel came back to his wife but it's really saddening for him to find out Tess was Alec’s wife. Tess believed it was Alec who cheated and destroyed her whole life. What impressed me most is she killed Alec Kill