德伯家的苔丝 ——英文版读书笔记
Tess， known as the treasure of English literature and world literature, was published at the end of the 19th century. The author is a great British critical realist writer, "a melancholy image standing on the boundary between the Victorian era and the new era". Hardy.
Tess is a story about society forcing a pure, simple, honest, hardworking, smart and beautiful rural girl into a corner and finally killing and being sentenced to hanging. This is a tragedy. It mercilessly criticizes the social reality and reveals the corruption of British upper class society from one side, which is of great practical significance.
Tess is an ordinary rural girl, but as a woman, she has a charming appearance. Beautiful face and just right figure. Hardy painted this character with heavy ink, that is, he focused on her external image. The image is young, beautiful and lively. What impresses me most is her sexy lips and the curves on her lips. Pink and delicate, such as the lips exposed by flowers, coupled with detailed and clear, and soft lines, it is difficult not to be moving when looking around. That's it -- a young, beautiful and simple girl. Her kind and pure nature was deceived by Alec, a young aristocrat in the vicious and selfish upper class society. She always couldn't get rid of Alec's shadow and go to the dark abyss. She was unable to get rid of this tragic fate and could only resist the oppression imposed on her in an extremely distorted way. But what is the use of this resistance？ Just a spray in the sea, it will disappear in an instant and be forgotten by people. It is impossible to shake the whole cold and cruel society. Therefore, resistance relying solely on personal strength will not work at all. This is also the sad decline of human nature and even society.
When she managed to escape Alec's clutches, then went to work on the farm and met her future lover Claire. Claire appreciated Tess's innocence and loveliness, communicated frequently at work and warmed up her feelings. Finally, she fell in love and got married without hesitation. Just when happiness was coming, Tess's disclosure of the past made them fall from the height of happiness to the bottom of reality. Because Claire could not accept this fact, she resolutely left Tess, went far away, and mercilessly abandoned poor Tess. It was such a poor person who was teased by fate. She wanted to live happily with the people she loved. Even such a simple and ordinary wish could not be realized. Finally, she was desperate and panicked all day. Coupled with Alec's harassment, she lost all hope for the completion of her life, moved to kill her and killed her insult, Alec, who has been killing her. After killing Alec, Tess didn't regret it, but relaxed again, because death was a relief for her, and she was finally free. She used death to prove her loyalty to love and complete the pure and beautiful love between herself and Claire without regret. Alec also regretted abandoning Tess, returned with great grief and guilt, and spent the last five days of her life with Tess who was about to be executed. But he lost someone who loved her deeply, someone who regarded him as a part of his life, someone who could die for him. But it was too late to regret, because of his selfishness and the so-called hypocritical moral constraints, Tess fell into a tragic situation. For Tess, Claire is her hope and the source of her happiness. She is happy to know him, but Claire wiped out her last hope. Even if Claire later asks Tess for forgiveness and remembers her after Tess's death, it doesn't help. It can be said that Claire also indirectly contributed to Tess's death, but it was the society and the tragedy of the society that directly contributed to her death. In fact, there are many poor people like Tess in society. Although they are humble, as independent personalities, they should not be abandoned by social discrimination, but should provide them with a platform to talk. So there won't be so many tragedies.
If Carmen's beauty lies in wild rebellion, and the beauty of simple hair is stubborn in ten, then the beauty of no silk must lie in pure nature. She is the daughter of nature. Her purity is like the blue sky. Although it is occasionally covered by dark clouds, when the dark clouds disperse, the purest and transparent sky in the world is still the blue sky. Although the heroine of the novel has a low status, has been fooled and insulted by shameless people, has gone through many hardships, and finally embarked on the wrong road, we still praise Tess for her spirit of not yielding to fate, daring to fight against unfair fate and dedication to love. Her simple and kind image will remain in my heart forever.