<<TESS>>,是关于当时英国社会的道德伦理的故事,是以所谓的爱情贯穿主线的凄美故事.严格意义上讲是凄凉,悲惨,忧伤.作者是Thomas
Hardy, 此书问世于1891年. TESS,一个少女,她的生命被慢慢地,确确实实地毁掉了,------不是她的敌人而是那些自称爱她的男人.Alec
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SPAN>也从此改变了她的生活.很难想象,一个少女,未婚先孕的少女,必将是社会的弃儿,道德的奴隶!
Why was Tess`s girlish purity lost? Why does the wrong man take
the wrong woman? why do the bad so often ruin the good? Why is
beauty damaged by ugliness? Thousands of years of
philosophy cannot
giver us the answers to these qustions. Angle Clare,is a gentleman
son.他说他爱Tess,Tess也爱她.Tess从他那里可以看到希望,可以重获新生.他也完全可以拯救她.然而就是因为她maiden
no more!仅仅因为这,他痛苦,徘徊,彷徨.就是这痛苦,徘徊,彷徨想刀子一样一刀一刀地切割着TESS.她没有错,那个时候她仅仅是个小女孩,一个贫穷家庭的小女孩,她没有能力保护自己,不是她的错!可是那个时候她要背负起全部的责任,社会的,道德的,家庭的!所有所有的这一切就是因为她maiden no more! Tess摆脱了Alec,却遭到Angle
clare的近似于侮辱的对待.于是他选择逃避.把所有的苦痛抛给Tess.不久Alec出现了,他告诉她'Remember,my lady,if you are any man`s wife,you are
mine!'一个无耻的人为了满足男人的虚荣与欲望疯狂的摧残Tess.可Tess并没有忘记离她而去的Angel,她称他为my own
husband.她期盼他的出现,他的拯救.他没有出现,她愤怒了: Oh,why have you treated me so badly,Angel? I donot
deserve it .You are cruel,I intend to forget you .You have been so
unfair to me!是的不公平!!
After reading, I think Angel is better suited to Tess. The reason can be listed as follows.
Alec is handsome, he has a lot of money, but he is manipulative and sinister. He does whatever he can do to seduce the inexperienced Tess when she comes to work for his family. Finally he has his way with her out in the woods. He destroys Tess’s life and makes her life terrible. In fact, he is completely a bad fellow, just as what he said himself ：“I was born bad, and I have lived bad, and I shall die bad, in all probability.”form this, we can see that Alec symbolizes the base forces of life that drive a person away form moral perfection and greatness. How can he suited the intelligent, attractive Tess. The finally result can explain the fact—Tess killed Alec herself.
Let’s analyses form the opposite way. Angel Clare, he is born in the family a provincial person, but he has his own thinking, he determined to become a farmer. Angel sees human society as a thing to be remolded and improved. He rejects the values handed to him and sets off in search of his own. His love for Tess, a mere milkmaid and express his disdain for tradition. Though he can’t accept the fact of Tess and Alec’s story, he decides to forgive Tess after his failure in Brazil. He ’s love to Tess made her much better when she in trouble. We can see, Angel and Tess’s great. Both of them broke the age’s cage. But what a pity, Tess is sentenced to death finally.
For further thinking, in that society, Tess’s life was dominated by unfairness. She is seduced by Alec and abandoned by Angel. If we balance seduce and abandon, we may find that both of them evil and unequal to Tess, but Tess has no choice. In Victorian context, cash matters more than lineage. Alec can use money to buy a lustrous family name, but Angel ,if he were a more traditional and elitist aristocrat, he might have no acquaintance with Tess. So we can see, in Victorian England, Alec can’t suited to Tess due to the social class ideals, but Angel have more with Tess.
Tess’s terrible life dues to the society, whether Alec or Angel can’t change the situation, but Alec do some wrong on Tess and Angel helped her. So Angel is much better suited to Tess.
Tess’s eyes tell me
王若英 首师大附中 指导老师 马莉
Ironically, Angel once did wrong with a woman too, but no one blamed him. No one ever said, “This boy is impure, he’s not a good boy”. However, for the very same experience, he didn’t forgive Tess as Tess forgave him. What the author put as “the woman pays” seems to be the best explanation of this phenomenon. Indeed, unfair treatments toward women always exist in history and in most countries and cultures. In fact, Tess was already sentenced to death by the sexual discrimination even when she was still alive. Notwithstanding she always wanted to work on her own, the society never gave her a chance. In that period of time, it was difficult for a woman to find a fine paid job and support her family, not to mention country girls without good education. That’s why Tess finally went back to her corrupt cousin. She was then not only living for herself, but also living for herself, but also for her whole family. She could not live merely on the belief of love, for she had to raise her brothers and sisters , and love couldn’t manifest itself as food.
Tess was always pure, always. She was a true child of nature. But she was so weak in front of the evil side of humanity. She was just like one of the beautiful flowers withered before blossom. The author made me really hurt by saying ‘The gods had finished playing with Tess. Society had seen “justice” done.’ What a sarcastic ending! Was justice really done? Or was there ever any justice on earth?
After reading, I think Angel is better suited to Tess. The reason can be listed as follows.
Alec is handsome, he has a lot of money, but he is manipulative and sinister. He does whatever he can do to seduce the inexperienced Tess when she comes to work for his family. Finally he has his way with her out in the woods. He destroys Tess’s life and makes her life terrible. In fact, he is completely a bad fellow, just as what he said himself ：“I was born bad, and I have lived bad, and I shall die bad, in all probability.”form this, we can see that Alec symbolizes the base forces of life that drive a person away form moral perfection and greatness. How can he suited the intelligent, attractive Tess. The finally result can explain the fact—Tess killed Alec herself.
Let’s analyses form the opposite way. Angel Clare, he is born in the family a provincial person, but he has his own thinking, he determined to become a farmer. Angel sees human society as a thing to be remolded and improved. He rejects the values handed to him and sets off in search of his own. His love for Tess, a mere milkmaid and express his disdain for tradition. Though he can’t accept the fact of Tess and Alec’s story, he decides to forgive Tess after his failure in Brazil. He ’s love to Tess made her much better when she in trouble. We can see, Angel and Tess’s great. Both of them broke the age’s cage. But what a pity, Tess is sentenced to death finally.
For further thinking, in that society, Tess’s life was dominated by unfairness. She is seduced by Alec and abandoned by Angel. If we balance seduce and abandon, we may find that both of them evil and unequal to Tess, but Tess has no choice. In Victorian context, cash matters more than lineage. Alec can use money to buy a lustrous family name, but Angel ,if he were a more traditional and elitist aristocrat, he might have no acquaintance with Tess. So we can see, in Victorian England, Alec can’t suited to Tess due to the social class ideals, but Angel have more with Tess.
Tess’s terrible life dues to the society, whether Alec or Angel can’t change the situation, but Alec do some wrong on Tess and Angel helped her. So Angel is much better suited to Tess.
Tess’s eyes tell me
王若英 首师大附中 指导老师 马莉
Ironically, Angel once did wrong with a woman too, but no one blamed him. No one ever said, “This boy is impure, he’s not a good boy”. However, for the very same experience, he didn’t forgive Tess as Tess forgave him. What the author put as “the woman pays” seems to be the best explanation of this phenomenon. Indeed, unfair treatments toward women always exist in history and in most countries and cultures. In fact, Tess was already sentenced to death by the sexual discrimination even when she was still alive. Notwithstanding she always wanted to work on her own, the society never gave her a chance. In that period of time, it was difficult for a woman to find a fine paid job and support her family, not to mention country girls without good education. That’s why Tess finally went back to her corrupt cousin. She was then not only living for herself, but also living for herself, but also for her whole family. She could not live merely on the belief of love, for she had to raise her brothers and sisters , and love couldn’t manifest itself as food.
Tess was always pure, always. She was a true child of nature. But she was so weak in front of the evil side of humanity. She was just like one of the beautiful flowers withered before blossom. The author made me really hurt by saying ‘The gods had finished playing with Tess. Society had seen “justice” done.’ What a sarcastic ending! Was justice really done? Or was there ever any justice on earth?