篇一：苔丝英文读后感
Impression of the Tess of the D’Urbervilles
In general, the book Tess of the D’Urbervilles tells us a story about the life of the heroine named Tess. We can say that Tess’s life is greatly influence by two men: Alec D’Urbervilles who seduces her and Angel Clare with whom she really fall in love. The first person appearing in the book is Tess’s father who happens to know from a parson that he is a direct descendant of the ancient and noble family of the D’Urbervilles. He is very happy and proud of his descent, despite that he is still very poor. And he wants Tess to go to the house of a rich “relative” and want to get help from them. From this we can see the vanity of people and the social hierarchy. At first, Tess does not want to do so. But after the only horse in their house died, she has no choice but to seek help from the relative. The situation is caused by the social environment at that time. In the first half of the 19th century, Britain experienced great changes in the politic and economic areas. The industrial revolution bringing up at the end of the 18th century was flourishing in the 1830s. In 1846, Repeal of the Corn Laws was carried out and it became the symbol of the decline of agricultural labor force and the increase of urban labor force. Tess and her family are the representatives of rural labors. They work very hard to make a living, being exploited and oppressed.
Alec D’Urbervilles, the son of a rich merchant who buys the noble title of D’Urbervilles. He is attractive to Tess at first sight and seduces Tess afterward. When Tess is sad about being seduced, Alec says to her , “well，you're very sad，Tess，and you have no reason to be”．This sentence shows that men at that time do not pay respects to women. In other sense, if we say that Tess is the representative of rural labors, Alec is the symbol of the right, power, evil, and wealth of the bourgeoisie. However he finally becomes a priest. To me, it seems so irony. From this , we can see the influence of the Bible. In Bible, Eve eats the apple coaxed by the Satan, and then she gives the apple to Adam. So people tend to think that women are more evil than men.
Angel Clare is the youngest son of the Reverend. He goes against what the family
had intended for him, a career in the ministry, like his father and brothers. Instead, Angel pursues a career that seems opposite of what his family would like for him----farming. In this sense, he can be considered as a free thinker, but his notions of morality turn out to be fairly conventional. He rejects Tess on their wedding night when she confesses that she isn’t a virgin, although like Tess, Angel also has a past when he was nearly led into a relationship with a woman in London. This shows the inequality between the men and women. Why can Alec ask for forgiveness from Tess when he is not willing to do the same? The only reason I can find is the religious factor. In Bible, it is said that woman is made from man's rib. Maybe because of this, Alec thinks Tess should only belong to him. So selfish a man he is!
Finally I want to say something about Tess. Firstly, what impresses me most about her is her sacrifice for the family. She goes to Alec’s house just because the horse they need to supply the family died, which lead to her being seduced. However, after her dad died, for her family, she has to surrender to Alec which she would never do if there were other choices. Secondly, I admire her courage. After being seduced, she does not take it for her fate and she begins to resist. When Alec asks her to stay, she says“It's true. I have never loved you，and I never can Perhaps I should tell a lie and then I could lead a comfortable life．But I have enough honor not to tell that lie．If I loved you，I might have a very good reason to tell you so．But I don't.” She is so brave that she choose to face all the difficulties, even be a mother unmarried. Thirdly, Tess is loyal to love. She does not love Alec, so she chooses to leave. Still, for love, she chooses to wait, no matter how long it will take for her husband to come back. Just as what Angel Clare finally perceives, “the Tess he had first loved had separated her body from her soul．Her soul remained and would remain faithful to him for ever．But what happened to her body no longer interested her after he had rejected it．” At the end of the book, Tess kills Alec. And after leading several happy days with her husband Clare, she is arrested by the police. “She stood up and went towards the waiting men．‘I am ready，’she said quietly．” Yeah, she is ready. When she chooses to kill Alec and follow Clare, she knows the ending, which she will never regret.
篇二：苔丝英文读后感
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????Why was Tess’s girlish purity lost? Why did such a beautiful, noble and pure woman as Tess should suffer inevitable ruin? Why does the wrong man take the wrong woman? Why it is always the woman who pays? Why they are always hurt? Why is beauty damaged by ugliness? Why the tragedy is happened more than one hundred years ago repeated in modern times? Is everything too late?
????Recently I’ve read the British famous writer Thomas Hardy’s masterpiece-Tess of the D’urbervilles. It describes the misfortune of a poor peasant girl Tess. In this novel, we can see Tess resist her unjust fate again and again, till to be ruined. With the development of the plot we find that her tragedy is inevitable. We can not but feel the intense emotions of pity and fear.
????The cause of Tess’s tragedy has always been the concern of people, such a beautiful, noble and pure woman as Tess should suffer inevitable ruin. What leads to her tragic destiny? Who killed her? I can’t do very well in analysis the novel. I don’t know clearly how the time she lived in affect her life. I do have an understanding of the novel by myself. Alec and Angel who are the two people very closely related to Tess’s fate. I think fierce Alec played a very important role in killing Tess, but in fact, it was hypocritical Angel who killed Tess indirectly but more cruelly.
????I wanted to cry, Tess, do not follow him when I read that plot. I hope she met her true love before she was seduced, but everything was too late. She was seduced by a so called gentleman-Alec, and from then on her life totally changed from this loss of innocence. People looked down on her and respect her no more. Actually she did nothing wrong because before she was seduced she knew nothing of man. Women were too weak. Tess was poor, weak and helpless and met the wrong person at the wrong time.
????I strongly believed that it was Angel who killed Tess cruelly and without mercy. Angel was a liberal bourgeoisie. He made himself lived in the countryside rather than serving the god. Angel was a man who questioned the church’s teaching. He thought the church’s views were too strict and did not allow free thinking. Angel extricated him from religion and his family, but he couldn’t break with traditional moral principles. He wanted a wife who was the daughter of nature, honest, sensitive, intelligent, graceful, pure as snow and
extremely beautiful. In the first part I thought Angel loved tess very much. In the following part I found that he loved an image he imagined. After their wedding Angel confessed the crime he committed to a woman long time ago and asked Tess’s forgiveness. Tess was not at all angry and forgave angel at once. She innocently thought that the thing she was going to confess would be forgiven. Poor Tess! She sat and told everything to angel, hoping he would forgive her as he was forgiven, but she was wrong. The woman pays.
????Angel claimed that you were one person, now you are another when tess asked why. The woman Angel had loved was not tess, was another woman in tess’s shape. Angel loved the person he imagined. He considered tess the daughter of nature. Compared to tess’s words, I thought angel, that you loved me-me my very self! If you do love me, how can you treat me like this? It frightened me! Having begun to love you, I will love you forever, in all changes, in all troubles, because you are yourself. I ask no more. we know how deep tess loved angel. She would have laid down life for angel. She not only loved the merits but also accept the demerits. We know from the book that when angel came back from Brazil, he could hardly be recognized by his mother because the cruel climate and hard work had aged him by twenty years, but tess accepted angel immediately, because he was the man she fell in love with.
????I don’t know why angel couldn’t forgive tess since he himself had done the similar thing.
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