The book review of Tess

The protagonist Tess who 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 respected her no more. Actually she did nothing wrong because she knew nothing of men before she was seduced. She was just a girl when she first met that terrible man. She was forced by the gossips. So she thought she deserved nothing good. In order to get rid of the past she decided to go to a distant dairy farm. She met Angel there. Angel asked her if she willing to be together but she refused him without saying why. She said she loved him deeply and perhaps no one in the world could love him more than she did, but she could not marry him for some unspoken reason. Angel wasn’t satisfied with this vague answer and did his best to win Tess. Somehow she agreed and they soon fixed the wedding day. Soon after their wedding Angel confessed the fault long time ago and asked for Tesss forgiveness. Tess was not at all angry and forgave Angel at once. In fact, she was rather happy and excited for she also had things to confess. She sat and told everything to Angel, hoping he would forgive her as he was forgiven but she was wrong. She was not forgiven, not as she thought she was. Angel didn’t want to confront the reality and he went abroad. They apart for a long time.Without Angels love, nothing meant anything to her. The result wasn’t important now. Tess still loved Angel. Later, Angel regretted what he had done unfair to Tess. He finally went back to her and asked for forgiveness. Tess was desperate. Because that was too late. Alec had always told Tess that Angel would never come back, so he won Tess trust. Unluckily, Angel did back and found Tess. Everything was too late. Tess was deceived. The strengh of her love was so strong that she had forgotten the difference between right and wrong. Before that she had done nothing wrong but when she killed Alec everything really changed. She became a criminal. Tess didn’t want to be seduced by man, but she had no power to defend herself so she lost her innocence. Angel also did the wrong thing and it was even more serious than Tess crime but he was not blamed for it. Why it is always the woman who pays? Women are too weak. Thousands of years of history have shown us that women have always been treated unfairly. In old China there was a culture which didn’t think of womens human beings. People gave birth to many girls in order to have only one boy to keep the family name going. They thought girls had no use for the family. They would be married and go to live with their husbands home and be their wives some day sooner or later. So they were extremely hard on girls. Nowadays, women’s situations have bee much better. Some are because of the change of society, some are because of civilisation. Just let those poor painful women like Tess be just a memory.