thoughts

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. In the author's idea world, Tess was the embodiment of beauty and the incarnation of love. She represents all the merits of the villagers in her hometown: beautiful, pure, kind, simple, charitable and tolerant to love. She had no egocentric thoughts and didn’t plan to meet her vain wish by marriage. She standed by the dignity and pursued freedom. The unfair fate hardy made the poor, helpless, humble country girl as the heroin, despite she committed adultery and murder, hardy still claim she was a “pure airl” this fully showed the author’s sympathy towards Tess. Hardly elaborately modeled the image of tess and indignantly describe the depression confronted with Tess through her short life tess is a young woman who tends to find herself in the wrong place at the wrong time. She is a victim, but she is also, at times, irresponsible. She falls asleep while taking the beehives to market, which ends up killing the family horse, prince she decides to visit the d’urbervilles in trantridge, giving rise to all her future woes, partly out of the guilt and responsibility she feels toward her family. She wants to make good, but in tryuna to help her family she loses sight of her own safety and her own wants and wishes. She becomes alec’s victim in the forest. She probably should have known not to put herself in such a situation, but she has few other options. Here, it seems as though she is destined to rely on others, even when they unreliable. Tess is also a strong woman throughout the novel. She stands up for herself and refuses to crumble under pressure. She chastises herself for her weakness after her sexual escapade with Alec. If we agree with her claim that this indiscretion is a moment of weakness, we probably also feel that such weakness is not unlike that of most human beings. She is hard on herself for letting herself become a victim. At the burial of her child, sorrow, she weeps but collects herself and moves on as stronger woman. Overall, her determined attempts to escape her past primarily reflect her strength. Her parentage to some extent leaded to her final tragedy. Born in a poor family, with an ignorant vain, drunkard father who did not care too much about her.