After reading Tess of the D'Urbervilles (8)

A few days ago, I finished Reading Tess, reading through tears.

This is the second time I have read this novel. Although it is the second time in terms of the number of times, it can only be said to be the first time, or a little more. When I first read this novel, I was only a national student. I had limited understanding of literary works and I was very rough. At that time, my only impression of Tess was pretty good. The character of silk is very poor. Apart from this, there is not much left. I have not integrated myself into the whole plot. I have never made any conscious evaluation of Tess’s tragic character. I never thought about Tess. Step by step toward destruction is its personality, and it is so inseparable from her environment. This time reading, I dare not say that I have already understood it, but I have a deeper understanding of the whole plot than before.

Thomas Hardy, the author of Tess, shows his pessimistic fatalism in this novel. The protagonist Tess fell into a tragic situation, but she struggled no matter what, unable to change the arrangement and teasing of fate, and finally went to a dead end. However, she has embarked on a road to ruin. She has never pursued the twists and turns of the plot like some vulgar novels and forced the hero to die, but has certain certainty. At the beginning of the story, when Tess's father, John Derby, was told that such a poor hawker was the descendant of the ancient Deborah family, a very noble and prominent family, her parents asked her to go to the rich Mrs. Deborah. She climbed relatives, she was pure and natural, and she hated it. She disagreed, but later, she was worried that the drunken father would go out in the middle of the night to send a bee to the city, and then he would run with his brother for a leg. There was an accident on the way - the only horse in her family was killed, and losing a horse lost the tools to sustain life for a poor family like them. When the aging and skinny horse was buried, several children burst into tears, and Tess did not. "He is pale and has no expression. He seems to think that she is a murderer," the book describes it. Then she took a sense of guilt--it was her own negligence that caused the family's life to be in crisis, her filial piety to her parents, her love for her younger siblings, and her strong sense of responsibility - the need to get rid of the family The sense of responsibility of the dilemma, going to Mrs. Debord’s family to climb relatives, also led to her being defiled by Alec Debord, which cast a shadow on her future life. Before her child died, she insisted on baptizing this innocent little sensual product, and it was a strong sense of responsibility that led her to do so. In this way, the most inconspicuous thing in Tess's character is her strong sense of responsibility, just as Tess is determined to tell her the love of Alec Deborah's unhappy past, and also deep. Like her husband, Angel, she could have completely concealed this thing, saying that her mother taught her, but Tess did not, she told Angeli in the book, in the book. This reads: "She spoke very lightly, but she was very determined." Tess told Angel about this and was reluctant to conceal the facts, which made Angel unable to withstand the blow and separated from her. It was also from her. Responsibility, isn't it? Now look at the most impressive part of the whole article, when Tess killed Alec and caught up with Angel: "...Claire stopped and looked at Tess with inquiring eyes. 'Angel', Tess said, as if she had been waiting for them to stop, Claire would look at her like this. 'Do you know why I am chasing you? I want to tell you that I killed him!' When she said this, her face was fascinating. Sympathetic bleak smile." "Compassionate bleak smile", can you imagine the expression of a person exposed after killing someone? As she said, "I killed him - I don't know how to kill him. But, Angel, for you, for myself, I can't do this." Apparently, Tess killed Alec is seen as her responsibility, the task she must complete, for herself and for her husband. Alec was in the shadow of her heart. Alec died. She only felt relieved and only felt that she had completed the task, so she was anxious to tell her husband, which is probably a smile on her face. Instead of being flustered and frightened after killing people. So in the last five days of her life—the five days with Angel—the five happiest days of her life were quiet, her mood was calm, and her calmness of death was also arrested. Her people, "She stood up and walked forward with the whole clothes; those people did not start yet. 'I am ready,' she said quietly." I think Tess may be happy. Even with a sense of satisfaction, because she thinks she is dead, she can no longer see Angel will look down on her. This can be seen from what she said before she was arrested.

So far, all I said is Tess. Maybe you will ask why Angel can't accept the cruel fact that Tess was tainted by Alec and has a son. He is not very fond of Tess. ? Is his love for Tess not noble? Well, I want to say that he is because he loves Tess too much. The Tess in his heart is so beautiful, so kind, is a symbol of all purity, he can't stand what he sees in his eyes, and Tess has any fault at his mind. He tried to kill his own feelings for Tess. He felt that Tess, who belongs to him, no longer existed. In front of him, it was not Tess that he had been in love with, but another Tess-like appearance. woman. The wedding night, the night Tess told him about the past, that night, when they started to separate, he had sleepwalked, walked into the woods with Tess, and gently placed the moss in a coffin. The novelist will not forget the sentence he repeated at the time: "Dead, dead, Tess, my wife is dead, dead." In his heart, the most beautiful moss Silk is dead, it doesn't exist, his grief, his unrequited love, his behavior of abandoning Tess is precisely because he feels that he has lost the most pure and pure Tess.

As for Alec, I don't want to say more, the disaster he brought to the moss ribbon is obvious. What he did to Tess was not from his love for Tess, because love is noble, he is against Tess. Only lust can speak, there is no basis for love. However, Tess did not be pure because of the shock that Alec had brought to her. She was so pure and kind from beginning to end, and she looked so beautiful.

The above is my feelings about Tess. After I wrote it, I felt relaxed. These words have always been what I want to say during the reading process. It is really refreshing here.