求一篇英文读后感

求一篇英文读后感
求一篇英文读后感

求一篇英文读后感
选Tess of the D'urbervilles,目前是我最喜欢的名著.
作者是Thomas Hardy,此书是他的代表作,
述说着当代女性卑微的社会地位,女主角一生命运坎坷,第一次遇上了一位让她终生承受痛苦的男人,
第二次遇上一位一生最爱的男人,可是这男人却偏偏负了她,
最终让女主角走上不归路,因为误杀罪名成立.被判死刑.
此书在当时被列为禁书,因为作者被被认为试图提高女性的社会地位,
我认为,每个女性都应该阅读这本书,因为它带给了女性很多生活中的哲学.
尤其是那种经常被男生骗的女生,
这书教育了女性不要重犯了女主角所犯的错误.
读后,深深的同情女主角的遭遇,不过却让我联想到今时的社会中,一直在上演这本书的故事情节,
有太多的女生被男生欺骗了～～～～～
还有,我学习了很多学校老师永远不会教的做人道理.
Summary如下：
The story takes place in rural Dorsetshire, England, during the Victorian period.
Its events are set in motion innocently enough when a clergyman, Parson Tringham, has a conversation with a simple farmer, John Durbeyfield. Tringham is a local historian; in the course of his research, he has discovered that the "Durbeyfields" are actually descended from the d'Urbervilles, a noble family whose lineage extends to the time of William the Conqueror. It is useless knowledge, really, as the family lost its land and prestige when the male heirs died out. The parson merely thinks Durbeyfield might like to know his origins as a passing historical curiosity.
Unfortunately, Durbeyfield immediately becomes fixated upon the idea of regaining his lost nobility, and using it to somehow better his family's fortunes. To this end, he sends his daughter Tess to seek employment with a family named d'Urberville living in a nearby manor house. Alec d'Urberville is delighted to meet his beautiful "cousin", and he seduces her with strawberries and roses. But Alec is no relation to Tess; he has gotten his illustrious name and coat of arms by purchasing them. Alec falls in love with Tess, eventually seduces/rapes her, and she leaves, pregnant; back at home, the baby is born sickly and dies.
Some time later, Tess goes to a dairy farm and begins work as a milkmaid. There she meets her true love: an aspiring young missionary from a respectable family, named Angel Clare. Angel believes Tess to be an unspoiled country girl, and completely innocent. They fall in love, but Tess does not guiltily confess her previous relationship with Alec until their wedding night. Disillusioned, Angel rejects her and Tess finds herself alone once again.
Deserted by her husband, Tess meets Alec d'Urberville again. At first, she angrily rebuffs his advances. But after her father's death, the Durbeyfield family falls upon desperately hard times, facing starvation, eviction and homelessness. Tess is forced to resume her torrid relationship with Alec, becoming his mistress in order to support her mother and siblings.
Shortly afterward Angel Clare returns from travelling abroad. A disastrous missionary tour in Brazil has ruined his health; humbled, and having had plenty of time to think, he is remorseful at his treatment of Tess. He succeeds in tracking her down -- but leaves heartbroken when he finds her cohabiting with Alec. Tess realizes that a second time, allowing Alec to manipulate and seduce her has ruined her chances at happiness with Angel. She suffers a mental breakdown and murders Alec in a rage.
Running away to find Angel, Tess is able to reconcile with him; for he can finally accept and embrace her as his wife without passing moral judgment on her actions. They consummate their marriage, spending one night of happiness together before Tess is arrested, tried, and executed.
Hardy's writing often illustrates the "ache of modernism", and this theme is notable in Tess. He describes modern farm machinery with infernal imagery; also, at the dairy, he notes that the milk sent to the city must be watered down because the townspeople can't stomach whole milk. Angel's middle-class fastidiousness makes him reject Tess, a woman whom Hardy often portrays as a sort of Wessex Eve, in harmony with the natural world and so lovely and desirable that Hardy himself seems to be in love with her. During his visit without her to Brazil, the handsome young man gets so sick that he is reduced to a "mere yellow skeleton." All these instances are typically interpreted as indications of the negative consequences of man's separation from nature, both in the creation of destructive machinery and in the inability to rejoice in pure nature.
Another important theme of the novel is the sexual double standard to which Tess falls victim. Hardy plays the role of Tess's only true friend and advocate, pointedly subtitling the book "a pure woman faithfully presented" and prefacing it with Shakespeare's words "Poor wounded name! My bosom as a bed/ Shall lodge thee." However, although Hardy clearly means to criticize Victorian notions of female purity, the double standard also makes the heroine's tragedy possible, and thus serves as a mechanism of Tess's broader fate. Hardy variously hints that Tess must suffer either to atone for the misdeeds of her ancestors, or to provide temporary amusement for the gods, or (with a nod to Darwin) because she possesses some small but lethal character flaw inherited from the ancient clan.
From numerous pagan and neo-Biblical references made about her, Tess can be viewed variously as an Earth goddess or as a sacrificial victim. Early in the novel, she participates in a festival for Ceres, the goddess of the harvest, and when she performs a baptism she chooses a passage from Genesis, the book of creation, over more traditional New Testament verses. At the end, when Tess and Angel come to Stonehenge, commonly believed in Hardy's time to be a pagan temple, she willingly lies down on an altar, thus fulfilling her destiny as a human sacrifice. This symbolism may help to explain her character as a personification of nature--lovely and fecund, certainly, but also exploited by the other characters in the novel.
One should also consider the motifs of animal imagery which includes the occurrence of birds in numerous scenes. Tess, for example, is the caretaker of chickens when she first goes to work for the d'Ubervilles; later, hiding in the woods, she finds wounded pheasants and compassionatelty kills them to relieve them of their misery. The incidents of bird imagery are too numerous to detail and can be found throughout the novel.
补充一下,I'm so hate the ending of this story!
或者1 Cinderella 灰姑娘
2 long long ago 很久以前
3 Palace 皇宫
4 Prince
Cinderella
Cinderella's Sister
Cinderella's stepmother
Fairy
王子
灰姑娘
灰姑娘的姐姐
灰姑娘的后妈
仙女
5 Good little girl real mother to heaven, the stepmother often bullied her with her two sisters, her work in the ashes, covered by a good-looking gray face. Prince at the ball, to use magic to help Cinderella fairy restore the original appearance to the ball, the prince fell in love with her, and their happy life together. 善良的小女孩的亲妈上天堂了,后妈经常带着两个姐姐欺负她,让她在灰里干活,被灰盖住了好看的脸.王子举行舞会,仙女来用魔法帮助灰姑娘恢复了原来的样子参加舞会,王子爱上了她,两人幸福的生活在一起．

1 Cinderella 灰姑娘 2 long long ago 很久以前 3 Palace 皇宫 4 Prince Cinderella Cinderella

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