In the vacation, I have read Tess of the d’Urbervilles. The book Tess of the d’Urberwilles is a tragic story. It is also a moving novel. It discloses the darkness of that time’s society. It is Thomas Hardy’s writing, who is an English poet and novelist, he spans two centuries and his poems develop the lecture in 19th century. The author through the figure of Tess expresses the canker and desperation society in that time.
Now ,let me tell you the story about Tess.
Violated by one man, forsaken by another, Tess Durbeyfield is the magnificent and spirited heroine of Thomas Hardy's immortal work.
When Tess's drunken father discovers their family can trace their ancestry back to Norman nobility, Tess's unhappy fate is set in motion as a train of events is unleashed. Exceptionally beautiful, Tess is given a place with her supposed noble kinsmen and is seduced and raped by the son of the family Alec D'Urberville.She returns home and gives birth to a sickly boy who soon dies. Trying to rebuild her life, Tess is employed as a milkmaid and meets Angel Clare. They fall in love and Angel proposes. Scared of losing him, she can't face telling him about her past, but on their wedding night Angel confesses a previous affair, so Tess, convinced that he will now forgive her, owns up about her own relationship with Alec ----with tragic consequences.
How could it be? I was so sad to read the tragic ending. I wanted to ask why the ending is that. Tess’s whole character was honest and faithful. But she was always hurt by those people who said they love her. She was so pure that she trusted everyone else. She loved Angel very much and trusted him. So she was to tell her husband her past. Why didn’t she get Angel’s forgive? Why it is always the woman who pays? Why they are always hurt? Why do the bad often ruin the good? Why is beauty damaged by ugliness?
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 women as 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.
Girls should be hard working, faithful, loyal, intelligent, and virtuous and the most important thing was she must be a maiden! If her husband was the first man who touched her, she was a good girl, a good wife no matter how she thought. If she wasn’t, then she would gain a very bad reputation and nobody would dare to go near her.
What about men? People did not care whether he was an experienced man or not, nor did they care about his character. They thought man equals power and power equals rights.
Now let’s not be so bitter. Nowadays women’s situations have become much better. Some are because of the change of society and some are because of civilization. Just let those poor painful women like TESS be just a memory.
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