德伯家的苔丝-英文读后感(4页).doc

-德伯家的苔丝-英文读后感-第 4 页Character Analysis of TessTess of D' Ubervilles is the most famous novel of Thomas Hardy, the tragic end of Tess is painful and affecting. The paper supposes the tragic experience of Tess result from her character. Her character of responsibility is the flashpoint of her tragic fortune. Her responsibility convinced herself that she is to blame for killing the horse, and her responsibility urges her ask her fake relatives for help after the horse died, as a result she is acquainted with Alec D' Uberville and seduced by him eventually. Her responsibility impels her confessing her mistake to her husband Clare before their wedding, because she believes it's unfair to Clare if she doesn't, as a result her husband leaves her into suffering. She refuses Alec's proposal when they meet again, but after her father died, her family live a hard life, her responsibility to her family forces her live together with Alec. Her character of infatuated makes her a miserable fate, and blinds her good sense. The chapter 31 narrates "to her sublime trustfulness he was all that goodness could be-knew all that a guide, philosopher, and a friend should know. "Owing to the infatuated, she is lost her own judgment. It's wrong that her infatuated makes her lack of equal consciousness and totally controlled by Clare, and ready to be a slave of Clare and it also put herself in an unequal position like a servant. The character of obedience of Tess also makes her sad fate. When her mother asks her seeks help to their fake relatives, although she is reluctant to do that, she yields at last. When they sit on the high-speed dogcart, Alec speaks "Let me put one little kiss on those lips, Tess, or even on that warmed cheek, and I will stop-on my honor, I will." "But I don't want anybody to kiss me, sir!" She implored a big tear beginning to roll down her face, and the corners of her mouth trembling in her attempts not to cry. He was inexorable, and she sat still, and D'Urberville gives her the kiss of mastery. It is shown that her character of obedience gives Alec has a chance to molest her. When they miss their way in an old wood, she believes Alec easily, accept his terms and waits for him in the wood, therefore, she was seduced by Alec. She should have left Alec as soon as possible, but her obedience leads her to a sad end. Tess is a girl as pure as the driven snow. When her mother tells her if she asks for help from their relatives, she would have the opportunity to marry a gentleman. Tess doesn't want to do that, because her pure heart despises worldly marriage. Although she was seduced by Alec and lives together with him, she is a pure girl, because she has no choices expect yield to her tragic fate. Even though she experiences a serious of hardships, she never gives up herself and works hard, and always believes her cruel-hearted husband who leaves her and preserves his reputation. It is her simplicity that causes her a bad end, but it also touches the readers, and the pure character of Tess is the beauty of the regretful end. As Jung said: “your character is your destiny.” The connection between Tess's fate and character is not occasional, her tragic end result from her character of responsibility, infatuated and purely.