外国语学院11级英美文学基础(1)考查A--苔丝读后感(共2页).doc

《外国语学院11级英美文学基础(1)考查A--苔丝读后感(共2页).doc》由会员分享，可在线阅读，更多相关《外国语学院11级英美文学基础(1)考查A--苔丝读后感(共2页).doc（2页珍藏版）》请在淘文阁 - 分享文档赚钱的网站上搜索。

1、精选优质文档-倾情为你奉上Term Paper for English and American Literature (1) (A)(December 2013)I. Write a paper of about 500 words on any one of the following topics:1. Shakespeares major themes include love, death and immortality. Please discuss the relationships between these themes as viewed by Shakespeare ba

2、sed on your reading of Sonnet 18 and Romeo and Juliet.2. At the end of Tess of the DUrbervilles Thomas Hardy states, “Justice was done, and the President of the Immortals (in Aeschylean phrase) had ended his sport with Tess.” What do you think of this statement? 3. James Joyce uses epiphany as a lit

3、erary device in most of his short stories as his protagonists come to sudden recognitions of themselves or their social condition. What exactly is the narrators epiphany in the story “Araby”? A “Pure ”woman? A “fallen ”woman?-a book review of Tess of the DUrbervilles Name Number Mark Tess of the dUr

4、bervilles, published in 1891, was Thomas Hardys last and most significant work. In this novel, Hardy reached the height of his achievement as a novelist. Readers are attached not only by the innate beauty, but also the tragic fate of Tess, the heroine.In the novel Tess of the DUrbervilles, although

5、her short life was full of tribulation and strike, she was courageous to face reality and to fight against the evil force. This kind of tenacious attitude towards life and fighting spirit was the most powerful and moving character of Tess. Yet her purity and self-sacrificing character did not bring

6、her good luck but tragedy. She longed to escape from the shadow of the past and unfortunate life, but every tough choice she made only to make her situation go from bad to worse. Obviously, the tragedy of Tess is not only caused by fate, some other important reasons such as the poverty, worldly prej

7、udice, Alecs wickedness, Angels conventional ideas as well as Tesss character are all directly or indirectly, led to this tragedy. Tesss death was not a small joke played by fate accidentally but was under the interaction of internal and external causes, beautiful, pure, good girl Tess finally embar

8、ked on a road of no return.With the intertwine of love and hatred, Tess had to end herself with a tragic results. God played with Tess so much. When her right man appeared, God yet didnt give her happiness. Tesss parents loved her, but it was just an instinctive love; Alec said love to her, but it w

9、as an evil love; Angel said love to her as well, but it was an immature and selfish love. Tess didnt make any mistakes, but at last, she born all punishments and sufferings. At first, God had let the two persons miss each other. A tragedy was doomed. But perhaps no love, no hatred, no dignity, death

10、 was the best way for Tess to extricate herself.Both Alec and Angel violated and made fun of Tess. Tess was injured physically by Alec and mentally was affected by Angel, Alec and Angel made Tesss tragedy from bad to worse by different ways. After Tess told him everything happened to her before, Ang

11、el still judged “purity” with conventional value and moral standard that were implanted in him when he was little, and so he was the slave to the custom and conventionality, considered Tess as a “fallen women”. He abandoned his wife for Brazil, which was a deathblow to innocent Tess. Of course, natu

12、ralistic tendency is also strong in the novel. In a way, Tess seems to be led to her final destruction step by step by fate. Coincidence adds one wrong to another until she is caught up in a dead-end. Fate plays a predominate role in what happens to Tess, as Hardy says at the end of the novel: Justi

13、cewas done, and the President of theImmortalshad ended hissport withTess. Tess was powerless to change her fate, because she had been the plaything of a malevolent universe. We can find this fact at the end of the novel, when the narrator makes a statement after Tess is found and executed for the st

14、abbing death of Alec. In this statement, the word justice has quotation marks because it means something different for Tess and something different for society. For society, justice has been served with the arraignment and execution of a woman who does commit a capital crime. Tess is like Prometheus

15、 in that she seems to have been a toy of the gods of morality and religion in Victorian England, and she had to be sacrificed for the good of mankind. All of Tess life is the result of either an accident, fate, or the intervention of the gods. To fully understand the novel, one has to take into consideration both itscritical realistand naturalistic significance. 专心-专注-专业