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1、苔丝读后感英文版 Book review of Te of the DUrbervilles Te of the DUrbervilles, published in 1891, is Thomas Hardys most influential work.The novel tells us a tragic story of a beautiful country girl, Te DUrbervilles.In her youth, Te was seduced by Alec.She confeed it on the wedding night and was then abando

2、ned by her husband Clare.At the end of the story, Te murdered Alec in despair and this led to her final execution. Tes tragedy is inevitable and unavoidable since she represents the sacrifice of that age.This article attempts to reveal some features of British political, economic and social developm

3、ent in Victorian age as this novel unfolds. 1.The social transformation Deliberating the whole novel, we can draw such a conclusion that Te sacrifices herself for her poor family.So what strength, we have to ask, was impelling her family move towards poverty? “The groan had proceeded from her father

4、s poor horse Prince.The morning mail-cart, with its two noisele wheels, speeding along these lanes like an arrow, as it always did, had driven into her slow and unlighted equipage.The pointed shaft of the cart had entered the breast of the unhappy Prince like a sword; and from the wound his lifes bl

5、ood was spouting in a stream, and falling with a hi into the road.” Hardy wrote. At first glance, the above paragraph seems to be a very simple description. But that will take on a whole new different meaning when we try to situate it in its historical context: the capitalist economy began to intrud

6、e into the countryside, after the British Industrial Revolution by the end of the 19th century, The clash was rather symbolic.The mail-cart symbolizes industrialization and the equipage is a symbol of weak small-scale peasant economy under this time background.It suggested that the means of producti

7、on on which peasants had been depending was completely defeated. Tes poor family was just representative of countle peasants and it mirrored the real circumstance of Victorian Age in 19th century.At that time, England was deep into the convulsive transformations of the Industrial Revolution.The peas

8、antry disintegrated and the yeoman cla of peasants became proletarians. As to Tes identity as an aristocratic descent, it is just a mere fly on the wheel.No wonder Hardy uttered such a sign: “So much for Norman blood unaided by Victorian lucre.” In fact, the discovery of their kindred with the noble

9、 DUrbervilles is the beginning of Tes tragedy, and does no help till the end of her life. She was seduced by Alec when she was an innocent girl who was sent to claim kinship by her family.Clare abandoned Te relentlely as he knew her seduction by Alec.With nobody to turn to, Te had no alternative but

10、 worked at Flintcomb Ash farm for wages in the hardest surroundings. Now things get worse .Modern mechanical industrialization was replacing the handicraft workshop gradually and it means Te had to complete with mercile machines, suffer deprivations and hardships, and yet bear it in silence.Worse st

11、ill, Tes family fell upon hard times on the death of her father.In such predicament, Te gave in and chose to be Alecs mistre. Tes experience from a peasant to a worker who sold out her labor to earn the bread was just one of the reflections of the course of the Industrial Revolution: the small-scale

12、 peasant economy was disintegrating.A great number of peasants slide into poverty. 2.The spiritual crisis No doubt that the shortage of material is terrible, but the spiritual void is more frightening.When the society was transforming from an old closed patriarchal society to the modern open society

13、，peoples sense of security and religious or spiritual beliefs were shaken.Traditional values from the old patriarchal society collapsed.People were suffering from spiritual crisis under the circumstance. “Te, on her part, could not understand why a man of clerical family and good education, and abov

14、e physical want, should look upon it as a mishap to be alive.For the unhappy pilgrim herself there was very good reason.” Hardy wrote. Suppose Tes peimism is simply due to her tragic fate, then where Clares gloomy views come from? We know that, for Christians, losing faith, losing all.Darwins theory

15、 of evolution dealt a blow to the religious creationism and weakened the hold of religious dogmatism.People are confuse by the question “whats the basis for belief, morality and the meaning of life if God did not create life?” Now its easy for us to understand even Clare, a admirable and poetic man,

16、 shared the same feeling with Temy soul chooses strangling, and death rather than my life.I loathe it; I would not live away. And there is no book that will explain the following question to TeWhy the sun do shine on the just and unjust alike? Te can do nothing but accused the twisted and depreing a

17、ge she lived in. And she struggled, confused and suffering, because of the constant collision between the new ideas and old ones.After being seduced, Te returned home in disgrace, refusing to be Alecs plaything.As a woman of self-esteem, she tried to oppose the old morals but failed Since the old co

18、nventional consciences still played the dominant statue in the society, Te was subjected to it inextricably.She saw herself as a sinner for losing her chastity.Even in nature, she looked upon herself as a figure of Guilt intruding into the haunts of Innocence.And she begged for Clares mercy like a s

19、lave, saying “I will obey you like your wretched slave even if it is to lie down and die.” Apparently, Te was suffering the traditional feudalism ethic all her life. Te also has a paradoxical ambivalent attitude towards religion. When her child was dying, she thought of the child consigned to the ne

20、thermost corner of hell as its double doom for lack of baptism and lack of legitimacy.In desperation, Te did baptism for her child. But she sneered at the hypocrisy of religion to a degree.Her dying wish was to let her husband marry her sister Lisa Lu, which challenged the law openly. Hardy ended hi

21、s novel in a sarcastic tone“Justice” was done, and the President of the Immortals (in Eschylean phrase) had ended his sport with Te. Tes tragedy is a fierce attack on the hypocritical morality of the bourgeois society and capitalist invasion into the country and destruction of the English peasantry

22、towards the end of the 19th century. Her story ended as she died.But the fact that the social transformation in Victorian age brings people with much misfortunes, is bound to leave an indelible mark in human history. 苔丝读后感英文版 苔丝读后感英文版 德伯家的苔丝读后感(英文版) 德伯家的苔丝读后感 英文版 德伯家的苔丝片段读后感英文版 读后感英文版 英文版读后感 苔丝英文读后感 苔丝 英文读后感 苔丝英文读后感 本文来源：网络收集与整理，如有侵权，请联系作者删除，谢谢！第9页 共9页第 9 页 共 9 页第 9 页 共 9 页第 9 页 共 9 页第 9 页 共 9 页第 9 页 共 9 页第 9 页 共 9 页第 9 页 共 9 页第 9 页 共 9 页第 9 页 共 9 页第 9 页 共 9 页