《德伯家的苔丝》是哈代著称于世的“威塞克斯系列”中的一部力作。小说描述了一位纯洁姑娘的不幸命运。主人公苔丝是一位美丽的农家少女，因受东家少爷诱迫而失身怀孕。从此，这一耻辱的事实剥夺了她接受真正爱情的权利，致使新婚之夜遭丈夫遗弃。后来，万般无奈之中，她重回了少爷的怀抱，不料，就在这时她那有名无实的丈夫拖着病驱千里归来，苦苦寻觅。苔丝为了自己真正的爱，毅然杀死同居的少爷，在与丈夫短暂欢聚后，走上了绞刑台。
父亲德伯的.愚昧无知，对于金钱的贪婪推使苔丝跌下了社会的的深渊；而亚雷的邪恶无耻则将苔丝少女的所有美好梦想化为灰烬，促使她遇上了改变她人生的第三件事——与安玑·克莱相爱。而正是这个安玑·克莱，这个有着天使之名的懦弱男人——最终造成了苔丝的悲剧。有人会说安玑·克莱才是真正该批判的人，但是无疑他生活在那个时代，他需要时间来释放自己，不可忽视的是，安玑·克莱是爱苔丝的，至少那爱是真的，而不是像亚雷一样，只有欲，把苔丝当做自己的玩偶。所以我认为苔丝的悲剧应该是当时的时代所酿成的，或许在现代社会也会有这样的事情发生，不过对于像苔丝一样的人来说，生存的机会就多了。合上书，我想鞭挞当时的社会，指责亚雷的无耻行径，藐视安玑的懦弱，同情苔丝的悲惨遭遇。
读完《德伯家的苔丝》，我心情很长一段时间不能平静。托马斯是一个有争议的人物，它的价值，我不想多做评论，单纯就这本书的价值，我还是比较看好的'。在这里，我只是想很简单的阐述了一些他笔下的女人——苔丝。
见过“冤家路狭”，我觉得很伤心、很沮丧，眼泪在眼筐里不停打转，终于流泪了。不过我也读完了这部小说，虽然早有结局，可是我真的看到的时候就有些难过、是很难过。
多少词汇出现在我脑海里，我只能用一个字来形容苔丝——天真的美。她是一个来自美丽国度的小女孩，虽然有高贵的血统，但是内心仍然单纯。美不光一个外观，更是一种由心脏散发出的表现。
可是她的结局并不好，我在想一个天真纯洁的女孩为什么会是这样的结局？她有什么错？美丽？天真？自尊？也许单纯是你的美丽之源，也是你的悲痛之源。
在鸟儿甜蜜歌唱的地方也会有毒蛇发出嘶嘶的声音。当大自然的女儿踏入文明的社会后却要面对残酷的生活环境。涉足未深的少女就这样走进了被命运捉弄的漩涡，那样不经意之间，苔丝，德伯家的苔丝就这样丢失了少女的贞操，是谁的错，坚信自己是大家族的德伯沉浸在伯爵的梦想中，是贫穷让他们将所有的人都看作了自己的救世主，轻易相信了冒牌的同姓伯爵亚雷·德伯维尔，也就是这条隐藏的毒蛇侵蚀了苔丝，让她走上了一条绵延崎岖的道路，一条孤独又无助的道路。风雨飘摇过后，太阳不再吝啬对苔丝的'眷顾，在挤奶场结识了自己真正的爱人安其尔，可是新婚的夜晚，当苔丝在壁炉前吐出这段悲惨的回忆时，爱人走了，只留下了一个背影，让人心碎，明明相爱，可是仅仅因为那可笑的贞洁，这对爱人就此分道扬镳，即使最后回头，可得到的又是什么呢。
请求的原谅没有回复，家庭的负担让她身不由己，不知觉中又回到了最初的那人身边。即使是作为传道者出现，那又怎样，最终的结局也是给伤害的人又加上了一道伤口，一道致命的伤口。是太多的爱让人丧失了理智，面对失而复回的爱人，让深爱着苔丝如何能够保持理智，面对伤害自己又再次欺骗自己的无耻之徒，这把被仇恨掩盖的爱情之火，怎可不燎原。为爱而拔出的利刃插入恶棍的心脏，结束了这悲惨的束缚，宁愿得到一时的幸福，胜过永远不会停止的悲痛。苔丝最终做出了最大的牺牲，逃生的那段时光相信会是她最幸福的时光，只是和所爱的人牵手，只有无私的爱，别无所想，也别无所求。只求永远相互依偎，简简单单就好。在风神庙外，追捕苔丝的警察却如鬼魅般随着早晨的阳光出现了，就这样，单纯又不幸的苔丝彻底从不公平的命运中解脱了。
人们所谓的正义终于胜利了，上帝主宰的命运终于结束了对苔丝的戏弄。也许只有自己真正的努力才可以将自己从不幸中摆脱，如果自己都不去寻找出口，怎会走出这黑暗的漩涡，如果可以，放手一搏吧，也许得到的会比以前会更多，更好……
She was seduced by a so-called gentleman—Alec, and from then on her life totally changed from this loss of innocence. People looked down on her and respected her no more. Actually she did nothing wrong because before she was seduced she knew nothing of men. She was just a girl when she first met that terrible man.
She was forced by the gossips and the church to blame herself for this accident, so she thought she deserved nothing good. In order to get rid of the past she decided to go to a distant dairy farm but was still saying to herself that she was wrong. Maybe God didn’t aGREe with that, because the Lord gave her someone she loved with her whole heart and life—Angel Chare. Angel popped the question to her but she refused him without saying why. She said she loved him deeply and perhaps no one in the world could love him more than she did but she could not marry him for some unspoken reason. Angel wasn’t satisfied with this vague answer and did his best to win Tess. Somehow she agreed and they soon fixed the wedding day. Soon after their wedding Angel confessed the crime he committed to a woman long time ago and asked for Tess’s forgiveness. Tess was not at all angry and forgave Angel at once; in fact she was rather happy and excited for she also had things to confess.
She sat and told everything to Angel, hoping he would forgive her as he was forgiven but she was wrong. She was not forgiven, not as she thought she was. The woman pays.
Without Angel’s love, nothing meant anything to her. The result wasn’t important now. Tess was arrested for her murder of that so-called gentleman. Why? She still loved Angel and when he finally went back to her and asked for HER forgiveness, after he reGREtted what he had done unfair to Tess, she was desperate. That was too late—Alec had always told Tess that Angel would never come back so he won Tess’s trust. Unluckily Angel did come back and found Tess.! Everything was too late!
Tess was deceived and she lost Angel for the second time! The strengh of her love was so strong that she had forgotten the difference between right and wrong. Before that she had done nothing wrong but when she killed Alec, everything really changed! She became a criminal! How could it be? She was as pure and innocent as the good wife in the Bible. Her whole character was honest and faithful. Angel figured out at last that a person should be judged not only on what he has done but also on what he wanted to do!
Tess didn’t want to be seduced by man and she had no power to defend herself so she lost her innocence and that’s all! Angel also did the wrong thing and it was even more serious than Tess’s crime but HE was not blamed for it. Why it is always the woman who pays? Why they are always hurt? Why was Tess’s girlish purity lost? Why does the wrong man take the wrong woman? 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. If you asked one if he was the oldest in his family, he would probably answer “the oldest one” even if he had some elder sisters. If you asked why then he would say, “Ha, they are not included!”
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 then 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.
读以前的小说，总是对人物们所受到的那种束缚感到费解，像红字，那种束缚多半来自当时的宗教环境吧，不过现在想想，人们又何尝自由多少呢，宗教啊法律啊社会规范啊总是由不得人们在内心的指引下生活，命运则是同谋，扼杀人们幸福生活的同谋。命运饶有兴致的对苔丝进行戏弄。她是活泼可爱的少女，一下子成了未婚先孕的少妇，孩子生下来了，孩子又死了，她不得不独自一个人为孩子做祷告，她去远方打工，她有了新的爱情，往日的羞耻给她新的婚姻带来不幸，丈夫离她远去，她不得不艰难困苦的度日，幸好，后来克莱尔回来了，思想上的这个弯为什么这么难转过来呢，难道苔丝那持久的旷世的深厚的爱，也不能让他产生宽恕之心么，幸好他回来了，可是这个回归，苔丝等的好苦啊。
Yesterday, I read the novel called _Tess of the D'urbevilles_. written by a famous Englishwriter Thomas Hardy.
The novel tells a story about a pretty and good girl called Tess, who lived in a village in Marlott. To her sadness, when she was seventeen, she was no longer a pure and untouched girl. She gave birth to a baby, which didn't live long. So Tess changed from a pure gir l to a grown —up.
Because she was the eldest of the 7 children in the family, she found a job to support the whole family in a she knew Angel and married him. But unluckily. when Angel knew her sad story, he left her and went to led a hard an d lonely life after that. Later when she knew Angel had retumed home and found out that she was living with the man who had given the damage to her before,Tess couldn't accept the fact and killed the man who was living with her.
Then she escaped and spent together with Angel three days and nights. The police found them on the morning of the fourth day. A few days later, Tess was executed.
Having read this novel, I like the heroine very much because of her purity, warmness, nobility and the spirit of devotion, She dared to fight against the evil, bravely seek and sturggle for the rights of love.
Thomas Hardy was famous for the poetical novels. _Tess of the D'urbevilles_is one of this kind. The novel is so fresh that it is nearly like a poem. For nearly a century, it has been popular with the people all over the world.
