德伯家的苔丝Tess of the d’Urbervilles 英文读书报告 经典

第一篇：德伯家的苔丝Tess of the d’Urbervilles 英文读书报告 经典

Tess of the d’Urbervilles

In Tess of the d’Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy has directly satirized nature.This novel revealed the tragedy of lower classes’ destiny and flayed hypocritical gentlemen and morals.In this novel, Hardy demonstrated his deep sense of moral sympathy for England’s lower classes, particularly for women.The novel, which indicated the tendency of anti-religious sentiments, against feudal morality and the laws of capitalists, was warmly received by the reading public though British upper class was bitter against it.In the novel, Thomas Hardy succeeded in portraying an artistic image-Tess.There were sensitivity and beauty to her that have nothing to do with looks.Her beauty is not kind of stunning beauty, but the more you approach to her, you will be more likely to indulge in her beauty.Although she is not an orthodox believer, she has her own pure pursuits of life and living criteria.Her integrated image of kindness and tenderness, tough-minded and plainness should own her a happy life.But it seems that God leaves her out.Alec in the novel is the son of a Manor owner, being dissolute and flirtatious in conduct;however, generally, he is not essentially a bad man.His strong desire to Tess is out of a sort of inherently desire and desire for possession.It’s very normal for such a young man.But he adopts a wrong way-he abducts Tess.He would like to take a part of responsibility of his behavior but Tess turn down his suggestion without hesitation.Tess’s self-respect can’t allow herself bend down to harm.Such a pure girl, should be so strong-mind to bear neighbor’s discrimination and secular pressure and to take the consequences by herself.She has never asked Alec for help even when she is driven to the last ditch.Finally, Tess chooses to leave for another village where her past is not known and secures a job as a milkmaid at Talbothays Dairy.She escapes from the old environment, meanwhile, prepares to make a new start.She fears a romantic love, at the same time, strongly looks forward to it.Anyway, she is only 21years old, she has the right to enjoy the pleasure that love can bring to her.There, she re-encounters Angel Clare who is eager for nature and full of dreams, is Tess’s Prince Charming, one of unfinished dreams in her girlhood.As for Angel Clare, Tess is part of his persistent vision.What he wants is a pure girl to be his wife.Such a match made in heaven will certainly wipe out spark of love.However, the process of their love is filled with difficulties and hardship.Tess, who is pure in mind, is tightly tided by worldly views so that she thinks she can’t marry to Clare for her unclean body.All the time she is hesitating about, bearing a keen pressure of sentiment and intellect, weather should her tell Angel about her past without reserve.The pain that Angel suffers in the pursuit of Tess is far away from Tess’s inner struggle.She could not confessto her lover for being terrified of losing him.And she could not give up the happiness within her grasp to refuse Clare against her will.At their wedding night, Angel confesses that he once had a brief affair with an older woman.When she hears this story, Tess feels sure that Angel will forgive her own indiscretion, and finally tells about her relationship with Alec.But things go contrary to her wishes.Angel, however, is appalled by Tess’s confession.His love to Tess is based on the sky garden of pure tower.Once the base is deprived, his love will collapse.His love is too fragile and vulnerable.Finally, he leaves for Brazil, leaving Tess alone, no messages, no letters and never back again.Tess has waiting for him eight years but can’t win back his hearts.When he realizes his heart, everything is too late.Tess has married to Alec after a long hopeless waiting.Afterwards, when Angel back, on the one hand, Tess felt happy, for her long waiting has come to an end.But on the other hand, she was more distressful and could not control her abhor to Alec.Thus, she killed the man who had destroyed her life.Though, Tess and Angel have spent the five happy days, her life is ended in revenge for love.But she is quiet when she faces the people coming to arrest her.She says,”I was ready.”I know that Tess is happy at the last moment of her life.Because it’s her hope to be with the man who she loves sincerely and there is no need for her to worry about Angel’s despise.Tess, such a pretty and virtuous girl, should have led a happy and peaceful life, but God, “the president of the moral” plays a joke on her.The real tragedy is to display the process of ruining the perfection.Tess’s fate is a good representation.

第二篇：《德伯家的苔丝》读书报告

《德伯家的苔丝》读书报告

班级 汉语言081班姓名赵彤学号200850515133 书名：《德伯家的苔丝》

出版社：外语教学与研究出版社、牛津大学出版社

作者：托马斯·哈代（1840—1928）是英国最伟大的小说家和诗人之一。他一生共创作了

15部长篇小说（出版十四部、4个短篇小说集、8卷诗、2部诗剧，是世界文学中最重要的经典作家之一。他的大部分作品，包括这部《德伯家的苔丝》，都是以他的故乡——英国南海岸的多尔赛特为背景的。

背景：《德伯家的苔丝》这部小说是哈代进入晚期小说创作的标志。小说反映的时代背景是

传统的威塞克斯农村社会已大体上被资产阶级社会所占领，社会秩序发生了根本性的变化，农民为了生存不得不去寻找一条同过去完全不同的生活道路，于是哈代将创作的重心放在了浓郁的人道主义色彩，在主题上更加广泛和深刻，表现了维多利亚时代资产阶级的伦理道德、宗教法律、婚姻爱情、教育制度、人际关系等重大社会主题，从对资产阶级社会的一般性描写转入整个社会的揭露、控诉和批判。

时间地点：第一阶段（处女——不再是处女）

马勒特村、纯瑞脊

第二阶段（新生活——一个悔过自新的人）

塔尔勃塞牛奶场、爱敏斯特、马勒特村、弗林特石灰谷

第三阶段（结局）

爱敏斯特、马勒特村、桑德伯恩

主要人物：马勒特村

纯瑞脊

塔尔勃塞牛奶场理查德·克里克（场主）、安吉尔·克莱尔（牧师）——男主

角、伊茨（挤奶工）、玛丽安（挤奶工）、蕾蒂（挤奶工）

爱敏斯特（安吉尔家）老克莱尔、母亲、两个哥哥、默茜·钱特小姐

故事内容：《苔丝》这部小说讲述了在英国一个名叫马勒特村里面的德比家，一个没落的古

老“贵族”约翰·德比，他有七个孩子，最大的女儿名叫苔丝，是他们整个村庄

长得最美丽的姑娘。由于家庭生活条件太差，德比夫人便想着让苔丝去找他们“同

血统”的亲戚德伯家族寻求帮助。可是善良天真的苔丝被狡猾不正经的亚力克·德

伯诱奸，以至于怀了孩子。在遭遇了一次少女的不幸后，苔丝在一个牛奶场遇到

了自己的真爱——安吉尔·克莱尔，可是由于自己当年的“过错”让这对有情人

没能延续幸福，当他们都幡然悔悟时，却已是无可挽回。当苔丝杀死了无耻的亚

力克后，等待她的只有法律的制裁„„

小说情节摘要：“为什么她一定要遇上这个不适合却如此垂涎于她的男人？而她留给那个适

合于她的男人的，只不过是一个来自乡间黄昏舞会的已经模糊了的印象。在生活中，适合于爱的男人很少在适合于爱的时间出现。上天总是无视人们对

爱的呼唤，直至人们呼唤得精疲力竭。”

“她没有意识到，虽然她触犯了一条公认的社会戒律，但她却从没违反过自

然。她就像树林里熟睡的鸟儿或树篱下的田间小动物一样清白无辜。”

“那种对幸福的渴望，那种存在于每一个有生命的物体中的渴望，终于重新

赢得了苔丝”

“女人们通常要经历这种生活。对多数被生活玩弄过的女人们来说，‘哪儿

有生活，哪儿就有希望’仍是一条不变的真理。”

“他领悟到他们跟他没有什么不同，他和他们一样都是风尘仆仆的赶路人，他们的最终归宿都是死亡。”

“现在，苔丝的生活只有两种：实实在在的快乐和实实在在的痛苦。” 读后感：苔丝这个女性角色，她不同于传统的柔弱的女子，美丽迷人是她的资质，可是她在更深层次上来说是一个想凭自己的双手劳动谋生、追求自己起码的幸福权利的淳朴

姑娘，可是社会的强权却没有给她这样的机会，在遭遇了诱奸、抛弃的重重打击与

伤害后，最终酿成了苔丝的命运悲剧。

苔丝女性悲剧的社会因素

小说中的苔丝代表着十九世纪晚期英国农业阶层的过渡时期的农民形象，苔丝是一

个有点文化基础的年轻人，所以她不希望和父辈一样生活，可是贫穷却阻碍了她追

求更高层次的生活的机会，就像小说中一个情节是苔丝和安吉尔一起送新鲜牛奶搬

运至火车，苔丝想到他们冒雨赶了这么远的路，就是为了让伦敦人能够及时喝到牛

奶，“苔丝看呆了”，因为对她来说，生活是多么的艰辛，家里的任何困难几乎都落

在了她的肩上，以至于搭上了自己的贞洁和幸福。女主角苔丝遭受的压力是多方面的，她为了生活，不得不遭受农业资本家的剥削，并受到富家子弟的玷污；此外，还有来自社会道德的审判，苔丝的不幸成了人们审视道德的样本，那些指指点点、异样的眼光无不啃噬着苔丝年轻的生命。就像在被亚力克奸污后，苔丝生下了那个

无辜的孩子，可是当这个幼小的生命走向终点的时候，却连灵魂的落脚处都没有，一向满口仁爱的牧师也不能给予他归宿，无助的苔丝只能自己给孩子进行洗礼，一

个来自母亲的特殊的洗礼。当然给苔丝最大的打击还是来自爱人安吉尔的抛弃，可

怜的苔丝承受着来自家庭、生活、社会的重重磨练都不曾跌倒，可是在自己心爱的人面前还是让心灵的最后一道屏障崩垮，即使这份爱曾经回来过，可也只能是覆水

难收。亚力克的种种丑陋代表了农民阶层的经济贫困、不公正的法律制度，而安吉

尔的背弃则表现出了伪善的宗教和资产阶级的虚伪道德观。亚力克的无耻和不敢承

担都表现出了这些资产阶级的假面孔，安吉尔的不负责任和心胸狭隘也同样表现出

了资产阶级的虚伪，然而这所有的罪责却全部落在了苔丝身上。小说中最具有讽刺

意味的便是那个“悔过自新的人”，当苔丝再次见到恶棍亚力克的时候，他竟然在对人众讲授《圣经》，充分表现了社会的黑暗和宗教的虚伪。

苔丝女性悲剧的性格因素

造成苔丝悲剧的性格方面的原因是大自然赋予她的纯朴与善良，这让她无法与人面

兽心的亚力克相处，也不能像安吉尔隐瞒自己人生的“污点”，因为她没有沾染多

少“文明”，所以也就缺乏功利的计谋，她的纯朴的本能超过了人人与生俱来的保

护自己的本能，这样就不可避免地造成她的命运悲剧。苔丝鄙视自己所谓的高贵的家族血统，认为自己应该靠诚实的劳动来获取人生的幸福，她看不惯父亲的洋洋得

意，看不惯母亲的沾沾自喜，这些都充分表明苔丝质朴、纯真、鄙视门第观念的高

贵品质。同时她愿意为了家庭而无私地牺牲自己，当家里面临嫉妒的困难时，她竟

会选择与无耻的亚力克同居，以换取这个恶棍的帮助，当然这也表明那个时代下一

个女子的无助和可悲，想要自食其力而不得的悲剧人生。

小说中通过苔丝与安吉尔的爱情悲剧表现了苔丝在重重的宗教道德的冲击下作茧

自缚的性格悲剧。由于苔丝出身于一个农民家庭，身上或多或少残存这一些旧道德

和宿命观点，使她在反抗是又有了软弱的一面。比如，她在听到别人议论一个女子

和别的男人的风流故事的时候，就不由自主的联系到自己身上，不免是一种痛苦和

折磨，她在收到世俗舆论和道德迫害的同时，也在用其审视着自己，从而认为自己

是有罪的，“认为自己是罪恶的化身”，她其实比别人更加忘记不了自己的耻辱。苔

丝正是用自己织成的一张道德网将自己束缚起来，将自己推向罪恶的深渊。以至于

苔丝自己认为她在肉体上是亚力克的妻子，而在名义上才是安吉尔的太太，这正是

苔丝浓重保守性的体现。再有就是苔丝在安吉尔知道她的秘密以后，为了减轻自己的“罪恶”，她可以说是用自己的爱做了安吉尔的奴隶，愿意为他去死，只求安吉

尔能够原谅自己的“失身”，而反过来，苔丝却对安吉尔的“污点”无限包容了，这种反差也凸显了苔丝过于放大自己的过错，以至于自己无法摆脱心灵束缚的自我困境。正是这种思想、这种保守性加重了苔丝的悲剧。

忠诚与背弃重压下的柔弱身躯

苔丝的善良和诚实，让她在这个黑暗的社会中绽放异样的光彩，可是这个光圈让一

个女孩子有些受之不起，没有人理解，没有人同情，父亲的认不清现实、母亲的唯

利是图，一帮弟弟妹妹的生活负担，这些都落在了苔丝这个花季少女的双肩上。小

说中一个引子是苔丝家的一匹马出意外死掉了，这让苔丝内心充满了自责，于是苔

丝放弃了自己追求幸福的权利，遵从了母亲的要求，来到了亚力克的身边。正是出

自对家庭的一份忠诚，苔丝舍弃了太多，无独有偶，当她又要回到亚力克的身边时，同样是出自对家庭的一份责任。再来说说苔丝和安吉尔，其实苔丝如果向安吉尔撒

了谎，完全有可能和安吉尔获得人生的幸福，可是出于对爱情的忠诚，这个纯洁的女子选择向忠诚低头，可笑的是苔丝并非一个基督教徒，却拥有如此纯净的灵魂，她的字典里没有背叛和欺瞒，而那些道貌岸然的教徒们却处处显露出自己的虚伪和

冷血。

苔丝的短暂生命里收获的只是一种短暂的情愫，当安吉尔口口声声向苔丝表明心意

时，几近将这个美丽的女子的内心融化，可是当他知道苔丝的不幸时，却只有悔恨，责怪苔丝为什么早早的没有告诉他事情的真相，让他早有这个心理准备，恐怕，在那个时候他也只会义无反顾的离开，就像他抛下新婚的妻子，独自踏上巴西之路一

样，在苔丝无数次呼唤他——一个曾经钟情无比的丈夫时，只有杳无声息的等待陪

伴她。再次见到安吉尔的时候，苔丝又回到了亚力克的身边，虽然对安吉尔的感情

始终不曾逝去，可是安吉尔又拿出了几分诚意来对待苔丝呢，还不是只留下可怜的苔丝来品尝这世间的辛酸，满腹苦楚的苔丝却竟然杀了亚力克，其实，这是一个意

外的结局，苔丝杀了亚力克后，和安吉尔度过了那么短暂的一刻美好，当重新醒来

时，幸福便不再属于苔丝了，是什么将苔丝逼到了绝境呢，就是忠诚和背叛——这

个维多利亚时代下的社会怪圈，套死了苔丝，还有许许多多的“苔丝”„„

苔丝是有罪的吗？不，这一点小说的副标题“一个纯洁的女人”已经很好的诠释了，遍及整个小说，无论是苔丝有罪前，还是有罪后，她一直是那个善良淳朴的乡村姑

娘，被骗、被弃、被毁灭，她的美好却只能加速她的悲剧，可怜的苔丝又能向谁找

寻真正的帮助呢？

第三篇：德伯家的苔丝读书报告

宁波大学答题纸

（20 14 —2015 学年第 一学期）

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课程名称： 英美文学

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学号：

126110319

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名： 金亚靖

得 分：

Tess of the D’Urberville

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the great Victorian novelist

1、About the author

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his ’sharp sense of the humorous and absurd and his love and observation of the natural world with strong symbolic effect.And Urbervilles is the most famous novel of Hardy’s.2、The suffering of the Tess After reading this novel,I felt I was deeply attracted by Tess,by her personality charm.Her whole life was so suffering.It seems that in time man doomed to dominate women.She came from a farmer’s family and her mother urged her to claim kinship with the remaining D’Urbervilles which was wealthy.She had no choice but to visit them.And then her tragic life had just begun.Alec managed to seduce the girl and made her pregnant.Returning home, she gave birth to a child, but the baby died soon.Here Tess was just like a doll and had no right to control her own life.She cannot resist her families’ order and also had no ability to go against Alec.What’s more, the god also would like to play jokes on her and took away her child.She was really the most miserable and tolerant woman in the world.She didn’t give up her life.Then she chose to leave for another village.She escaped from the old environment and wanted to make a new start.She feared a romantic love, at the same time, strongly looked forward to it.Anyway, she was only 21years old, she had the right to enjoy the pleasure that love can bring to her.However,angle still didn’t give a happy life and she return to Alec and live like a dead person.When angle come up again, she

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sacrifice herself to purse the love.3、What is the true love? Angel Clare is the son of a clergyman who considered himself as a freethinker and intended on becoming a farmer and marrying a milkmaid and gave up the chance to study abroad.Somehow ,I had thought he was a person who bared the advanced ideas and can give happiness to Tess.However,I was so disappointed with what he had done to Tess on their wedding night when they admitted all their past.Tess forgave all his past while he Angel leaved her in disgust.Here I comes some questions ,the love that Angle to Tess is really true love?and what is true love?and how can angle be so cruel to Tess?In my opinion,love should be selfless and equal.The person with deep real love will accept the past his or her lover,no matter how bad it is.Because they can understand the past is one part of their lovers which cannot be erased.Tolerance is one element of lasting love.Without tolerance, the relationship will become more and more narrow and no extra air to breath.That will mean the ending of love.So everyone in love should learn to understand each other,maybe a small mistake can take over your all relationship.Tess comes over the contempt of others,but she is defeated by the man she loves most.It is so ridiculous!I have guessed that if Angel has not abandoned her, all things may be totally different.Angel does not like his name means.He is not the angel that god sent to save her.4、The release of Tess After Angle’s leaving,Tess was not in a good condition and meanwhile Alec took advantage of the Durbeyfields’ poverty and continued to tempt Tess.At the end of hope, the girl jumps into the trap of the shameless man.She can not fear love or happy anymore ,and just lived like a dead person everyday.She thought she would live that way till she died.However, Angel Claire, who is remorseful for his mercilessness, came back.And his arrival broke down her “peaceful” life.She could not control herself and stabbed Alec in the heart and killed him.Tess and Angel had spent the last five happy days, her life was ended in revenge for love.But she was quiet when she faced the people coming to arrest her.She said,” I was ready.” I know that Tess was happy and got relieved at the last moment of her life.Because it’s her hope to be with the man who she loves sincerely and there is no need for her to worry about Angel’s despise.She is so brave.She was dead in body but she got the succeed in spirit and her own love which were most valuable in the world.5、Conclusion

This novel also revealed the tragedy of lower classes’ destiny and hypocritical gentlemen and morals by portraying the unfair fate of Tess.Hardy showed his deep sense of moral sympathy for the lower classes, particularly for women.The novel indicated the tendency of anti-religious sentiments, against feudal morality and the laws of capitalists.The heroine Tess was a typical representative person in this novel.She was always against her unfair fate,she pursued her true love and struggled in her mind and then made the decision to marry Angle after she was not an innocent girl.And even at last ,she killed Alec for the true love.However,at that age ,her struggle was so insignificant and she was beaten by the reality of the world and the unfair social system.Thomas Hardy has directly and successful satirized the class by shaping the role of Tess.But to be honest it can hardly find such a person like her in the real world.In a word, this is a wonderful novel which is worthy to reading and reflecting.

第四篇：德伯家的苔丝 英文读后感

Character Analysis of Tess Tess 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

第五篇：德伯家的苔丝英文读后感

This is a book of grievous mood.A beautiful young girl’s life was destroyed gradually and really---not by her energy, but by the people who said love to her.What kind of this love is? What make the love destroy its lover?Tess could be a happy girl though her family was very poor.But “noble, status, and money” were strongly in her father’s mind, just because of the discovery that a parson said to him.Without their horse’s carrying load, life became rather difficult.Tess blamed herself completely, and she wondered what she could help her parents.Then Tess obeyed her mother’s idea, to work at the d’Urberville’s home, and met her cousin, Alec d’Urbervilles.This then was the beginning.Tess had to meet the wrong man, and one who was so strongly attracted to her.Yet to the right man, she was only a half-forgotten impression from an evening’s dancing party in a country field.This mistake was to have tragic results.Alec used his clever brain to help Tess’s parents, and this made Tess feel grateful to him.Because of her slackening vigilance, Alec’s intention came true---Tess would be maiden no more.As the people of her village said, “It was to be.” And from now on, Tess’s life was to be completely different.Tess left Alec’s home, returned her village.But all had changed, Tess wouldn’t be happy, people in village wouldn’t see her as before.After her baby’s death, she had to leave her home, went to a far place.Perhaps at that time we should thank Alec, thank baby’s death, or Tess wouldn’t leave her home and met Angel Clare, her right man in the dairy.Tess was a so lovely girl that Angel was soon crazy for her.At last, they conquered many difficulties and got married.But Tess’s experience was still her mortal wound, Angel couldn’t accept the truth and left her.The story came to its turning point again.When Angel realized his mistake and went back to look for Tess, all was too late, the poor girl again dropped into Alec’s trap.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 didn’t give her happiness.Tess’s parents loved her, but it was just an instinctive love;Alec said love to her, but it was a evil love;Angel said love to her as well, but it was a immature and selfish love.He wanted Tess to forgive him, but he couldn’t forgive Tess.Tess didn’t 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 was the best way for Tess to extricate herself.We have nothing to do but watching world changing, destroying Tess, then continuing changing.The tragedy recurs every day in fact.I can’t help asking, have we missed our happiness?