《德伯家的苔丝》、《简爱》英文梗概

第一篇：《德伯家的苔丝》、《简爱》英文梗概

Tess of the D’Urbervilles·Thomas Hardy

In order to lead a better life with less effort, Jack Durbeyfield and his wife persuade their daughter Tess to go to a prosperous family.So Tess leaves her family for the D’Urbervilles.At there, she meets Alec who makes Tess unhappy and tries to possess her.Alec at last manages to have her chastity.Tess gives birth to a baby and soon the baby dies in infancy.To escape there Tess goes to work in a farm where she meets Angel Clare, who is working on different farms to get some experience.He falls in love with Tess.However, Tess refuses to him because of her shameful past.Tess finally agrees to marry angel.Before the wedding, she writes Angel a note telling everything about her past.Angel couldn’t forgive her and leaves her for Brazil.This time Tess works at another farm where she meets Alec again.Alec pursues her again.Tess writes a letter to Angel, begging him to forgive her.But Angel still couldn’t forgive her.Finally Tess goes to Alec.Before long, Angel forgives her.Tess stabs Alec while he is asleep.After spending a few happy days with Angel, she is spotted and hanged._______________________________________________________________________________

Jane Eyre·Charlotte Bronte

Jane Eyre lives in her uncle’s family because her parents were dead when she was a child.After the death of her uncle, Jane is sent to the orphanage Lowood School by her aunt.At there, Jane works very hard.After that, Jane leaves Lowood and finds a position as Rochester’s daughter’s teacher.Rochester has strange temper.After getting along with Rochester, Jane loves him.Before the wedding, Jane is awakened by a strange woman in her room.Later, she knows that the woman is Rochester’s wife.So she leaves Rochester for a remote place.A pastor helps her to find a job of teacher.The pastor also loves her and wants to marry Jane.But Jane still loves Rochester.She rushes to Thornfield, only to find its ruin.Jane finds Rochester a lonely man who lives now at Ferndean.There she stays and later they get married.

第二篇：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?

第三篇：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

第四篇：德伯家的苔丝英文鉴赏

Reaction to Tess of the D’Urbervilles

It’s the second time I have read the novel “Tess of the D’Urbervilles”.I have a great impression on this novel, and its author, Thomas Hardy.Thomas Hardy, born in 1840 in Dorsetshire and died in 1928, was an English novelist and poet.Thomas's father was a stonemason and his mother was interested in literature.Under his mother's influences, Hardy began to write at 22.In 1856, Hardy left school and then he apprenticed under a local architect.After that, he became an assistant to a British architect.In this time, he learned literature and philosophy by his own.In 1867, he returned to his hometown and started to write novels.“Tess of the D'Urbervilles” was one of the two most famous novels which were written in 1890s.“Tess of the D'Urbervilles” narrates a story about a country girl, who is innocent, beautiful, bright and plain killing a man after being driven desperate.At the beginning of the novel, Tess helps her father to deliver goods into the town by driving a cart.However, she bumps into a mail cart in the dark night.As a result, the old horse is hurt to death in this accident.So Tess gets into a big trouble.In order to atone for her crime and also to support her family, she goes to work in D'Urbervilles'.During these days, one day Alec rapes her in woods.After losing her virginity, Tess leaves Alec and goes home.She gives birth to a child at home, but unfortunately, the child dies soon.Then, she works in a dairy factory and falls in love with Angel Clare.On their wedding night, Clare knows that Tess has lost her virginity.So, he leaves Tess to Brazil.Poor Tess goes to work in anther factory.After her father's death, the landlord takes back the house.Tess has to go back to Alec, so that her families could have a place to live.One day, Clare returns to look for Tess suddenly when he realizes his false.In great pain, Tess kills Alec with a knife.At the end, Tess is hung to death as a murder.In the novel, Tess is a modern woman idealized by Hardy.In an ideal world of Hardy, Tess is the symbol of beauty and the embodiment of love, representing the Wessex people of all good merits: beautiful, kind, pure, plain, love and tolerance.She dares to sacrifice herself with the hope to have a good life.She has a characteristic feeling of the love and trust.The women’s gentle and brave are melted well in her.Tess is a beautiful woman with temperament, strong will and warm feelings.She’s also upright and honesty.Instead of pursuing vanities by marriage, she chooses to pursue freedom basing on self-esteem.However, the end of Tess’s life is pathetic.I felt great sympathy for her.I wonder why this beautiful and pure girl has such a pathetic ending.But, this is Tess’s fate.I never believe fate, but I have to doubt my opinions after reading the novel.Every man who has read the novel knows that her life has always been passive.She has tried to revolt her fate only once, but has lost her life.Compared with fate, she is too small, and the tragedy of Tess maybe caused by the age.Dark ages brought the opportunists a lot of money meanwhile it makes the kind people suffer the misfortunes.Although Tess fails in revolting her fate, she is so brave that I want to give her my best respect.To me, she is a brave woman who wants to get rid of the bondage of fate.Tess’s death is superior to her fate, instead of yielding to it, and we need this kind of unyielding soul.But, there are also some weaknesses in Tess’s characters.Tess is bold and she dares to fight against traditional morals to pursue her happiness, but she can’t completely set herself free from traditional morals.It shows the weak side of her characters.She has been criticized by people and persecuted by the traditional morals.And it’s so pathetic that she has always been tortured by the same traditional standard.Thus, the tragic appears deeper.Considering her tragedy, I can’t help asking who is to blame for that.Besides I’ve mentioned above, I think, at least two men have to be responsible for Tess’s tragedy, Aleck and Angel.Maybe, you’ll ask why Angel doesn’t accept the cruel truth that Tess has been raped by Alec and has given birth to a child.Why Angel leaves her? Doesn’t he love Tess? Well, I’d like to say that he loves Tess so much that he can’t stand her impurity.In his eyes, Tess is beautiful and kind, and she is the symbol of purity.He can’t accept the cruel fact and makes his best to control his love to Tess.He thinks that the girl before him is not Tess, but a girl looks like her.In his mind, the real Tess has died.His heartlessness and abortion of Tess show his hates to the fate.As for Aleck, I don’t want to say more.The tragedy he has brought to Tess is obvious.All he has done to Tess is not out of love, because love is noble, but all he wants to get from Tess is lust.Alec is wealthy and evil.He seduces Tess, and that’s the direct cause of Tess’s tragedy.We all know that another name of this novel is “A Pure Woman”.In Hardy’s eyes, Tess is pure and brave.He shows great sympathy to Tess.At that age, men dominated the society, while women didn’t realize their rights.They are limited by the traditional morals and religion rules.In the novel, Tess is a poor victim, but because of the culture of the society, the other women don’t show their sympathies to her.They criticize her and fabricate rumors to defame her.It’s such a tragedy that women don’t help women.As a boy, after reading the novel, I feel more sympathy for Tess.I don’t understand the thoughts of those people living in that age, but today, well, men and women are equal.

第五篇：德伯家的苔丝英文读后感

Tess of the D’Urbervilles

Brief Introduction During this term I read two books, one of which is named Tess of the d'Urbervilles.The great famous author is Thomas Hardy.He wrote the story based on his hometown, a little town in England.The book I chose was published by Foreign Language Teaching and Research and pressed in 2005.The whole book contains 294 pages.The story was very wonderful and shocking.I am introducing it to my friends.Main Contents

The story is about a girl named Tess.It consists of Tess’s experiences.The story began with Tess’s father knowing about his real identity.He was the lineal representative of the ancient and knightly family of the d’Urbervilles, who deserve their descent from Sir Pagan d’Urberville,that renowned knight who came from Normandy with William the Conqueror.He was a gloat in his eyes, so at that night he drank heavily.Next day, Tess took the place of her father to send the honeycomb to the fair for money.But when they was on the way to the fair, because of her carelessness the old horse was knocked down to death.Tess felt ashamed, so she went to the d’Urbervilles to ask for help, following her mother's will.The playboy, Alec d’Urbervilles lost his heart to Tess's beautiful face and seduced her.Tess found her never fall in love with Alec, then she left Trantridge for her home.Soon a son was born, but dead.She couldn't bear people's taunts so she decided to leave home.She went to Talbot hays dairy.Angel Clare, a parson's son learned to make milk in the dairy.He fell in love with Tess and proposed marriage to her.Tess hesitated about the marriage.Although she loved him very much, she couldn't accept his love because of her immortalization.Because she loved him very much ,at last she accepted his love.Her heart ordered herself to tell Clare the reality in spite of her mother's advice.If he could forgive her, she would marry him.Before the wedding, Tess laid the letter under the Clare's door, seeing Clare's attitude.When she felt that Clare was still kind to her, she believed that she got forgiven.But when the wedding was being held;she found Clare hadn't seen the letter.She had no choice but to marry him.At the wedding night, Tess forgave his wrong things.When she told him her wrong tings, he couldn't forgive her and left her coldly.Tess met with Alec again.Alec forced her to live with him.Tess's father died.They had to leave their house, because the cottage was in Tess's father’s name.Alec helped them and made her believe that Clare never forgave her.At last, Tess got stuck in Alec's trap.Clare left Tess for Brazil and was going to buy a farm.But soon he was ill.In the end he came back in about a year.During the time, he reflected on his deeds.He realized he was cruel to her.He regretted doing the things.When he found Tess, Tess told it was too late because she had lived with Alec.Because Tess loved Clare very much, she murdered Alec to ran after Clare.They both escaped.They had five happy days in an empty house.Then Tess was arrested.Clare and Tess's little sister saw that a tall post was fixed to the prison tower, which saw that Tess was dead.The story ended.Excellent Episodes 1.Now take up the basket and tell them in the village to send a horse and carriage to me immediately.Here is a shilling for you.2.The village of Marlott lies in the beautiful vale of Blackmon.Although this valley is only four hours away from London, It has not yet been discovered by tourists and artists.The best view of the vale is from the hills surrounding looks like a map spread out.it is a quiet, sheltered part of the countryside , where the fields are always green and the rivers never dry up.To south lies the great dividing line of hills.From here to coast the hills are open, the sun pours down on the huge dry fields, and the atmosphere is colorless.But here in the vale lies a completely different countryside, smaller and more delicate.3.The fields are tiny, the air makes you sleepy, and the sky is of the deepest blue.Everywhere you can see a rich greenery of grass and trees;covering smaller hills and valleys.This is the vale of Blackmoor.4.Six helpless creatures who had not asked to be born at all, much less to be part of irresponsible.5.“Did you say the stars were the worlds, Tess?” “All like ours.They seem like our apples—most of them good, a few bad.Which do we live on?” “A good one or a bad one?" “ A bad one.” When Aby realized what had happened, his face looked like an old man＇s.6.But Tess didn't cry.Her face was dry and pale.She felt she had murdered a friend.Tess looked

the old horse as a good friend , which implied Tess＇s loneliness.7.“I do not like my children asking for help.” said he proudly, I am the head of the oldest branch of the family and a noble family like ours should not have to ask for help.8.The vale of Blackmoor was her only world, and she had never been for outside the valley.She did not know she smiled innocently at the flower that behind the cigarette smoke was the cause of future sorrow in her life.In life, the right man to love hardly ever comes at the right time for loving.Nature does not often answer a call for loving, until the caller is tired of calling Reflection After reading the story, I want to cry for Tess's sadness.I was merely shocked by Tess’s miserable and tragic fate.She did nothing wrong but she had to bear all these adversities that she didn’t deserve.I want to murder Alec.I hated Clare because he was so narrow-minded.When Tess forgave him, he couldn't forgive Tess.It was unfair to Tess.If he forgave her ,she will not be tempted by Alec.She couldn't murder Alec and she couldn't die.They could live happily.And all the things were opposite.If he had danced with her at that night, all the bad things couldn't appear.Tess also was still innocent.Then history can not be changed.All the things that had happened in the past had happened really.We must accept them, like Tess.And I feel that I am lucky for having good parents.The story was a sad book.Tess's life was ruined gradually by the persons who said they loved her.Tess was a happy girl.Her life should be happy.But a suitable person hesitated;a wrong one expressed his love for her.When the suitable one realized Tess's innocence, it’s too late.We feel sad for him.Sometimes I wonder why a nice woman couldn’t end up with a nice man.Is it just like the saying that beautiful women suffer unhappy fates? Tess always missed her Mr.right and her Mr.wrong always disturbed her life and wouldn’t let her go.All the three persons didn't know what’s true love.Alec thought love to be deprival and occupation；Angel thought love to be purity and ideal;Tess thought love to be toleration and waiting.They stuck in their illusion of love of which they never managed to get out.Alec and Tess was dead.Who is to blame for this tragedy？Ale, Tess or Angel? Or ridiculous fate? I believe it was Tess

herself.Certainly, that bad age and those hypocritical men were executioners that pushed Tess into the abyss of destruction.How stupid she is to wait for a man who did not understand her.When there is no help from men, women should fight on their own instead of waiting for help from men since there is nothing needed to be forgiven.In our real life, there are many similar stories.We have nothing to do.The world functions following its rule.But I still hope that people who love each other can have a happy marriage.Women’s tragedy will never come to an end until they treat themselves as totally independent, which means they can lead a normal life with or without men.I also hope women learn to how to live on their own.