【正文】 第一篇：苔絲讀后感英文版Book review of Tess of the D’UrbervillesTess of the D?Urbervilles, published in 1891, is Thomas Hardy?s most influential novel tells us a tragic story of a beautiful country girl, Tess D? her youth, Tess was seduced by confessed it on the wedding night and was then abandoned by her husband the end of the story, Tess murdered Alec in despair and this led to her final ?s tragedy is inevitable and unavoidable since she represents the sacrifice of that article attempts to reveal some features of British political, economic and social development in Victorian age as this novel social transformationDeliberating the whole novel, we can draw such a conclusion that Tess sacrifices herself for her poor what strength, we have to ask, was impelling her family move towards poverty?“The groan had proceeded from her father?s poor horse morning mailcart, with its two noiseless wheels, speeding along these lanes like an arrow, as it always did, had driven into her slow and unlighted pointed shaft of the cart had entered the breast of the unhappy Prince like a sword。and from the wound his life?s blood was spouting in a stream, and falling with a hiss into the road.” Hardy first glance, the above paragraph seems to be a very simple that will take on a whole new different meaning when we try to situate it in its historical context: the capitalist economy began to intrude into the countryside, after the British Industrial Revolution by the end of the 19th century,The clash was rather mailcart symbolizes industrialization and the equipage is a symbol of weak smallscale peasant economy under this time suggested that the means of production on which peasants had been depending was pletely ?s poor family was just representative of countless peasants and it mirrored the real circumstance of Victorian Age in 19th that time, England was deep into the convulsive transformations of the Industrial peasantry disintegrated and the yeoman class of peasants became to Tess?s identity as an aristocratic descent, it is just a mere fly on the 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 D’Urbervilles is the beginning of Tess’s tragedy, and does no help till the end of her was seduced by Alec when she was an innocent girl who was sent to claim kinship by her abandoned Tess relentlessly as he knew her seduction by nobody to turn to, Tess had no alternative but worked at Flintb Ash farm for wages in the hardest things get mechanical industrialization was replacing the handicraft workshop gradually and it means Tess had to plete with merciless machines, sufferdeprivations and hardships, and yet bear it in still, Tess?s family fell upon hard times on the death of her such predicament, Tess gave in and chose to be Alec?s ?s 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 smallscale peasant economy was great number of peasants slide into spiritual crisisNo doubt that the shortage of material is terrible, but the spiritual void is more the society was transforming from an old closed patriarchal society to the modern open society，people?s sense of security and religious or spiritual beliefs were values from the old patriarchal society were suffering from spiritual crisis under the circumstance.“Tess, on her part, could not understand why a man of clerical family and good education, and above physical want, should look upon it as a mishap to be the unhappy pilgrim herself there was very good reason.” Hardy Tess?s pessimism is simply due to her tragic fate, then where Clare?s gloomy views e from?We know that, for Christians, losing faith, losing ?s theory of evolution dealt a blow to the religious creationism and weakened the hold of religious are confuse by the question “what39。s the basis for belief, morality and the meaning of life if God did not create life?” Now it?s easy for us to understand even Clare, a admirable and poetic man, shared the same feeling with Tess——my soul chooses strangling, and death rather than my loathe it。I would not live there is no book that will explain the following question to Tess——Why the sun do shine on the just and unjust alike? Tess can do nothing but accused the twisted and depressing age she lived she struggled, confused and suffering, because of the constant collision between the new ideas and old being seduced, Tess returned home in disgrace, refusing to be Alec?s a woman of selfesteem, she tried to oppose the old morals but failedSince the old conventional consciences still played the dominant statue in the society, Tess was subjected to it saw herself as a sinner for losing her in nature, she looked upon herself as a figure of Guilt intruding into the haunts of she begged for Clare?s mercy like a slave, saying “I will obey you like your wretched slave even if it is to lie down and die.” Apparently, Tess was suffering the traditional feudalism ethic all her also has a paradoxical ambivalent attitude towards her child was dying, she thought of the child consigned to the nethermost corner of hell as its double doom for lack of baptism and lack of desperation, Tess did baptism for her she sneered at the hypocrisy of religion to a dying wish was to let her husband marry her sister Lisa Lu, which challenged the law ended his novel in a sarcastic tone——“Justice” was done, and the President of the Immortals(in Eschylean phrase)had ended his sport with ?s 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 towards the end of the 19th story ended as she the fact that the social transformation in Victorian age brings people with much misfortunes, is bound to