Tess of the D 'Urbervilles —— The Tragedy of Feudal Women

"I have been a victim and will always be a victim-this is the law!"

? -Tess of the d 'Urbervilles.

Tess of the D 'Urberville

Tess of the D 'Urbervilles —— The Tragedy of Feudal Women

"I have been a victim and will always be a victim-this is the law!"

? -Tess of the d 'Urbervilles.

Tess of the D 'Urbervilles is the masterpiece of Thomas Hardy, a famous English writer. The whole novel is set in the countryside. It describes the tragic experience of a rural girl and is also the author's criticism and dissatisfaction with the Victorian era at that time.

? Tess is a descendant of a declining aristocratic D 'Urbervilles family and the eldest daughter of a poor peasant family. Tess, so kind, beautiful and clever, still can't escape the bad luck of being sacrificed. She still has to suffer in the traditional feudal patriarchal society, but she is unable to resist.

First of all, Tess's parents were bent on "recognizing relatives", but they pushed Tess into Alec's "tiger's mouth", which was the beginning of Tess's tragic fate. It was Alei who made her lose her virginity, made her lift her head in public, made her afraid to go out at night, and made her afraid of human beings.

? Then, although Tess was reborn in the dairy farm, she was abandoned by Clay. Tess can forgive his debauchery, but he can't forgive Tess's involuntary infidelity, even saying that "the person I once loved was not you, but another woman like you". This is mainly because of the traditional moral evaluation in Clay's mind. In traditional society, men can be dissolute, but women must be absolutely loyal to men. This is not only the tragedy of Tess, but also the tragedy of many groups of women in this social background-the victim of feudal patriarchal traditional moral ideology.

? Later, on the Flintstone farm, Tess was not only tortured by the farmer, but also pestered by Alec. It was there that when Alec looked for Tess again, Tess slapped him with gloves and shouted in despair, "I was a victim in the past and I will always be a victim-this is the law!" " Alec, the beginning of Tess's life disaster, can convert to religion now, but she has suffered greatly because he was abandoned by her husband. "He is the one who brought her disaster, but now he is on the side of the gods, and she is the victim, but now her soul has not been reborn. "

Finally, Tess's miserable life ended in death. Although Clay finally forgave her, as Tess said when they met again, it was "too late" and Tess could not forgive herself for being cheated by Alec again. But in order to reunite with Clay, she chose to kill Alec. Her tragic resistance is still doomed to be punished. From beginning to end, Tess died. ...

This is the law of a patriarchal society bound by traditional morality, which is the tragedy of group women. ...