德伯家的苔丝(英文版).ppt

1、Thomas HardyLiterature is a mirror of real life which can reflect all aspects of peoples lives.Tragedy is a kind of literary creation,which is not a simple artistic form or technique but the repeat of real society.It can depict the piteous,sad,distressing and sentimental plots by describing some tor

2、tuous or complicated events.The British famous writer Thomas Hardy was one of the excellent novelists of the Victorian age.He delineated a lot of characters of tragedies,showing various persons enchantment.Thomas Hardys Tess of the Durbervilles reflected his real society.Hardy succeeded in portrayin

3、g the image of heroine Tess and revealing the hypocritical ethics and morals of bourgeois society.Major charactersMajor charactersTess Durbeyfield The protagonist,eldest daughter in a poor rural working family;a fresh,well-developed country girl who looks markedly more mature than she is.Major chara

4、ctersAngel Clare The son of a clergyman;Tesss husband and true love.He considers himself as freethinker,but his notions of morality turn out to be fairly conventional.He rejects Tess on their wedding night when she confesses that she isnt a virgin,even though he neither.Major charactersAlec Stoke-dU

5、rberville The libertine son of Simon Stokes.He rapes Tess when she is no more than sixteen or seventeen years old,and later pursues her relentlessly.He persuades her to see the reality in her relationship with Angel and convinces her to become his mistress.Tess Durbeyfield is a 16-year-old simple co

6、untry girl.In a chance,Tess meets Alec dUrberville,who finds himself attracted to Tess.Alec seduces and rapes Tess.Tess returns home,gives birth to a son,but died for illness.Outline OUTLINETess makes another journey away from home,and she meets and falls in love with Angel Clare.After the wedding,T

7、ess and Angel confess their pasts to each other.Tess forgives Angel for his past indiscretions,but Angel cannot forgive Tess for having a child with another man.Angel going to Brazil for a year and Tess going back home.Tess returns to Alec while Angel returns from Brazil to look for Tess.Tess kills

8、Alec and stays with Angel for 7 days and then polices takes Tess away.Status of womanTess does not want to be seduced by Alec and she just has no power to defense herself.So she lost her purity.Angle also does wrong thing and it even serious than Tesss crime,but he has not been blamed for it.Why it

9、is always ruin the good?Thousands of years of history have shown that women have always been treated unequally in every country.The truth of loveTess 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

10、,all things may be totally different.Angel does not like his name means.He is not the angel that god sent to save her.He is not deserved her sacrifice.Why can not he forgive her past?If he really loves her,the chastity would be nothing,what is truly important is her spirit.If they have not met each

11、other,they are just strangers and the tragedy may not happen.The beauty of tess is different from other images in novels,not wildness or persistence.Her purity likes the clear sky.Though sometimes will be covered by clouds,when they fly away,it still is the most clear and pure sky in the world.Think

12、ing 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 that 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 with no extra air to breath.That will mean the ending of love.So everyone in love should learn to understand each other,because maybe only a small mistake can over your all relationship.I hope everyone will obtain your true love