Hardy's creation can be divided into two parts: novel creation and poetry creation. However, whether in novels or poems, he deeply describes Wessex's sadness and natural scenery, as well as the tragic conflict between human beings and nature in religion, law, ethics and old customs.
As far as novel creation is concerned, Hardy divides his works into three categories. The first category is the novel "People and Environment", which is his unique style and marks the highest achievement of his realistic creation. These works include Away from the hubbub, The Return of the Native, The Mayor of Casterbridge, Tess and Jude the Obscure. The second category is called Romance and Fantasy. Hardy believes that this kind of novels mainly focus on the event itself and the artificial plot description, but some scenes do not exclude loyalty to life.
Recently, due to the fierce pursuit of literature, I suddenly feel that the harder I study literary knowledge, the more shallow I will feel, so I decided to improve myself, pursue a spiritual height in famous works and find a holy sky. Indeed, I seem to have found this feeling. The breathtaking beauty in famous works fills my mind all the time and purifies my soul. When a large piece of soul light flashed in my mind, I couldn't help but feel that my thoughts became more noble.
I walked into the library again, and Hardy's Tess caught my eye. I couldn't help but take it and bathe in the poetic realm again, and my soul began to fly in truth, goodness and beauty.
After reading the whole book, I feel very heavy and can't help thinking. Tess is a sacred image in the author's mind. Although she once lost her virginity, which is undoubtedly a tragic reality, we must never label her as morally degraded from a secular perspective. As a biological daughter, she is struggling in a heartless society! Indeed, this discordant voice, this fearless struggle, seems so thin and helpless in front of society that some people are not even qualified to speak after dinner. She will eventually become a victim of society like everything that runs counter to traditional ethics. In fact, by reading a lot of works, my thoughts and concepts are completely different from those of the secular society, just like the image of the heroine in Dumas' La Traviata. Tess, as a woman, can endure such humiliation, and is sincere and frank about her past stains in the face of the people she loves, which is essentially different from many hypocritical and vain people in society who think they are smart. Her simplicity, holiness, beauty and naturalness are the products of nature far away from the hubbub, its fragrance and the great beauty of human nature. Hardy devoted his greatest enthusiasm to this work. He said that he couldn't sleep at night because he couldn't help being moved by Tess he created. This enthusiasm stems entirely from his concern for mankind and religion, law, morality and ethics.
With the development of the plot, the images of Tess reflected by Angie and Coberville are more and more plump and moving, full of original natural charm, just as Hardy wrote in the subtitle of this book: a pure girl. How can a girl who lost her body be pure? Tess's misfortune hurt her greatly. This fate will be eternal sorrow for every girl, such as the victim of rape and violence. Such a shadow may hang over her broken heart for a long time. On the other hand, in society, some girls who are numb in impetuousness have long lost their sincerity and fallen into the abyss of shamelessness and self-vanity. In this way, in the eyes of some guardians, it is really indecent and incredible to label such a girl as pure, but I still insist on Hardy's point of view. I think everyone with a conscience will always kiss the pure Tess girl in our hearts with great respect and love when they know the story of Tess.
Tess is enthusiastic and optimistic, and should be an idol in the hearts of people with firm beliefs. She endured great shame and pain and still pursued her love. Her unique personality is enough to light up our impetuous and vulgar society. Perhaps it is the impetuousness and vulgarity of society and Jarek's roguery and vulgarity that cast Tess's nature and sincerity, holiness and purity. When we always have a firm belief in our hearts, we will keep our inner balance with a fearless spirit, so as to find a noble thought and stick to our consistent principles. Tess is such a girl. In the face of intense love and hate, she struggled in her heart, helpless. Her love for beloved Angela was so intense, and her hatred for Jerek was so painful. These two extreme feelings are constantly intertwined in her heart. A philosopher said: A person who loves and hates strongly is a sensitive and rich person.
Although Tess lives in a remote mountain village, far away from the hubbub, the fertile soil of the vast land endows her with simplicity, the silence of towering mountains endows her with broadness and tolerance, and the singing of endless rivers endows her with endless passion. She is full of youthful vitality, like a rushing river, endless and endless. It is this natural feeling that makes this natural daughter feel and intoxicated with all kinds of things in nature, which makes her sharp in thinking and rich in feelings. Angie appeared after experiencing the biggest tragedy in her life. At that time, she had licked the blood dripping from her heart. After a long period of thought precipitation, she came out of the shadow of an injured woman and embraced this fiery life again, so she finally ushered in the second natural innocence in her life.
Angela's strong love makes Tess feel the joy of life, but in her heart, she can't get rid of the shadow of the past, so when several of her companions fall in love with Angela at the same time, and Angela only loves her, she always suppresses her feelings and acts as a third wheel to praise her companions, but Angela loves her, not others. Under this artificial bondage, she is faced with choices, and her heart is full of happiness and pain. Happily, Angie has a strong love for her, and she loves Angie deeply. Sadly, in the depths of Tess's soul, she always felt that her shadow would affect their love, and she even felt guilty for Angie. However, Angie eliminated the shackles in her heart with sincerity. During Angie's months of courtship, Tess finally agreed with him.
She was at a loss when faced with whether her former humiliation should be made public to her relatives. Her mother wrote to her several times with other people's experience, asking her never to tell Angie about this stain, and gave a strong warning with a lot of examples, because men are like this. With her decades of experience, she definitely has the right to speak. But good Tess has a pure heart. On the eve of her promise to marry Angie, she wrote a letter explaining her past to Angie in detail and put it under the door of Angie's door. The next day, Angie was full of deep love for her as before. Tess mistakenly thought that Angie had forgiven her, but unfortunately, Angie didn't read the letter because she was drunk that night. But Tess has promised to marry Angie, and she wants to keep this sad thing in her heart. It was this mistake that created Tess's tragedy again.
However, Angie's "slaves of custom and prejudice" cruelly abandoned Tess on their wedding night out of selfish intentions. And all this is due to Angela's sincere response after admitting her debauchery experience. The same experience, why do men always have many excuses to downplay it and not be reviled and condemned by society, while women only have to endure misunderstanding and humiliation? Tess cried loudly, which is the biggest injustice between men and women in this society, and seems to have the possibility of making mankind last forever.
Angie's so-called unbearable morality finally made him leave Tess and wander in Africa. His secular beliefs make him have a deep-rooted tradition and stubborn persistence in human ethics. What he thought of as a pure Tess girl who loved herself deeply turned out to be a lost girl, and the vulgarity of the world plunged him into an extremely miserable situation. Tess also had to leave Anji and work to keep her family alive. So after working at home for a while, in order to reduce the burden at home, she went to a farm to do farm work with her old friend Marlene. At that time, British society was a society with fierce social changes. The peasants' land was rented out, from which we can see the form of capitalist occupation.
During Tess's work, Angel kept in touch with her at first, but Tess broke off contact with him out of pride, because she didn't want to use Angel's money for no reason, so under the difficulties of life, a desperate situation came quietly. Her mother had an acute illness. Just as her mother was getting better, her father died suddenly. This sudden suffering forced them to start a wandering life. But Jarek, who has been pestering Tess, took advantage of this. Tess saw the sadness of her family and the helpless eyes of her younger brothers and sisters. For the survival of the whole family, she had to re-enter the life of the evil Jarek with all kinds of helplessness and sadness.
Jarek is an extremely rude, vulgar and lewd person. He seems to be the embodiment of evil, always being mercilessly blasphemed by Tess. A girl born with pure beauty can't get rid of his evil figure. However, as I said, his appearance highlighted Tess's spirit of resistance and sacrifice.
It can be seen that Hardy highlighted Tess's purity and kindness with Jarek's rudeness. In this sense, Jericho D 'Urberville, like the devil Mephisto fellers in Goethe's works, is "doing evil and doing good". The more evil he did to Tess, the more she showed extraordinary strength and charm. Tess faced the ravages of Jarek, his evil threats, rumors everywhere, never giving in, and lived alone in the world.
With the help of the capriciousness of Alec's image, the author embodies Tess's inner brilliance and moving. After Tess's pure image was ravaged, Jarek once regretted himself and became a religious fanatic to offset his inner guilt. However, in front of the pure Tess, he found his own animal nature, and also unveiled the coat of animal nature under religion, lost his willpower again, and fell in love with Tess's holy image.
So, on a summer beach, Tess and Jarek spent their honeymoon. Angie, who was looking for Tess, found her and aroused her affection again, and Jarek was killed by angry Tess. So, in order to avoid the police, Tess and Angie began a short but romantic love wandering. In the last days, they lived a full life, but the good times did not last long. The last days finally passed quietly, leaving people with this eternal tragedy.
The following is the same as before, abbreviated as this work, in order to leave a kind and lasting memory.
Tess, who grew up in a natural mountain village, has a beautiful and pure image. One day, his father's coachman learned from a priest that his ancestor was a famous earl, so he looked tall and poor. In the hotel, he got drunk for this show, and when he got home, he missed the time to catch the bus, so only Tess and his brother drove the bus to transport coal for his father, and the carriage hit a mail truck on the road, and their horses died.
Horses are the basis of their survival. Without them, their lives suddenly fell into despair.
When they learned that a Coberville family was one of their own (an impostor), they asked Tess to look for relatives and see if she could get his support, so Tess met a rude guy who was in Jarek. After they met, Tess and Jarek got lost in the forest on a tired night (actually, Jarek arranged it on purpose). At this time, Tess was so tired that she fell asleep on the grass and went to find Jarek.
Tess lost her virginity after a painful resume. She buried her child and licked her inner blood. After more than a year's work and the influence of nature, she finally recovered. She reappeared in people's field of vision with a natural and pure image and full passion.
So, she went to the farm to milk, where she met her favorite-Anji. Because of her deep guilt about her past, she didn't dare to have any wrong ideas about her love for Angie, but she really loved Angie, and she tried to suppress her true feelings, but sincere Angie still triggered her natural and innocent love, but in order not to let Angie be influenced by herself, she decided not to allow Angie's courtship. But Angie chased her for half a year, but she didn't have a suitable reason to refuse. Plus, she really loves Angie, so she decided to be honest with herself, so that she would have a clear conscience. She wrote a letter about her experience and put it under Angie's carpet. Angie didn't notice because she was drunk that night, but Tess mistakenly thought Angie had forgiven herself the next day, so she agreed to marry Angie, but she found the intact letter.
Angie and Tess finally got married. On their wedding night, Angie admitted that he lived a dissolute life. In the face of his honesty, Tess also told her own experience. However, Angie, who has always paid attention to traditional ethics, can't stand this reality and begins to be indifferent to Tess. Finally, she really couldn't understand this situation and went to Africa to live a wandering life.
Such a beautiful woman, sensitive as gossamer and pure as snow, why should she draw a rough pattern, as if it were meant to be? Why it is often rude to seize exquisite possession, and evil men defile pure women ... (on Tess's humiliation)
"You, and people like you, make fun of people like me in the world, breaking my heart and making me suffer enough. You, on the other hand, have done enough evil and had enough fun, just want to change your ways, convert to religion, and prepare to enjoy the blessings from heaven in the future. How beautiful you think! You are shameless! " (Accusations against the sanctimonious)
Tess can't think about time and space. The transcendental artistic conception she once described by staring at the starry sky is now uninvited. Her whole body rises and falls with the delicate melody of the ancient harp, and the harmonious melody permeates her heart like a breeze, which makes her cry. Floating pollen seems to be the embodiment of melody, and the warm garden seems to be moved and crying. Although the night is about to cover the earth, the strong wild flowers are radiant, as if they are too eager to get close. The fluctuations of color and sound blend together.
/kloc-Modern poetry in the 0/9th century is irrational and unpredictable. Her whole body is full of poetry, and her every move is ... She vividly shows the poems that poets only write on paper ... (poetic image)
Tess is full of beauty and sadness of existence.
Sadness and beauty are repeated experiences of Tess. She is an extremely keen and enthusiastic girl, but she suffered cruel torture in the harsh world and the hands of narrow-minded villains. She just found the realization of a perfect and short life in pain.
Tess's early tragedy told her: "Where there are sweet birds singing, there are always poisonous snakes hissing." However, the indifference of "nature" to her sufferings is mainly reflected in the songs of birds. When she recovered and set off for Talbotwa, she could hear her longing for life from the chirp of every bird. However, the happy notes of birds rarely appear. When she recalled the past, "only a hoarse reed finch greeted her in a sad and stagnant voice from the trees by the river, as if she had broken her friend." The image of this bird is always associated with Tess's mood. The sadness of birds is caused by the cruelty and indifference of the world's nature, which strongly shows the universality of "roughness and coldness"
Zheng Ming was punished, and Aeschylus said that the gods were masters, ending the teasing of Tess. The D 'Urbervilles' generals and wives were buried in the tomb and knew nothing about it. The two people who watched silently knelt on the ground, as if praying, so they knelt for a long time, motionless, and at the same time, the black flag was still flying silently in the wind.
Later, as long as they had a little strength, they stood up and walked hand in hand.
The opening of this paragraph is often quoted separately as the "conclusion" of Hardy's novels. In fact, Hardy is loyal to his own practice, which makes his conclusion obviously multiple. The first sentence is to admit pessimistically that there are some forces in the world that we seem to have little or no control over. The next sentence turns from metaphysics to history, which shows that "the past" is indifferent to "the present" These two sentences are followed by two other sentences suggesting the opposite possibility. We can see a trace of human resilience in the "silent audience" because they look for hope (not disappointment) on the earth itself, the condition for human survival. In the last sentence, hope is transformed into strength, a strength that confirms human unity and guides the direction of action.