歐美小說賞析教學(xué)資料：tessplot1

1、plot noe 1as is known to all, tess of the d'urbcrvilles is the most famous novel of thomas hardy. focusing on the tragic experience of its heroine tess, the plot of story begins tess comes from a farmer family, the durbey fields. she has lived a poor but peaceful life. however god, “the presiden

2、t of the immoral begins to play a cruel joke on this innocent girl. one day her father, john durbeyfied learns that they descended from the durbervilles, an ancient family once renowned in england tessas parents are in an ecstasy of delight over the news her mother urges tess to claim kinship with t

3、he remaining durbervilles, so that tess could marry a gentleman. unwillingly, the girl comes in contact with the stoke, durbervilles. there she meets alec durbervilles, who shows off the estate and always seduces he匚 having received a job of tending to chickens, tess stays in the durbervilles. her t

4、ragic life has just begun before long the rich and guileful alec manages to seduce the girl and make her pregnant. being humiliated and resolute, tess returns home despite the rumors all around, she give birth to a child, who is called sorrow but dies soon because of grave illness for several weeks,

5、 tess is overwhelmed by grief and sorrow nevertheless，without financial support, tess has to leave home and goes to work as a dairymaid at a distant farm, where she meets angel clare. they have met each other before, and tess has made a favorable impression on angel after angel persistent pursuit of

6、 tess, the two fall in love and become engaged then comes the wedding night, too honest to keep any secret, tess admits about alec durbervilles and the child. she begs for forgiveness, but angel leaves her in disgust. tess again returns home alone, only find that her family remains impoverished and

7、she even has no place to stay. in the meantime, alec durbervilles, the evil person appears agai n he takes advantage of the durbey fields9 poverty and continues to tempt tess he promises to support her family, only as a means to make tess dependent. at the end of hope, the girl jumps into the trap o

8、f the shameless man. however, the tragedy has not finished yet. angel claire, who is remorseful for his mercilessness, come back, but to find the cruel reality and his arrival makes tess even more desperate after angel leaves, she stabs alec in the heart and kills him then she follows angel and escape with him. they manage to hide for a while in a wood before they come to stonehenge, where she is arrested she is ha