The novel is set in impoverished rural England, Thomas Hardy's fictional Wessex, during the Long Depression of the 1870s. Tess is the oldest child of John and Joan Durbeyfield, uneducated peasants; however, John is given the impression by Parson Tringham that he may have noble blood, since "Durbeyfield" is a corruption of "D'Urberville", the surname of a noble Norman family, then extinct. The news immediately goes to John's head. 女主人公苔丝生于一个贫苦小贩家庭,父母要她到一个富老太婆家去攀亲戚,结果她被少爷亚历克诱奸,后来她与牧师的儿子克莱尔恋爱并订婚,在新婚之夜她把昔日的不幸向丈夫坦白,却没能得到原谅,两人分居,丈夫去了巴西,几年后,苔丝再次与亚历克相遇,后者纠缠她,这时候她因家境窘迫不得不与仇人同居,不久克莱尔从国外回来,向妻子表示悔恨自己以往的冷酷无情,在这种情况下,苔丝痛苦地觉得是亚历克·德伯使她第二次失去了安吉尔便愤怒地将他杀死。最后她被捕并被处以绞刑。 |
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