Fourth, the beauty of pure love
An experience on the dairy farm, the author took a lot of ink. Because this is indispensable for shaping the beautiful artistic image of Tess.
Scarred, Tess finally meets a new love, Angel.
She longs for love, longs for happiness, but is not willing to deceive the people she loves. Thus she tasted the "warm torment, the bitter sweetness, the joyful pain, the pleasant sorrow." ”
It is in this description that readers once again enter Tess's pure inner world and experience her purity, kindness and tolerance...
Out of complete goodwill, Tess decided to leave the house and leave her siblings for the milk factory. Because Tess believed that if she did not leave, the siblings would not benefit from her words, but would benefit from her example.
So in the beautiful May of the dairy farm, Tess met Angel, the man she had loved all her life.
The writer uses poetic language to describe the beautiful milk factory, the beautiful Tess and her beautiful love.
"When she faces the south wind, her face is the most beautiful."
"What a fresh and pure daughter of nature that milkman is..."
"She is full of poetry all over her body, she is the embodiment of poetry, and her life itself is poetry."
Angel is hopelessly in love with her.
And how did Tess react?
On a typical Summer Evening in June, Tess heard Angel's piano. She felt that time and space were no longer there for her. Her heart fluttered with the sound of the piano, and the harmonious melody entered her heart like a gust of wind.
It's a new resonance, a spiritual understanding far above the flesh. They fell in love.
But what does love mean to Tess? That taste of torment and fascination, that joy wrapped in pain.
A girl with a pure heart does not know how to deceive, let alone the person she loves. In fact, according to our logic today, the problem is far from being so complicated, just "hide it". Tess's mother also admonished her daughter in this way.
And such a problem is much more complicated in our Tess. This is the daughter of this land as fresh as dew, the deep sorrow in her heart.
So in the face of Angel's persistent marriage proposal, she first felt extreme pain, like the flesh was about to fall apart. She murmured, "I can't be your wife, I can't." Poor Tess had never been able to escape from the demon.
After her engagement to Angel, things seemed to be slightly better. Claire was her life, her everything. This love shines like daylight, illuminating her gray life.
But on her wedding night, Tess no longer heeded her mother's warnings, and she felt that she could no longer remain silent, otherwise she would be unfaithful to Angel.
And so the tragedy of Tess's life truly began. Angel did not divorce him, but resolutely left her and left For Brazil. This otherworldly, loving man becomes ruthless and determined. He saw Tess as an evil and lascivious woman at heart.
Poor Tess, she did not have a word of complaint, she had a firm love, no complaints and no regrets, endless giving and tolerance.
Therefore, although the tragedy of Tess's love can be said to be caused by the backward concept of the times, it must also be regarded as caused by Tess's belief in the truth and purity of love.
Fifth, the poignant beauty of tragic fate
Hardy creates a complete tragedy for the reader, Tess does not get the freedom of life and love from beginning to end, and the real suffering of life is at the end of the novel.
After Angel left, Tess, who was helpless and lonely, began to work odd jobs and suffered from life.
And the prodigal son Alec, who took Tess's virginity and brought endless disasters to Tess, did not forget his old feelings to haunt her.
By this time Tess's father had died, and her mother and siblings were helpless, desperate, and living on the streets. Tess once again made great sacrifices for her family and moved in with Alec against her will.
When the repentant Angel finally heeded the call of love and the call of fate and returned to Tess's side, the love and hatred in Tess's heart could no longer be reconciled.
She killed Alec for the love in her heart. With the people she loved, she embarked on the road to escape.
In the end, Tess did not escape the punishment of the law. Good women eventually die of so-called "justice." This should be a wonderful irony in the world.
Dying Tess was still thinking about the man she loved.
"How nice it would be if you could marry my sister!" Her heart is simple and pure, and when we all die, we will become ghosts, and I would like to share your love with her. ”
We should be admired and grateful for the dedication of the writer Hardy to us such a masterpiece that we can appreciate the beauty and ugliness, good and evil.
I don't know how many readers like me have wandered in this golden and splendid art palace since the advent of "Tess", enjoying the shock and spiritual comfort brought to our hearts by this pure art, so that we can glimpse the beauty and goodness of human nature, feel the brevity and eternity of life, and appreciate the purity and sincerity of love.
Oh, beautiful bittersweet! Venerable Goddess!