In the Novel "Tess of the D'Urbervilles" by the British writer Hardy, the heroine, born in a poor family, a chance encounter with the priest of the father changed his fate, the priest suspected that his family had a blood relationship with an ancient aristocratic family, which made her father extremely excited, and heard from the tavern that not far from his home there was a distant relative of his own ancestors, a rich-level figure, just when the family's horse transport died unexpectedly, the family's life fell into an embarrassing situation, under the pressure of his parents selling their relatives, Tess, for the purpose of helping the family, went to cling to the distant relative who was not a relative.
For the arrival of Tess, the young master of the rich family was not interested in what she said about the origin of the clan, but was touched by Tess's beauty, and happily agreed to help her arrange a miscellaneous job at the manor, during the work, the young master often harassed Tess on the grounds that the boss cared about his subordinates, a bar party between colleagues, Tess and colleagues had a quarrel on the way home at night, the young master pretended to take Tess to leave first, and raped her in the wilderness directly led to her pregnancy, and Tess had to flee home. For parents who once wanted to change the fate of the family with the help of their daughters, it is undoubtedly "losing the wife and folding the soldiers", more is to accuse the daughter without the slightest love and self-blame, Tess gave birth to the child under the discrimination of the villagers and the parents' incomprehension, the child died in an illness due to lack of money for medical treatment, disheartened Tess decided to leave this family that made her disheartened, go out to work.
In a part-time job to meet a priest's son, the two fell in love, soon to the point of talking about marriage, Tess felt the need to tell each other about her experience of losing herself, but it was difficult to speak in person, so she wrote a letter on the day before the wedding, taking advantage of the night to stuff the letter along the threshold gap of the boyfriend's room, the next day the boyfriend did not show any abnormality, the two successfully held a wedding, and the accident happened in the night of the cave flower candle, the boyfriend found that Tess was not a virgin, For a man with a virgin complex, this is undoubtedly an insult to him, and he runs away from home in anger.
Tess was also displaced to make a living, but accidentally met the young master who had raped him, the young master claimed to have changed his heart, converted to God, became a priest, and wanted to continue the frontier with Tess, forced by the pressure of life, Tess committed herself to him again, but the difference between the three views of the two gradually exposed in life, Tess gradually found that his real love was still his husband who ran away from home, and now the misfortune was caused by this young master with a wolf's heart and dog lungs in sheep's clothing, and he killed the young master in a rage.
Just as his husband gradually learned that his true love was Tess, he also found it, but he met Tess who killed people, and the two were desperate, and finally caught by the police in the cemetery where the legend is said to be the status symbol of Tess's aristocratic family.
The ups and downs and tragedies of Tess's fate are more due to the vanity of her parents and her ability to distinguish between right and wrong, and it seems that the original family and her later self-cultivation still have a great impact on life!
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