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时间：2009-8-8 16:56:54 来源：不详
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ike milking.”[14] His people have few choices in their helpless struggles with a tragic necessity.
In this novel, the heroine’s life changes, as the seasons shift. And these two are interwoven intimately and foiled by the artful descriptions of Nature. It can be analyzed from the following two parts.
The first part: a happy life and a vigorous Nature.
The character and the Nature’s feeling are melted together intensely, and hence form a harmony picture “Amid the oozing fatness and warm ferments of the Froom Vale, at a season when the rush of juices could almost be heard below the hiss of fertilization, it was impossible that the most fanciful love should not grow passionate. The ready bosoms existing there were impregnated by their surroundings. And as the outward heats oppressed Clare, so was he burdened inwardly by waxing fervor of passion for the soft and silent Tess.”[15]
The Nature by Hardy is always melted with the heroine. By so, it implies that how the heroine’s beauty is in harmony with the beauties of the Nature and she is of the daughter of Nature:
“Minute diamonds of moisture from the mist hung, too, upon Tess`s eyelashes, and drops upon her hair, like seed pearls. When the day grew quite strong and commonplace these dried off her; moreover, Tess then lost her strange and ethereal beauty; her teeth, lips, and eyes scintillated in the sunbeams, and she was again the dazzlingly fair dairymaid only, who had to hold her oown against the other women of the world.”[16]
To present a cheerful atmosphere for the harvest, Hardy personates the sun, and so achieves a vivid description of the sun. And “a sense of pastoral is evoked by the hinted affinity of the scenery and traditional, manual work.”[17]
“It was a hazy sunrise in August. The denser nocturnal vapors, attacked by the warm beams, were dividing and shrinking into isolated fleeces within hollows and converts, where they waited till they should be dried away to nothing.
The sun on account of the mist had a curious sentient, personal look, demanding the masculine pronoun for its adequate expression. His present aspect, coupled with the lack of all human forms in the scene, explained the old-time heliolatries in a moment. One could feel that a saner religion had never prevailed under the sky. The luminary was a golden-haired, beaming, mild-eyed, Godlike creature, gazing down in the vigor and intentness of youth upon an earth that was brimming with interest for him.”[18]
The second part: a miserable life and a sharp contrast description of Nature as a setting.
As for Tess’s hard and miserable life in the wild, barren farm, Hardy presented it by the foiling of a harsh Nature description.
“There had not been such a winter for years. It came on in stealthy and measured glides, like the moves of a chess-player. One morning after the few lonely trees and the thorns of the hedge-rows appeared as if they had put off a vegetable for an animal integument ……gates. After this season of congealed dampness came a spell of dry frost, when strange birds from behind the North Pole began to arrive silenrtly on the ……visitants relished as food.”[19]
Here, the sharp comparison between Tess’s hard life and her harmony she is with Nature, serves as a foil and gives readers a great shock and regret! Since Tess is happily adjusted to her environment. “A fresh and Virginal daughter of Nature”[20] is what she first seems to Angel Clare. She is so sensitive to Nature. However, the modern society is diseased, often cruel and inhuman, and the conventions it lays down are in many important ways unnatural. Tess has been made to break an accepted social law, but not any law that exists in Nature. And it is the conflict between natural human feelings and social conventions that destroys her. It’s a conflict that acted out in the mind of the man she loves, Angel Clare.
Angel is one of the most interesting heroes whom Hardy had so far attempted to draw. Like Clym, he finds that living close to nature makes him surprisingly cheerfully and begins to like the outdoor life for its own sake.
He grows away from old associations, and sees something new in life and humanity. What’s more, he makes close acquaintance with phenomena which he has before known but darkly----the seasons in their moods, morning and evening, night and noon, winds in their different tempers, trees, waters and mists, shades and silences, and the voices of inanimate things. Together with this new awareness of nature goes a new awareness of human beings; he begins to pay his respect to the dairy workers. ------ “A real delight in their companionship.”[21]
From the fate of Tess, we can see what happens to a girl when her values collide with the Victorian moral code. Compared with The Mayor of Casterbridge, the structure of Tess of the d`Urbervilles is superbly simple. The story is about the tragic history of one single character. If Henchard`s is a masculine rebellion aga上一页 [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] 下一页
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