Benita wrote:

Thank you so much!!

You are welcome very much.

I've read it about a year ago, but I can't really remember the details
I just thought that I was very glad that I lived in the 21st century!!!

Actually, I was the anonymus

Hi RiaDo,

Yes, I too felt glad about being in the 21st century! 

I haven't seen the film yet. I haven't even known that there is a film adaptation; is it worth seeing?

A few weeks ago, I read a simple shorten version of  Tess of  D'urbervilles. To tell the truth, it is a impressive story of a yong lady, in the meantime, it is a pathetic story. I have no right to comment on the language of this novel, because what I have enjoyed is not the pure english version. Now, I am still look forward getting the original english one to feel every details of the story and the language description. Then, what I want to mention here is the story. At first, I have the diffirent opion from the others. I don't think this kind of miserable things just happen in the old days. Nowadays, we continue to watch the similar tragedy occurring around ourselves. At least, I can easily hear or discern in China, especially in the poverty-strucken areas. One friend told me, having more money will give you more chance to choose, to control your life. And also I trully believe that it happens in the other countries. Luckly,  the present open concept show looser and wider spare to this kind of things. It is human nature to hope that the boyfriend or the girlfriend we are marrying is the best, purest one. So when hearing her passed grey history, Tess's lover immediately fells into the dilemma: he love her, but refuse to accept her shortcoming. This point stir my thinking about the love. What is the true love? The passion, the understanding or the tolerance. Only the person who has loved or are loving can tell the truth. I completely understand Tess's lover's difficult state. Loving deeply rusults in the  great expectation. It happens everwhere, you choose to escape when you drop into a quagmire. The lover escape to the abroad. Otherwise, He is destined to face it one day in the future.