第一篇：德伯家的苔絲Tess of the d’Urbervilles 英文讀書報告 經典

Tess of the d’Urbervilles

In Tess of the d’Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy has directly satirized nature.This novel revealed the tragedy of lower classes’ destiny and flayed hypocritical gentlemen and morals.In this novel, Hardy demonstrated his deep sense of moral sympathy for England’s lower classes, particularly for women.The novel, which indicated the tendency of anti-religious sentiments, against feudal morality and the laws of capitalists, was warmly received by the reading public though British upper class was bitter against it.In the novel, Thomas Hardy succeeded in portraying an artistic image-Tess.There were sensitivity and beauty to her that have nothing to do with looks.Her beauty is not kind of stunning beauty, but the more you approach to her, you will be more likely to indulge in her beauty.Although she is not an orthodox believer, she has her own pure pursuits of life and living criteria.Her integrated image of kindness and tenderness, tough-minded and plainness should own her a happy life.But it seems that God leaves her out.Alec in the novel is the son of a Manor owner, being dissolute and flirtatious in conduct;however, generally, he is not essentially a bad man.His strong desire to Tess is out of a sort of inherently desire and desire for possession.It’s very normal for such a young man.But he adopts a wrong way-he abducts Tess.He would like to take a part of responsibility of his behavior but Tess turn down his suggestion without hesitation.Tess’s self-respect can’t allow herself bend down to harm.Such a pure girl, should be so strong-mind to bear neighbor’s discrimination and secular pressure and to take the consequences by herself.She has never asked Alec for help even when she is driven to the last ditch.Finally, Tess chooses to leave for another village where her past is not known and secures a job as a milkmaid at Talbothays Dairy.She escapes from the old environment, meanwhile, prepares to make a new start.She fears a romantic love, at the same time, strongly looks forward to it.Anyway, she is only 21years old, she has the right to enjoy the pleasure that love can bring to her.There, she re-encounters Angel Clare who is eager for nature and full of dreams, is Tess’s Prince Charming, one of unfinished dreams in her girlhood.As for Angel Clare, Tess is part of his persistent vision.What he wants is a pure girl to be his wife.Such a match made in heaven will certainly wipe out spark of love.However, the process of their love is filled with difficulties and hardship.Tess, who is pure in mind, is tightly tided by worldly views so that she thinks she can’t marry to Clare for her unclean body.All the time she is hesitating about, bearing a keen pressure of sentiment and intellect, weather should her tell Angel about her past without reserve.The pain that Angel suffers in the pursuit of Tess is far away from Tess’s inner struggle.She could not confessto her lover for being terrified of losing him.And she could not give up the happiness within her grasp to refuse Clare against her will.At their wedding night, Angel confesses that he once had a brief affair with an older woman.When she hears this story, Tess feels sure that Angel will forgive her own indiscretion, and finally tells about her relationship with Alec.But things go contrary to her wishes.Angel, however, is appalled by Tess’s confession.His love to Tess is based on the sky garden of pure tower.Once the base is deprived, his love will collapse.His love is too fragile and vulnerable.Finally, he leaves for Brazil, leaving Tess alone, no messages, no letters and never back again.Tess has waiting for him eight years but can’t win back his hearts.When he realizes his heart, everything is too late.Tess has married to Alec after a long hopeless waiting.Afterwards, when Angel back, on the one hand, Tess felt happy, for her long waiting has come to an end.But on the other hand, she was more distressful and could not control her abhor to Alec.Thus, she killed the man who had destroyed her life.Though, Tess and Angel have spent the five happy days, her life is ended in revenge for love.But she is quiet when she faces the people coming to arrest her.She says,”I was ready.”I know that Tess is happy at the last moment of her life.Because it’s her hope to be with the man who she loves sincerely and there is no need for her to worry about Angel’s despise.Tess, such a pretty and virtuous girl, should have led a happy and peaceful life, but God, “the president of the moral” plays a joke on her.The real tragedy is to display the process of ruining the perfection.Tess’s fate is a good representation.

第二篇：《德伯家的苔絲》讀書報告

《德伯家的苔絲》讀書報告

班級 漢語言081班姓名趙彤學號200850515133 書名：《德伯家的苔絲》

出版社：外語教學與研究出版社、牛津大學出版社

作者：托馬斯·哈代（1840—1928）是英國最偉大的小說家和詩人之一。他一生共創作了

15部長篇小說（出版十四部、4個短篇小說集、8卷詩、2部詩劇，是世界文學中最重要的經典作家之一。他的大部分作品，包括這部《德伯家的苔絲》，都是以他的故鄉——英國南海岸的多爾賽特為背景的。

背景：《德伯家的苔絲》這部小說是哈代進入晚期小說創作的標志。小說反映的時代背景是

傳統的威塞克斯農村社會已大體上被資產階級社會所占領，社會秩序發生了根本性的變化，農民為了生存不得不去尋找一條同過去完全不同的生活道路，于是哈代將創作的重心放在了濃郁的人道主義色彩，在主題上更加廣泛和深刻，表現了維多利亞時代資產階級的倫理道德、宗教法律、婚姻愛情、教育制度、人際關系等重大社會主題，從對資產階級社會的一般性描寫轉入整個社會的揭露、控訴和批判。

時間地點：第一階段（處女——不再是處女）

馬勒特村、純瑞脊

第二階段（新生活——一個悔過自新的人）

塔爾勃塞牛奶場、愛敏斯特、馬勒特村、弗林特石灰谷

第三階段（結局）

愛敏斯特、馬勒特村、桑德伯恩

主要人物：馬勒特村

純瑞脊

塔爾勃塞牛奶場理查德·克里克（場主）、安吉爾·克萊爾（牧師）——男主

角、伊茨（擠奶工）、瑪麗安（擠奶工）、蕾蒂（擠奶工）

愛敏斯特（安吉爾家）老克萊爾、母親、兩個哥哥、默茜·錢特小姐

故事內容：《苔絲》這部小說講述了在英國一個名叫馬勒特村里面的德比家，一個沒落的古

老“貴族”約翰·德比，他有七個孩子，最大的女兒名叫苔絲，是他們整個村莊

長得最美麗的姑娘。由于家庭生活條件太差，德比夫人便想著讓苔絲去找他們“同

血統”的親戚德伯家族尋求幫助。可是善良天真的苔絲被狡猾不正經的亞力克·德

伯誘奸，以至于懷了孩子。在遭遇了一次少女的不幸后，苔絲在一個牛奶場遇到

了自己的真愛——安吉爾·克萊爾，可是由于自己當年的“過錯”讓這對有情人

沒能延續幸福，當他們都幡然悔悟時，卻已是無可挽回。當苔絲殺死了無恥的亞

力克后，等待她的只有法律的制裁??

小說情節摘要：“為什么她一定要遇上這個不適合卻如此垂涎于她的男人？而她留給那個適

合于她的男人的，只不過是一個來自鄉間黃昏舞會的已經模糊了的印象。在生活中，適合于愛的男人很少在適合于愛的時間出現。上天總是無視人們對

愛的呼喚，直至人們呼喚得精疲力竭。”

“她沒有意識到，雖然她觸犯了一條公認的社會戒律，但她卻從沒違反過自

然。她就像樹林里熟睡的鳥兒或樹籬下的田間小動物一樣清白無辜。”

“那種對幸福的渴望，那種存在于每一個有生命的物體中的渴望，終于重新

贏得了苔絲”

“女人們通常要經歷這種生活。對多數被生活玩弄過的女人們來說，‘哪兒

有生活，哪兒就有希望’仍是一條不變的真理。”

“他領悟到他們跟他沒有什么不同，他和他們一樣都是風塵仆仆的趕路人，他們的最終歸宿都是死亡。”

“現在，苔絲的生活只有兩種：實實在在的快樂和實實在在的痛苦。” 讀后感：苔絲這個女性角色，她不同于傳統的柔弱的女子，美麗迷人是她的資質，可是她在更深層次上來說是一個想憑自己的雙手勞動謀生、追求自己起碼的幸福權利的淳樸

姑娘，可是社會的強權卻沒有給她這樣的機會，在遭遇了誘奸、拋棄的重重打擊與

傷害后，最終釀成了苔絲的命運悲劇。

苔絲女性悲劇的社會因素

小說中的苔絲代表著十九世紀晚期英國農業階層的過渡時期的農民形象，苔絲是一

個有點文化基礎的年輕人，所以她不希望和父輩一樣生活，可是貧窮卻阻礙了她追

求更高層次的生活的機會，就像小說中一個情節是苔絲和安吉爾一起送新鮮牛奶搬

運至火車，苔絲想到他們冒雨趕了這么遠的路，就是為了讓倫敦人能夠及時喝到牛

奶，“苔絲看呆了”，因為對她來說，生活是多么的艱辛，家里的任何困難幾乎都落

在了她的肩上，以至于搭上了自己的貞潔和幸福。女主角苔絲遭受的壓力是多方面的，她為了生活，不得不遭受農業資本家的剝削，并受到富家子弟的玷污；此外，還有來自社會道德的審判，苔絲的不幸成了人們審視道德的樣本，那些指指點點、異樣的眼光無不啃噬著苔絲年輕的生命。就像在被亞力克奸污后，苔絲生下了那個

無辜的孩子，可是當這個幼小的生命走向終點的時候，卻連靈魂的落腳處都沒有，一向滿口仁愛的牧師也不能給予他歸宿，無助的苔絲只能自己給孩子進行洗禮，一

個來自母親的特殊的洗禮。當然給苔絲最大的打擊還是來自愛人安吉爾的拋棄，可

憐的苔絲承受著來自家庭、生活、社會的重重磨練都不曾跌倒，可是在自己心愛的人面前還是讓心靈的最后一道屏障崩垮，即使這份愛曾經回來過，可也只能是覆水

難收。亞力克的種種丑陋代表了農民階層的經濟貧困、不公正的法律制度，而安吉

爾的背棄則表現出了偽善的宗教和資產階級的虛偽道德觀。亞力克的無恥和不敢承

擔都表現出了這些資產階級的假面孔，安吉爾的不負責任和心胸狹隘也同樣表現出

了資產階級的虛偽，然而這所有的罪責卻全部落在了苔絲身上。小說中最具有諷刺

意味的便是那個“悔過自新的人”，當苔絲再次見到惡棍亞力克的時候，他竟然在對人眾講授《圣經》，充分表現了社會的黑暗和宗教的虛偽。

苔絲女性悲劇的性格因素

造成苔絲悲劇的性格方面的原因是大自然賦予她的純樸與善良，這讓她無法與人面

獸心的亞力克相處，也不能像安吉爾隱瞞自己人生的“污點”，因為她沒有沾染多

少“文明”，所以也就缺乏功利的計謀，她的純樸的本能超過了人人與生俱來的保

護自己的本能，這樣就不可避免地造成她的命運悲劇。苔絲鄙視自己所謂的高貴的家族血統，認為自己應該靠誠實的勞動來獲取人生的幸福，她看不慣父親的洋洋得

意，看不慣母親的沾沾自喜，這些都充分表明苔絲質樸、純真、鄙視門第觀念的高

貴品質。同時她愿意為了家庭而無私地犧牲自己，當家里面臨嫉妒的困難時，她竟

會選擇與無恥的亞力克同居，以換取這個惡棍的幫助，當然這也表明那個時代下一

個女子的無助和可悲，想要自食其力而不得的悲劇人生。

小說中通過苔絲與安吉爾的愛情悲劇表現了苔絲在重重的宗教道德的沖擊下作繭

自縛的性格悲劇。由于苔絲出身于一個農民家庭，身上或多或少殘存這一些舊道德

和宿命觀點，使她在反抗是又有了軟弱的一面。比如，她在聽到別人議論一個女子

和別的男人的風流故事的時候，就不由自主的聯系到自己身上，不免是一種痛苦和

折磨，她在收到世俗輿論和道德迫害的同時，也在用其審視著自己，從而認為自己

是有罪的，“認為自己是罪惡的化身”，她其實比別人更加忘記不了自己的恥辱。苔

絲正是用自己織成的一張道德網將自己束縛起來，將自己推向罪惡的深淵。以至于

苔絲自己認為她在肉體上是亞力克的妻子，而在名義上才是安吉爾的太太，這正是

苔絲濃重保守性的體現。再有就是苔絲在安吉爾知道她的秘密以后，為了減輕自己的“罪惡”，她可以說是用自己的愛做了安吉爾的奴隸，愿意為他去死，只求安吉

爾能夠原諒自己的“失身”，而反過來，苔絲卻對安吉爾的“污點”無限包容了，這種反差也凸顯了苔絲過于放大自己的過錯，以至于自己無法擺脫心靈束縛的自我困境。正是這種思想、這種保守性加重了苔絲的悲劇。

忠誠與背棄重壓下的柔弱身軀

苔絲的善良和誠實，讓她在這個黑暗的社會中綻放異樣的光彩，可是這個光圈讓一

個女孩子有些受之不起，沒有人理解，沒有人同情，父親的認不清現實、母親的唯

利是圖，一幫弟弟妹妹的生活負擔，這些都落在了苔絲這個花季少女的雙肩上。小

說中一個引子是苔絲家的一匹馬出意外死掉了，這讓苔絲內心充滿了自責，于是苔

絲放棄了自己追求幸福的權利，遵從了母親的要求，來到了亞力克的身邊。正是出

自對家庭的一份忠誠，苔絲舍棄了太多，無獨有偶，當她又要回到亞力克的身邊時，同樣是出自對家庭的一份責任。再來說說苔絲和安吉爾，其實苔絲如果向安吉爾撒

了謊，完全有可能和安吉爾獲得人生的幸福，可是出于對愛情的忠誠，這個純潔的女子選擇向忠誠低頭，可笑的是苔絲并非一個基督教徒，卻擁有如此純凈的靈魂，她的字典里沒有背叛和欺瞞，而那些道貌岸然的教徒們卻處處顯露出自己的虛偽和

冷血。

苔絲的短暫生命里收獲的只是一種短暫的情愫，當安吉爾口口聲聲向苔絲表明心意

時，幾近將這個美麗的女子的內心融化，可是當他知道苔絲的不幸時，卻只有悔恨，責怪苔絲為什么早早的沒有告訴他事情的真相，讓他早有這個心理準備，恐怕，在那個時候他也只會義無反顧的離開，就像他拋下新婚的妻子，獨自踏上巴西之路一

樣，在苔絲無數次呼喚他——一個曾經鐘情無比的丈夫時，只有杳無聲息的等待陪

伴她。再次見到安吉爾的時候，苔絲又回到了亞力克的身邊，雖然對安吉爾的感情

始終不曾逝去，可是安吉爾又拿出了幾分誠意來對待苔絲呢，還不是只留下可憐的苔絲來品嘗這世間的辛酸，滿腹苦楚的苔絲卻竟然殺了亞力克，其實，這是一個意

外的結局，苔絲殺了亞力克后，和安吉爾度過了那么短暫的一刻美好，當重新醒來

時，幸福便不再屬于苔絲了，是什么將苔絲逼到了絕境呢，就是忠誠和背叛——這

個維多利亞時代下的社會怪圈，套死了苔絲，還有許許多多的“苔絲”??

苔絲是有罪的嗎？不，這一點小說的副標題“一個純潔的女人”已經很好的詮釋了，遍及整個小說，無論是苔絲有罪前，還是有罪后，她一直是那個善良淳樸的鄉村姑

娘，被騙、被棄、被毀滅，她的美好卻只能加速她的悲劇，可憐的苔絲又能向誰找

尋真正的幫助呢？

第三篇：德伯家的苔絲讀書報告

寧波大學答題紙

（20 14 —2015 學年第 一學期）

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課程名稱： 英美文學

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Tess of the D’Urberville

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the great Victorian novelist

1、About the author

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his ’sharp sense of the humorous and absurd and his love and observation of the natural world with strong symbolic effect.And Urbervilles is the most famous novel of Hardy’s.2、The suffering of the Tess After reading this novel,I felt I was deeply attracted by Tess,by her personality charm.Her whole life was so suffering.It seems that in time man doomed to dominate women.She came from a farmer’s family and her mother urged her to claim kinship with the remaining D’Urbervilles which was wealthy.She had no choice but to visit them.And then her tragic life had just begun.Alec managed to seduce the girl and made her pregnant.Returning home, she gave birth to a child, but the baby died soon.Here Tess was just like a doll and had no right to control her own life.She cannot resist her families’ order and also had no ability to go against Alec.What’s more, the god also would like to play jokes on her and took away her child.She was really the most miserable and tolerant woman in the world.She didn’t give up her life.Then she chose to leave for another village.She escaped from the old environment and wanted to make a new start.She feared a romantic love, at the same time, strongly looked forward to it.Anyway, she was only 21years old, she had the right to enjoy the pleasure that love can bring to her.However,angle still didn’t give a happy life and she return to Alec and live like a dead person.When angle come up again, she

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sacrifice herself to purse the love.3、What is the true love? Angel Clare is the son of a clergyman who considered himself as a freethinker and intended on becoming a farmer and marrying a milkmaid and gave up the chance to study abroad.Somehow ,I had thought he was a person who bared the advanced ideas and can give happiness to Tess.However,I was so disappointed with what he had done to Tess on their wedding night when they admitted all their past.Tess forgave all his past while he Angel leaved her in disgust.Here I comes some questions ,the love that Angle to Tess is really true love?and what is true love?and how can angle be so cruel to Tess?In my opinion,love should be selfless and equal.The person with deep real love will accept the past his or her lover,no matter how bad it is.Because they can understand the past is one part of their lovers which cannot be erased.Tolerance is one element of lasting love.Without tolerance, the relationship will become more and more narrow and no extra air to breath.That will mean the ending of love.So everyone in love should learn to understand each other,maybe a small mistake can take over your all relationship.Tess comes over the contempt of others,but she is defeated by the man she loves most.It is so ridiculous!I have guessed that if Angel has not abandoned her, all things may be totally different.Angel does not like his name means.He is not the angel that god sent to save her.4、The release of Tess After Angle’s leaving,Tess was not in a good condition and meanwhile Alec took advantage of the Durbeyfields’ poverty and continued to tempt Tess.At the end of hope, the girl jumps into the trap of the shameless man.She can not fear love or happy anymore ,and just lived like a dead person everyday.She thought she would live that way till she died.However, Angel Claire, who is remorseful for his mercilessness, came back.And his arrival broke down her “peaceful” life.She could not control herself and stabbed Alec in the heart and killed him.Tess and Angel had spent the last five happy days, her life was ended in revenge for love.But she was quiet when she faced the people coming to arrest her.She said,” I was ready.” I know that Tess was happy and got relieved at the last moment of her life.Because it’s her hope to be with the man who she loves sincerely and there is no need for her to worry about Angel’s despise.She is so brave.She was dead in body but she got the succeed in spirit and her own love which were most valuable in the world.5、Conclusion

This novel also revealed the tragedy of lower classes’ destiny and hypocritical gentlemen and morals by portraying the unfair fate of Tess.Hardy showed his deep sense of moral sympathy for the lower classes, particularly for women.The novel indicated the tendency of anti-religious sentiments, against feudal morality and the laws of capitalists.The heroine Tess was a typical representative person in this novel.She was always against her unfair fate,she pursued her true love and struggled in her mind and then made the decision to marry Angle after she was not an innocent girl.And even at last ,she killed Alec for the true love.However,at that age ,her struggle was so insignificant and she was beaten by the reality of the world and the unfair social system.Thomas Hardy has directly and successful satirized the class by shaping the role of Tess.But to be honest it can hardly find such a person like her in the real world.In a word, this is a wonderful novel which is worthy to reading and reflecting.

第四篇：德伯家的苔絲 英文讀后感

Character Analysis of Tess Tess of D' Ubervilles is the most famous novel of Thomas Hardy, the tragic end of Tess is painful and affecting.The paper supposes the tragic experience of Tess result from her character.Her character of responsibility is the flashpoint of her tragic fortune.Her responsibility convinced herself that she is to blame for killing the horse, and her responsibility urges her ask her fake relatives for help after the horse died, as a result she is acquainted with Alec D' Uberville and seduced by him eventually.Her responsibility impels her confessing her mistake to her husband Clare before their wedding, because she believes it's unfair to Clare if she doesn't, as a result her husband leaves her into suffering.She refuses Alec's proposal when they meet again, but after her father died, her family live a hard life, her responsibility to her family forces her live together with Alec.Her character of infatuated makes her a miserable fate, and blinds her good sense.The chapter 31 narrates “to her sublime trustfulness he was all that goodness could be-knew all that a guide, philosopher, and a friend should know.”Owing to the infatuated, she is lost her own judgment.It's wrong that her infatuated makes her lack of equal consciousness and totally controlled by Clare, and ready to be a slave of Clare and it also put herself in an unequal position like a servant..The character of obedience of Tess also makes her sad fate.When her mother asks her seeks help to their fake relatives, although she is reluctant to do that, she yields at last.When they sit on the high-speed dogcart, Alec speaks “Let me put one little kiss on those lips, Tess, or even on that warmed cheek, and I will stop-on my honor, I will.” “But I don't want anybody to kiss me, sir!” She implored a big tear beginning to roll down her face, and the corners of her mouth trembling in her attempts not to cry.He was inexorable, and she sat still, and D'Urberville gives her the kiss of mastery.It is shown that her character of obedience gives Alec has a chance to molest her.When they miss their way in an old wood, she believes Alec easily, accept his terms and waits for him in the wood, therefore, she was seduced by Alec.She should have left Alec as soon as possible, but her obedience leads her to a sad end.Tess is a girl as pure as the driven snow.When her mother tells her if she asks for help from their relatives, she would have the opportunity to marry a gentleman.Tess doesn't want to do that, because her pure heart despises worldly marriage.Although she was seduced by Alec and lives together with him, she is a pure girl, because she has no choices expect yield to her tragic fate.Even though she experiences a serious of hardships, she never gives up herself and works hard, and always believes her cruel-hearted husband who leaves her and preserves his reputation.It is her simplicity that causes her a bad end, but it also touches the readers, and the pure character of Tess is the beauty of the regretful end.As Jung said: “your character is your destiny.” The connection between Tess's fate and character is not occasional, her tragic end result from her

第五篇：德伯家的苔絲英文讀后感

This is a book of grievous mood.A beautiful young girl’s life was destroyed gradually and really---not by her energy, but by the people who said love to her.What kind of this love is? What make the love destroy its lover?Tess could be a happy girl though her family was very poor.But “noble, status, and money” were strongly in her father’s mind, just because of the discovery that a parson said to him.Without their horse’s carrying load, life became rather difficult.Tess blamed herself completely, and she wondered what she could help her parents.Then Tess obeyed her mother’s idea, to work at the d’Urberville’s home, and met her cousin, Alec d’Urbervilles.This then was the beginning.Tess had to meet the wrong man, and one who was so strongly attracted to her.Yet to the right man, she was only a half-forgotten impression from an evening’s dancing party in a country field.This mistake was to have tragic results.Alec used his clever brain to help Tess’s parents, and this made Tess feel grateful to him.Because of her slackening vigilance, Alec’s intention came true---Tess would be maiden no more.As the people of her village said, “It was to be.” And from now on, Tess’s life was to be completely different.Tess left Alec’s home, returned her village.But all had changed, Tess wouldn’t be happy, people in village wouldn’t see her as before.After her baby’s death, she had to leave her home, went to a far place.Perhaps at that time we should thank Alec, thank baby’s death, or Tess wouldn’t leave her home and met Angel Clare, her right man in the dairy.Tess was a so lovely girl that Angel was soon crazy for her.At last, they conquered many difficulties and got married.But Tess’s experience was still her mortal wound, Angel couldn’t accept the truth and left her.The story came to its turning point again.When Angel realized his mistake and went back to look for Tess, all was too late, the poor girl again dropped into Alec’s trap.With the intertwine of love and hatred, Tess had to end herself with a tragic results.God played with Tess so much.When her right man appeared, God yet didn’t give her happiness.Tess’s parents loved her, but it was just an instinctive love;Alec said love to her, but it was a evil love;Angel said love to her as well, but it was a immature and selfish love.He wanted Tess to forgive him, but he couldn’t forgive Tess.Tess didn’t make any mistakes, but at last, she born all punishments and sufferings.At first, God had let the two persons miss each other.A tragedy was

doomed.But perhaps no love, no hatred, no dignity, death was the best way for Tess to extricate herself.We have nothing to do but watching world changing, destroying Tess, then continuing changing.The tragedy recurs every day in fact.I can’t help asking, have we missed our happiness?