The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved.
—Victor Hugo
If there is one thing one can always yearn for and sometimes attain, it is human love.
—Camus
Unit Goals
After learning the unit, students are expected to be able
·to know Thomas Hardy and the major concerns of his writing,
·to identify the role of landscape in the writings of Thomas Hardy and D.H.Lawrence,
·to appreciate D.H.Lawrence’representation of lad-and-girl love,
·to master the useful expressions in the writings, and
·to improve language proficiency and critical thinking through the content of this unit.
Before You Read
1.Read the following topics and think them over.
1)Love is a word which covers a variety of feelings.How would you define the different stages of love relationship?
2)Why do you think many people consider “to love and to be loved”as the supreme happiness in life?
2. Tess of the d’Urbervilles is generally regarded as the finest novel of Hardy’s.Do you know the story? Read the following storylines and see if you can arrange them in the correct chronological order.
a.Tess is seduced by Alec, and gives birth to a child, which dies in infancy.
b.Angel repents and comes back to find Tess.
c.Tess is sent to work as a maid for a rich family by her poor parents.
d.On the wedding night Tess tells Angel her seduction by Alec.
e.Tess murders Alec, and is hanged at last.
f.Tess goes to work on a dairy farm, where she is engaged to Angel Clare, the son of a clergyman.
g.Angel abandons Tess after hearing her confession of impurity.
h.Tess meets Alec again after a period of hard work on the Flintcomb Ash Farm.
Here is the right order:____________________________________________________
3.Read the following list of names, and match each writer with the particular locality featured by their novels.Work with your partner and share your ideas on the “local color”of the novels.