《德伯家的苔丝》之苔丝的悲剧透视.doc

论文 题 目： An Analysis of Tess’ Tragedy of Tess of the D’Urbervilles 《德伯家的苔丝》之苔丝的悲剧透视 作者姓名： 邓娜 2016年11 月 An Analysis of Tess’ Tragedy of Tess of the D’Urbervilles Author: Deng Na Abstract: Thomas Hardy was a famous critical realistic writer at the 19th century in England. Tess of the D’Urbervilles is the most influential one of his works. The novel describes the tragedy of Tess, it can’t be separated from her own weakness in character, because she has the dual nature of the society character obviously--resistance and compromise. Then it describes the two main heroes. The paper describes the environment of the society, and then it begins to analysis the morality of capitalism and the religion factors at that time. Tess tragic life is caused by that society and it’s the result of that time. As a common person, Tess’ fought with that society helplessly. In the end, she turned out to be the sacrificial victim of that society. Key Words: character; moral ethic; religion; unequal legal system I. Introduction Thomas Hardy, (1840---1928), one of the representatives of English critical realism at the 19th century, he was a poet. He is well-known for novels of character and environment. His birthplace was in a country which named Egdon in the Westland. This natural environment came into being the main environment in the Hardy’s writes. There were 20 long novels in Hardy’s early life. The most famous novels are Tess of the D’Urbervilles (1891), Jude the Obscure (1895), The Mayor of Cascetbridge (1901). Hardy’s works reflected the change of that social economy, politics, morality and tradition when the hypocritical bourgeoisie invaded the countries in England, especially exposed women’s tragic life and hypocrisy of bourgeoisie morality, law and religion. His works not only inherited the great tradition of England realism, but also pioneering the way for British litera