【毕业论文】浅析苔丝的悲剧.docVIP

【标题】?浅析苔丝的悲剧 【作者】张莉华 【关键词】?悲剧??社会环境??性格??悲观主义宿命论 【指导老师】文晓莉 【专业】英语教育 【正文】1. Introduction?Thomas Hardy, novelist and poet, is one of the representatives of English critical realism at the turn of the nineteenth century. Among his famous works, Tess of the D’urbervilles, published in 1891,is regarded as one of his last and most significant novels and the summit of his realism in his classified group,“Novel of Character and Environment.” In Tess of the D’urbervilles, Hardy reaches the height of his achievement as a novelist. After its publication, readers are attracted not only by the extraordinary beauty, but also the tragic fate of Tess, the heroine of the novel. Now, it is translated into several foreign languages and becomes popular around the world.? Tess of the D’urbervilles is about the tragedy of Tess Durbeyfield. She was born in a poor peasant family. One day, their horse was killed by an accident. So they lost the only means to make a living. As Tess’s father got a piece of news from a parson that he was the lineal representative of the ancient and knightly family of the D’urbervilles, Tess was persuaded by her mother to claim kin with the D’urbervilles at Trantridge and ask for some help. Tess worked there and was seduced by the young master of the family, Alec D’urberville. Then Tess gave birth to a child but it died very soon. A long time later, Tess worked at the dairy farm at Talbothays, where she met and loved Angel Clare. He was the son of a clergyman. But on their wedding night, Angel Clare did not forgive Tess when she told him her past story with Alec D’urberville. Though Tess accepted his past, an evening of debauchery with a woman. Then Angel Clare abandoned Tess and went to Brazil. With the extreme poverty of her family, Tess had to work under the hardest condition at Flint comb-Ash. Then her father died and they were expelled from their cottage. In order to support her family, Tess had to go back to Alec D’urberville. At that time,