苔丝的悲剧---毕业论文.docVIP

【标题】苔丝的悲剧 【作者】宋燕敏 【关键词】必然性；悲剧；伦理道德；反抗? 【指导老师】刘敏 杨红霞 【专业】英语 【正文】I. IntroductionA. Introduction of Thomas Hardy and His WorksThomas Hardy?(1840～1928）, born in 1840 near Dorchester, was a famous British poet and novelist. He carried forward and developed the literary traditions of the Victorian age. He vividly and truthfully described the tragic plots in his works. The critics of literature called him?“Shakespeare of British novels”. His work resembles that of earlier Victorian novelists in technique, while in subject matter it daringly violated literary traditions of the age. In contrast to the Victorian ideal of progress, Hardy depicted human existence as a tragedy determined by powers beyond the individuals command, in particular the external pressures of society and the internal compulsions of character. His desire to reveal the underlying forces directing the lives of his characters led him to realistically examine love and sexuality in his fiction, a practice that often offended his readers and endangered his literary reputation.While he regarded himself primarily as a poet who composed novels mainly for financial gain, during his lifetime he was much better known for his novels, such as Tess of the D’Urbervilles and Far from the Madding Crowd, which earned him a reputation as a great novelist. The bulk of his fictional works initially published as serials in magazines, were set in the semi-fictional land of Wessel and explored tragic characters struggling against their passions and social circumstances. Hardys poetry, first published in his fifties, has come to be as well-regarded as his novels and has had a significant influence over modern English poetry, especially after the movement poets of the 1950s and 1960s cited Hardy as a major figure.B. Background of the NovelThis story happened in the late of Britain’s Victorian era, in this time, Capitalist class controlled all right, and the law serviced for them. Thomas Hardy was the last importan