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An Analysis of the Causes of Tesss Tragedy Tess of the DUrbervilles, published in 1891, is one of the Hardys last and most significant works in his classified group, Novel of Character and Environment. In this novel, Hardy reaches the height of his achievement as a novelist. After its publication, the novel attracts and moves countless readers for its extraordinary beauty and tragic fate of Tess , heroine of the novel. Tess of the DUrbervilles is about the tragedy of a peasant girl, who was born in a poor family. When their horse is killed by accident, they lose the only means to make a living .So she is persuaded by her mother to visit the DUrbervilles at Trantridge and claim kin. Tess works there and is seduced by Alec DUrberville, the young master of the family. Then Tess gives birth to a child who dies very soon. Upon the childs death, Tess works at the dairy-farm at Talbothays, where she meets and loves Angel Clare, the son of a clergyman. But on their wedding night, Clare disappoints Tess and does not forgive her when she tells him her past story with Alec. Clare leaves her for Brazil. With the great poverty of her family, Tess has to work under the hardest condition at Flintcomb-Ash. Then her father dies and the family is expelled from their cottage. To support her family, Tess is driven to go back to Alec DUrberville. Then Angel Clare returns from Brazil, being chastened and repented of his cruel treatment of Tess, but Tesss relationship with Alec stops her from living with Angel happily. She hates Alec and kills him. After a short happy life with Angel, Tess is arrested by the police. Who kills Tess ? Firstly，the social environment makes Tesss tragedy inevitable1 The destruction of English peasantry caused by capitalism is the root cause of Tesss tragedy Tess lives in the late 19th century, in which the cruel capitalist exploitation has ruined the English countryside severely, Wessx is not immuned from the destruction. Capitalism brings a great harm t