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The Causes of the Tragedy Tess of D’Urberville by JI Lu Under the Supervision of YU Qun Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Bachelor of Arts English Program, Nanjing University Jinling College June 2010 Acknowledgements This paper is finished under the guide of my mentor桵s.YU, she has given me some useful advisements and told me some ways of getting the information of the background knowledge. This is a great opportunity to express my respect to Ms YU. Moreover, thanks to my family, they support me a lot when I was feeling confusing. In addition, I am so grateful and I would like to thank my dear classmates for inspiring me to join into their sharing of experience of writing paper. Lastly, I have to declare that my elder fellow classmates also have given me some useful suggestion of how to write a good and valuable piece of paper. Thank you very much. 棗棗 JI Lu ABSTRACT itMy argument: Among those famous works of Hardy, Tess of the d’Urberville is the most and last excellent full-length novel. It describes the raped country girl who is called Tess experienced a short period of tragic life. Though my study of the causes, I should get the reason why Hardy wants to create this poor woman and this kind of fatalistic story. Though my study, I want to get the knowledge of Hardy’s point of view of that period of time and what is his own weltanschauung. Methods and procedures: Method1: literature study Most of the literature material comes from the library of our university and some on-line magazine. They all help me to get the knowledge of the novel from every respect of related information. And then I can have a comprehensive analysis of the heroine by means of understanding others’ comment and this really can help me fix my question for discussion. This way of study also can give me a well and overall perspective of this novel Method2: qualitative analysis