英国文学Thomas Hardy简介.ppt

1.Character and Environment（性格与环境小说） The Poor Man and the Lady(1867, unpublished and lost) 《穷汉与贵妇人》 Under the Greenwood Tree(1872) 《绿树荫下 》 Far from the Madding Crowd(1874) 《远离尘嚣》 The Mayor of Casterbridge(1886) 《卡斯特桥市长》 Tess of the dUrbervilles(1891) 《德伯家的苔丝》 Jude the Obscure(1895) 《无名的裘德》 Under the Greenwood Tree The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886) He explored tragic characters struggling against their passions social circumstances set his fictions in the semi-fictional land of Wessex where he grew up .This Class is about people’s pursuit to happiness and awareness of their dreams, reflecting the acute conflicts between people and the environment around them. Far from the Madding Crowd (1874) 2.Romances and Fantasies（传奇与幻想小说） A Pair of Blue Eyes(1873) 《一双蓝眼睛》 Two on a Tower(1882) 《塔里的两个人》 The Well-Beloved(1897) (first published as a serial from 1892) 《心爱的人》 3.Novels of Ingenuity（机巧和实验小说 ） Desperate Remedies(1871)《铤而走险》 The Hand of Ethelberta(1876) 《埃塞尔伯塔的婚姻》 A Laodicean(1881) 《冷漠的人》 TESS OF THE DURBERVILLES Tess of the D’Urbervilles is the most famous novel of Hardy. The story is about the tragic fate of Tess. In the story the poor villager girl Tess Durbeyfield is seduced by the wealthy Alec D‘Uberville. She becomes pregnant but the child dies in infancy. Tess finds work as a dairymaid on a farm and falls in love with Angel Clare, a clergyman’s son. They get married but when Tess tells Angel about her past, he hypocritically deserts her. Tess becomes Alec‘s mistress. Angel returns from Brazil, repenting his harshness, but finds her living with Alec. Tess kills Alec in desperation, and finally she is arrested and hanged. The story reveals the spirit of determinist defeatism and enforces its shibboleth of predestination, and no amount of human effort can alter its design of darkness. Tess is a paragon of innocence. What she asks for life is simple enough: to be loved and happy. But she does not