Thomas Hardy介绍课件.ppt

  Thomas Hardy托马斯·哈代(1840~1928 );Thomas Hardy is last important novelist and poet of the 19th century. Living at the turn of the century. Hardy is often regarded as a transitional writer. In him we see the influence from both the past and the modern. His literary genius is apparent in his poems and novels. Current scholars believe Hardy to be one of the greatest tragic novelists of English literature. ;;;Thomas Hardy(1840~1928 );;;;;1848-56 Educated on different schools – The National School (Church of England) in Lower Bockhampton, the British School in Dorchester. ; 1856-62 Apprenticed as an architect for four years to John Hicks.;;;1912 Death of Emma Hardy. ;;The home that Hardy built in Dorchester ;;;;Novels;“novels of character and environment” is the most outstanding; But Tess and Jude were given a hostile reception by the bourgeois public. ; ;outrage;A Poet A Novelist;Wessex ;Wessex Works;;Works: fatalistic mood ;Hardy did not reject the social developments which were changing people with their circumstances, but he saw the loss as well as the gain. And the loss was not estimated merely in the perishing of old customs, but in the passing away of a kind of humanity which would never be replaced.;the idea of fate and the critical realistic thoughts in his works;His Artistic Features;;Tess of the D‘Urbervilles 《德伯家的苔丝》 (1891) ;Plot Summary;;;Comment on Tess;;Tess of the D’Urbervilles;Comment on Tess;What Makes Alec a Bad Mate?;What Makes Angel a Good Mate?;What Makes Tess a Desirable Woman?;What Women Want;Resources (money, skills, goods) or the potential to get them. In our past, the ability to get food or provide shelter, meant the difference between death or survival. Social status in our hunter-gatherer times was indicative of the ownership of valuable resources, therefore women prefer men of higher social status. Women also value education in a mate because education is, according to Buss, “strongly linked with social status”. Bec