characteranalysisoftess德伯家的苔丝人物性格分析.ppt

Tess of the DUrbervilles;Contents:;The film made in 1979;;the protagonist;the eldest daughter in a poor rural working family--the Durbeyfields; a 16-year-old, fresh,pretty country girl.;There she meets Alec D’Urbervilles, who shows off the estate and always seduces her. Before long the rich and guileful Alec manages to seduce the girl and make her pregnant. Despite the rumors all around, she gives birth to a child, who is called Sorrow but dies soon because of grave illness. ;Nevertheless, without financial support, Tess has to leave home and goes to work as a dairymaid at a distant farm, where she meets Angel Claire.;It is precisely because of good faith that in the wedding night, Tess told Angel about her past. But Angel did not accept her confession, and left her behind. Tess again returns home alone, only find that her family remains impoverished and she even has no place to stay. At the end of hope, the girl jumps into the trap of the shameless man. However, Angel Claire comes back. And his arrival makes Tess even more desperate. After Angel leaves, she stabs Alec in the heart and kills him. Then she follows Angel and escape with him. They manage to hide for a while in a wood before they come to Stonehenge, where she is arrested. She is hanged later. ;Characteristics;Strikingly attractive and passionate;Hardy and unselfish ;Intelligent;Innocent;Tess represents the changing role of the agricultural workers in England in the late nineteenth century--Possessing an education that her unschooled parents lack, Tess does not quite fit into the folk culture. She belongs to a higher world. There is aristocracy in Tess’s blood, visible in her graceful beauty—yet she is forced to work as a farmhand and milkmaid.;Tess is a good, beautiful and strong country girl. The rural life created a good-natured of the noble soul. She should have a bright future and the future well-being. However, due to various reasons, to recognize her own in the process, the humiliation has b