Despite having been born into a poor family background, Tess was charming and showed smart behavior. Sadly, she could not escape from her own tragic destiny. Tess’s tragedy includes various factors, some which placed her social status in a...

However, Angel Claire, who is remorseful for his mercilessness, comes back, but finds the cruel reality. And his arrival makes Tess even more desperate. After Angel leaves, she stabs Alec in the heart and kills him. Then she follows Angel an...

哈代小说中的主要人物有别于其他19世纪作家笔下循规蹈矩或纯粹自然主义的主人公，他们往往具有鲜明的“性格”，或在“环境”和自然法则的“重压下”“优雅”走向自己的宿命，或...

Tess of D’Urbervilles was his representative works, which showed the author’s sympathy to the poor people and mock the industrial civilization and morality. Tess of D’Urbervilles was one of Hardy’s masterpieces...

Virginia Woolf noted some of Hardy’s enduring power as a writer: “Thus it is no mere transcript of life at a certain time and place that Hardy has given us. It is a vision of the world and of man’s lot as they revealed themselves to a ...

Among his famous tragic novels, Tess of the D’Urbervilles is one of Hardy’s last and most important novels which tell the tragic life of a pure and poor country girl. The story took place in a very great situation that the capitalism bro...

Charlotte Bronte, renowned as one of the famous English women novelists during the Victorian Age, was born in 1816, at Thornton, in Yorkshire, England, and passed away with an unborn baby in 1855. Her father, Patrick Bronte, was an Irish Ang...

The pressure from the society of bourgeois makes the poor live in bitterness. Meanwhile, under the control of the society of male chauvinism, women have no social status and they had to be obedient to the men. Such a social environment, toge...

Tess’s father is indolent and vain. Alec who is greedy has true love for Tess at last. Angel who has progressiveness in his ideology is hypocritical and selfish. It is just the direct participation of these three characters who serve as co...

本文试着在借鉴现有研究成果的基础上从作者哈代，主人公苔丝，亚雷和克莱三方面对此做一个浅要的总结，最终得出苔丝的悲剧是由这三个方面的因素所共同导致的结论。...

Tess's fate is tragic, and then what leads to tragedy? And who is the chief culprit? In this paper, I will clarify the causes from three aspects: the environment, Tess’s characters and the view of Thomas Hardy. ...

This thesis attempts to analyze Tess’s tragedy from three aspects---- the social background which is a determining factor; the weak points of the main characters and finally Hardy’s Fatalism in this novel. Furthermore, implications from ...

The heroine Tess turned into a murderer on the scaffold from a kind-hearted, pure, industrious, selfless peasant girl. What are the causes of the great transformation of Tess? This paper analyses the reasons of Tess’s tragic life from thre...

This paper focuses on the topic of patriarchal oppression on women in Hardy’s masterpiece Tess of the d’Urbervilles. Nature and women are two themes of Hardy’s works. Hardy not only criticizes the patriarchal thought, but also shapes a...