《德伯维尔家的苔丝》苔丝的人物性格分析英语毕业论文

《德伯维尔家的苔丝》苔丝的人物性格分析

摘要：

托马斯·哈代、最有影响力的英语作家,建立了19及20世纪的文学形式。他的代表作品,《德伯维尔家的苔丝》揭示了小说“性格与环境的精神”。《德伯维尔家的苔丝》使哈代的文学创作取得了辉煌的成就。

哈代认为苔丝拥有女性的主要性格--纯洁,这使得他遇到激烈和严厉的批评,他们中的大多数人可以接受哈代的观点。哈代的杰作《德伯维尔家的苔丝》描写了一个有痛苦经历的乡村女孩。她用自己的双手去劳动,使人们感到她的真心。她是一个“纯洁的女人”。最后她以悲剧结束，人们讨论她的悲剧原因。然而,她有一个强大的精神的战斗,反对社会、伪善的宗教。她所做的一切就是放弃旧道德的社会,追求幸福的婚姻。同时苔丝是一个纯洁的女人她对她的家庭和她的爱负责。她已在世人面前表现她所受到的侮辱,这预示着一种抗强大的女人的形象。

Abstract

Thomas Hardy, one of the most influential English writers, helped forge a link between the 19th and 20th century literary tradition .Tess of the D’Urbervilles, one of his representative works, best reveals the “Novels of Character and Environment” spirit. Tess is the crowning achievement of Hardy’s literary creation.

Hardy considers the main female character of Tess as “A pure woman”, which made him encounter fierce and harsh criticism, for most of them could accept Hardy’s view . Hardy’s masterpiece Tess of the D’Urbervilles describes the miserable experience of a rural girl. But too unfortunate to overthrow this girl who calls Tess, she relies on her own hands to work, moving people with her own sincerity. She is “a pure woman”. Finally she winds up with the tragedy, which is why people often discuss her as the source of the tragedy. However, she has a powerful spirit of fighting, fighting against the society, the hypocritical religion. All she did was to abandon the old ethical society and to pursuit a happy marriage. Meanwhile Tess is a pure woman and she is responsible for her family and her love. She has shown in front of common people her own practical action that she is insulted, which indicates a resisting powerful woman's images.

Key words: revolt, compromise, a pure woman ,responsibility

A personality analysis of Tess

Introduction

Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) was a Britain’s critical realism novelist and poet at the end of the 19th century. Hardy’s creation period includes carrying out the transition to the stage of imperialism from non- monopoly capitalism. His novel is filled with his background in homeland, including the near prefecture district. He has observed the agricultural crisis to fill in miserable consequence that the special prefecture causes in one, describe this regional peasant’s disaster received. Tess of the D’Urberville, is the first famous work of Britain outstanding realistic writer. Because Hardy had once had experience of living in the Ministry of Agriculture, he was extremely familiar with peasants’life, personality, custom, language, etc. Works of Hardy reflect capitalist factor invading Britain social economy, politics, morals, and enormous custom changes of under countryside, showed the miserable destiny of the rural working people of specific historical period. The theme of Hardy’s novel is to show the antinomy between people and society, personality and environment, especially through the description of issues such as love and marriage, displaying the individual confliction when people fight against social outmoded practice, religion law, morals custom. In his works, especially woman images in the works of him have deeply shown this characteristic. Tess of the D’Urbervilles, is the essential reflection of Hardy’s style and the society he wanted to show.