德伯家的苔丝(短论文)

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Outline

1. A brief introduction to the author and the novel 1.1 The introduction of Thomas Hardy 1.2 The main content of the novel 2. Tess’struggle for her life

2.1 The brief description of Tess

2.2 The relationship with Alec and Angel 2.3 The miserable life of Tess

3. The reasons why Tess lives a miserable life

Abstract

Tess of the D’Urbervilles is the most famous and the best work by Thomas Hardy. The novel mainly describes the life of a kind, brave and charming country girl-Tess. Tess was a daughter of poor John Durbeyfiled. In her whole life, first, when she was work for her “cousin” Alec, she was raped by her “cousin”. Then, she gave birth to a baby, but was dead. Second, she meets Angle, and falls love with he. She got her true love, but her lover abandoned her because of her impure. Finally, she killed Alec for her true love, and she was hanged. Tess struggled for her life, but at that time, she couldn’t’ make it. ” Some dreams, some affection, some hobby, at least some remote and distant hope which, though perhaps starving to nothing, still lived on, as hopes will.”(Thomas Hardy, 8). The dream is so far away from Tess. The tragedy, in Thomas Hardy words, reveals the tragedy of the society.

Key words

Tess, character, fate, miserable life, true love, society




The characters of the Tess

1. A brief introduction to the author and the novel

The introduction of Thomas Hardy

There is no need to argue that Thomas Hardy is a great tragedy writer, and famous for his depictions of the imaginary country “Wessex”. His work mainly reflects the tragedy of human life. His two novels, Tess of the D’Urbervilles (1891) and Jude the Obscure (1895) are his last long fiction works. And his work was admired by D. H. Lawrence as “masters of the greatest tragedies in the English novel “English writer Virginia Woolf as “Shakespeare in the English novel”.

1.2 The main content of the novel

The novel mainly describes a village girl-Tess. She is the eldest daughter in a poor rural family. In a chance, she meets Alecd’Urbervile, who pretending to be her cousin, and later raped her. And then Tess returns home, gives birth to a baby but died for illness. So Tess finds another job and meets another man-Angel. She fells love with he and gets married with Angel. But quickly was discarded by her husband for having a child with another man even the baby id dead. At the end of the novel, Tess kills Alec for her true love and finally hanged. 2. Tess’struggle for her life The brief description of Tess

Tess is a country girl, but she is a born beauty. She is kind-hearted, brave and charming. She struggles for her life, but fail. She hopes live with her angle, but the society destroyed it.

2.2 The relationship with Alec and Angel

Alec is her “cousin”, he cheat her, rape her, and make her in trouble. Tess hates him, but had to live with him because of the cruel society, to be his mistress. She fells love with Angel, and Angel is her angel, he brings happiness to her. Angel is her husband but still discards her. Finally, Tess kills Alec for her true love and has a-seven-day with her lover. And then she is dead. The miserable life of Tess

Tess’s miserable life begins to when her father knows his family’s ancestor is a nobleman. So she goes to her “cousin’s” home. Her “cousin” Alec makes use of her innocent and naïve cheat and rapes her. So her life becomes in trouble. She gives birth a child but dead for illness. Tess hates him, but finally had to be his mistress. Her second adversity comes with her confess to her husband. She regards his husband as her angel. “She loves he extremely, she looks he as god.” (Thomas Hardy, 261). After the wedding, Tess and Angel confess their pasts to


each other. Tess forgives Angel for his past error, but Angel cannot forgive Tess’ past. So he leaves Tess for Brazil. He is a sensitive and hesitated man, as the author write, “What alters when it alteration finds.”(Shakespeare, Sonnet, 116th poem, line 3) And finally, she kills Alec and lives a-seven-day with her lover and later arrested and dead.

3. The reason why Tess lives a miserable life

Tess’s miserable life reflects a society’s miserable life. In that time, she wants to live a happy with her lover, but the society destroyed it.,” outside was the inexorable” (Thomas Hardy, 351). Now she is not naïve, not innocent. “Almost at a leap Tess thus changed from simple girl to complex woman.”(Thomas Hardy, 145). At the end of the novel, when she kills the man she hatred, it means her another miserable comes, that is dead. In actually, her tragedy is caused by the times she lives and her natural weakness. She has no power to defense herself. Just because of her contradictory and tragic character, Tess has such miserable fate.

Conclusion

It is true that we should respect Tess because she endures a great deal of pain. Through this passage, we can see from her father know that his family’s ancestor is peer, her miserable life is begin. Maybe Tess will live a happy life if doesn’t have such events. But it is impossible. Alec is so cruel too her, so Angel does. Alec is the direct reason for her death, but Angel is crueler. He gives her hope, but also put her to the hell. But she still loves him. ” Angel- I am almost glad- yes, glad! This happiness could not have lasted-it was too much-I have had enough; and now I shall not live for you to despise me.（Thomas Hardy, 357）. She feels happy when she lives with Angel, although the time is too short. In fact, the cruelest person is the society. She lost her purity, and lost her fate. Because live in that time, the society cannot accept a girl who lost her pure. Her Angel also does wrong things, but he has not been blamed for it. So, at last, the society ruins the good thing and “ended his sport with Tess”. (Thomas Hardy, 359).

Bibliography

1. Thomas Hardy. Tess of the D’Urbervilles [M].Xian:兴界图书出版社，1997 2. Shakespeare, Sonnet, 116th poem, line 3

3.秦玲,苔丝悲剧的形成原因,南阳师范学院,2005.

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