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The Analysis of the Tragic Life of Tess

The story happened in the late 19th century, the cruel capitalist exploitation has ruined the English countryside severely and Wessex is not immune from the destruction; the capitalism brings great harm to the agriculture life; all the self-supporting peasants are all live in a rather miserable life. Tess of the D‟Urbervilles is one of the Hardy‟s Wessex novels. The agricultural region of the southern countries England is the novel’s setting.

The social conventions and the moral level

Angel Clare, a man of liberal mind, is the son of a clergyman. In this novel, he is the direct opposite of Alec. He has broken with the traditions of his family to seek the ideal in a quiet rural life. He looks down upon the material distinction of rank and wealth. He wants to have own farm with Tess .In his eyes, Tess is lovely and pure. He treats Tess“equally”.all the above mentioned make Tess fall in love with him and is engaged to him. To some extent he is different form other man, for his mind is opening. To our surprised after Tess tells him her past story, although he is a sinner for he had some affair with a bad woman, he refuses to forgive Tess just like Tess forgives him. We can find the weakness and flaws of his personality. In his eyes, the judge of purity still depends on the social conventions and the moral level. We can find that he is the slave of the custom and conventionality. He tells Tess that his lover is not Tess but another woman in her shape . He brings great harm to Tess and play an important role in the tragic life.

Tess is seduced by Alec, so Tess is scandalized by the narrow-minded people. When her son who is regarded as a bastard is to die, his father refuses to asked preacher to give the baptism of the child, for her father feels ashamed with Tess and he is afraid of people‟s laughing and discussion. No one care about Tess and every one think she is guilty. Tess suffers a lot while the arch-criminal Alec has become the preacher. No one think he is guilty. The unequal treatment makes her life tragic. Self –sacrifice and responsibility

Without doubt, Tess is rather obedient girl .when the death of the old horse destroy her family‟s business, Tess thinks it is her fault. Then Durbeyfield began to shovel in the earth and the children cried anew. Tess does not cry. Her face is dry and pale, as though she regarded herself in the light of a murderess. Tess thinks that she has dragged her parents into this quagmire, so she wonders what she could do help her family get out of trouble. She accepts her mother‟s advice and goes to work on Alec‟s farm, and later she is seduced by Alec. The second time, Tess„s father dies and her family have no food and have no place to live in .Tess is driven to accept Alec‟s advice and live with Alec to support her family. Tess, a member of the family, thinks that she has responsibility for her family, so she must try her best to change her family‟s situation. Every time it is at the cost of her happiness that her family can continue to live. When Tess tells Angel her past story, Angel refuses to forgive her and leave Tess alone. Tess does not show her anger to him, although she has enough reasons to do that. Angel is also a sinner, because he has affair with a bad woman. Tess can forgive her fault while he can not forgive Tess, which is unfair for Tess. Tess does not hate Angel and she just hope for his forgive .We can find that Tess just think of others. She never just thinks of herself. Her Self –sacrifice and responsibility impress the reader strongly. Braveness and Innocence

It is hard for people to think that a young girl seduced by others does not marry the man, but Tess does; under the suffering of losing her baby, without hesitation, Tess goes to a farm as a milkmaid at Talbot hays; all show that she is brave. Because of her braveness she refuses to marry Alec and becomes a baby‟s mother who doesn‟t marry; because of braveness, when Angel came back, in order to shows her love and

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live with Angel, Tess kills Alec and hides with Angel in a forest; even when she wakes up only to find the arrest, Tess deals with it calmly and she is not sad. What we can not deny is that braveness and innocence is the good quality that everyone shall have, however, the function of this good quality is the guide to the pure girl‟s tragedy.

Because of her innocence, she does not accept her mother‟s advice, she tells her past story to Clare, and Angel does not understand her and refused to forgive her .Tess is abandoned by Angel. Then she begins anther tragedy. In fact, if she does not tell Angel her seduction by Alec, Angel has no choice to know about her past, if Angel does not learn about her past story, Angel does not think her is not pure and abandon her. Innocence and braveness is good personality, while Tess she pays her young and gold life for the cost. Braveness makes people think her is not pure; innocence makes her lose her husband.

In this sentence, Tess asked Angel to marry her sister who is a simple and pure woman. From this we can find that the traditional morality and Fatalism is in the blood of Tess and Tess is affected by it deeply. It becomes one part of her body .so although Tess fights with all the unfair treatment, she comes to terms with the society and evil at last. Conclusion

In the novel Tess of the D‟Urbervilles, Tess is a poor country girl. In the beginning of the novel, the poor girl goes to work on Alec‟s farm, and then she is seduced by Alec. She is the victim in this case, but People all think she is guilt, even her husband, for people judge “purity” depend on the social conventions and the moral level. So at last, Tess is arrested and hangs, which means that Tess fails to fight with the sociality. The cruel capitalist exploitation is the reason why Tess is in poverty. Because of the struggle to live, Tess force to work under the capitalist exploitation. So in a word ,the bourgeois society is responsible for Tess‟s miseries and sufferings ,and Tess‟s personalities become her own weakness .

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