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1. Introduction 1
About tragedy and Tess of D’urbervilles 1
About Thomas Hardy 2
Background of the Novel 3
2. Two Deep Stratification of the Tess’ tragedy in the ovel 4
Family and Society Caused Tess’s Tragedy 4
Hypocritical Capitalism Morals View and Unequal Legal System 5
Impoverishment and Decay of Small Farmers 6
3. Characters Analysis in the Novel 6
Tess’s Character 7
Alec’s Characters 9
Clare’s Characters 10
Conclusion 13
Bibliography 14
Abstract
Literature is a mirror of real life which can reflect all aspects of people’s lives. More and more scholars have begun to study a country from the roots of economy, politics and culture. As early as ancient Greece, there were some creations of tragedy. Thomas Hardy was a famous critical realistic writer at the turn of the 19th century in England; Tess of the D’Urbervilles is the most influential one of all his works. The British famous writer Thomas Hardy was one of the excellent novelists of the Victorian age. His novel reflected the real society. He delineated a lot of characters of tragedies, showing various persons’ enchantment. Hardy eeded in portraying the image of heroine Tess and revealing the hypocritical ethics and morals of bourgeois society. This novel describes a tragic life about one beautiful and pure girl after disgrace. The article describes the society environment, then begins to analysis of characters’ personality and religion factors open out at that time. Tess’s tragic life is caused by that society and it’s the result of that time. Except this, it can’t be separated from her own weakness in character, because she obviously has the dual nature of the society character---resistance promise. As mon person, Tess fought with the society helplessly. In the end, she turned out to be the sacrificial victim of society like all other things which disobey the morality and ethic. This paper will discuss the causes of Tess trage