文档介绍：The Causes of Tess’s Tragic Fate
【Keywords】British capitalism;traditional morality;pessimistic fate theory;religious extremist force;. Pessimistic fatalism of the author
He thought the world was full of hardship and suffering and there was no way to happiness even no way to avoid the unfortunate things. The existence of people in reality was a great tragedy. Hardy viewed that the farmers’ poverty was a historical necessity when plained and criticized the real society but he did not know how to help the farmers to escape the unlucky life. So it revealed in his works of pessimism and fatalistic ideology. Such pessimistic fortunate experience with figures together constituted his “character and the environment novels” tragedy theme .Hardy had been influenced by ancient Greek tragedy and the basis of Greek tragedy was the fate concept. In Aeschylus’s opinion, all the evidence of impact neither relied on people nor on god which was just fate that existed itself. That was the thought supported by Aeschylus. Therefore, everything displayed by Hardy was seem to the fate concept of Greek.
2. The two vicious men and the unjust hypocritical law
The violence, wickedness of the vicious men, and the unjust hypocritical law which protects them are the direct causes of Tess's tragedy. The representative of the wickedness is Alec. Alec is the son of a rich merchant who adds