OnCausesofTess’Tragedy.doc

On Causes of Tess’ Tragedy 郭海涛 辉县市高级中学 摘要：该论文集中分析了《德伯家的苔丝》一书中造成苔丝悲剧的主要原因,苔丝生活在世纪之交，她深受传统观念的影响又受到新的生活方式的影响，在这种情况下，她既摆脱不了传统观念的束缚，又不敢突破自己去寻找自己的幸福，使她最终走上了毁灭的道路。造成这样结果的原因可以分成三大类:社会原因,家庭原因以及苔丝自身原因。 为了更好地支撑这一主题,该论文分成五大部分:第一部分对作者和小说做一简介;第二部分集中分析社会原因;第三部分着力分析家庭原因;第四部分对小说中苔丝自身原因加以分析;第五部分为结论,重申主题。 关键词: 苔丝；悲剧；社会原因；家庭原因; 自身原因 English abstract：This present paper concentrates on an analysis of the main causes of Tess’ Tragedy in the novel Tess of the d’Urbervilles. Living at the turn of the century, she is influenced by the past traditional ideas and the modern life. In this case, she can not break away from the old social moral and find her happiness. At the end, Tess has to kill her own will and passion and return to her former destructive way of life. The cause can be devided into three groups: social cause, family cause and the cause of Tess herself. To support the thesis, the paper is divided into five parts. The first part gives an introduction to both the author and the novel. The second part makes an analysis of the social cause in the novel. The third part makes an analysis of the family cause. The fourth part makes an analysis of the cause of Tess herself. The fifth part is the conclusion, restating the thesis of the paper. Key words: Tess; tragedy; society cause; family cause; herself cause Ⅰ. Introduction 1.1 A brief introduction to the author Thomas Hardy was born in the southwest of England on 2 June 1840 and it was where he spent most of his life apart from a short time in London and Weymouth in Dorset, the area that later became the famous 揥essex?in many of his novels. His father was a master builder who inherited the cottage from his father. Jemina, Hardys mother, was a domestic servant but whose love of books and the countryside influenced young Thomas. From his parents, Hardy gained all the interests that would appear in his novels and his own life. Thomas was a sensitive and intelligent child; he received education at local schools until he was 15