《德伯维尔家的苔丝》苔丝的人物性格分析英语毕业论文Character Analysis of Tess in "Tess of the d'Urbervilles" - English Graduation ThesisIntroduction:Written by Thomas Hardy in 1891, "Tess of the d'Urbervilles" unfolds the tragic life of Tess, a beautiful and innocent girl who faces destitution, hardship, and betrayal. This thesis aimsto analyze the character of Tess, focusing on her personality traits, development, and conflicts, highlighting her strength, vulnerability, and the impact of society on her life.1. Pure and Innocent:Tess is introduced as a pure and innocent girl from a humble background. Her beauty captivates others, symbolizing her purity. Her innocence is evident in her encounter with Alec, which leads to her downfall. She is unaware of his intentions and struggles with the consequences of this encounter throughout the novel. Tess's pure and innocent nature is her defining quality, which sets her apart from the corrupt and shallow society she lives in.2. Strong and Resilient:Despite the challenges she faces, Tess demonstrates great strength and resilience. She takes responsibility for herfamily's welfare after her father's death, showing herdetermination to provide for them. Tess's strength is also seen in her decision to leave Alec and search for a new life. She endures physical and emotional hardships, yet she never loses her will to survive. Her resilience allows her to carry on, even in the face of despair.3. Vulnerability and Victimhood:4. Internal Conflict:Throughout the novel, Tess experiences profound internal conflicts. Her conflict with herself is particularly evident in her relationships with Angel and Alec. She feels torn between her desire for love and her fear of losing her innocence. Tess's internal conflict intensifies as she grapples with guilt and societal condemnation. She questions her worthiness and struggles with her perceived status as a fallen woman. This internal battle adds depth to her character and highlights the moral dilemmas she faces.5. Influence of Society:Conclusion:。
Analysis of Characters of TessAbstract: Tess is shaped and praised by Hardy in his novel Tess of d’Urbervilles; she is a rebel image in English literary history. By the description of her tragic, Hardy shows his resistance and struggle against feudalism and bourgeois morality, religion and social oppression. Hardy‟s defiance against the status quo of Victorian England is both fierce and unrelenting and that is why both the last novels met with terrific accusations from the bourgeois authorities and their henchmen the critics.Key Words:sweet-natured, kind-hearted, pure, rebelⅠ.IntroductionTess, the heroine of Hardy‟s Tess of d’Urbervilles, is a peasant girl. And when Hardy gives the novel a subtitle, “A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented”, we can see him defying the Victorian moral standard by calling Tess a pure woman. The character of Tess is extremely well drawn. A victim of the society, Tess is portrayed as a sweet-natured, kind-hearted, pure and rebel girl, and yet she is not free from the influence of social conventions and moral standards of the day. These characters make the image of Tess alive, moving and become an immortal artistic image. This paper attempts to detailed analysis and exposition of the characters of Tess.Ⅱ. Characters of Tess2.1 Sweet- natured character of Tess“A fresh and virginal daughter of Nature” is what first Tess seems to Angel Clare. Tess always maintains the essence of herself as the daughter of a peasant; she loves life, loves nature and gives off the fragrance of the nature without decoration. Tess is the lineal representative of the ancient and knightly family of the d‟Urbervilles. In the late 19th century Britain was completely ruled by capitalism, these aristocratic families of mighty powers have been gradually declined. D‟Urbervilles family inherited to Tess' father only reduced to a village haggler; the only way to proof the association with his ancestors was “a wold sliver spoon and a wold graven seal”. Tess' father happened to know that he was the descendant of the d‟Urbervilles from the pastor; he feels so rafted after his uplifting by the news and says to villagers“I‟ve-got a gr‟t-family-vault-at-Kingsbere and knighted-forefathers-in-lead-coffins-there!”He is proud of his noble origin and stains with secular and vanity. Mrs. Durbeyfield− a hardworking and plain woman−fells complacent because of her husband‟s noble origin. But Tess, who lives in the family with vulgar atmosphere, always maintainsthe virtues of working people; she has an aversion to the vulgarity of her parents and despises the noble origin. She always believes that she is a peasant‟s daughter and lives on her own labor. “…I have as much of mother as father in me! All my prettiness comes from her, and she was only a dairymaid‟, she said.”Every word shows that Tess‟ love and pride of the working class. Tess would rather adhere to the surname “D urbeyfield” than use the surname of aristocratic family “d‟Urbervilles” in order to raise her status. Angel called Tess Artemis, Demeter, and other fanciful names half teasingly, which she did not like because she did not understand them. “…Call me Tess‟, she said to Angel.”It forms a distinct compare with Alec, who picks the surname “d‟Urbervilles” from the British Museum, posing the character of aristocratic people. This show that Tess is a sweet- natured girl, who despises noble origin, hates vanity but takes pride of working class.2.2 Kind-hearted character of TessTess‟kind-hearted character shows the love of life, hard-working and brave enough to face all difficulties with a selfless self-sacrifice. Tess is the eldest child in her family. When she was sixteen years old, she shouldered her family burden without complaint. “There came to her a chill self-reproach that she had not returned sooner, to help her mother in these domesticities, instead of indulging herself out-of-doors.”She helps her father to sell hives, but on the way to market the horse called Prince was killed by shaft of the cart, which destroyed the major income of her family. “Tis all my doing-all mine!”So Tess is persuaded by her mother to visit the prosperous d‟Urbervilles and to claim kin, though actually the latter is a family of capitalists who have recently acquired wealth and bought their way into the gentry. She works there and is seduced by the young master Alec d‟Urbervilles, and has to return home in disgrace. She gives birth to a child who dies in fancy, and she is considered a sinful woman. How great sacrifice she did for her family! When Angel leaves her for Brazil and she goes home. Again the great poverty at her home forces her come out look for work. When she leaves home she took twenty-five of the fifty pounds Clare had given her, and handed the sum over to her mother, saying that it was a slight return for the trouble and humiliation she had brought upon them in years past. Tess‟work as wage-laborer at the Flintcomb-Ash farm shows farming was then run on the capitalist basis, with the employment of badly exploited and oppressed wage-earners who had to work on the hardest working conditions. What Tess received at the hand of her master the farmer at the Flintcomb-Ash farm-both tyranny and insult- sufficiently indicates how much a poor peasant girl, of a small free-holder family, had to suffer not that of an individual or a family, but is symbolic of the destruction of the English peasantry toward the end of the 19th century. Then the news of her father‟s death comes to her, and with it the expulsion of her family from their cottage, and becauseof her father being a life-holder, his death ends automatically their tenantry on the land. This finally drives Tess to go back and seek for assistant from Alec. This time was completely forced by social oppression and family poverty. She bears her sufferings in order to let her mother and siblings have settled place. This show Tess is a kind-hearted girl, who sacrifices all her happiness and all she has in order to rescue the family difficulties.2.3 Pure character of TessTess‟ purity shows her attitude towards love. Her love is sincere, persistence and faithful and all shows the virtue of a pure peasant girl. She deeply loves Angel, who is a diligence, politeness and unbounded by religious; she deeply hates Alec, who is a cunning, idle dandy and seduces her. Tess purses the purity of love; she loves the virtues instead of money. Although she deeply falls in love with Angel, she thinks she should not stain his pure soul because of her past. “The struggle was so fearful; her own heart was so strongly on the side of his-two ardent hearts against one poor little conscience- that she tried to fortify her resolution by every means in her powers.”Angel proposes to her and they arrange to married. Previous to the wedding she writes of her past relations with Alec on piece of paper and thrusts it into his bedroom, but the paper gets mislaid under the carpet in the bedroom and so Angel does not get it. Then, on the wedding night, after Angel tells her of his past relations with a bad woman, Tess tells her whole story about Alec. But, while she forgives him readily, he is too much of a hypocrite and a snob and thinks too much of his reputation and his honor to forgive her and leaves her for Brazil. Tess silently endures Angel‟s unfair treatment and doesn‟t tell her family the truth. She never uses Mrs. Clare to call herself and obeys Angel condition- do not come to him and write to him if necessary. Angel doesn‟t know, perhaps because he doesn‟t understand the roughness of life in the English villages, which she has seduced and had an illegitimate baby at the age of sixteen. And Tess is unable to be really happy at Talbothays, as all her instincts tell her to be, because she can not forget that in the eye of the world she is a fallen woman. “It has been so much my religion ever since we were married to be faithful to you in every thought and look, that even when a man speaks a compliment to me before I am aware, it seems wronging you.” Even so when she meets with annoyance on account of the same she ties up her face in a bandage as long as people would believe in it. This show Tess is a pure girl, whose attitude towards love is purity and faithful.2.4 Rebel character of TessHer rebellion shows her resistance and struggle against feudalism and bourgeois morality, religion and social oppression. Tess‟ baby dies in fancy because the baby is offence against society in coming into the world. Tess‟father refuses her request because he thinks it‟s a shame for the noble family. She ignores the rules of religionand does baptism herself for her baby. When the pastor can not give the baby a Christian burial, “I do not like you, and I do not like your God. And I will never set foot in your church again,”Tess said firmly. It is not an easy thing to say such rebellious word in that time. When she meets Alec who has now become a preacher but whose religious calling does not prevent him from trying to renew his former relationship with Tess. Alec troubles Tess many times when she works as wage-laborer at the Flintcomb-Ash farm. She can not bear him so “she passionately swings the glove by the gauntlet directly in his face. It is heavy and thick as a warrior‟s and it strikes him flat on the mouth. Fancy might regards the act as the recrudescence of a trick in which her armed progenitors are not unpracticed.” Angel has, however, somewhat repented of his harsh of his treatment of Tess and now returns from Brazil to be reconciled to her, but finds of her to be living again with Alec. Tess seeing that Alec‟s relations with her prevent her from going back to live happily with Angel for the second time, hates him for ruining her life and kills him. “By degrees he was inclined to believe that she had faintly attempted, at least, what she said and she had done; and his horror at her impulse was mixed strangeness of its quality, which had apparently extinguished her moral sense altogether.”This show Tess is a rebel girl, who resists to bourgeois morality, religion and social oppression.Ⅲ. ConclusionThis is one of the most tragic dilemmas in all Hardy‟s novels. It is not an easy thing to be ahead of one‟s time, at any rate not in Victorian England, the most sincere convictions are liable to crack under a personal shock. Hardy describes Tess as a sweet-natured, kind-hearted, pure and rebel girl and these characters make the image of Tess alive, moving and become an immortal artistic image. The causes of her tragedy are not only the natural factors but also her characters. Although Tess hanged in the end of the novel, she had a sort of noble and pure strength; this is the charm and beauty of Tess of d’Urbervilles.Bibliography[1]Thomas Hardy. Tess of d’Urbervilles. Great Britain: Bridgeman Art Library，1993.[2]Chen Jia. A History of English Literature. Beijing: The Commercial Press，2004.[3]Merryn Williams. A Preface to Hardy. Beijing: Beijing University Press，2005.[4]Sun Jieqiong.Tess of d’Urbervilles.Beijing: China Radio International Press,2011.[5]/view/95a2d945b307e87101f69681.html。
---------------------------------------------------------------范文最新推荐------------------------------------------------------ 德伯家的苔丝的人物性格分析_英语论文摘要《德伯家的苔丝》实质上讲述了一个天真淳朴的乡村女孩，由于家庭贫穷和社会谴责，而最终一步步走向死亡的悲剧故事。
在大多数人眼里，苔丝是一个坏女人，然而，在哈代看来，她是一个纯洁的女人，她是大自然的女儿。
虽然她生活在那个时代，思想上有保守性和软弱性，但她敢于反对邪恶的势力和虚伪的教会，敢于坚持真理，坚持要寻求自己的幸福。
小说结尾苔丝杀了亚力克而被送上绞刑架，这使她的反抗精神达到了顶峰。
通过对文本的细读和对苔丝多重性格的详细分析,文章揭示出苔丝悲剧命运的社会根源。
12609关键词：纯洁；软弱；反抗；勇敢Abstract1 / 10Tess of the D’Urbervilles actually tells a tragic story that a naïve and simple country girl, due to the poverty of her family and social condemnation, finally comes to death. In most people’s eyes, she is a bad woman, however, in Hardy’s opinion, she is a pure woman and she is the daughter of the nature. Although she lived in a period which made her conservative and weak in thought, she dares to fight against the evil forces and hypocritical churches; she dares to stick to the truth and insist on seeking her own happiness. At the end of the novel, Tess killed Alec and was sent to the gallows, which makes her rebellious spirit reach its peak. In this paper, by means of intensive reading and through the analysis of the multiple personalities of the protagonist Tess, the social roots of her tragic fate is, at last, revealed.Key words: pure; weak; rebel; braveAnalysis of the Character of Tess of the D’UrbervillesContents---------------------------------------------------------------范文最新推荐------------------------------------------------------ 摘要iAbstractiiⅠ. Introduction1Ⅱ. The Daughter of Nature12.1 Pure Character of Tess22.2 Kind-hearted Country Girl4Ⅱ. The Daughter of Nature3 / 102.1 Pure Character of TessTess was one of the last descendants of once prominent and wealthy aristocratic family of the D’Urbervilles. At the late 19th century, the bourgeoisie got comprehensive rule in Britain, so those past wealthy aristocratic family declined. When the D’Urbervilles families passed on to her father’s generation, only to end up as a rural peddler’s identity, and the only way to show that they were contacted with their forefathers were an ancient spoon and an ancient seal engraved with flowers.By that time her family was a poor tradesman family and was completely relied on their own labor, and their illustrious ancestors imposed no effect on the formation of their industrious and hard-working character. One day, it was by mere chance that Tess’s father knew about his family spectrum system from a clergyman. Having lived more than one half of his whole life, Tess’s father picked up a lot of vanity and worldliness, so he was extremely complacent about his noble origin. Tess’s---------------------------------------------------------------范文最新推荐------------------------------------------------------mother, who was a hard-working and mediocre middle-aged woman, was also very proud of her husband’s noble origin. However, Tess was still keeping the virtue of ordinary working people though she was living in such a vulgar atmosphere in the family. She disgusted the vulgarity of her parents and contempted the noble origin of her family, and she always considered herself as the daughter of a farmer who made a living through hard-working. She said she was originally brought up by her parents who also gave her beauty, and herself was just a milkmaid. In between the lines, the novel shows Tess’s love and pride of her identity as a farmer. Tess insisted that Duberfield was the surname of her family, and was never willing to change their surname into D’Urbervilles. When later she was in love with Angel, she never boasted of her noble ancestors to Angel. When they was about to get married, Angel proposed that Tess change her surname as D’Urbervilles, because in this way his mother would also show respect to her daughter-in-law. However, Tess firmly disagreed with his proposition and argued “I like the other way rather5 / 10best.” (274; ch.30) which formed stark contrast with Alec, a secular squire bourgeois, who picked up D’Urbervilles from museum as his surname just because he thought his own surname was too vulgar. From the comparison, the purity and innocence of Tess can be easily manifested.Sympathetic with his heroine, Hardy pointed out the social absurdity in judging Tess’s morality by a mere biological fact. He defined the convention by offering a new perspective through which he vindicated Tess and declared her to be pure. Tess’s dissipation and eventual death at the end of the story were not punishment for her sin, but the result of social law doing violence against natural law. Her own fate found an apt parallel in Hardy’s description of field animals chased by the mechanical reaper.2.2 Kind-hearted Country Girl---------------------------------------------------------------范文最新推荐------------------------------------------------------Tess’s good quality is embodied in her deep love for life, her courage in confronting all kinds of difficulties, and also her spirit of hard-working and self-sacrifice. Tess lived in Victoria times, however, under the cover of prosperity, rural economy almost got bankrupt under the deep influence of the liberal capitalism. There were nine people in her family, but they all lived on a horse by that some small business was done. Tess was the eldest child in the family, and shouldered the heavy responsibility of the family when she was only about 17 years old without any complaints. Therefore, poverty was the impetus of her tragedy, and finally led to her damage. (He 155)In order to help her family go through hard times, she followed her mother’s advice and went to the Mrs D’Urbervilles who must be one of their relatives to claim kin. However, from that time on, Tess’s tragedy began. There she was seduced by Alec, who coveted beauty and was shameless. Instead of living with him, Tess left him and endured much discrimination and sarcasm alone from other people and the society. And7 / 10when Angel abandoned her and went away, Tess suffered all kinds of discrimination by herself again. Tess concealed the great pain she suffered and unstintingly left living expenses to her family as subsidy, but she herself had to go through the vicissitudes of life, wandering everywhere, in order to find a job to make a living.After she had been seduced by Alec, Tess was condemned and despised by people around her, and she also thought it was her sin to lose chastity though, in fact, it was not her fault.Tess utilized a heap of moral standards to scare herself. “She might have seen that what had bowed her head so profoundly—the thought of the world’s concern at her situation—was founded on an illusion.”(131; ch.14) In order to avoid public voices, she did not dare to go out until when it was dark, and then she would go to a wood to appreciate the transient freedom of spirit. However, even when she placed herself---------------------------------------------------------------范文最新推荐------------------------------------------------------in nature, she would always regard herself as the embodiment of sin, who violated the territory of innocence. This concept of Tess inevitably led her to a situation of self- torture and self-condemnedness. Therefore, she never forgot her past and could not take off the cross she had borne on her spirit.When later Angel proposed to her, she refused him although she also loved him very much because of a sense of inferiority and guilty that deeply rooted in her mind. She told herself she could not accept Angel’s love, for she had lost her chastity and she was unworthy of Angel’s affection.After the repeated proposal of Angel, finally, Tess’s sensibility overcame her sense and agreed to marry to Angel. When she stayed with Angel, she felt both sweet and pain. Several times, she wanted to tell the truth to Angel, but it was just an unutterable thing. On the night before they got married, Tess wrote him a letter, in which Tess told the truth about her painful past. And she shoved9 / 10the letter under the door; unfortunately, Angel did not notice the letter. When Tess saw the letter was still lying under the door, she was afraid and thought it was her fate.At their wedding night, out of her pure love for Angel, Tess told the truth. However, her husband could not accept it and left her quickly without hesitation. Although Angel abandoned her, Tess even did not blame him, instead, she thought it deserved her right and accepted the result without complaint, though she suffered great pain and sorrow from her husband’s leaving.Thus it can be seen that the traditional concepts imposed great influence and oppression on Tess, and it also reflected the limitation of her and of the time. However, this limitation could not restrain her characters of resistance from developing. 德伯家的苔丝的人物性格分析(5):。
“Tess” from the Tess of the d'Urbervilles Tess is one of the most sympathetic protagonists from all the piteous souls of the worl d’s literature. Not only sympathy but also remorse I felt after I finished reading this book. Though god bestowed her with beautiful appearance, intelligent mind and innocent heart, these cannot bring her a happy life. On the contrary, these gifts from the god doom her to a sad ending. I think her tragic life can be arranged into three aspects: from her family members, from Alec d’Urberville and from Angel Clare, and these three aspects of pressure lead her to the character of tough-minded, proud and independent. The destiny tortured her soul and forced her into yielding to her own des tiny.From her family members:Tess’s family represents the ordinary farmers in England in the late nineteenth century. They were insulted by the rich, suffered from poverty , and dreaming one day they will become aristocracy and live a life without considering the shelter, food and clothing.From the first chapter of this book we can see that: his father was insane when he heard about he was the descendent of declined nobility. Then he squandered his money which was quite not much already, and he kept telling everybody in the village the “good news”.T hey are dreaming about that the title of the nobility will help them get rid of the poverty. Actually, the truth is: Tess’s clan was once glorious and powerful but now it has sadly diminished. For them, the nobility cannot give them any material benefit but only the vanity. Even so, they gladly accepted it and, in other words, cherish it. In another way, the title lead them live a more difficult life than they used to be. When they were too poor to meet the basic need of life, Tess’s parent made a decision, which marked the start of Tess’s tragic life: to come to the d'Urbervilles family for help.Tess is the eldest child in her family; there is no wonder that she should take more responsibilities of her family. She needs to raise her family, take care of her siblings and follow the instructions from her parent. Her parent were always dreaming about one day, her beautiful appearance and the title of nobility would bring them good luck－－married with the real nobility.They little care about her; they never protect her and they just count her as the main economic source of the family. From this aspect we can see that throughout the whole childhood, Tess lost the love from her family members and took more pressure than her parents. She can talk to nobody; she cannot share her worries with others. All if these lead to her oppressed emotion. From Alec d’Urberville:Alec is definitely the evil and nightmare of Tess’s life. From the beginning, he was totally a fake. He hired a big fortune, and held a name that his father purchased.The plot to The Slopes, which is at the beginning of the novel and her subsequent return to Alec near the novel's end, are all predicated on her willingness to undergo great pains to make her family's life better.Alec raped Tess and ruined her whole life. He made Tess delivered a child and felt no responsibility for her. The child’s death hurt her heart for the second time. At that time society regarded a girl who had lost her virginity a meant to be unclean. He did all the bad things and it had Tess who undertook all the consequences.When Angel heard that Tess was apart from her new husband, he came to find her again. Pretending to be a devout believer, he used money to tempt her. He is an adversity haunting around her. Tess is weak, and she dare not to revolt. From Angel Clare:Just like his name--angel. He is truly the angel of Tess’s life. However, this angel did not bring much happiness to her. In reverse, he made her endure more pain. Angel and Tess are meant to be together; both of them are so innocent that they cherish a pure attitude towards life. But he submitted himself to the secular thought－－she is uncleanness. He discarded his wife and went to the South America on his own. He punished Tess by letting her live alone without mercy. He even said:”You are not the pure Tess which I have thought. You have changed.”After he came back from South America he found that he was wrong; he shouldn’t let her alone. But it was too late, the evil defeated the angel for the second time.Poor Tess, she was so wretched that she was hurt by the man she hated most and the man she loved most. She was helpless because the whole society regarded her as an “unclean woman”. She is so self-esteemed that she refused to ask Angel's parents for any additional money during Angel's sojourn to Brazil. She is determined to be self-sufficient and willing to sacrifice her well being for the good of others. These make her selfless and on a morally higher status than other characters in this novel.。
