AnAnalysisoftheTragedyinTessoftheD’Urbervilles

毕业论文（设计）1.IntroductionIn the Victorian Age,Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles caused a greatdisturbance.His moral concept that purity came from soul could not be accepted bythe people of that age,and was even strongly criticized.With the century went faraway from us gradually,people started to recognize the work in a new way.Sincetwenty century,there emerged a large numbers of reviews on the novel of Tess of theD'Urbervilles.In these reviews,what most people paid close attention to is the causesof Tess's tragedy.Professor Webster attributed the main reasons to the controllingforces in human life,which were the "heredity"of beauty and character,the sexualattraction between the opposite sex and the operation of chance,while Arnold Kettleconsidered that Tess's tragedy represented the disintegration of the English peasantry,and proposed that it was Tess's low social status that made her unable to get rid of thetragic fate;in addition,Van Ghent analyzed the causes from the point of view ofnature in front of which man is feeble and insignificantly small or lowly;and Yu Kunanalyzed the causes from economy,showing that the essence of the modernmechanization was ruthless and it was the speedy development of urban economy andthose stagnation of rural economy that led to the severe polarization between the richand the poor (Net.1).The predecessors'achievements were authentic,however,weshould pay more attention to the thought of the author,for it was him that created theheroine's tragedy and it was the influence of the social environment on him,hisconception and intentional arrangement of the work that finally made an end of atragedy.Thomas Hardy was the realistic writer in the nineteenth century.He gave a2