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1、Analysis of Characters of TessAbstract: Tess is shaped and praised by Hardy in his novel Tess of dUrbervilles; 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 opp
2、ression. Hardys 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, rebel.IntroductionTess, t
3、he heroine of Hardys Tess of dUrbervilles, 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
4、 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
5、and exposition of the characters of Tess. Characters of Tess 2.1 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 th
6、e fragrance of the nature without decoration. Tess is the lineal representative of the ancient and knightly family of the dUrbervilles. In the late 19th century Britain was completely ruled by capitalism, these aristocratic families of mighty powers have been gradually declined. DUrbervilles family
7、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 dUrbervilles from the pastor; he feels so rafted after his uplifting b
8、y the news and says to villagers“Ive-got a grt-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 husbands noble origin. But Tess
9、, who lives in the family with vulgar atmosphere, always maintains the 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 peasants daughter and lives on her own labor. “I have as much of mother as father in
10、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 “Durbeyfield” than use the surname of aristocratic family “dUrbervilles” in order to raise her status. Angel called T
11、ess 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 “dUrbervilles” from the British Museum, posing the character of aristocratic peop
12、le. 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
13、 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 fath
14、er 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 dUrbervilles and to claim kin, though actually the latter is a f
15、amily 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 dUrbervilles, 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 sacrifi
16、ce 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
