从人物性格特点浅析《德伯家的苔丝》_英语专业毕业论文

中南大学

CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY

高等教育自学考试英语专业毕业论文

题目从人物性格特点浅析《德伯家的苔丝》题目类别文学

单位或学校中南林业科技大学外国语学院

完成时间 2012年3月

Analysis of Tess of the D’Urbervilles in the Light of characteristic

by

Su Xiaojuan

(010*********)

March 2012

Central South University of

Forestry and Technology

Acknowledgements

The accomplishment of my dissertation owes greatly to all the professors who have taught me in the three years at Central South University of Forestry and Technology. I would like to take this chance to express my sincere gratitude to my supervisor Lu Guoqiu for her patience and guidance for this thesis .She has provided me with instructive guidance and constructive suggestions.

I am also grateful to many of my good friends and classmates for their comments and support.

It is just because of the contributions of these people, whether mentioned or not, that thesis is able to be completed. To every one of them, I give my most sincere thanks.

Abstract............................................................................................... 摘要.………………………………………………………………….. Introduction…………………………………………………………. Chapter 1 The Writing Background and

Summary of the Novel………………………………………………..

1.1 The Writing Background……………………………………………

1.2 Summary of the Novel………………………………………………Chapter 2 Characteristics of hero and the heroine…………..........

2.1 Pure girl…………………………………………………………….

2.2 Evil ―Satan‖…………………………………………………………

2.3 ―Angelic‖ Angel…………………………………………………….. Conclusion............................................................................................... Bibliography……………………………………………………………

Thomas Hardy’s novel Tess of the D’Urbervilles is a great classic work in England as well as in the world. This novel describes a tragic life about one beautiful and pure girl after disgrace. The article describes the society environment, and then begins to analysis of characters’ personality and religion factors open out at that time. Tess’s tragic life is cau sed by that society and it’s the result of that time. Except this, it can’t be separated from her own weakness in character, and people around her. Good and evil of human nature throughout the novel, such as kind Tess, vicious Alec d’Urberville, weak Angel. Though Tess is very brave to fight with the evil, she is helpless. In the end, she turned out to be the sacrificial victim of society like all other things which die of the forces of evil. The thesis wills analysis Tess of the D’Urbervilles in the light of characteristic of main characters in the novel.

Key words: pure, Good and evil, brave