The Analysis of Tess's Tragedy苔丝悲剧分析

Cause of family — Tess’s ignorant parents
Hard Life for Peasants
an agricultural base an industrial base
under the process of industrialism and the disintegration of peasantry（农民阶级解体） The self-supporting peasants are displaced and impoverished(贫困的) and live a extremely poor life.
Compromise(妥协)
deep guilty feelings Tess thinks that she is a disgraced girl and wenku.baidu.comhe doesn’t set herself free in spirit.
Tess’s Ignorant Parents
Tess’s father: a poor countryside hawker（小贩） and he is lazy and has constantly excessive drinking. Tess’s mother: a simple-minded dairymaid(挤奶女工) and her mind is besotted with superstition（迷信）.
The Direct Murder — Alec D’Urberville
Alec doesn‟t respect females and regards females as his play things.
He is so selfish that he always considers satisfying his own evil lust no matter how much misery others would suffer.
When her parents found that Tess had not got any benefits, instead of giving her a little comfort and help, they felt ashamed and blamed her.
It‟s under the capitalist exploitation(资本主义的剥削) that Tess is seduced（诱奸） and ruined badly. The poor life pushes her into the trap of wicked man, and it is the capitalist exploitation that brings about their poor life.
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Hard life for peasants Social causes
Unequal morality for female
Unequal legal system Alec D’Urberville
The Causes
Causes of major characters
Angel Clare Tess herself
Unequal Morality for Female
Public notions on sexual morals are that a woman must remain virgin before marriage, but a man can have his fling. When either man or woman engaged in sexual lapses, the former would be forgiven, but the later would be condemned. Tess is so innocent that she is just a girl when she first meets the terrible man, Alec, and knows nothing of men. But people do not condemn Alec, only reject Tess as a fallen woman. Then, with the same sexual experience, Angel is pardoned（宽恕） but Tess is abused.
Good qualities of Tess
kind , brave , pure and hard-working
“the nature’s daughter”
rebellion(反抗)
Bad personalities affecting her fate
simplicity and innocence
“Justice was done, and the Tess lives in the Victorian era which capitalism invade the President the Immortals, inserved for the rural region. In the of capitalist society, law is capitalist class. phrase, had ended his Aeschylean sport with Tess”.
“„ Alec, representative of capitalist power and violence 死刑the ‟执行了 ,用埃斯库罗斯的话说 ,那个众神之 dares to do what he desires, not only”。 because he has money 王对苔丝的戏弄也就结束了 and power, but also because his evil behavior is protected by the capitalist law and rules. In the eyes of Victorian people, the young upstart is noble （高贵的）, while Tess is considered to lure Alec in order to acquire his money.Tess bears all that injustice silently all along, however, when she defends herself for the first time, she is hanged(绞死) for paying for that.
The Accessory — Angel Clare
Angel is fascinated with Tess‟s beauty and purity but he never treats Tess as equals.
On their wedding night, when Angel tells her his past evening of debauchery（放荡）, Tess forgives him. But when Tess tells her matter, he can‟t accept it. He destroys Tess spiritually.