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Theme
The novel centers around a young woman who struggles to find her place in society. When it is discovered that the low-class Durbeyfield family is in reality the d'Urbervilles, the last of a famous bloodline that dates back hundreds of years, the mother sends her eldest daughter, Tess, to beg money from relations with the obvious desire that Tess wed the rich Mr. d'Urberville. Thus begins a tale of woe in which a wealthy man cruelly mistreats a poor girl.
Tess is taken advantage by Mr. d'Urberville and leaves his house, returning home to have their child, who subsequently dies. Throughout the rest of this fascinating novel, Tess is tormented by guilt at the thought of her impurity and vows to never marry. She is tested when she meets Angel, the clever son of a priest, and falls in love with him. After days of pleading, Tess gives in to Angel and consents to marry him. Angel deserts Tess when he finds the innocent country girl he fell in love with is not so pure.
Thomas Hardy's Home, Dorchester
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Hardy’s House
Dorchester
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Hardy’s Statue
Works
1.Romances and Fantasies A Pair of Blue Eyes (1873) 《一双蓝眼睛》 The Trumpet Major (1880) 《号兵长》 2.Novels of Ingenuity Desperate Remedies (1871)《非常手段》 The Hand of Ethelberta (1876)《艾塞尔伯塔 的婚姻》
Thomas Hardy
(1840—1928)
• Life • Works • Position
• Thomas Hardy was a British postrealism, the most distinguished novelists and poets. Hardy is the most representative he claims to be "the character and environment of the novel" of a group of works.
Grave of Thomas Hardy
It was Hardy's wish that he be buried at Stinsford. However, after his death, the authorities at Westminster Abbey suggested he be buried in 'Poets' Corner'. Faced with this dilemma his wife decided that his heart should be buried at Stinsford and his ashes be interred in the Abbey.
Key Facts
• • • • • • • • • • • • full title→Tess of the d'Urbervilles author →Thomas Hardy type of work →Novel genre → Victorian, tragic language → English time and place written→1880s, England date of first publication →1891 narrator → Anonymous tone → Realistic, pessimistic tense → Past setting (time) → The 1880s and 1890s setting (place) → Wessex, the southwest of England
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Tess of the D’Urbervilles (1891) 《德伯家
的苔丝》
Jude the Obscure (1895) 《无名的裘德》
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
• Known as “Novels of character and environment. ”; Tess is the most representative of him as both a naturalistic and a critical realist writer. • Tess became a victim of the modern society. Hardy pointed out fate is the cause of her dearth.
Some of his books
Several films have been made out of Hardy's works
德伯维尔家的苔丝
红战衣
疯狂佳人
无名的裘德
Features
• Hardy’s language has the simplicity of a countryman’s speech coupled with the sophisticated vocabulary of an educated man. • Symbolism is an important feature of Hardy’s words, so that many objects, natural phenomena and characters in the novels are given symbolic meanings. • Unlike Dickens, most of Hardy’s novels are tragic.
• He was born near Dorchester. The son of a stonemason,he derived a love of music from his father and a devotion to literature from his mother • In 1861 he went to London to learn construction then he learnt literature, philosophy and theology • From 1862 to 1867 he served as assistant of one architect. Ill health forced him to return to Dorset,where he worked for Hicks an his successor until 1874
Creative background
• The background times of the novel is late nineteenth century, when the British invaded the capitalist mode of production in agriculture in remote areas, it brought agricultural workers misfortune and bad luck. • In this period the British Empire is going through a few bad turns, it was maintained in the world of industrial monopoly position in the gradual loss of the capitalist world because the outbreak of severe economic crisis in the seventies . • After two decades, British was almost constantly in a crisis and depression. In rural areas, from 70 to 90 a corresponding outbreak of a serious crisis happened. • Works in the background is a true reflection of the rural girl Tess short and tragic life.
Importance
Thomas Hardy is an outstanding novelist as well as a poet. He is a transitional figure between the Victorian Age and the 20th century. In many ways, he belonged more to the 20th century than to the 19th century.
Creative background
• It is against this historical background, she became the most tragic and the most compassionate image of rural women in the history of English literature . • Hardy describe a pure destruction of innocent women. The book reflect the spirit of human kindhearted, simplism, hard-working, self-sacrifice, the thirst for freedom. • Tess is the artistic charm of its own destruction in order to defend human dignity, values and virtues, it grab all our compassion and sympathy
Works
3. Novels of Character and Environment Under the Greenwood Tree (1872) 《绿荫下》
Far from the Madding Crowd (1874) 《远离尘嚣》 The Return of the Native (1878) 《还乡》 The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886) 《卡斯特桥
• Hardy’s wife died in 1912,and in 1914he married Florence Emily Dugdale, a children’s book writer,some 40years his junior. • He spent the latter half of his life ai Max Gate,a house built afer his own designs in his native Dorset,and died there. He was finally buried in Poet's Corner, Westminster Abbey. But his heart was buried beside Emma, at Stinsford, as he had wished.