德伯家的苔丝(作者生平,人物关系,个性,背景,情节)ppt

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1.Novels of Character and Environment
（性格与环境小说）

The Poor Man and the Lady(1867, unpublished and
lost)
Under the Greenwood Tree(1872)
《穷汉与贵妇人》 《绿树荫下 》
• Tess makes another journey away from home, and she meets and falls in love with Angel Clare. After the wedding, Tess and Angel confess their pasts to each other. Tess told Clare that she was raped by another man, but Clare cannot forgive Tess .Clare going to Brazil for a year and Tess going back home.
Major characters
Angel
Tess
Alec
Major characters
• Tess Durbeyfield —
The protagonist, eldest daughter （长女） in a poor rural (农村） working family. Tess is a good, beautiful and strong country girl. The rural life（乡村生活） created a good-natured of the noble soul. She should have a bright future and the future well-being. However, due to various reasons, to recognize her own in the process, the humiliation （蒙羞） of being raped. （强暴） Her life has also changed the direction
（传奇与幻想小说）

A Pair of Blue Eyes(1873) 《一双蓝眼睛》 Two on a Tower(1882) 《塔里的两个人》 The Well-Beloved(1897) (first published as a serial from 1892) 《心爱的人》
mainly talk about romantic love stories.
Hardy’s First Wife
Emma Gifford
a woman of high social status. She had a very interestingpersonality and was always remember by visitors to the Hardy household.
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Major characters
• Angel Clare — The son of a clergyman; Tess's husband and true love. • He considers himself as freethinker, but his notions of morality turn out to be fairly conventional. • He rejects Tess on their wedding night when she confesses that she isn't a virgin.
德伯家的苔丝
小组成员：李璐 李亚丽 王路 张帅
Author and works Major Character
Outline Tess in My Eyes
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Thomas Hardy
(1840—1928)
The British famous writer Thomas Hardy was one of the excellent novelists of the Victorian age. He is a famous critical realistic writer. He delineated(勾画，描述） a lot of characters of tragedies, showing various persons’ enchantment.（魅力）
Major characters
• Alec Stoke-d'Urberville • He rapes Tess when she is no more than sixteen or seventeen years old, and later pursues her relentlessly.（残酷的，无 情的） • He persuades her to see the reality in her relationship and convinces her to become his mistress.（情妇，夫 人）
Outline
• Tess Durbeyfield is a 16-year-old simple country girl. In a chance ,Tess meets Alec d’Urberville, who finds himself attracted to Tess. Alec seduces （勾引，诱惑）and rapes Tess. Tess returns home, gives birth to a son, but died for illness.
Tess, a Pure but Tragic Woman
Pure： Tess’s characteristics of purity, resistance and conservative are the core of her characteristics. In the image of Tess, her purity demonstrates the natural beauty, her resistance demonstrates the tragic beauty and her conservative makes her image plentiful .Furthermore, her characteristics make Tess possess a sense of modernity and reality. Why tragic? Family background——poor,countryside Tess‘s personal characteristics ——endurance,（耐力） persistence, blind in love the morality and ethic in the British Victorian age——male is center
Tess’s father died, her whole family has nowhere to live. At this difficult time, Alex give them house、food and money, but Tess have to be his mistress. Clare decides to forgive his wife. He leaves Brazil, desperate to find her. When Tess saw Clare, her anger to Alex up to the highest point, she though her life was destroyed by Alex, so she killed Alex and become a fugitive（逃亡者） with Clare. She arrested five days later and was sentenced to death. （判处死刑）
Far from the Madding Crowd(1874) 《远离尘嚣》
The Mayor of Casterbridge(1886) 《卡斯特桥市长》


Tess of the d'Urbervilles(1891)
Jude the Obscure(1895)
《德伯家的苔丝》
《无名的裘德》
2.Romances and Fantasies
She died in 1912.
Thomas and Emma Hardy resided at Max Gate from 1884 onward.
Desighed by Hardy himself
Second wife
—Hardy’s nurse, companion and fan.
In 1914, Hardy married his secretary Florence Emily Dugdale, who was 39 years his junior. Due to Florence’s care, Hardy could remain healthy and continue his writing career.
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3.Novels of Ingenuity
（机巧和实验小说 ）
Desperate Remedies(1871)《铤而走险》 The Hand of Ethelberta(1876) 《埃塞尔伯塔 的婚姻》 A Laodicean(1881) 《冷漠的人》


Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the D’urbervilles reflected his real society. Hardy succeeded in portraying(描绘） the image of heroine Tess and revealing the hypocritical （伪善的、虚 伪）ethics and morals of bourgeois（资 产阶级） society.
Because most of Hardy’s novels take place in the "partly-real, partly-dream" county of Wessex, so his novels were called Wessex Novel(威塞克斯小说）.
Hardy himself divided his novels into three groups: 1)Novels of Character & Environment 2)Novels of Romances & Fantasies 3)Novels of Ingenuity