德伯家的苔丝的论文.doc

本科毕业论文（设计）
安徽大学教务处　制
THE ANALYSIS of TESS AND HER TRAGEDY
Acknowledgements
This paper is accomplished under the patient and rigorous supervision of my respected supervisor, Chen Yanqin. I am grateful to her for her directions and valuable suggestions and constant encouragement throughout the writing of this paper. Firstly, she made a lot of corrections as to the language and form of the paper, gave me suggestions on how to write the paper and how to make it better and improved some ideas in my paper. Moreover, she gave a lot of encouragement during the finishing of this paper. Without her supervising, this paper would never have come to the present form.
I’d also like to express my thanks to all my teachers in the School of Foreign Studies who gave me a lot of knowledge concerning language, literature, linguistics and translation theories in my four-year study in this university. Their lectures have broadened my knowledge and horizon. I have benefited a lot from their teaching which is of great help for my study.
At last, my gratitude goes to my friends with whom I often have discussion. They gave me a lot of suggestions and inspirations which are of great help to the writing of this paper.
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Abstract
Tess is a tragic image of love created by Thomas Hardy. Tess represented the sacrifice of that age. She takes on the burden of her whole family as a 17-year-old girl. Tess is humiliated by Alec and abandoned by Angel. From the point of rural culture this paper explores the reason of the tragedy in depth by studying the characteristics of rural life, the atmosphere of traditional culture and the background of the era. By interpreting the influence of rural culture on Tess and her tragic fate, this paper holds that the characters of purity, kindness, industry, bravery performed by Tess and the spirit of sacrifice for family, fatalistic thinking and traditional morality are all subject to the great imp