德伯家的苔丝英文版.ppt

德伯家的苔丝英文版
Literature is a mirror of real life which can reflect all aspects of people’s lives.
Tragedy is a kind of literary creation, which is not a simple artistic form or technique but the repeat of real society. It can depict the piteous, sad, distressing and sentimental plots by describing some tortuous or complicated events.
The British famous writer Thomas Hardy was one of the excellent novelists of the Victorian age. He delineated a lot of characters of tragedies, showing various persons’ enchantment.
Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the D’urbervilles reflected his real society. Hardy succeeded in portraying the image of heroine Tess and revealing the hypocritical ethics and morals of bourgeois society.
Major characters
Major characters
Tess Durbeyfield — The protagonist, eldest daughter in a poor rural working family; a fresh, well-developed country girl who looks markedly more mature than she is.
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, even though he neither.
Major characters
Alec Stoke-d'Urberville — The libertine son of Simon Stokes .
He rapes Tess when she is no more than sixteen or seventeen years old, and later pursues her relentlessly.
He persuades her to see the reality in her relationship with Angel and convinces her to become his mistress.
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 and rapes Tess. Tess returns home, gives birth to a son, but died for illness.
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