Analysis of Characters of Tess
Abstract: Tess is shaped and praid by Hardy in his novel Tess of d’Urbervilles; she is a rebel image in English literary history. By the description of her tragic, Hardy shows his resistance and struggle against feudalism and bourgeois morality, religion and social oppression. Hardy’s defiance against the status quo of Victorian England is both fierce and unrelenting and that is why both the last novels met with terrific accusations from the bourgeois authorities and their henchmen the critics.
Key Words: sweet-natured, kind-hearted, pure, rebel
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温暖的旅程作文Ⅰ.Introduction
Tess, the heroine of Hardy’s Tess of d’Urbervilles, is a peasant girl. And when Hardy gives the novel a subtitle, “A Pure Woman Faithfully Prented”, we can e him defying the Victorian moral standard by calling Tess a pure woman. The character of Tess is extremely well drawn. A victim of the society, Tess is portrayed as a sweet-natured, kind-hearted, pure
and rebel girl, and yet she is not free from the influence of social conventions and moral standards of the day. The characters make the 水晶肘子的做法image of Tess alive, moving and become an immortal artistic image. This paper attempts to detailed analysis and exposition of the characters of Tess.
Ⅱ. Characters of Tess
2.1 Sweet- natured character of Tess
“A fresh and virginal daughter of Nature” is what first Tess ems to Angel Clare. Tess always maintains the esnce of herlf as the daughter of a peasant; she loves life, loves nature and gives off the fragrance of the nature without decoration. Tess is the lineal reprentative of the ancient and knightly family of the d’Urbervilles. In the late 19th century Britain was completely ruled by capitalism, the aristocratic families of mighty powers have been gradually declined. D’Urbervilles family inherited to Tess' father only reduced to a village haggler; the only way to proof the association with his ancestors was “a wold sliver spoon and a wold graven al”. Tess' father happened to know that he was
the descendant of the d’Urbervilles from the pastor; he feels so rafted after his uplifting by the news and says to villagers“I’ve-got a gr’t-family-vault-at-Kingsbere and knighted-forefathers-in-lead-coffins-there!” He is proud of his noble origin and stains with cular and vanity. Mrs. Durbeyfield− a hardworking and plain woman− fells complacent becau of her husband’s noble origin. But Tess, who lives in the family with vulgar atmosphere, always maintains the virtues of working people; she has an aversion to the vulgarity of her parents and despis the noble origin. She always believes that she is a peasant’s daughter and lives on her own labor. “‘I have as much of mother as father in me! All my prettiness comes from her, and she was only a dairymaid’, she said.” Every word shows that Tess’ love and pride of the working class. Tess would rather adhere to the surname “Durbeyfield” than u the surname of aristocratic family “d’Urbervilles” in order to rai her status. Angel called Tess Artemis, Demeter, and other fanciful names half teasingly, which she did not like becau she did not understand them. “‘Call me Tess’, she said to Angel.” It forms a distinct compare with Alec, who picks the surname “d’Urbervilles” from the British Muum, posing the character of aristocratic people. This show that Tess is a s
weet- natured girl, who despis noble origin, hates vanity but takes pride of working class.
2.2 Kind-hearted character of Tess
Tess’ kind-hearted character shows the love of life, hard-working and brave enough to face all difficulties with a lfless lf-sacrifice. Tess is the eldest child in her family. When she was sixteen years old, she shouldered her family burden without complaint. “There came to her a chill lf-reproach that she had not returned sooner, to help her mother in the domesticities, instead of indulging herlf out-of-doors.” She helps her father to ll hives, but on the way to market the hor called Prince was killed by shaft of the cart, which destroyed the major income of her family. “Tis all my doing-all mine!” So Tess is persuaded by her mother to visit the prosperous d’Urbervilles and to claim kin, though actually the latter is a family of capitalists who have recently acquired wealth and bought their way into the gentry. She works there and is duced by the young master Alec d’Urbervilles, and has to return home in disgrace. She gives birth to a child who dies in fa
ncy, and she is considered a sinful woman. How great sacrifice she did for her family! When Angel leaves her for Brazil and she goes home. Again the great poverty at her home forces her come out look for work. When she leaves home she took twenty-five of the fifty pounds Clare had given her, and handed the sum over to her mother, saying that it was a slight return for the trouble and humiliation she had brought upon them in years past. Tess’ work as wage-laborer at the Flintcomb-Ash farm shows farming was then run on the capitalist basis, with the employment of badly exploited and oppresd wage-earners who had to work on the hardest working conditions. What Tess received at the hand of her master the farmer at the Flintcomb-Ash farm-both tyranny and insult- sufficiently indicates how much a poor peasant girl, of a small free-holder family, had to suffer not that of an individual or a family, but is symbolic of the destruction of the English peasantry toward the end of the 19th century. Then the news of her father’s death comes to her, and with it the expulsion of her family from their cottage, and becau of her father being a life-holder, his death ends automatically their tenantry on the land. This finally drives Tess to go back and ek for assistant from Alec. This time was completely forced
卢春如by social oppression and family poverty. She bears her sufferings in order to let her mother and siblings have ttled place. This show Tess is a kind-hearted girl, who sacrifices all her happiness and all she has in order to rescue the family difficulties.
2.3 Pure character of Tess端午节的习俗作文
Tess’ purity shows her attitude towards love. Her love is sincere, persistence and faithful and all shows the virtue of a pure peasant girl. She deeply loves Angel, who is a diligence, politeness and unbounded by religious; she deeply hates Alec, who is a cunning, idle dandy and duces her. Tess purs the purity of love; she loves the virtues instead of money. Although she deeply falls in love with Angel, she thinks she should not stain his pure soul becau of her past. “The struggle was so fearful; her own heart was so strongly on the side of his-two ardent hearts against one poor little conscience- that she tried to fortify her resolution by every means in her powers.” Angel propos to her and they arrange to married. Previous to the wedding she writes of her past relations with Alec on piece of paper and thrusts it into his bedroom, but the paper gets mislaid under th
内膜厚怎样治疗e carpet in the bedroom and so Angel does not get it. Then, on the wedding night, after Angel tells her of his past relations with a bad woman, Tess tells her whole story about Alec. But, while she forgives him readily, he is too much of a hypocrite and a snob and thinks too much of his reputation and his honor to forgive her and leaves her for Brazil. Tess silently endures Angel’s unfair treatment and doesn’t tell her family the truth. She never us Mrs. Clare to call herlf and obeys Angel condition- do not come to him and write to him if necessary. Angel doesn’t know, perhaps becau he doesn’t understand the roughness of life in the English villages, which she has duced and had an illegitimate baby at the age of sixteen. And Tess is unable to be really happy at Talbothays, as all her instincts tell her to be, becau she can not forget that in the eye of the world she is a fallen woman. “It has been so much my religion ever since we were married to be faithful to you in every thought and look, that even when a man speaks a compliment to me before I am aware, it ems wronging you.” Even so when she meets with annoyance on account of the same she ties up her face in a bandage as long as people would believe in it. This show Tess is a pure girl, who attitude towards love is purity and faithful.
2.4 Rebel character of Tess
Her rebellion shows her resistance and struggle against feudalism and bourgeois morality, religion and social oppression. Tess’ baby dies in fancy becau the baby is offence against society in coming into the world. Tess’ father refus her request becau he thinks it’s a shame for the noble family. She ignores the rules of religion and does baptism herlf for her baby. When the pastor can not give the baby a Christian burial, “I do not like you, and I do not like your God. And I will never t foot in your church again,” Tess said firmly. It is not an easy thing to say such rebellious word in that time. When she meets Alec who has now become a preacher but who religious calling does not prevent him from trying to renew his former relationship with Tess. Alec troubles Tess many times when she works as wage-laborer at the Flintcomb-Ash farm. She can not bear him so “she passionately swings the glove by the gauntlet directly in his face. It is heavy and thick as a warrior’s and it strikes him flat on the mouth. Fancy might regards the act as the recrudescence of a trick in which her armed progenitors are not unpracticed.” Angel has, however, somewhat repented of his harsh of his treatment of Tess and now returns f
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rom Brazil to be reconciled to her, but finds of her to be living again with Alec. Tess eing that Alec’s relations with her prevent her from going back to live happily with Angel for the cond time, hates him for ruining her life and kills him. “By degrees he was inclined to believe that she had faintly attempted, at least, what she said and she had done; and his horror at her impul was mixed strangeness of its quality, which had apparently extinguished her moral n altogether.” This show Tess is a rebel girl, who resists to bourgeois morality, religion and social oppression.
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