广东高考答案A: the outer reason
⑴.Family Reason
At the beginning of the novel, it depicts a scene that will change the fate of Tess in the future. The father of Tess was a lazy and foolish peddler. As a man, instead of bearing the burden of family, he was a drunkard and looked unfit. In the upheaval of society, in place of facing the reality bravely, he was engrosd in a fancy that he was the descendant of good blood. Tess’s mother was a milker at first. Later, she could only earn a little money by washing clothes for others. But she was in a state of unemployment in later time. She was vulgar, superficial and simpleminded. As the oldest child of the family, Tess had to help to support the family. After leaving school, Tess earned money by working. Tess’s father heard the news that they were the descendants of a knight family-- the D’urbervilles. He was too plead to continue his work as usual. Instead, he drunk more. As a result, Tess had no choice but to go to the market on the behalf of her father. Unfortunately, on the way, there was an accident in which the hor --Prince died. Prince was the only means of production that they can rely on. The death of Prince wornempty的反义词ed the family’s poverty. Thus, Tess accepted her mother’s suggestion that they should get contact with their relatives—the D’urbervilles. Before leaving, the mother dresd her up.
Both the father and the mother knew what it meant for Tess. But Tess was only venteen then , personal statement 范文jingle bell>impunityshe couldn’t predict what would happen. Her parents wanted to change the poor condition of the family if Tess could marry with a rich man. Their foolishness deprived their daughter of her happiness. As the words in the novel＂…when Tess was hurt, no one could protect her, even the God had slept…″There was no doubt that the poor condition of the family was the direct and the most begging reason. If not for their poverty ,Tess would not go to the market in the night; if not for their poverty ,Tess’s parents would not compelled Tess to recognize relative relation with the D’urbervilles and she would not be raped by Alec; if not for their poverty, Tess would not had received so much humiliation before the returning to her husband-- Angel Clare.
In conclusion, the family’s heavy burden , the father’s laziness and addiction to the alcohol, the mother’s unemployment, vulgarity and simple-mindedness ,all the led to Tess’s tragic life.
⑵. Social Background
Family is the smallest unit of society. The upheaval of society unavoidably bring about changes to family. Tess lived in a changing time when England was shifting from agricultural economy to machine production. To some degree, Tess’s life of tragedy was historical inevitability. The death of Prince made the family lo their last ba of economy. Tess’s family had to get involved in the proletarian. Out of willing, Tess had no choice but to get contact with the capitalist Alec D’urbervilles to work for them so as to tackle the poor condition of the family. This was Tess’s first step in becoming a proletarian. From this time on, her life became the life of a proletarian from pastoral life. And she became an agricultural worker earning money by lling her labor. During this time, Tess was ravished by Alec and gave birth to a child who died in infancy. The people in her countryside could not accept that kind of thing and scorn off Tess. They thought that Tess t a bad example for their children. The countrymen even exiled them after the death of Tess’s father. When Tess fed her child, she kept a far distance from other farmers in the field. When Tess asked a clergyman to baptize for her son, the clergyman didn’t agree becau her son was illegal. All of tho showed people’s hypocrisy. Alec wa
s another example. His actions of helping Tess’s family, teaching Tess to learn whistle, etc, were bad on the desire of the posssion of Tess .All Alec’s pretending kindness was not out of true love, but out of Tess’s beauty and his xual desire. Moreover, Alec was not ashamed of his badness even though he clearly knew the fact. It revealed the capitalists’ hypocrisy and pudo(假的，不诚实的) morality. The society of that time was not just. It was a society of hegemony(领导权，霸权) father right. There was a thought that girls’ first time of x was the privilege of her husband. On the wedding night , Tess confesd to Angel her duction by Alec. Though Angel had done the same thing with a woman in France, on hearing her wife’s tale, his old fashioned prejudices overcame him and he abandoned Tess.
英语搜索In conclusion, the break of agricultural economy, the deprivation of farmers’ land and means of production and the hegemony father right in men’s heart in such a changing age,all the caud Tess‘s tragic life. As the reprentative of the farmers , lie是什么意思 Tess’s tragic life was constructed in the development of society. All in all, Tess was the sacrificial victim of the society.
(3) hypocritical religion
Tess of the D’Urbervilles is a rebel to the hypocritical morality of Christianity. When she faced the extreme poverty, social discrimination after being ravished by Alec and the abandonment of her husband, she cho to endure and struggle. The ries of accidental events and warnings still step by step drove her to the abyss of destruction. Tess is executed at the end of the novel. Just as what Aeschylean says “Justice” was done, and the President of the Immortals had ended his sport with Tess. The master of the gods in the novel refers to the god, which expresd the Hardy’s sarcasm and discontent to the unfair god. Some ideas of Tess's husband--Angel reprents tho of Hardy’s in some respects. His religious beliefs reflected the changes and progress of that time. However, he was not completely free from the restrictions of the Christian traditional thoughts. When Tess confesd her past experience to him on the night of their wedding, he refud to give his forgiveness and abandoned her mercilessly. He believed in what he was taught in his childhood and still a slave of traditional and outdated opinions. What full of his mind was rigid principles of Christian traditional ethics. Here Hardy pointed out the l小学入学考试题
imitations of Angle’s thoughts and at the same time expresd his irony of old Christian morality.
B. the inner reason--Characters Analysis of Tess
In one novel, people’s character also takes a very important part. In this novel, though the writer ud the environment to describe Tess’s tragic fate, the other reason which caud this result is her own character.
Tess was a daughter of a poor peasant. Her character concentrated on human nature’s brave benevolence. Tess’s beauty and temperament were harmony with the nature. She was “the nature’s daughter”, a little bird in a cage could make her cry. Tess’s own character decided that she had no ability to protect herlf, and the efforts that required were in excess of her endurance. The tragedy of her fate t the tone early, and the tragedy’s happening was the problem of the time. Tess experienced major changes in human relationships. She obviously had the dual nature of the social character---- resistance and compromi. Treating with the bad young man –Alec, Tess revolted const
antly. Although she became a disgraced woman, she always held an inviolable attitude to Alec. She silently endured the unfair in her life. Although life only gave her attack and disaster，she could tenaciously endure and undertake and never t the excessive request to the life. The cond time when Tess met Alec, her lives were in the most difficult of her times. Facing every enticement of Alec, her basic remained unmoved. Tess was not willing to compromi. Then the disaster arrived, Tess’s father died and her family was expelled the village. Tess entrusted the body once again in Alec just becau her mother and little brothers and sisters could then have a place to live西蒙菲莎大学，but anti-makes in light of this had not ended, submitting was only temporary. In the end, she killed Alec with a knife. This was an inevitable result of her innermost feeling revolt. Tess had the ending of violent resistance to evil.
