【正文】 e you treated me so monstrously, Angel! I do not deserve it. I have thought it all over carefully, and I can never, never five you! You know that I did not intend to wrong youwhy you so wronged me? You are cruel, cruel indeed! I will try to fet you. It is all injustice I have received at your hands.” Even when Angel es back with love and loyalty to ask for her fiveness, she says to him: “Too late, too late!” “Don’t e close to me, Angel!” All of these are still not Tess’s real intentions from her posterior acts. When she stays with Angel while escaping to be arrested, she says: “I want you to go on loving me. I’m afraid you might reject me one day for what I’ve done. Then I would rather be dead I must have been mad to kill him! But I don’t want to be alive when you reject me for it”. 4 Because she is disappointed with Angle, so she promise to Alec. A New Woman 英語專業(yè)?? 畢業(yè)論文 12 Tess is a new woman because she leaves her husband and lives with Alec. When she first meets Clare again, she does not dare to leave Alec, her current love, because she has mitted adultery before marriage .When Clare turns back to Tess and finds her, he still notices the pure outlook of Tess.” Her great natural beauty was, if not heightened, rendered more obvious by her attire.” Her beauty cannot be covered, but she does not think she could live with Angle, she lives with Alec and bees Mrs. D’Urbervilles at the moment. “She had not e forward, remaining still in the opening of the doorway.” She rather not goes near Angle. She reminds Angle “too late”. However, “her voice sounding hard through the room, her eyes shine unnaturally.” This shows that she still has good feeling with Clare .Gradually, she shouted, “I hate him now, because he told me a liethat you would not e again。 as well as her killing Alec with her own hands and leaving home three times in her life to “test the waters of the world” outside her village. Tess is a fresh country girl who is full of the sense of responsibility for her family because of father’s laziness and mother’s simple mindedness. The horse’s death let her think she is responsible for this accident and she must earn money to support her poor family. This guilt leads her to visit the D’Urbervilles and puts her into an uncertain and potentially dangerous situation. The death of her father adds her family’s eviction because her reputation makes it incumbent on her to act for her young brother and sisters. With no option, she bears sadness to live with Alec again. If not for Tess, the family may be very badly off indeed, but Tess’s selfsacrifice gains nothing except a series of blame. Tess came back home again after Angel’s leaving. She sent all her money to her poor family. Then she had to bear a heavy family’s burden again. In order to get enough food to keep herself and her family alive, she left Marlette again looking for work. She found irregular diary work for the spring and summer. It was so hard a job that once she was near to faint. And after the death of her father, her family had to leave their cottage. However, they had nowhere to live. Tess could not endure the burden of the life any more. In order to support the life of her family, she had no choice but to live with Alec again as his mistress. 英語專業(yè)?? 畢業(yè)論文 17 “Tess’s acute sense of responsibility, which may lead to the assumption of tasks to be done or to the sense of guilt for things done or left undone, is a strongly unifying element.” 6 She first felt “selfreproach” for staying so long at the dance, and “remorse” for her mother’s labor in getting her frock ready. When her father was drunk, she took the wagon on an allnight trip toward the market. She fell asleep, and the horse was killed. Because she felt responsible, she undertook another venture that she dislikedvisiting the D’urbervilles in the hope of improving the family fortunes. She always had a feeling of responsibility for her family’s difficulties. That was why she endured so many pains. She might had a fortable life with the money Angel left for her, she might had a normal and happy life as other maidens if she refused to visit the D’urbervilles, but the character of endurance and responsibility made her did everything for her poor family. Tess is Honest to Her Love Tess’s true and pure love to Clare drives her to break the convention. She says, “I never loved him at all, Angel, as love you…Angel will you five my sin against you, now I have killed him?” Her ending of her relationship by means by murdering is unconventional. She can do anything even murders others just for her true love. She says, “O yes! I could walk forever and ever with your arm round me.” Although she is in a tough situation, her love for Clare is concrete and this drives her mad. She says again, “I feel strong enough to walk any distance.” Her love forces her to breakthrough. Her character of a new woman is clearly shown. Tess undergoes her selfdiscovery journey to look for her own happiness. Tess is free from the marriage convention after her killing Alec. She does not feel sad during her last stay with Clare. She enjoys the present and faces the future with courage. She says, “I am not going to think outside of now. Why should we? Who knows who 英語專業(yè)?? 畢業(yè)論文 18 tomorrow has in store?” She really releases herself. “I do not wish to outlive your present feeling for me. I would rather not. I would rather be dead and buried when the time es for you to desire me, so that it may never be known to me that you despised me.” Can a conservative woman have such a releasing thought as Tess does? Tess gets an optimistic mind. She asks Clare, “If anything happens to me, will you watch over Liz。 the death of her infant son, Sorrow。她已在世人面前表現(xiàn)她所受到的侮辱 ,這預示著一種抗強大的女人的形象。最后她以悲劇結束，人們討論她的悲劇原因。 哈代認為苔絲擁有女性的主要性格 純潔 ,這使得他遇到激烈和嚴厲的批評 ,他們中的大多數(shù)人可以接受哈代的