【正文】 an innovative perspective, which could help us preferably understand human nature.Chapter 1 The Writing Background and Summary of the Novel The Writing Background Thomas Hardy was the last important novelist of the Victoria ages，which was an age of great change and many difficulties when England was making its slow and painful transition from an oldfashioned, agricultural nation to a modern, industrial one. Businessmen and entrepreneurs, or “new money”, joined the ranks of the social elite, as some families of the ancient aristocracy, or “old money”, fated in to obscurity. In many respects, Hardy was trapped in the middle ground between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, between Victorian sensibilities and more modern ones, and between tradition and innovation. Victorian novels were full of sensibilities and were tended to be idealized portraits of difficult lives in which hard work, perseverance, love and luck win out in the end。中 南 大 學(xué)CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY高等教育自學(xué)考試英語(yǔ)專業(yè)畢業(yè)論文 題 目 從人物性格特點(diǎn)淺析《德伯家的苔絲》 題目類別 文 學(xué) 單位或?qū)W校 中南林業(yè)科技大學(xué)外國(guó)語(yǔ)學(xué)院 完成時(shí)間 2012年3月  Analysis of Tess of the D’Urbervilles in the Light of characteristic bySu Xiaojuan(010310100116)March 2012 Central South University of Forestry and TechnologyAcknowledgementsThe acplishment of my dissertation owes greatly to all the professors who have taught me in the three years at Central South University of Forestry and Technology. I would like to take this chance to express my sincere gratitude to my supervisor Lu Guoqiu for her patience and guidance for this thesis .She has provided me with instructive guidance and constructive suggestions.I am also grateful to many of my good friends and classmates for their ments and support.It is just because of the contributions of these people, whether mentioned or not, that thesis is able to be pleted. To every one of them, I give my most sincere thanks.ContentsAbstract...............................................................................................摘要.…………………………………………………………………..Introduction………………………………………………………….Chapter 1 The Writing Background and Summary of the Novel……………………………………………….. The Writing Background…………………………………………… Summary of the Novel………………………………………………Chapter 2 Characteristics of hero and the heroine………….......... Pure girl……………………………………………………………. Evil “Satan”………………………………………………………… “Angelic” Angel……………………………………………………..Conclusion...............................................................................................Bibliography……………………………………………………………AbstractThomas Hardy’s novel Tess of the D’Urbervilles is a great classic work in England as well as in the world. This novel describes a tragic life about one beautiful and pure girl after disgrace. The article describes the society environment, and then begins to analysis of characters’ personality and religion factors open out at that time. Tess’s tragic life is caused by that society and it’s the result of that time. Except this, it can’t be separated from her own weakness in character, and people around her. Good and evil of human nature throughout the novel, such as kind Tess, vicious Alec d’Urberville, weak Angel. Though Tess is very brave to fight with the evil, she is helpless. In the end, she turned out to be the sacrificial victim of society like all other things which die of the forces of evil. The thesis wills analysis Tess of the D’Urbervilles in the light of characteristic of main characters in the novel.Key words: pure, Good and evil, brave摘 要《德伯家的苔絲》是英國(guó)以及世界文學(xué)史上的經(jīng)典之作。文章將從人性論的角度分析造成德伯家苔絲悲劇的原因。 Tess’s faithful love to Angel and her honesty still make her confess her relation with Alec to Angel:“Tess, say it is not true? No, it is not true!“It’s true.”“Every word?” (Thomas Hardy, 239) In the novel, Tess is portrayed as a brave girl, hardworking and sweetnatured and innocent, yet she is free from the influence of social conventions and moral standards of the day. Her purity obviously is not weled by the bourgeois society. Evil “Satan”Tess’s tragedy is also caused by two men, Alec and Angel. One is by human body, the other is by psychology. Alec is a typical dandy who is lascivious and is censured and ungrateful. Angel is an egoist who pays undue attention to the dignity, social status, interests and family customary moral standards and way of life of the middle class he belongs to. Angel changes his mind when Tess tells him about her history with Alec on their wedding night. Their peaceful and affectionate days are gone forever. From him we see how the ideology of a given class suffocates and contaminates people’s mind within a definite period. In a year and a half Angel understands that he is in the wrong after experiencing many hardships but then a new tragic accident of Tess’s happened, this is, she stabs her lover, Alec to death.In this novel to male leading character’s description has reflected at that time the capitalist society darkness and false capitalism moral view. Alec is the emerging bourgeoisie’s representat