【正文】 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, 17 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. “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 18 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 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 LizaLu for my sake?? She is so good and simple and pure.” 7 Her love towards Clare is so dignified that she can accept Clare to love others after her death. Can a conservative woman have such an open mind? When she is arrested, she says, “AngelI am almost gladyes, glad! This happiness co。 the death of her infant son, Sorrow。s images. Key words: revolt, promise, a pure woman ,responsibility 3 A personality analysis of Tess Introduction Thomas Hardy (18401928) was a Britain’s critical realism novelist and poet at the end of the 19th century. Hardy’s creation period includes carrying out the transition to the stage of imperialism from non monopoly capitalism. His novel is filled with his background in homeland, including the near prefecture district. He has observed the agricultural crisis to fill in miserable consequence that the special prefecture causes in one, describe this regional peasant’s disaster received. Tess of the D’Urberville, is the first famous work of Britain outstanding realistic writer. Because Hardy had once had experience of living in the Ministry of Agriculture, he was extremely familiar with peasants’ life, personality, custom, language, etc. Works of Hardy reflect capitalist factor invading Britain social economy, politics, morals, and enormous custom changes of under countryside, showed the miserable destiny of the rural working people of specific historical period. The theme of Hardy’s novel is to show the antinomy between people and society, personality and environment, especially through the description of issues such as love and marriage, displaying the individual confliction when people fight against social outmoded practice, religion law, morals custom. In his works, especially woman images in the works of him have deeply shown this characteristic. Tess of the D’Urbervilles, is the essential reflection of Hardy’s style and the society he wanted to show.