【正文】 ly studies character of human nature. First of all, it wills analysis characteristics of Tess. Tess is a pure, unsophisticated, selfrespecting upright, diligent, clever and beautiful girl. But she is driven in to a corner by social prejudices and finally kills her lover, Alec. Why Tess suffers this tragedy? Then, it will expound kinds of characteristics of people who are involved with Tess. First, Tess Unfortunately meets Alec who is a typical dandy who is lascivious and ungrateful. It is the beginning to suffer pain for Tess. Second, a young manAngel who is handsome and noble attracts Tess. They are fall in love with each other. But, Angel is weak and is an egocentric. He does not protect Tess for his class interests. Angel is also a murderer to kill Tess.Many critics thought Tess’s tragedy is caused by social. We can bypass this aspect to talk. Even in another social a group people like this, Tess’ tragedy still take place. Therefore, analysising Tess of the D’Urbervilles with characteristic of hero and the heroine is from 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。最終還是會像所有一切抵不過邪惡勢力的事物一樣，被淪為社會的犧牲品。人性的善與惡貫穿于整篇小說，像善良的苔絲，邪惡的亞歷克，軟弱的安琪兒。文章通過對小說中社會環(huán)境的描寫，再從人物性格和當時的宗教原因著手，由此揭露出苔絲悲慘的命運是那個社會所造成的，是一個時代思想，傳統(tǒng)，秩序的局限所造成的結(jié)果。中 南 大 學CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY高等教育自學考試英語專業(yè)畢業(yè)論文 題 目 從人物性格特點淺析《德伯家的苔絲》 題目類別 文 學 單位或?qū)W校 中南林業(yè)科技大學外國語學院 完成時間 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》是英國以及世界文學史上的經(jīng)典之作。該小說主要講述了一個美麗純真的少女失身后悲慘的命運。除此之外，還與她自身和周圍人的性格特點有關(guān)。盡管苔絲勇敢地和邪惡做斗爭，但她還是很無助。文章將從人性論的角度分析造成德伯家苔絲悲劇的原因。 virtue would be rewarded and sinners are suitably punished. They tended to be of an improving nature with a central moral lesson at heart. While this formula was the basis for much of earlier Victorian fiction, the situation bec