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1、,Tess of the DUrbervillesTomas Hardy,Content,Major Characters,Main Content,Theme,Analysis of Major Characters,Maior Characters,Tess(Teresa)Durbeyfield The protagonist,the eldest daughter in a poor rural working family;a fresh,well-developped country who looks markedly more mature than she is.,Alec d
2、Urberville He seduced(诱奸）Tess when she is no more than 17 years old,and later pursues her relentlessly until she agrees to become his mistress（情妇）again:,Angel Clare The son of a clergyman;Tesss husband and ture love.He rejects Tess on their wedding night when she confesses that she isnt a virgin,eve
3、n he neither.,Main Content,Tess Durbervilles is a 16 years old simple country girl.In a chance,Tess meets Alec dUrbervllles,who finds himself attarcted to Tess.Alec seduces and rapes Tess.Tess returns home,give birth to a son,but died for illness.,Main Content,Tess makes another journey away from ho
4、me,and she meets and falls in love with Angel Clare.After the wedding,Tess and Angel confess their pasts to each other.Tess forgives Angel for his past indiscretions,but Angel cannot forgive Tess for having a child with another man.Angel is going to Brazil for a year and Tess is going back home.,Mai
5、n Content,Tess returns to Alec while Angel returns from Brazil to look for Tess.Tess kills Alec and stays with Angel for 7 days.Finally,Tess was arrested and sentenced to hanging.,Theme,The Existence of Injustice:1Unfairness of Tess and her family to seem like a general aspect of human existence.2Th
6、e moral atmosphere:not Christian justice at all,but pagan injustice.,Changing Ideas of Social Class in Victorian England:1Complex pictures of the importance of social class in nineteenth-century England and the difficulty of defining class in any simple way.2The three main characters:strongly marked
7、 by confusion regarding their respective social classes,an issue that is one of the main concerns of the novel.,Men Dominating Women:One of the recurrent themes:Men can dominate women,exerting a power over them linked primarily to their maleness.,Analysis of Major Characters,Tess Durbeyfield:1Intell
8、igent,attractive,and distinguished by her deep moral sensitivity and passionate intensity.2Changing role of the agricultural workers in the late nineteenth century.3Fallen humanity in a religious sense,Alec DUrbervilles:1insouciant,heir to a fortune,and bearer of a name,the nemesis and downfall of T
9、esss life.2Duplicity,and its consequences for Tess so severe,diabolical.3 Symbolizes the base forces of life that drive a person away from moral perfection and greatness.,Angel Clare:1freethinking,determined,a rebellious striving toward a personal vision of goodness.3Not quite of this world,but floats above it in a transcendent sphere of his own.,Thank you!,
