摘 要: | Tess of the D’Urbervilles is one of Thomas Hardy’s most famous novels.In this novel,the heroine,Tess,is figured with intelligence as well as beauty.She possesses all of praise-worthy qualities of labors:pure,industrious,responsible,brave and fortitudinous.And Tess has long been regarded as the most exceptional woman character in literary history.However,the life of this pure woman is tragic.This paper mainly analyzes the external reasons and internal reasons that results in the tragedy which she is changing from a girl with beauty and pureness to a young lady with muddling along and giving herself up,at last she walks to the execution ground.From all the points mentioned above,we can better and deeply understand Tess and her tragedy,and we can know the root of the Tess’s tragedy is the evil capitalist society at that time.
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