1、,Content,Main Content,The author of the story,Analysis of Major Characters,The main content of Tess,Tess DUrbervilles is a 16 years old simple country girl. In a chance, Tess meets Alec DUrbervilles, who finds himself attracted to Tess. Alec seduces and rapes Tess. Tess returns home, gives birth to
2、a son, but died for illness.,The main content of Tess,Tess makes another journey away from home 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 hav
3、ing a child with another man. Angel is going to Brazil for a year and Tess is going back home.,The main content of Tess,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.,Welcome
4、 Catherine to introduce the author,Thomas Hardy,(1840-1928),English poet and novelist，one of the most important novelists in the Victorian Era, the first important poet in the 20th century.,The last and one of the greatest of Realistic novelists. Famous for his depictions of the imaginary country “W
5、essex”. His works reflected his stoical pessimism sense of tragedy in human life.,His life,1840 born in Upper Bockhampton, a hamlet in the parish of Stinsford to the east of Dorchester in Dorset, England,Throughout his life, he fondly remembered this house and frequently visited it. This little vill
6、age had even become the focus of his fiction, the Wessex of his novels and poems,Hardy spent his early life singing in the church choir with his father. He was a sickly child and was not able to attend school at a young age. At the age of 22, Hardy moved to London to become an architect.,Hardy first
7、 met his future wife, Emma Gifford in 1872. They married in 1874. Emma Gifford was a woman of high social status. She had a very interesting personality and was always remembered by visitors to the Hardy household. She died in 1912.,Hardy met Florence Dugdale in 1907. After Emmas death in 1912, Flor
8、ence and Hardy married and continued to live at Max Gate,Hardy became ill in December 1927 and died in January 1928, having dictated his final poem to his wife on his deathbed. His funeral was on 16 January at Westminster Abbey, and it proved a controversial occasion because Hardy and his family and
9、 friends had wished for his body to be interred at Stinsford in the same grave as his first wife, Emma. However, his executor, insisted that he be placed in the abbeys famous Poets Corner. A compromise was reached whereby his heart was buried at Stinsford with Emma, and his ashes in Poets Corner.,Hi
10、s Major Works,Hardy divided his novels into three groups:1) Novels of Romances & Fantasies 2) Novels of Ingenuity 3) Novels of Character & Environment,A Pair of Blue Eyes (1873),The Trumpet Major (1880),Desperate Remedies (1871),The Hand of Ethelberta(1876),Under the Greenwood Tree (1872)Far Form th
11、e Madding Crowd (1874),The Return of the Native (1878) The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886),Tess of the DUrbervilles (1891)Jude the Obscure (1895),Welcome George to introduce Angel Clare,Angel Clare,Character : 1.rebelliousHe determined to be a farmer instead of going to the cambridge like his conformis
12、t brothers. 2.Idealism He couldnt put up with any stain of Tess.,Angel Clare,What can we learn from angel?,1.He was not conformist and he strove for his dream. 2.More often than not, idealism wont accompanied by good.,Welcome Eva to introduce Tess,Major Characters,Tess The protagonist ,the eldest da
13、ughter in a poor rural working family; a fresh, well-developped country who looks markedly more mature than she is.,Analysis of Major Characters,Tess 1Intelligent, attractive, and distinguished by her deep moral sensitivity and passionate intensity.2Changing role of the agricultural workers in the l
14、ate nineteenth century. 3Fallen humanity in a religious sense,We feel is not merely a Tess miserable fate. And many of the noble, Tess bring pure something, it also tells us, no matter how fate. The human nature of the noble and pure will never die out. Although in Tess to fate and between on departure is cruel like that. But. She is such a full of simple sense character.,Thats all,thank you,Thats all , thank you!,
