苔丝多重性性格特征论析

Analysis of the Multiple Character of Tess

苔丝是哈代全方位精心塑造和歌颂的悲剧主人公。作者着重描写了苔丝这一悲剧人物的性格特征,以大胆的现实主义笔触刻画了美丽善良的失身少女苔丝所具有的丰富、深邃的精神世界和内心活动。作品反映苔丝的悲剧除各种其他因素外,同时也是性格与社会现实矛盾的悲剧,是理想人格的悲剧。苔丝内心世界的朴实性、纯洁性、善良性,她对不合理社会的反抗性,她在道德上囿于传统的保守性,这几个方面共同构成苔丝的性格系统,从而使苔丝悲剧形象鲜活、感人,成为不朽的艺术形象。

Tess of the D'Urbervilles is one of th greatest tragedies in the English language. The leading impression,remaining throughout the reading of the tragedy, is the powerful sense of tragedy evoked by the novel and the multiple character of Tess. She lingers in our mind as one of the greatest feminine portaits in the modern era. By delineating vividly the beautiful kindhearted protagonist Tess, her rich, profound inner world and psychology, the novel reflects that besides the various factors, the source of Tess's tragedy is the dramatic conflict between social reality and character as well as the tragedy of ideal personality. Her sincerity, purity and kindheartedness of mind, her rebel against the harsh reality and her conservation in morality constrained by custom constitute the character system of Tess, which make Tess a distinctive, moving character and an immortal image.