An Ecocritical Reading of Tess of the d’ Urbervilles

Tess of the d’Urbervilles,Tomas Hardy’s masterpiece,was published in 1891,marking a turning point in Hardy’s literary life.This essay attempts to analyze Tess of the d’Urbervilles in the light of Ecocriticism and seeks to throw a new light on this novel.Through a close study of the relationship between Tess and nature,the essay interprets the process of Tess’s tragedy as the inharmonious relationship between nature and the modern civilization which is represented by Alec and Angel.In this way,this thesis tries to provide a fresh perspective that may enable us to realize the importance of environmental protection and have a better understanding of this novel.     

An Inevitable Tragedy—On Tess' s Fate in Tess of the D'Urbervilles

In the novel Tess of the D’urbervilles,Tess is successfully depicted.She is portrayed as a brave girl,hard-working,beautiful and innocent.Alec represents a brutal and destructive force,which triggers Tess’s tragedy.Angle’s inveterate old-fashioned prejudices made him relentlessly abandon Tess.Yet what Hardy tries to show is that the disintegration of rural economy in England brought about by the intrusion of capitalist relations as well as the hypocritical morality of the time are the obvious causes of Tess’s tragedy.Meanwhile,Hardy also attacks the injustice of the law.In the novel,he believes a woman is helpless in the hands of fate and Tess is trapped in the web of fate.Her tragedy is fated and inevitable.     

An Ecocritical Reading of The Return of the Native

This paper aims to study The Return of the Native from the perspective of ecocriticism.Hardy indicates nature pos sesses its intrinsic value and nature and humans are equal in the ecological system.Man’s alienation from nature leads to the dis harmonious man-nature relationship.Hardy argues that man should see nature’s intrinsic value and build harmonious man-na ture relationship.     

浅谈苔丝的反抗精神(英文)

Thomas Hardy, the remarkable nineteenth-century novelist, is one of the representatives of English critical realism at the turn of the 19th century. Among his numerous works, Tess of the D’ Urbervilles could be regarded as the summit of his realistic novels. The heroin Tess has strong rebellious spirit and her rebellion is progressive. Although her rebellion is of nature, instinct and blindness at the beginning, develop from passive to active, from unconscious to rational. She challenges conventional moral, religious and social attitudes in her own way and grows into a mature and reasonable woman from an innocent girl of nature at last.     

Sue Bridehead:The Girl of the Period in Thomas Hardy’s Jude the Obscure

Jude the Obscure was Thomas Hardy’s last novel creation,and he spent eight year from preparation to publication.Although this novel received a lot of criticisms instead of praises when it came out,it also can be considered as Thomas Hardy’s classical works.The theme of this novel is so brave to explore the existing women’s living circumstances in that time.With the industrial revolution in England,new thoughts and ideas sprang out.Women were no longer belonging to husband and family,and they began to be aware of their social roles and reconsider their identity in society and marriage.The aim of the paper is to analyze this novel from the feministic perspective and re-read the character of Sue Bridehead in the light of the theory"the girl of the period".     

Thomas Hardy and his Tess of the d’Urbervilles:Analysis of the images of birds in Tess of the d’ Urbervilles

The article gives a brief introduction of Thomas Hardy and His Tess of the d’Urberville, the image of birds in Tess of the d’Urberville and its importance for illustrating the theme has also been analyzed.     

Transcendence and Wandering

Shen Congwen and Thomas Hardy are both known for their regional novels,Hardy for his "Wessex" novels,and Shen Congwen for his "World of Xiangxi" .Both writers display a sense of transcendence and wandering in their female characters.Both Xiao Xiao in Shen Congwen’ s Xiao Xiao and Eustacia in Hardy’ s The Return of the Native transcend the traditions and customs of their times,and experience a consequent wandering.But the ways of the two writers in presenting their heroines is quite different.While Xiao Xiao was mentally active but did nothing except follow the traditional system,Eustacia’ s thought was followed by her own words and actions.     

A Narrative Analysis of The Mayor of Casterbridge through Labov Model

The Linguist Labov develops a model to analyze the narrative,that is,the famous Labov Model.Under this model,Thomas Hardy’s The Mayor of Casterbridge is reexamined from abstract,orientation,complicating event(s),resolution,and coda.By this method,Hardy’s intention to reveal the tragic life of man will be deeply explored.     

Heroic Woman Images Against Male Power in Tar Baby

Ecofeminism is a theory that combines women’s unfair condition with nature’s overuse by human.It "argues that a strong parallel exists between the oppression and subordination of women in families and society and the degradation of nature through the construction of differences into conceptual binaries and ideological hierarchies that allow a systematic justification of domination by subjects classed into higher-ranking categories over objects classed into lower-ranking categories" (Miao 184). Tar Baby is the fourth work of Tony Morrison which explores African-Americans’ poor status, especially black women’s. From ecofeminism’s perspective, women and nature share same destiny. Being fed up with the bad condition, women has struggling against male world and tried to win their own happiness and identity, appealing to mutual respect and understanding.     

“The Judgment” under the Elms and in the Thunderstorm: A Comparative Study between Desire under the Elms and Thunderstorm

This paper will leave out the question how Cao Yu is influenced by O’Neill and go directly to the text, from the two playwrights’ tragic vision and the fate’s arrangements of the main characters in the masterpieces of the two playwrights, which refracted the differences in the two playwrights’ tragic tension and exposed the"judgment of human nature"and make a comparative study of the two plays.     

An Analysis of Tess the Tragic

Thomas Hardy,one of the representatives of English critical realism in the 19th century,describes a tragic story about Tess,a beautiful and kind girl.Tess’ s tragic life is caused by Alec,Angel and even herself.But all these are connected with the social environment of that day.Tess’ s tragedy is a tragedy of the whole society in fact.An analysis of the causes of Tess’ s tragic life will provide some enlightenment in accurately understanding the socialist society.     

Analysis of Tess’ s Tragedy

Tess of the D’Urbervilles(1891),the masterpiece of Thomas Hardy,tells the tragical life story of a beautiful country girl.Although the heroine,Tess,was intelligent,beautiful,industrious and kind-hearted,she was finally hanged as the only victim of the story.The root of her tragedy was caused by the bourgeoisie society.Firstly her tragedy comes from the society:the inequali ty of the law,the false of the religion and the hypocrisy of the bourgeoisie society.Secondly,Tess’s tragedy is produced by her own characters.In addition,the tragedy of Tess is inevitable.Thus,Tess’s tragedy was produced by both the society and her own character,which is closely related to the bourgeoisie society.     

An Analysis of Tess’ s Tragedy in Tess of the d’Urbervilles

Thomas Hardy is an outstanding novelist in the nineteenth century.He has produced numerous works including novels and poetry.His tragic novel Tess of the d’Urbervilles has a great impact on the world literature.The paper is focused on the exploration of Tess’s tragedy through her life experiences.Tess’s tragedy can be illustrated by three factors—her family aspects,love experiences and her social images,which also contribute collectively to poor Tess’s destiny.The social background of the period provides a basis for the novel,and the deformed social values and morality is the root of her tragedy,together with her personal temperament and the Christian religious influences.Christian mores of self-sacrifice,wide love and purity have a great effect on characters in the novel.In the fourth part,there is some enlightenment from Tess’s tragedy.It is believed that women play a crucial role in society.Tess is a woman with good qualities and her experiences give a warning to women today:the proper treatment of one’s behaviors and the social rules is critical.     

On Hardy''''s Pessimistic Description in Tess

Thomas Hardy, being a writer of the nineteenth and twentieth century and inevitably influ-enced by the then social reality and his own personal experiences, shows a pessimistic viewpoint ofthe world in most of his novels. After reading Tess of the d' Urbervilles, we can strongly feel hispessimism and gloom. In the tragic life story of a beautiful country girl, while he regards fate and     

An Analysis of the Causes of Catherine’s Tragedy

Tragedy is an everlasting theme of Hai Mingwei’s literary works,every character can not save themselves from defeat and death.The article will probe the reasons of Catherine’s tragic fate to make people rethink life and reveal the aesthetic significance of tragedy.     

On the Symbols of The Mayor of Casterbridge

Thomas Hardy(1840-1928)is a famous British Novelists.His excellent works have a far-reaching significance to the later gen erations.Treating his The Mayor of Casterbridge as a text,this paper is aimed to detect Hardy’s implied meanings of the symbols in a through textual analysis.This thesis is divided into three parts.The first part is the the symbol of the bridges.The second part deals with the symbol of the mel ody.Part three explores other symbols in The Mayor of Casterbridge.The symbols are all deliberately chosen in this book by the author to transmit his tragic view.Through the symbols of the bridges,the melody,the church,the tractor,the railway…,the author’s tragic view is well presented.By the research of each of those three parts,the conclusion of Hardy’s functions of the symbols can be drawn.     

A Brief Analysis of Willy Loman’s Tragic Fate in Death of a Salesman

Arthur Miller was considered as the most famous dramatist in America after the World War II, and his representative work Death of a Salesman was recognized as the best play in America during the post-war years. It was also considered to be one of the best three plays in the history of American drama; with A Streetcar Named Desire and Long Day’s Journey into Night.Through the failure of two generations, this play addressed the painful conflicts within one family, and it also tackled greater issues regarding to Americans’ national values.As an average person, Willy Loman had experienced hopes and pains, struggles and frustrations as well as dreams and disillusions, at last he chose to commit suicide. Based on the existent materials, the predecessor’s researches as well as her own thinking, the author of this paper gives a brief analysis of the leading role’s tragic fate, which mainly elaborates three important stages of Willy Loman’s tragic life: disillusion of the American Dream, the abandonment and the betrayal, aiming to decode the root of Loman’s tragedy from the perspectives of society, family and the protagonist’s character. In conclusion, the paper tries to explore Arthur Miller’s inner world and the resources of his creation as far as possible, hoping to give readers of this paper certain inspiration.     

A Review of Japanese Film Rashomon

Kurosawa’s Rashomon combines two Japanese folk stories into a tale that explores,from a focal point of the ruined Rashomon temple near Kyoto,the nature of trust,of truth,and the unimpressive reality of human nature.The film reveals the most ominous aspect of human nature that is often full of unconscious prejudice,contradictory and hypocrisy.Kurosawa’s distinc tive cinematography,precise close-ups,bold editing,soundtrack,multiple perspectives and long periods of silence,all of which are pivotal to his aesthetic,combine to make this film uniquely filmatic and captivating.However,Rashomon brought Kurosawa both the recognition from the West and the controversy in his native country.