Thomashardy.ppt

单击此处编辑母版标题样式,单击此处编辑母版文本样式,第二级,第三级,第四级,第五级,*,*,*,Thomas Hardy,(1840-1928),novelist and poet,Life,Hometown:,Dorsetshire,(,Wessex,),Family:,Father was a builder.Mother was interested in literature and influenced him so much.,Career:,He practiced architecture before beginning to write poetry,then prose.,Marriage:,twice,Death:,His heart was buried at,Stinsford,with his first wife Jemima,and his ashes in Poets Corner.,Significance,Thomas Hardys works unite the Victorian era with modern time:,a.the decline of Christianity,b.the shifts from reticence to openness in matters of sex,c.the growing sense of the,disparity,between the enormous universe and tiny man.(Naturalism),Tess of the dUrbervilles:A Pure Woman,(1891),Major characters,Tess,Durbeyfield,-The protagonist and principal character,an innocent and pretty country girl.,Angel Clare,-The son of a clergyman.Tesss husband.,Alec,DUrberville,-He seduces Tess and causes her many sorrows.,Tess,Durbeyfield,Alec DUrbervilles,Angle Clare,to claim kin,guilty feeling,rapes her,to find a,new start,falls in love,marries,abandons,to support the family,asks her to be his mistress,comes back to renew their love,is killed by Tess,for love,“,Dont you really know,Durbeyfield,that you are the lineal representative of the ancient and knightly family of the DUrbervilles,who derive their descent from Sir Pagan,DUrberville,that renowned knight who came from Normandy with William the Conqueror,as appears by Battle Abbey Roll?”“Never heard it before,sir!”,The infants breathing grew more difficult,and the mothers mental tension increased.It was useless to devour the little thing with kisses;she could stay in bed no longer,and walked feverishly about the room.,O merciful God,have pity;have pity upon my poor baby!she cried.Heap as much anger as you want to upon me,and welcome;but pity the child!,Be you really going to christen him,Tess?,The girl-mother replied in a grave affirmative.,Whats his name going to be?,She had not thought of that,but a name suggested by a phrase in the book of Genesis came into her head as she proceeded with the baptismal service,and now she pronounced it:,SORROW,I baptize thee in the name of the Father,and of the Son,and of the Holy Ghost.,She sprinkled the water,and there was silence.,In the name of our love,forgive me!she whispered with a dry mouth.I have forgiven you for the same!,And,as he did not answer,she said again-,Forgive me as you are forgiven!I forgive you,Angel.,You-yes,you do.,But you do not forgive me?,O Tess,forgiveness does not apply to the case!You were one person;now you are another.My God-how can forgiveness meet such a grotesque-prestidigitation as that!,I thought,Angel,that you loved me-me,my very self!If it is I you do love,O how can it be that you look and speak so?It frightens me!Having begun to love you,I love you for ever-in all changes,in all disgraces,because you are yourself.I ask no more.Then how can you,O my own husband,stop loving me?,I repeat,the woman I have been loving is not you.,But who?,Another woman in your shape.,Tess!he said huskily,can you forgive me for going away?Cant you-come to me?How do you get to be-like this?,It is too late,said she,her voice sounding hard through the room,her eyes shining unnaturally.,Too late,too late!she said,waving her hand in the impatience of a person whose tortures cause every instant to seem an hour.Dont come close to me,Angel!No-you must not.Keep away.,But dont you love me,my dear wife,because I have been so pulled down by illness?You are not so fickle-I am come on purpose for you-my mother and father will welcome you now!,Yes-O,yes,yes!But I say,I say it is too late.,I waited and waited for you,she went on,her tones suddenly resuming their old fluty pathos.But you did not come!And I wrote to you,and you did not come!He kept on saying you would never come any more,and that I was a foolish woman.He was very kind to me,and to mother,and to all of us after fathers death.He-,The scene of Tesss capture is,Stonehenge,the famous prehistoric ruins consisting of large upright stones surrounding an,altar stone,.Significantly,it is on this altar stone,thought to have been the site of bloody sacrificial offerings,that Tess lies when the police come to arrest her for Alecs murder.By placing Tess on the sacrificial altar Hardy makes clear that he believes she is an innocent victim.,Theme:,Fate and Chance(fatalism),The seduction,abandonment,and murder that happen to Tess appear to be under the control of a greater force.,Symbolism,Marlott,:Tesss birthplace,she is marred or disfigured a lot.,Angel Clare:,seems to be an angel to Tess.,Stonehenge:,By placing Tess on the sacrificial altar Hardy makes clear that he believes she is an innocent victim.,