CAJ | 학술논문

A general social appearance that a great 1iterature works unfold is more abundant,specific and real than provisions of politics,history and philosophy give us.Just as Karl Marx says."The briIiiant contemporary school of novelists in England.whose eloquent and graphic portrayals of the-world have revealed more political and social truths than all the professional politicians.publicists,and moralists put together,had described every section of the middle class of ‘most respectable' pensioners and holders of government bonds,who look down on all kinds of business as something vulgar,down to the stall shopkeepers and lawyers' clerks",when he commented on the great critical realists of the 19th century.It is Thomas Hardy who was a great literature rriter in late 19th century,and his novels enjoyed great prestige among the people at that time.In his novel,Tess of the d'Urbervilles,Tess was a tragic character.Deliberating the whole novel,such a conclusion can be drawn:It was necessary to couse Tess's tragedy.She was not only the victim in Victorian time,but also the victim of the contemporary,which including her helpless parents,cruel inducer,Alec.and her nominal husband,Angel Clare.Unlucky Tess's fate urge me to explore the causes for the tragedy.