Write no less than 150 words on each of the following topics in English in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.
Thomas Hardy is not an analyst of human life or nature, but a meditative storyteller or romancer. Please make a brief comment on Hardy s Tess of the D' Urbervilles.
【正确答案】：A. This novel is one of the best and most popular work by Hardy. It is a fierce attack on the hypocritical morality of the bourgeois society and the capitalist invasion into the country and destruction of the English peasantry towards the end of the century.
B.Tess, as a pure woman brought up with the traditional idea of womanly virtues, is abused and destroyed by both Alec and Angel, agents of the destructive force of the society. And the misery, the poverty and the heartfelt pain she suffers and her final tragedy give rise to a most bitter cry of protest and denunciation of the society. Of course, naturalistic tendency is also strong in the novel.
C.In a way, Tess seems to be led to her final destruction step by step by Fate. Coincidence adds one “wrong" to another until she is caught up in a dead-end. As Hardy says at the end of the novel:ustice was done,and the President of the Immortals had ended his sport with Tess. " To fully understand the novel, one has to take into consideration both its critical realist and naturalistic significance, (p303)
