英国著名诗人、小说家托马斯·哈代在其代表作之一的《德伯家的苔丝》中,突出表现了一个社会动荡时期时的悲观主义。《德伯家的苔丝》是哈代“性格与环境小说”中最为典型的一部,其中所体现出的价值审美、复杂环境以及悲惨命运是作者哈代悲剧观的主要因素和集中表现。作者在书中对女主人公苔丝悲惨命运的描写也将作者的悲剧观烘托得淋漓精致。 Thomas Hardy, a famous British poet and novelist, highlighted the pessimism of a social unrest during his “Tess of Tudor”, one of his masterpieces. Tess of the D ’Urbervilles is the most typical one in Hardy’s Novel of Character and Environment, in which the value aesthetic, complex environment and tragic fate embodied are the main factors and focus of the author’s concept of Hardy’s. In the book, the description of the tragic fate of the heroine Tess also contrasts with the author’s tragedy view.