《还乡》的确是第一部悲剧小说,托马斯·哈代在描述小说的背景和塑造男女主人公的性格方面使用了大量的神话,原型典故及意象。通过原型意象的熟练应用表明,工业文明的迅速发展给人们物质生活的选择带来了众多的内部矛盾,加强了小说的多元化悲剧气氛,赞颂了人们对传统与现代观念之间的命运斗争的主体意识。 Returning Hometown is indeed the first tragedy novel. Thomas Hardy used a great deal of myths, prototype allusions and images in describing the background of the novel and shaping the characters of the hero and heroine. Through the skilled application of archetypal images, the rapid development of industrial civilization has brought many internal contradictions to people’s choice of material life, strengthened the diverse tragedy atmosphere of the novel and praised people’s fate struggle between traditional and modern concepts Subjective consciousness.