托马斯·哈代是19世纪末英国杰出的批判现实主义作家。他的代表作《德伯家的苔丝》真实而又深刻的反映了资本主义入侵下英国农村的变化和人民的遭遇,揭示了在维多利亚盛世掩盖下的社会危机。小说女主人公苔丝是一位农家女子,她美丽纯洁、勤劳善良,有着极强的家庭责任感和自尊心。苔丝为了全家人的生计去远亲家打工,但不幸遭到了地主少爷亚雷的玷污,怀了身孕……孩子病死以后,她到一家牛奶场做女工,认识了牧师的儿子安吉· Thomas Hardy was an outstanding critique of realism in Britain at the end of the 19th century. His masterpiece “Tess of the T’Delles” truly and profoundly reflected the changes in rural areas and the people in the countryside under the invasion of capitalism, revealing the social crisis under the cover of the Victorian era. Tess novel heroine is a farm woman, she is pure and beautiful, hardworking and kind, with a strong sense of family responsibilities and self-esteem. Tess went to work far away from her family for the whole family’s livelihood, but unfortunately she was soiled and contaminated by the landowner, Yare, that she became pregnant ... After the child died, she went to a dairy farm to work as a female worker and met the priest’s son, Angie