[中文]《德伯家的苔丝》被誉为是哈代悲剧小说中的经典之作。苔丝是哈代塑造得最成功的女性人物，同时也是英国文学史上最突出的女性形象。这部小说讲述了单纯美丽、富有牺牲精神和责任心等传统美德的女主人公苔丝婚前遭遇诱奸而失贞，从此在生活婚姻等方面接二连三受到肉体和精神的摧残和打击，在绝望中走上杀人的道路，最后被处死的悲剧故事。苔丝悲剧的诱因有很多，本文主要从社会因素家庭因素，人为因素和苔丝自身性格弱点出发进行分析,讨论苔丝悲剧的实质。作为普通人的苔丝与当时社会的抗争是无助的，最终会沦为社会的牺牲品。 [/中文]
[外文]Tess of the D’Urbervilles is known as Hardy’s classic tragic novel. Tess is not only the most successful female character created by Hardy, but also the most prominent image of women in the history of English literature. This novel tells what physical and mental sufferings the heroine Tess, a woman of beauty, industriousness, responsibility and other traditional virtues, has experienced after she was seduced, and how she was finally hanged as a result of murder. There are many factors contributing to Tess’s tragedy, and this paper will discuss her tragedy from the perspectives of social factors, family factors, human factors and Tess’s personal character defect. As an ordinary person, Tess’s struggle against society is in vain and she eventually becomes the victim of the society. [/外文]