林黛玉和苔丝悲剧命运的对比分析_英语论文

Contrastive Analysis of the Tragic Fate of Lin Daiyu and Tess

摘要

曹雪芹是我国封建晚期的以为著名的文学家，他的最大贡献在于文学创作。《红楼梦》就是他最著名的作品。这是是一部百科全书式的长篇小说。它以一个贵族家庭为中心，展开一幅广阔的社会历史图景，封建社会的各阶级和阶层都得到了生动的描画。《红楼梦》的博大精深在世界文学史上是罕见的。托马斯·哈代是英国横跨两世纪的小说家和诗人，开创独有的“威赛克斯”风格，其代表作《德伯家的苔丝》是“威塞克斯系列”中的一部。它描写了一位农村姑娘的悲惨命运。哈代在小说的副标题中称女主人公为“一个纯洁的女人”，公开地向维多利亚时代虚伪的社会道德挑战。

这两部作品都有类似的社会背景，而造成两位女性悲剧的根源就是社会。本文从分析两位女性的人物形象及结局开始，分析比较两位女性悲剧结局的原因。两位作者对两位女性都持有赞美和惋惜的感情，她们善良纯洁，与社会形成了反差，是女性觉醒的标志。但是最后的结局都因时代而殒命，林黛玉没能与贾宝玉终成眷属，抑郁而终；苔丝因谋杀亚雷克被处以绞刑。她们都成为了腐朽社会的牺牲品。

关键词: 《红楼梦》；《德伯家的苔丝》；社会背景；对比

Abstract

Cao Xueqin is one of the most famous writers in the late Qing Dynasty. His greatest contribution lies in literary creation. A Dream of Red Mansions is the best known of his works. This is an encyclopedic novel. It takes a family as the center, with a broad social historical picture, each class of feudal society and the class having been vividly described. The extensive knowledge and profundity with A Dream of Red Mansions of is rare case in the history of world literature. Thomas Hardy is a British novelist and poet across two centuries. He creates a unique style of “Wessex” novels. The representative of the Wessex novel is Tess of the D'Urbervilles. It depicts a rural girl's tragic fate. Hardy in the novel's subtitle called heroine as "a pure woman", which is open to fight with the hypocrisy of the social and morality in Victorian time.

The two works have similar social background. And the root cause of two females’ tragedies is the society. This paper starts from the analysis of the characters and the outcomes of two women. Then it analyzes and compares the two females’ tragedies and the reasons. The two authors both praise and regret the two women. They are kind and pure in contrast with the dark societies they live in. They are the symbol of the awakening of women. But the final results are tragic because of the time. Lin Daiyu and Jia Baoyu can't get married and she died of depression while Tess was hanged for the murder of Alec. They are both the victims of the rotten societies.

Keywords:  A Dream of Red Mansions  Tess of the D'Urbervilles  Social background   Comparison