Abstract
Tess of the D’Urbervilles is one of the most famous novels of Thomas Hardy’s Wessex series. It’s about a poor county girl Tess who has been suffered from miseries had finished her life as a tragedy in the end. And this novel revealed the hard lives of poor people who were ender the intrusions of capitalism. This paper intends to demonstrate that the whole tragedy of Tess is avoidable by parting this novel into four parts, then analyzing them one by one in the aspects of the roles’ characteristics and the developments of plots，in order to figure out this tragedy is avoidable by above ways. At the same time, this paper will explain the importance of human’s conscious activity in their fates.
Key words: tragedy, roles’ characteristics, conscious activity, fate
Contents
1.    Introduction1
2.    Demonstration-2
2.1 The first avoidable tragedy-2
2.1.1 Tess’s choice set herself up-2
2.1.2 Tess’s first avoidable negligence-3
2.1.3 Tess's second avoidable negligence-4
2.2 Tess's lost of baby5
2.2.1 Tragedy of the babya shock to Tess-5
2.2.2 The cheerful influence in Tess’s characteristic-6
2.3 Meeting Angelanother hard situation-6
2.3.1 Useless self-restraint in love-7
2.3.2 The true love as antidote can save Tess-8
2.3.3 Angel’s leave with his true love-9
2.4 The last chance to escape from the worst tragedy -10
2.4.1 A compromise to a hypocrite -10
2.4.2 Changeable choice at the last gasp10
3. Conclusion11
Works Cited-13
Bibliography-14