Acknowledgments First and foremost, I would like to show my sincere gratitude to my supervisor, Prof.a respectable, responsible and resourceful scholar, who has provided me with valuable guidance in every stage of the writing of this thesis. Without her enlightening instruction, impressive kindness and patience, I could not have completed my thesis. Her keen and vigorous academic observation enlightens me not only in this thesis but also in my future study and life.36999
I would like to extend my heartfelt gratitude to the teachers who have ever taught me throughout my college years, especially Mr. Cheng, my British and American Literature course teacher. His profound knowledge of western literature led me into the world of literary arts , and also inspired me to make efforts in English learning. I am also very grateful to all other teachers of the School of Foreign Languages who gave me direct or indirect help during my study in the college.
I would also like to thank all my friends and classmates, who participated in this study with great cooperation.
Last but not least, I am grateful to my parents for their unfailing understanding, encouragements, considerate care and unselfish support.
Abstract Thomas Hardy is a brilliant novelist and poet in British Literature. He lives at the turning point of the century and writes in a time of difficult social changes, thus he is also regarded as a transitional writer. Tess of the D'Urbervilles is the most famous novel of Thomas Hardy, the theme of this novel is a great challenge to the Victorian society order and resist, a representation of the late Victorian social conflict and a struggle between the old and new values.
The novels of Hardy have been attracting many experts and scholars’ interest and argument for his creations of character and environment and his ideas of age, society, religion, etc. Comparatively, few of them studied his ideas of society and religion through his image shaping, especially the image of the pastors. Therefore, this paper tries to interpret Tess by analyzing the image of the pastor and the contexts, eventually, attempts to dig out Hardy’s view on the religion in that particular age and draw some conclusions about the religious influence on literary works .
The paper falls into five parts. The first part gives an introduction. The second part shows some findings about Tess. The third part aims at analyzing the image of the pastors in Tess. The fourth part would be the interpretation of the pastors from the background and the perspective of the author. The fifth part serves as conclusion paragraph.
Key Words: Victorian, image shaping, religious influence
摘要托马斯哈代是英国文学史上杰出的小说家、诗人。他生活于世纪之交，并于这个艰难的社会转型期写下了许多作品，因此他也常被称为过渡期作家。《德伯家的苔丝》是哈代最为脍炙人口的作品，小说主题是对当时文多利亚社会秩序的极大挑战,同时也是文多利亚社会末期新旧价值观之间的冲突和斗争的突出表现。
专家学者们以往对于哈代的研究主要着眼于他对于性格与环境小说的创造及他对于时代、社会、宗教等问题的观点。相对而言，极少数人通过他对人物形象的塑造，尤其是牧师的形象，研究他对于社会、宗教等问题的观点。因此，本文通过分析《苔丝》中牧师的形象及上下文，试图挖掘作者哈代在那个特殊年代所持宗教观。同时，总结宗教对于文学的影响。
本篇论文共分为五个部分。第一部分是介绍。第二部分给出一些有关《苔丝》的研究成果。第三部分是对《苔丝》中牧师形象的分析。第四部分是从时代与作者角度对牧师形象的解读。第五部分为总结段。
毕业论文关键词：文多利亚时代，形象塑造，宗教影响
CONTENTS
Acknowledgements.i
Abstractii
摘要.iii
1 Introduction    1 《德伯家的苔丝》中的牧师形象:http://www.751com.cn/yingyu/lunwen_35514.html