Tess is a pure, beautiful and hardworking country girl. She yearns for the beauty of life, but she is always hit by falsehood and evil. Tess's tragedy began when she went to a distant relative's house to work for her family's livelihood, but Alec lost her virginity because of her youth and ignorance, and she became a "degenerate" woman, criticized by public opinion and regarded as an immoral sinner. Tess later fell in love with young Clay and was abandoned by her husband on their wedding night because of her honest and tainted past and missed the immediate happiness. Out of a high sense of family responsibility and self-sacrifice, Tess once again became Alec's mistress against his will in exchange for the survival of the family. Finally, because of her husband's change of heart, desperate Tess became furious, lifted sword of vengeance, and finally became a murderer. Finally, she had to pay the price of her life, which led to the complete destruction of Tess, who was as sensitive as gossamer and as white as snow. All these sad experiences are carefully planned and designed by ruthless fate. The master of the universe who arranges the world, through the huge net of fate, mercilessly covers the good people in the moral sense of human relations in a dilemma. [5]

Tess is a brand-new typical woman created by Hardy. She has a dual personality. On the one hand, she dares to resist traditional morality and hypocritical religion; On the other hand, we can't get rid of the fetters of traditional morality. Especially the latter is directly related to her tragic fate. First of all, the personality factor that causes Tess's tragedy is the simplicity endowed by nature. This instinctive simplicity prevented her from getting along with Alec, a man with a cruel face, and also prevented her from hiding her "stain" from her beloved. Because she is not polluted by too many civilizations, she lacks utilitarian strategies. Tess despises religion and law. On the other hand, because Tess was born in a peasant family, some old moral values and fatalistic views left over from the peasants made her weak resistance to traditional morality. While being persecuted by secular public opinion and traditional morality, she examines herself with this moral standard and thinks she is guilty. On the premise of losing herself, Tess idolizes Claire and is extremely loyal. It is this thought and conservatism that aggravate the tragedy of Tess's fate.