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tal factor I want to add in is particular family situation: Her father is indolent and incapable—— “Durbeyfield was what was locally called a slacktwisted fellow。 he had good strength to work at times, but the times could not be relied on the coincide with the hours of requirement。 and, having seen unaccustomed to the regular toil of the day laborer, he was not particular persistent when they did not coincide.” Her mother is superficial, vulgar and ignorant of worldly affairs. —— “ No doubt a mampus of volk of our own rank will be down here in their carriages as soon as „tis known.” “She is rich, and she‟d be sure to take notice o‟ the maid, and „twill be a very good thing I don‟t see why two branches o‟ one family should not be on visiting terms.” “Well, Tess ought to go to this other member of our family. She‟d be sure to 6 win the lady— Tess would。 and likely enough It would lead to some noble gentleman marring her. In short, I know it.” From words above, we can see that it is actually Mrs. Durbeyfield who pushes her daughter to the pit of hell. “In the Durbeyfield countenances there was nothing of the red wrath that would have burnt upon the girl from parents more ambitious for her welfare.” It is her selfish parents that never regret to exchange Tess with fortune. “Why didn‟t ye think of doing some good for your family instead o‟ thinking only of yourself? See how I‟ve got to teave and slave, and your poor weak father with his heart clogged like a drippingpan. I did hope for something to e out o‟this! To see what a pretty pair you and he made that day when you drove away together four months ago! See what he has given us —— all, as we thought, because we were his kin. But if he‟s not, it must have been done because his love for‟ee. And yet you‟ve not got him to marry!” Secondly, Alec and Angel have very close relation with Tess‟s fate. Alec filled his love to Tess with lust and desire while Angel make his love impure, mixing too much unreality. Alec, the typical goodfornothing young man from a wealthy family, is the direct killer of Tess. Once, he named himself Satan and actually he is an undisguised young ruffian pressing Tess by every means. He is a representative of dominating social might and “generally acknowledged truth”. For example, he sets a trap and seduces Tess. And then blames Tess using the allusion from the Bible .In addition, he forced Tess to be his mistress when Tess has no ability to feed her whole family by herself. And actually it is all for him that the pure Tess loses her virginity and mit a crime and loses her own life. The more important leading character in the novel to push Tess to death is Clare. It is so satirical that the hypocrite is named Angel. Ostensibly, he acts as an honest, upright, genial, cultured and elegant gentleman, and he never regrets to show his ardor to Tess. He seems to be an openminded intellectual. Unexpectedly, it is so “perfect” a young man who makes Tess heartbroken thoroughly. —— “Don‟t, Tess。 don‟t argue. Different societies, different manners. You almost make me say you are an unapprehending peasant woman, who has never been initiated into the proportions of social things. You don‟t know what you say.” “ „My position is this‟ he said abruptly. „I thought —— any man would have thought —— that by giving up all ambition to win a wife by social standing, with fortune, with knowledge of the world, I should secure rustic innocence as surely as I should secure pink cheeks。 but—— However, I am no man to reproach you, and I will not.‟” Angel, the man whose mind is deeply ingrained in the traditionally moral conception, makes a judgment that a woman is pure or not with traditional conception of chastity and pushes Tess to desperation with not any sympathy. From the upper words we could find that he is not only a scholar rigidly adhering to principles, but also a poor snob whose love to Tess is founded on the tower of purity. Once the pedestal is taken out, his building of love will totally collapse. He functions just as Alec does to push Tess to death. Thirdly, some vice in Tess‟s characters indirectly to guide her to the entrance of hell. One is called shadow of fatalism caused by the traditional conception. This is one of the contributing factors leading to the tragedy. W。