Tess of the d'Urbervilles에서 遺傳的 悲劇性에 대한 考察

A Study on Herehitary Tragedy in Tess of the d'Urbervilles

In order to examine the effect of Darwin‘s Heredity in Hardy’s work, I have studied his major work, Tess of the d'Urbervilles. To apply Darwin’s Evolution of Species as the scientific law to his literature, Hardy needed some adjustment Above all Natural Selection and Heredity was considered to be important in Darwin's theory. Natural selection was passed down through many generations. By this process variants were selected to their beneficial purpose. In the end selected variants experienced evolution and got into categorization, that is, species. Hardy wanted to apply the above process to the Individuals' Fortune, ruined easily in the mechanized social institute. This motive of the species’ life phenomena in transcendental generation is Heredity. Hardy seemed to apply it to the individuals with one inning life. So he tried to find tragic root from the social conventional value as Social Heredity characteristics in Tess of the d’Urbervilles. In Tess of the d 'Urbervilles the tragic cause of Tess Alec’s seduction of her and Angel's betrayal from the wrong conventional value in the society. Alec thinks that he asks everything for Tess as her employer. Hardy thinks that this is caused by the conventionally agreeable contract between the haves and the have-nots, socially high class and low class. On the first ni호t of wedding Angel and Tess confessed their past wrong-doings to each other. According to Hardy's judgment, the main reason that Angel couldn't forgive Tess's past was also the result of the Social Hereditary characteristics that the human species had passed down for a long time and from this, the good individual -- Tess fell unfairly into unhappiness in the society In conclusion, It shows us that this factor can be the tragic motivation of an individual. Particularly the Evolution(Complication) of Human Consciousness may bring human to its own destruction.