托马斯·哈代(Thomas Hardy,1840—1928)是19世纪末、20世纪初英国文学史上一位重要的小说家、诗人。伍尔夫称他是“英国小说中的最伟大的悲剧大师”。韦伯称他是“英国小说中的莎士比亚”。作为悲剧大师,哈代以他的“性格与环境”小说享誉世界,这些作品都体现了哈代悲剧思想的成就,其中“性格决定命运”是哈代的悲剧主题之一。 Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) is an important novelist and poet in the history of British literature in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Woolf called him “the greatest master of tragedy in English novels.” Weber called him “Shakespeare in a British novel.” As a master of tragedy, Hardy enjoys world reputation with his “Character and Environment ” novels. All of these works embody the achievements of Hardy ’s tragedy thought. One of Hardy ’ s tragedy themes is “character ’s destiny ”.