《德伯家的苔丝》英国作家托马斯·哈代的代表作。在这部作品中,作者讲述了一位生活在社会底层的女性的悲惨的一生,苔丝的人生是那个时代那个阶级大多数人的人生。苔丝本应该有一个幸福的婚姻与爱情,但是命运捉弄了她,在挣扎的道路上,她越走越远。本文将通过社会制度影响、女性自身弱点与命运的捉弄三个方面,来分析苔丝悲惨命运的成因,以此来获得对哈代笔下苔丝的真实诠释。 “Tess of the Dweker” British master Thomas Hardy’s masterpiece. In this work, the author tells the tragic life of a woman living on the bottom of society, where Tess lives most of the life of that class. Tess should have a happy marriage and love, but fate teased her, in the struggle on the road, she farther and farther. This article will analyze the causes of Tess’s miserable fate through the influence of social system, women’s own weakness and the fate of fate in order to gain a true interpretation of Hardy’s Tess.