The Shaping and Demise of the Rural Community in Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Thomas Hardy's novel Tess of the D'Urbervilles shows how the heroine Tess is shaped by her rural community,and how-ever,it also reveals the irreconcilable contradictions and conflicts between them.Tess's tragic fate is not only the representation and portrayal of the common fate of her class,but also the representation and epitome of the fortune of the English rural community.Hardy holds an ambivalent attitude towards the rural community and suggests the strategy of building"a new type of community",which has positive significance for shaping the moral concept of the transformation of the rural community into the emerging community(a modern capitalist country).