Archetypal and Mythological Interpretation of Natural Images in“Tess of the d’Urbervil es”
As a typical character- environment novelist and master of al usion, Thomas Hardy invests archetypal significance in the environment depiction in “Tess of the d’Urbervil es” with strongly symbolic connotations. American critic Wilfred L. Guerin noted that “No literary work survives because it is merely clever, or merely wel written. It must partake somehow of the universal and, in doing so, may contain elements of the archetypal”( Guerin175). With this logic, this paper attempts to examine “Tess of the d ’ Urbervil es” with an eye to its archetypal content, paying special attention to the natural images presented with biblical or mythological archetypes, representatively including the symbolism in the garden and in water.
English LiteratureThomas HardyTessBiblearchetypal criticism
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