"sister Carrie" And "tess" To See The Interpretation Of The Female Fate

The economy of some western Capitalism countries, especially America and Britain, got a flourishing development in virtue of the second Industrial Revolution in the latter half of 19th century and the beginning of 20th century in which period the western countries transformed from Capitalism to Monopolization. Both the American society and the British society were turbulent and the gap between the rich and the poor increasingly magnified. As the problems got increased, the social conflicts got more pungent. The Romanticism and the Realism could not commentate what kind of status the American and British societies were after they finished their transformation. At this time, the Naturalism which claims to depict lives objectively prevailed. And Sister Carrie and Tess were two excellent novels among those naturalistic works.Although these two novels written by two novelists were from the two different countries, they shared the same theme of women's miserable lives of that period, and they disclosed Capitalism countries' evil. These two works were full of fatalism. We made comparison and contrasts between Sister Carrie and Tess, of family backgrounds, characteristics, and their endings of pursuing happiness, and probed into their ideas, desires, frustrations and endings of their being destroyed although they got different ones.Their tragedies were due to their identity as women. While the economy developed rapidly, Victorianism still contained people's ideology. No matter how hard they worked to try for the equal social status, they failed finally in vain. And it was the social traditional moral concept which made Carrie and...