te ones whose tortures had ended during the night by the inability of nature to bear more.”[Tess,p.253] All these seriously-hurt pheasants were not free any more. In a word, they were the victims of the earthly violence. Their pain derived from the cruelty and coldness of the nature and the world. Considering these birds had no hope of recovery, Tess’s first thought was to put the still living things out of their torture, so she killed them gently one by one and put an end to their miserable life. The death of these birds indicated that the painful life of Tess e to an end with death soon and she would bury her love at last by herself, just like what she did to these birds.РFrom the further analysis, Hardy wanted to show people their tragic destinies during the transition from tradition to
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