ABSTRACT:The heroine Caddy is the key character of modern American writer William Faulkner’s masterpiece—The Sound and the Fury. Caddy is kindhearted and beautiful originally, but she degenerated at last. This is pitiful and noticeable. This study analyzed the causes of the tragedy mainly from the external and internal factors. The results shows that the social environment, the abnormal family environment and the Puritan’s Duty View are the external factors of Caddy’s tragedy; and the weakness in Caddy’s personality is the internal factor. After analysis，it is easy to find that the society and family which were influenced by Puritanism, and the weakness of Caddy’s personality caused this tragedy. The author launched a forceful attack against the southern society and the oppression of the Puritan’s Duty View on women through the analysis of the tragic story of Caddy.

Keywords: Puritan’s Duty View; Personality; Tragedy

中文摘要:女主人公凯蒂是美国当代作家威廉姆·福克纳的杰出作品《喧哗与骚动》的中心人物。凯蒂从善良、美丽走向堕落是让人惋惜和令人深思的。本研究探析了凯蒂悲剧的原因，主要是从外部因素和内部因素来分析。即社会环境和畸形家庭环境的影响以及清教妇道观的压迫是造成悲剧的外部因素，而凯蒂性格中的不足无疑是其内因。分析之后，不难发现是受清教思想影响的社会、家庭和凯蒂自身的性格缺陷导致了悲剧。通过对凯蒂悲剧的塑造，作者有力地批判了当时南方社会和清教妇道观对女性的压迫和摧残。

关键词：清教妇道观；性格；悲剧