ABSTRACT：This thesis is to focus on proving that Tess was responsible for the murder for her life and her tragedy through analysis based on Cattell’s theory of personality trait. Giving 16PF TEXT to Tess made the weakness in her personalities and factors appear. It also made a deep analysis on her 11 obvious personality factors along with her 16 factors. There came 4 weak traits leading up to her destruction: ignorance to feudalism and a male dominated society, self-sacrifice to her poor family and her parasite and selfish parents, recklessness to believe and kill Alec, and an infatuation with dreaming Angel’s dream. In addition to these things, those 4 weak personality traits gave a prominent step to prove Tess killed herself.

Key words: Tess’ Personality and Tragedy;16PF TEXT;deadly personality 

中文摘要：本文通过卡特尔的人格特质理论对苔丝的性格进行研究，以证明苔丝才是其悲剧一生的罪魁祸首。通过对苔丝进行理论上的测试，尽可能的挖掘出苔丝人格中的弱点。在对其11个凸显人格进行研究之后发现，真正杀害苔丝的是她人格中凸显出来的四个弱点：对于当时那个男权主义，封建思想社会的无知，对于家庭的一再自我牺牲，杀死埃里克的鲁莽，对安吉尔盲目的痴情。这四个致命的弱点最终将苔丝自己推入了万丈深渊。

关键词：苔丝的人格与悲剧；16人格测试；致命的人格