Compare and contrast the novels Dear Nobody and Tess of the
D'urbervilles
The two novels in question, "Dear Nobody" and "Tess of the
D'urbervilles" (hereafter referred to as "Tess"), raise surprisingly
similar issues for books written in such different times and among
such varying attitudes. However, the period difference does highlight
some major contrasts, most relevantly, the censorship that would have
taken place, had Hardy alluded to any details concerning sex or
seduction. In both books, the situations and moral messages reflect
the author's opinions and ideas on ethical subjects such as premarital
sex, pregnancy, single motherhood, and above all, the trials and
tribulations of love.
Obviously, the two heroines, Tess Durbeyfield and Helen Garton, were
born into very diverse circumstances: Helen came from modern day
family, with every opportunity to do whatever she wants to in life
available to her. Tess, by contrast, was brought up in a poor, country
family from the 1890's. This simple but vital contrast, is
highlighted, perhaps inadvertently, by Hardy's colloquial use of old,
country dialect in the characters' speech, such as, during Tess'
conversation with her brother Abraham,
"Bain't you glad that we've become gentlefolk, Tess?"
"Not particular glad", and in Mrs. Durbeyfield's proud announcement to
her husband, "I've got miself a projick".
For Tess, there was nowhere really for her to go. She couldn't have
had a career to speak of, only to become a farmer's wife, nor could
she have moved away from her village and family without a husband, as
that would have been seen as inappropriate. It would have been
presumed that Tess' life would have become very much like her
mother's: she would have married, become a mother, and lived as a
housewife.
However, neither of the girls fulfilled the fate that was expected of
them for the same reason: they both partake in pre-marital sex leading
to the conception of a child. So, for Tess, as her future depended
mainly on finding a good and loving husband, Alec's actions towards
her effectively ruined Tess' life. The circumstances in which the sex
evolved, however, could not have been more different, and the authors
use different descriptive techniques accordingly.
Helen and her boyfriend, Chris, both consent willingly to intercourse.
They were very much in love, with a lot of trust in their
relationship, and
Doherty portrays that with her simple but beautiful description,
"Helen and I touched each other where we had never touched each other
before and made love." Her language does however contain a hint of
sadness, "a pale and watery moonlight cast the room into white
ghostliness," which indicates some of the problems and misery that lie
ahead as implications of sex.
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Tess is no stranger to casual wrong. Throughout her life indifferent nature has occurred. Her parents were not the greatest of parents. She had a tough life, she was poor. When she met Alec d'Urberville, she was considerate and kind, but later on Alec took advantage of her and seduced her in a forest called the Chase, "He knelt and bent lower, till her breath warmed his face, and in a moment his cheek was in contact with hers.
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The community and her unsupportive parents’ cold treatment towards Tess following these events emphasize the hegemonic male perspective of society towards women. Furthermore, Hardy shows how women are seen by society through the male gaze as sexual objects, as Tess is blamed for Alec’s lack of self-control. He attempts to justify his cruel actions as he calls Tess a “temptress” and the “dear damned witch of Babylon” (Hardy 316), yet he later says that he has “come to tempt [her]” (340). Tess is also objectified by Alec when he says that if Tess is “any man’s wife [she] is [his]” (325). The narrator’s repeated sexualized descriptions of Tess, such as her “pouted-up deep red mouth” (39), further demonstrate how women are commonly seen through the male gaze in society.
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Anton Chekhov and Ernest Hemingway both convey their ideas of love in their respective stories The Lady with the Pet Dog and Hills like White Elephants in different ways. However, their ideas are quite varying, and may be interpreted differently by each individual reader. In their own, unique way, both Chekhov and Hemingway evince what is; and what is not love. Upon proper contemplation, one may observe that Hemingway, although not stating explicitly what love is; the genius found in his story is that he gives a very robust example of what may be mistaken as love, although not being true love. On the other hand, Chekhov exposes love as a frame of mind that may only be achieved upon making the acquaintance of the “right person,” and not as an ideal that one may palpate at one instance, and at the another instance one may cease to feel; upon simple and conscious command of the brain. I agree with Hemingway’s view on love because it goes straight to the point of revealing some misconceptions of love.
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Hardy, Thomas. Tess of D'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman. London: MacMillan & Co. Ltd., 1953. Print.
One day when Holly and the narrator go for a walk through Fifth Avenue on a beautiful Autumn day Holly seems interested in the narrator's childhood without really telling him about her own, even though talking about herself is something she does quite often. "...it was elusive, nameless, placeless, an impressionistic recital, though the impression received was contrary to what one expected, for she gave an almost voluptuous account of swimming in summer, Christmas trees, pretty cousins and parties: in short, happy in a way she was not, and never, certainly, the background of a child who had run away" (54). Holly's character has such a dramatic flair that the reader nor the narrator never really know what to expect from her. On some occasions she will openly talk about outrageous taboos with perfect strangers and on others she will claw like a cat anyone who gets too close to her: "I asked her how and why she left home so young. She looked at me blankly, and rubbed her nose, as though it tickled: a gesture, seeing often repeated, I came to recognize as a signal that one was trespassing" (20). Holly is not only a physical paradox of a girl and a woman, but so is her personality, she has an odd mixture of child-like innocence and street smart sexuality.
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Hardy’s novels are ultimately permeated upon his own examination of the contemporary world surrounding him, Tess’s life battles are ultimately foreshadowed by the condemnation of her working class background, which is uniquely explored throughout the text. The class struggles of her time are explored throughout her life in Marlott and the preconception of middle class ideals are challenged throughout Hardy’s exploration of the rural class. Tess of the D’Urbervilles revolves around Hardy’s views of Victorian social taboos and continues to be a greatly influential piece from a novelist who did not conform to the Victorian bourgeois standards of literature.