Examples Of Religion In Tess Of The D Urbervilles

In the story Tess of the d'Urbervilles, religion to shown to put a barrier from one to reach out to someone based on how they are viewed in society. Religion is meant to bring people together as a whole, but many use religion to judge if you are good person or not. In the story, Hardy uses religion to show that people can be hypocritical through religion because people are just blindly following rules by following their own religion too closely, which is eventually leading them to forget the basic morals of life.

Throughout the story, Hardy showed that the Victorian society was very strong in following the rules to be the stronger believer of Christianity. These rules from the story were setting the barrier between people in the old religion and the ones from the new religion. The old religion was when people were strongly believing in rules by being very particular about them, but lacked the basic morals that were necessary for life. While the new religion is where a small amount of people are stepping away from the path of religion, but they still have the basic morals like treating everyone equally. In the old religion, people lacked in treating everyone equal by looking at the person to see if they fit in society. Tess one of the main characters, is seen as a great girl in society. In the beginning of the story Hardy says, “She was a fine and handsome girl-not handsomer than some others, possibly-but her mobile peony mouth and large innocent eyes added eloquence to colour and shape” (Hardy 9). This quote tells us that the character Tess in the story was a innocent and a pure woman. However, the set of rules in the way people were following religion denied her because she was ruined. In the Victorian society, they believe that ...

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...er so much and kept on delaying to hear the truth for a while. This led to a huge conflict of him leaving her. He originally confessed that he was not religious and that he did not follow what his family or the church would say. But, he went back to the old rules which made him think that Tess was ruined. This shows that sometimes religion can add an added burden on your perspective. He feels that he married the wrong person now. But, Tess is a innocent women.

Religion can help a person to become better. But, sometimes people use the man made rules of religion to judge what is acceptable. When people get too hung up on the rules of their religion, they tend to forget the basic morals that make them into a real person. Sometimes rules and religion should not come in the way of interpreting how someone is seen in society. This is what causes inequality in the world.