Thomas Hardy's Tess Of The D'Urbervilles Tess Of The D'Urbervilles was written by Thomas Hardy, in 1891. This is a tragic victorian novel, in which Thomas Hardy has shown how fate, chance, and coincidence can affect a life and how much things can change. This novel depicts the story of Tess, a young girl who just turns into a woman, living in the Victorian lower class, as she moves through her life and what happens in between. Thomas Hardy has shown how class very much so affected life in Victorian Times, and he also showed how men used to dominate women, and the injustice of existence, and we shall explore this further later on. Hardy has very negative views on life; as to how fate, chance and coincidence can twist existence, thus making things take a turn for the worse. Tess has been described as a "toy in the hands of fate", this is because what happens to her through fate is as if fate is just toying around with her and not being serious. It's rather like a small child holding a toy car in his hand, he will hit it against places and throw it around and be rough with it, rather as with Tess, Tess being the car and fate being the child. On the way home to the village of Marlott, a middle aged peddler named John Durbeyfield encounters an old Parson who surprises him by calling him "Sir John". The old parson (who was referred to as Parson Tringham) told John Durbeyfield how he had traced back the family histories and discovered that John Durbeyfield is a descendent of the noble family the D'Urbervilles, but since the old family roots go so far back they are now meaningless, but John Durbeyfield begins to feel like a very importa... ... middle of paper ... ...ey would be near impossible to happen in other circumstances. Thomas Hardy has very strong views and she shows them beautifully. He shows that social class is very backward and causes many a life to be treated unfairly. He also does not like the stand that women were given in those times, the women have no control and just get dominate dby men. Thomas Hardy also does not believe in religion; as he clearly shows that although they are religious fate is still treating Tess the wrong way. He even goes so far as to say "Where was Tess' guardian angel now"; because in religions there are things such as guardian angels; but Tess' one was not present to save her; thus showing religion as useless. Overall; I think that this novel is a tragic one; showing Hardy's views on life; status of women, class, fate and religion.
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The scientific and technological advancements of the early 20th century entered people’s daily lives with the intention of bringing the whole of humanity into a brighter, more modern era. However, the darker side of such immense achievement was the increasing encroachment on the previously untouched natural world. Many great minds grew weary of such advances and conveyed their apprehension through the popular literature of the time. The pivotal novel Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy explores the impact that industrialists with access to technology had on the pastoral countryside and lower classes. Conan Doyle expands on this message in his novel The Hound of the Baskervilles, by examining how the well-educated elite began using science to their advantage, threatening nature in the process. While each novel warns against abusing available technologies, the authors differ in how they believe nature will eventually respond and have incited a debate that has lasted well into the 21st century.
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The Victorian Age was a virtuous era, full of chaste women and hard-working men. As with any seemingly utopian society, there are the misfits: those who always seem to go against the grain. Hidden in the shadows of towns were bastardized babies and public outcasts. The flourishing literature of the era attacks the societal stereotypes and standards that make for such failures and devastating tragedies. In Tess of the d'Urbervilles, by Thomas Hardy, Tess Durbeyfield's initial loss of innocence brings her down to an insurmountable low, and the victorian society, of which she is a part, dooms her to a horrible fate with its "normal" shunning of her innocent misbehaviors. Tess' rapid downward spiral to her death is caused by the chauvinistic actions of the men in the story, solidified by society's loss of acceptance of Tess based on the actions taken against her, and brought to home by Tess' imminent doom to the rigid ways of the Victorian society.
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