Tess of the D'Urbervilles

A detailed Summary of Tess of the D'Urbervilles

Tess of the d´Urbervilles written by Thomas Hardy is a novel about a young girl of a poor family whose life changes because someone tells her family that they belong to a noble family. But is it a bad change or a good one? This story is written in third person point of view.

John Durbeyfield is walking through the street at night and suddenly a historian visiting the town, stops and tells him that his last name is really d´Urberville and it belongs to a noble family. Sir John hurries and tells the news to his family.

He is a very poor man. So he tells his young daughter, Tess, to go find job at their "family's" town, but Tess's mother never warned her about how mean man can be.

There, Tess meets a man, Alec d´Urberville, and in a short time he manages to seduce her and he forces her to do something she didn't want to. She leaves immediately that town and shortly after finds out that she is pregnant but her baby, soon after being born, dies. This makes her have a lot of anger towards men.

When she goes to find a job at another town she meets a very charming man, Angel Clare, and very soon they fall in love and ge

My least favorite part is when Alec is not able to forgive Tess after he knows he has done wrong too and it was really not her fault, because she was not able to defend herself after the bigger force of Alec and he took advantage while she didn't know.

t married, but when Tess tells him her dark secret he is not able to forgive her after

The theme of this story is to always be careful and, most of all, having the capability to forgive and to be compassionate in all ways.

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Approximate Word count = 757
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)

Category: Novels

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