Tess
How do our fate or destiny effect our lives? Some of the people do not believe in fate or destiny. In Thomas Hardy's "Tess of the D'Urbervilles which was written in 1891, we see a young girl who becomes a fallen woman at the end. Tess is the victim of her destiny and also she makes wrong decisions. Her destiny takes her to the way which she suffers a lot.She makes her own fate and both of them make her a fallen woman in the society. Through the conflict between fate and destiny,Hardy wants to reveal the inevitable misery of the human beings. By using the elements of New Criticism, it can be said that there is a unification between fate and destiny which effect Tess' life. "The difference between destiny and fate is that is up to individual to make decisions on the path of the life,whereas with destiny a path has already been decided" . In that part, we will have a look at the affects of her destiny to her life. For understanding the novel, we have to make a deep analysis of Tess' character. She is the protogonist of the novel.The young daughter of a rural working class family at the start of the novel, Tess Durbeyfield is sent to claim kinship with the wealthier side of her family, the d'Urber
In this quotation from the end of the novel where Tess is captured by the police for killing Alec. Here there is a recognition of Tess. Tess is now aware of the bad destiny she has. She does not have a free will. Her destiny has made a path for her and she must follow this path. Her bad and unlucky destiny lead to her downfall. Alec D'Urberville is very important in Tess' fall.He is the sophisticated son of Mrs. Stoke-d'Urberville, Alec is rapacious and possessive, believing that his status in society and his financial situation gives him power to possess and control Tess after he gives her a job caring for his mother's chickens. After seducing Tess, Alec reforms his hedonistic ways to become a fundamentalist preacher, but soon deviates from his newfound spirituality once he sees Tess again. Tess is so innocent and unexperienced that she cannot understand Alec's sexual feelings to her. The destiny makes her meet with Alec again after Angel goes away. "'What is it, Angel?' she said, starting up. 'Have they come for me?' "'Yes, dearest,' he said. 'They have come.' "'It is as it should be,' she murmured. 'Angel, I am almost glad-yes, glad! This happiness could not have lasted. It was too much. I have had enough; and now I shall not live for you to despise me!'"She stood up, shook herself, and went forward, neither of the men having moved."'I am ready,' she said quietly.( chp.11) To sum up,Both Tess and Angel accept her fate stoically, for this is a final end to her suffering. She is unlucky and her destiny does not help her during her whole life. At the end of the novel, we learn that Angel and Tess' sister Liza-Lu marries. During the novel , she suffers a lot because of her destiny and fate and both of them make her a fallen woman. We have read Tess' inevitable misery. Hardy focuses very heavily on Tess's reactions to the events around her and shows us the world more or less through her eyes. He also shows us that her destiny and fate take her to prison and death. Hardy makes us feel how the situations were hard for Tess and he also shows us Tess' feelings. The concept of fate and destiny are invoked over and over throughout Tess of the d'Urbervilles, both in casual comments and in more developed points of the plot.Hardy is a fatalistic novelist. The novel is tragic and with the excellent descriptio
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Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page double spaced)
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