The False Reality Of Coincidentialism
You know when good literature is lost by when its very realism of chance is lost as well as the cold hard facts of life. The coincidences Thomas Hardy failed to use to save Tess in Tess of the D'Urbervilles makes it more realistic than Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontė, Tom Jones by Henry Fielding, and Persuasion by Jane Austen. These other novels have the element of coincidence rippling through out themselves to such an extent that it looses the realism brought by chance, as well as the main point that Hardy was trying to portray; that life is a constant struggle. You see, when these elements are taken out of a novel, it becomes difficult to understand the absolute connection of our lives to Hardy's view of the universe. First and foremost, Tom Jones is full of coincidental elements. Tom is known to be quite the premisquious individual through out town. In fact he is such a 'player with no care' that he does in fact get caught by the one individual to whom he is trying to show his ultimate love for, Sophie Western. Sophie catches Tom three separate times with three separate women, most of which are not of Tom's best interests either. In the beginning of the novel, Tom is shown to be sleeping with Molly; and by the looks of
Next of concern is that when Captain Wentworth does return, he just happens to have all of the missing requirement needed to be able to marry in his time. He has plenty of money, he has a renounced reputation, and we can decipher from connotation that he would make quite an outstanding husband to Anne. This is if he marries her. Anne Elliot, in the very beginning is convinced not to marry Captain Wentworth for the sole reason that he had no other good going for himself besides his own praise. who is to say that the two would not have worked out fine in the end. Now, do not underestimate the coincidences that I have just listed. Yes, they seem vague and not so catchy, but they are coincidences none the less. Therefore to fulfill a satisfaction for the petty coincidences I provide the example that Captain Wentworth just happens to be in Bath before he is sent for by the Crofts. Third in the line up is the novel Jane Eyre. Jane Eyre is also full of coincidental elements, but there is no underlying theme among them. The only way to list them is to just do so, and due to the numerous amounts, it can be seen that this novel is far to unrealistic than could ever be imagined. Through out the novel these coincidences keep popping up, and yet others are to idealistically set up. When she leaves Rochester she happens to meet her cousins, which is purely set up. Along with meeting her cousins, Jane has a wealthy uncle that leaves Jane such a large amount of money after he passes away that she is set for life financially. Austen also has too good of a life set up for Anne in Persuasion to have the same idea of Hardy's hard knock life. Fine, it was a short good novel, but it was lacking the very elements that made Tess of the D'Urbervilles a great novel. It was to much of a day dream book. I do not agree with prince charming coming back to rescue the trapped princess merely to show that it can be done, because it rarely ever happens with such ease.
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Approximate Pages = 9 (250 words per page double spaced)
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