'Tess of the d'Urbervilles'

From the moment Alec d’Urverville stepped up to the plate, there was an air of mischief around him. He was suave, debonair and extremely greasy. His character continued to head into a downward spiral throughout the entire novel. However, in the end the reader finds him dead on the bed with a knife stabbed through hit heart. But was his death true justification of the deeds he executed? Throughout this novel, Alec has been nothing but a thorn in Tess’ side. He raped her, mentally broke her down twice, and prevented her from having the true love of Angel. Ethically Alec should have been hanged for all of his actions. This statement also comes true for the way his feelings were directed towards Tess. In the beginning, Tess was pure sport for Alec. He needed to be the master of her, and he accomplished his goal. As the novel progress

Angel Clare was the only main character in the novel whose fate was physically enjoyable in the end. On the other hand, mentally his fate was worse than death. After his shunning of Tess, he went off to see what it was like to actually work for the first time in his life. This opened his eyes to what Tess had to struggle through her entire life, and brought him back to her. But he wasn’t greeted with open arms when he reached his beloved Tess. She was shocked to see him and turned him away, only to kill Alec and run back to Angel. Finally, just when Angel thinks that everything will be alright, the police find Tess and hang her. So what does Angel do? Hook up with Tess’ younger sister Liza-Lu, and they stand in the sunset holding hands. This is a completely fitting end for Angel Clare: after realising that Tess would be the only woman for him, she is taken form him and hanged, thus leaving him with the same feelings that he left Tess with. “Their pale faces seemed to have shrunk to half their natural size. They moved on hand in hand, and never spoke a word, the drooping of their heads being that of Giotto’s ‘Two Apostles’.” [Hardy, pg. 389] This final blow dealt to Angel is the most fitting conclusion to the fate that he helped bestow upon Tess, and proves that Angel’s fate is justified in the end.

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