For the first sixteen years of her life, Tess Durbeyfield and her family lived

Since Tess's father was the land holder of their home, their family is now without shelter. This opportunity allows d'Urberville to move in on Tess, seeing as how he is wealthy, has land and will help her family. Since Angel had been gone for well over a year, Tess was convinced by d'Urberville that Angel would never return to her, so she marries d'Urberville. He then gives her family a home and money, and takes her to live with him. All of this happens just in time, because Angel does return, but is too late and Tess has already married. This coincidence of Tess's father dying at just the right moment for Alec to marry her and Angel returning only a little after, leads to the murder of Alec d'Urberville. Once again, this is not the only thing that comes of this major coincidence in Tess's life, because if her father hadn't died and Angel hadn't returned at just the right moment, she would not have killed Alec and would not have been sentenced to an execution for her crimes.

Not long after their marriage, Tess confesses to Angel of her past and the two separate upon Angel's request. Angel goes off to Brazil to find land where he might be able to start a farm, and Tess returns home, where she might stay in the comfort of her family--but hide from the townspeople who look down on her. Soon after, she decides that the best thing to would be to leave Marlott and find work. But, due to the time of year, she was forced to go to Flintcomb-Ash, a farm where the land is quite different from the fertile valleys of Talbothay's. Here, she works to complete exhaustion and through harsh weather which she was not used to at the dairy. Now, because this is her "time of punishment," Tess struggles through the work and finds the courage to ask her father-in-law for help, as directed to do so by Angel, if she should need it. On her way back to the farm from this futile attempt to request assistance, Tess runs into Alec d'Urberville who notices her and pursues her fo!

Through each and every one of these coincidences, Tess's life changed quite dramatically. Each event that occurred by complete chance

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