... distressingly, "Fate has given us this stab in the back for being such fools as to take Nature at her word!" (Hardy, Thomas 357-358) Besides, we often detect the working of chance, which reinforces the inevitability of tragic catastrophe. "In Hardy's works, the strange, the unforeseen, and the inexplicable crop up almost everywhere, in crisis and in passing event. And these ... wear jewels and feather, some wear rages. All are caged birds; the only difference lies in the size of the cage. This too is part of the tragedy. ( Hardy, Emily 224) Hardy's tragic consciousness of life, as the ma...

• Word Count: 1335
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... , marriage is a sacred bonding of the mind, body and soul. "Many women do noble things, but you surpass them all." (Proverbs 31:29) In Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D"Urbervilles, Tess, the focal point of the novel, remained faithful at heart to her marriage despite all of her hardships. As marriage completely changes ... predictable characters to produce suspense of not being able to guess how they will turn out by the end. Many readers of Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles believe that Alec, logically, is Tess's opposition throughout the novel. Often, readers lose perspective of not...

• Word Count: 1626
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

... , marriage is a sacred bonding of the mind, body and soul. "Many women do noble things, but you surpass them all." (Proverbs 31:29) In Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D"Urbervilles, Tess, the focal point of the novel, remained faithful at heart to her marriage despite all of her hardships. As marriage completely changes ... predictable characters to produce suspense of not being able to guess how they will turn out by the end. Many readers of Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles believe that Alec, logically, is Tess's opposition throughout the novel. Often, readers lose perspective of not...

• Word Count: 1633
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

... Thomas Hardy explores a multitude of concepts. Yet, each distinct phase of his worked is marked by the presentation of several ideas. Of all these portions of the novel, none are as expressive as the series of events surrounding the confession scene in chapters 34 to 44. Here, through use of his unique style, Hardy ... issue of social rank, for she has connections to both the working and the upper class, but feels that she belongs to neither. Hardy's pessimism towards the divide separating the gentry and the peasants is seen in the hardships Tess experiences in trying to better her posit...

• Word Count: 2133
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: Undergraduate