Abstract Tess, the heroine in Tess of the D'urbevilles, is depicted as a victim of the society. Being a beautiful, innocents honest, sweet-natured, and hard-working country girl, she is easily taken in and abused by the hypocritical bourgeoisie, constantly suppressed by the social comventions and moral values of the day, and eventually executed by the unfair legal system of the society. Her obsolute obedience to Angel as her weakness in character but also is an inevitability in a girl of her upbringing. And most important of all, it is the poverty of the family that forces her to improper relations once and again with Alec, and finally, to his muroler and her execution. On one hand, Tess's fate is personal, because she happens to be so beautiful, so pure, so innocent, so obedient, and so poor, and because she happens to get involved with the two men who, though apparent rivals, actually join their forecs in bringing about her destruction. On the other hand, her fate is a social one. It can be the fate of all the peasants who are driven out of their land and home and forced to seek somewhere else for sustenance. Chapter One: Thomas Hardy Tess of D’Ubervilles is the masterpiece of English literature. Thomas Hardy, the author of this novel, was born on June 2, 1840, in Higher Bockhamptom in Dorset, a rural region of southwestern England that was to become the focus of his fiction. He was an English novelist and poet, one of the great English writers in the 19th century. The child of a builder, Hardy was apprenticed at the age of sixteen to John Hicks, an architect who lived in city of Dorchester. Although he gave serious thought to attending university and entering the church,...
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